2026 Chris D. Jones: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	101	349	327	26	26	464	58134

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

5286
Citations
Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles

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

3564
Citations
Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

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

3516
Citations
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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2606
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2018

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

2446
Citations
Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne

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

2090
Citations
Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

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

1587
Citations
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

1474
Citations
Development and evaluation of an Earth-System model – HadGEM2

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

1428
Citations
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

1400
Citations
Betting on negative emissions

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

1320
Citations
UKESM1: Description and Evaluation of the U.K. Earth System Model

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

1250
Citations
Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

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

1126
Citations
Amazonian forest dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century

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

1085
Citations
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

1023
Citations
Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

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

1014
Citations
The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

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

903
Citations
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

859
Citations
Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future

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

848
Citations
The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

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

835
Citations
Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

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

777
Citations
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

771
Citations
Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

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

766
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Betts University of Exeter

Peter M. Cox University of Exeter

Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter

Chris Huntingford Natural Environment Research Council

Andy Wiltshire Met Office

Stephen Sitch University of Exeter

Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society

Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London

Jason Lowe Met Office

George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

Personal website of Chris D. Jones

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