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Catherine A. Senior

Catherine A. Senior

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
58
Citations
35009
World Ranking
3182
National Ranking
248

Overview

Catherine A. Senior is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly focuses on climate science, with a particular emphasis on environmental and earth sciences. The main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, supported by work in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their scholarly contributions cover a range of topics related to atmospheric and climate phenomena. Key topics explored in their research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Senior's recent papers reflect active engagement with climate modeling and regional climate change issues. Notable publications include:

  • "Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Challenges and outlook for convection-permitting climate modelling," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "U.K. Community Earth System Modeling for CMIP6," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Change Simulations for Understanding Future Climate and Informing Decision-Making in Africa," 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Greater Future U.K. Winter Precipitation Increase in New Convection-Permitting Scenarios," 2020, Journal of Climate

Their publications have appeared frequently in reputable journals, with multiple papers in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems and Journal of Climate. Other publication venues include Science Advances, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Senior collaborates regularly with a network of researchers. Frequent co-authors include Elizabeth Kendon, Simon Tucker, Alistair Sellar, John H. Marsham, and Lorenzo Tomassini, reflecting interdisciplinary teamwork within climate modeling and atmospheric sciences.

Best Publications

  • Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization

    Veronika Eyring;Sandrine Bony;Gerald A. Meehl;Catherine A. Senior

  • The simulation of SST, sea ice extents and ocean heat transports in a version of the Hadley Centre coupled model without flux adjustments

    C. Gordon;C. Cooper;C. A. Senior;H. Banks

  • DARN/SUPERDARN : A global view of the dynamics of high-latitude convection

    R. A. Greenwald;K. B. Baker;J. R. Dudeney;M. Pinnock

  • Projections of Future Climate Change

    U. Cubasch;G. A. Meehl;G. J. Boer;R. J. Stouffer

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

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

  • High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP v1.0) for CMIP6

    Reindert J. Haarsma;Malcolm J. Roberts;Pier Luigi Vidale;Catherine A. Senior

  • The second Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM: model description, spinup and validation

    Tim C. Johns;Ruth E. Carnell;Jenny F. Crossley;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

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

  • Heavier summer downpours with climate change revealed by weather forecast resolution model

    Elizabeth J. Kendon;Nigel M. Roberts;Hayley J. Fowler;Malcolm J. Roberts

  • Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models.

    Gerald A. Meehl;Catherine A. Senior;Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Gregory Flato

  • Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

    Theodore G. Shepherd;Emily Boyd;Raphael A. Calel;Raphael A. Calel;Sandra C. Chapman;Sandra C. Chapman

  • Realism of Rainfall in a Very High-Resolution Regional Climate Model

    Elizabeth J. Kendon;Nigel M. Roberts;Catherine A. Senior;Malcolm J. Roberts

  • The new hadley centre climate model (HadGEM1) : Evaluation of coupled simulations

    T. C. Johns;C. F. Durman;H. T. Banks;M. J. Roberts

  • On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes

    S. Bony;J.-L. Dufresne;H. Le Treut;J.-J. Morcrette

  • C0 2 and climate: a missing feedback?

    J. F. B. Mitchell;C. A. Senior;W. J. Ingram

  • On the control of magnetospheric convection by the spatial distribution of ionospheric conductivities

    Catherine Senior;Michel Blanc

  • Combining ERBE and ISCCP data to assess clouds in the Hadley Centre, ECMWF and LMD atmospheric climate models

    M. Webb;C. Senior;S. Bony;J.-J. Morcrette

  • Carbon Dioxide and Climate. The Impact of Cloud Parameterization

    C. A. Senior;J. F. B. Mitchell

  • On the contribution of local feedback mechanisms to the range of climate sensitivity in two GCM ensembles

    Mark J. Webb;C. A. Senior;D. M.H. Sexton;W. J. Ingram

  • The time-dependence of climate sensitivity

    Catherine A. Senior;John F. B. Mitchell

  • CMIP5 Scientific Gaps and Recommendations for CMIP6

    Ronald J. Stouffer;Veronika Eyring;Gerald A. Meehl;Sandrine Bony

  • Overview of the Coupled MOdel Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) Experimental Design and Organization

    Eyring;S Bony;G A Meehl;C A Senior

Frequent Co-Authors

William Ingram
William Ingram University of Oxford
Mark A. Ringer
Mark A. Ringer Met Office
Sandrine Bony
Sandrine Bony Université Paris Cité
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Karl E. Taylor
Karl E. Taylor Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Wilco Hazeleger
Wilco Hazeleger Utrecht University
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research

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