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Chris D. Jones

Chris D. Jones

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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
101
Citations
58134
World Ranking
352
National Ranking
26

Chris D. Jones publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chris D. Jones sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 464 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Chris D. Jones D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chris D. Jones sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Chris D. Jones is a researcher affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom, with a primary focus on environmental science. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, economics and econometrics, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's research topics include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, climate change policy and economics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, fire effects on ecosystems, atmospheric ozone and climate, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Chris D. Jones include:

  • Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19 (2020), published in Nature Climate Change
  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • Timing of State and Territorial COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders and Changes in Population Movement - United States, March 1-May 31, 2020 (2020), published in MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • Implementation of U.K. Earth System Models for CMIP6 (2020), published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO 2 (2020), published in Biogeosciences

Frequent coauthors in Chris D. Jones's work include Richard Betts, Roland Séférian, Chantelle Burton, Pierre Friedlingstein, and Tilo Ziehn.

Publication venues where Chris D. Jones frequently contributes are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Biogeosciences
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model

    Peter M. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Chris D. Jones;Steven A. Spall

  • Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles

    P. Ciais;C. Sabine;G. Bala;L. Bopp

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

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

  • Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne

    Myles R. Allen;David J. Frame;Chris Huntingford;Chris D. Jones

  • Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

    Pete Smith;Steven J. Davis;Felix Creutzig;Sabine Fuss

  • Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

    Stephan Sitch;C. Huntingford;N. Gedney;P. E. Levy

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

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

  • Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

    G. C. Hurtt;G. C. Hurtt;L. P. Chini;S. Frolking;R. A. Betts

  • Betting on negative emissions

    Sabine Fuss;Josep G. Canadell;Glen P. Peters;Massimo Tavoni

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

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

  • Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Malte Meinshausen;Vivek K. Arora;Chris D. Jones

  • Amazonian forest dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century

    P. M. Cox;R. A. Betts;M. Collins;P. P. Harris

  • The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 2: Carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics

    D. B. Clark;L. M. Mercado;S. Sitch;C. D. Jones

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

    C. D. Jones;J. K. Hughes;Nicolas Bellouin;S. C. Hardiman

  • Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics:a multi-model analysis

    Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Raphael Roth;Raphael Roth;J. S. Fuglestvedt;G. P. Peters

  • Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future

    Meinrat O. Andreae;Chris D. Jones;Peter M. Cox

  • The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

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

  • Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

    Peter M. Cox;David Pearson;Ben B. Booth;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide

    Richard A. Betts;Olivier Boucher;Matthew Collins;Peter M. Cox;Peter M. Cox

  • Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

    Vivek K. Arora;George J. Boer;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael Eby

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
Peter M. Cox
Peter M. Cox University of Exeter
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Chris Huntingford
Chris Huntingford Natural Environment Research Council
Andy Wiltshire
Andy Wiltshire Met Office
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Joeri Rogelj
Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London
Jason Lowe
Jason Lowe Met Office
George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park

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