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Andy Wiltshire

Andy Wiltshire

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
71
Citations
43668
World Ranking
1532
National Ranking
125

Overview

Andy Wiltshire is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom, contributing extensively to environmental and earth system sciences. Their research spans several core fields within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant focus on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

Their work is notably concentrated in areas such as atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics. Additional research topics include atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, remote sensing in agriculture, and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

Wiltshire has frequently published in a range of scientific journals. The venues in which they have most often appeared include:

  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Biogeosciences
  • Global Change Biology
  • Science
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Some of their recent papers reflect collaborative efforts with other researchers and address key issues in climate science and ecosystem modeling. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models," 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis," 2020, Science
  • "Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models," 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Implementation of U.K. Earth System Models for CMIP6," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Wiltshire often collaborates with other experts in the field. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Stephen Sitch
  • Pierre Friedlingstein
  • Chris Jones
  • Danica Lombardozzi
  • Vivek K. Arora

The scientist's contributions mainly advance understanding in environmental transformations related to climate variability, carbon cycling, and atmospheric dynamics. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates multiple topics to inform modeling and predictions within global environmental systems.

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

  • The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

    Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Michael R. Raupach;Guy Schurgers;Benjamin Smith

  • Development and evaluation of an Earth-System model – HadGEM2

    W J Collins;Nicolas Bellouin;M. Doutriaux-Boucher;N. Gedney

  • Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century

    Jemma Gornall;Richard Betts;Eleanor Burke;Robin Clark

  • Global Carbon Budget 2017

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • UKESM1: Description and Evaluation of the U.K. Earth System Model

    Alistair A. Sellar;Colin G. Jones;Jane P. Mulcahy;Yongming Tang

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

    N. Bellouin;W. J. Collins;I. D. Culverwell

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review

    Alessandro Anav;Pierre Friedlingstein;Christian Beer;Philippe Ciais

  • Slope, aspect and climate: Spatially explicit and implicit models of topographic microclimate in chalk grassland

    Jonathan Bennie;Brian Huntley;Andrew Wiltshire;Mark O. Hill

  • Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

    Andrew D. Friend;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Tim T. Rademacher;Rozenn Keribin

  • Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

    Songhan Wang;Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen;Jing M. Chen

  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models

    Vivek K. Arora;Anna Katavouta;Anna Katavouta;Richard G. Williams;Chris D. Jones

  • Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

    Nick Rutter;Richard Essery;John Pomeroy;Nuria Altimir

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Etsushi Kato
Etsushi Kato Institute of Applied Energy
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
Chris D. Jones
Chris D. Jones Met Office
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle Max Planck Society
Benjamin D. Stocker
Benjamin D. Stocker University of Bern
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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