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Overview

Adrian Simmons is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as subfields.

Their scholarly work extensively covers topics such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Adrian Simmons has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed papers in notable scientific journals. Recent publications include the following:

  • The ERA5 global reanalysis, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • The ERA5 global reanalysis: Preliminary extension to 1950, 2021, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • An evaluation of ERA5 precipitation for climate monitoring, 2022, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service: From Research to Operations, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The ERA5 global reanalysis from 1940 to 2022, 2024, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

The scientist frequently publishes their work in the following venues:

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Science Letters
  • Earth and Space Science

Collaborative work is an important aspect of their research. Adrian Simmons regularly coauthors papers with:

  • Bill Bell
  • Ándrás Horányi
  • Jean-Noël Thépaut
  • Hans Hersbach
  • Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater

Best Publications

  • The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

    D. P. Dee;S. M. Uppala;A. J. Simmons;Paul Berrisford

  • The ERA5 global reanalysis

    Hans Hersbach;Bill Bell;Paul Berrisford;Shoji Hirahara

  • The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

    S. M. Uppala;P. W. Kållberg;Adrian J. Simmons;U. Andrae

  • Barotropic Wave Propagation and Instability, and Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns.

    A. J. Simmons;J. M. Wallace;G. W. Branstator

  • ERA-20C: An Atmospheric Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century

    Paul Poli;Hans Hersbach;Dick P. Dee;Paul Berrisford

  • The ECMWF operational implementation of four-dimensional variational assimilation. I: Experimental results with simplified physics

    F. Rabier;H. Järvinen;E. Klinker;J.-F. Mahfouf

  • An Energy and Angular-Momentum Conserving Vertical Finite-Difference Scheme and Hybrid Vertical Coordinates

    A. J. Simmons;D. M. Burridge

  • The Concept of Essential Climate Variables in Support of Climate Research, Applications, and Policy

    Stephan Bojinski;Michel Verstraete;Thomas C. Peterson;Carolin Richter

  • Low‐frequency variations in surface atmospheric humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets

    A.J. Simmons;K.M. Willett;P.D. Jones;Peter Thorne

  • Some aspects of the improvement in skill of numerical weather prediction

    A. J. Simmons;A. Hollingsworth

  • Aerosol analysis and forecast in the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts Integrated Forecast System: 2. Data assimilation

    A. Benedetti;J.-J. Morcrette;O. Boucher;A. Dethof

  • A multi-layer spectral model and the semi-implicit method

    B. J. Hoskins;A. J. Simmons

  • The ERA5 global reanalysis: Preliminary extension to 1950

    Bill Bell;Hans Hersbach;Adrian Simmons;Paul Berrisford

  • Aerosol analysis and forecast in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Integrated Forecast System : Forward modeling

    J.-J. Morcrette;O. Boucher;L. Jones;D. Salmond

  • Sensitivity of chemical tracers to meteorological parameters in the MOZART-3 chemical transport model

    D.E. Kinnison;Guy P. Brasseur;S. Walters;R.R. Garcia

  • The MACC reanalysis: an 8 yr data set of atmospheric composition

    A. Inness;F. Baier;A. Benedetti;I. Bouarar

  • An evaluation of ERA5 precipitation for climate monitoring

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  • Atmospheric conservation properties in ERA-Interim

    Paul Berrisford;P. Kållberg;S. Kobayashi;D. Dee

  • The ERA-Interim archive, version 2.0

    Paul Berrisford;D. Dee;P. Poli;R. Brugge

  • Comparison of trends and low-frequency variability in CRU, ERA-40, and NCEP//NCAR analyses of surface air temperature

    A. J. Simmons;P. D. Jones;V. da Costa Bechtold;A. C. M. Beljaars

  • Towards a climate data assimilation system: status update of ERA-interim

    S Uppala;D Dee;S Kobayashi;P Berrisford

  • Reduction of systematic forecast errors in the ECMWF model through the introduction of an envelope orography

    John M. Wallace;Stefano Tibaldi;Adrian J. Simmons

Frequent Co-Authors

Dick Dee
Dick Dee European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
Angela Benedetti
Angela Benedetti European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Jean-Jacques Morcrette
Jean-Jacques Morcrette European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Johannes Flemming
Johannes Flemming European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Michael G. Bosilovich
Michael G. Bosilovich Goddard Space Flight Center
Claire Granier
Claire Granier National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Anton Beljaars
Anton Beljaars European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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