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Christopher J. Merchant

Christopher J. Merchant

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
11905
World Ranking
4009
National Ranking
307

Overview

Christopher J. Merchant is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. The research is concentrated primarily within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, demonstrating a strong interdisciplinary approach to climate and atmospheric studies.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

This work extends into several subfields, such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry

The core topics addressed within the research portfolio cover:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics

Christopher J. Merchant's frequent publication venues, indicating the key platforms for disseminating research, include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Remote Sensing
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist has collaborated often with a select group of coauthors, listed by frequency of joint publications:

  • Owen Embury
  • R. Iestyn Woolway
  • Claire E. Bulgin
  • Laura Carrea
  • Wouter Dorigo

Selected recent papers reflecting research output include:

  • Global lake responses to climate change, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Global lake thermal regions shift under climate change, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Tendencies, variability and persistence of sea surface temperature anomalies, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Global Climate, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Global reconstruction of twentieth century lake surface water temperature reveals different warming trends depending on the climatic zone, 2020, Climatic Change

Best Publications

  • Global lake responses to climate change

    R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Benjamin M. Kraemer;John D. Lenters;John D. Lenters;John D. Lenters;Christopher J. Merchant

  • Worldwide alteration of lake mixing regimes in response to climate change

    R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Christopher J. Merchant

  • The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment High-resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project

    Craig Donlon;I. Robinson;K. S. Casey;J. Vazquez-Cuervo

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • The ESA Climate Change Initiative: Satellite Data Records for Essential Climate Variables

    R Hollmann;CJ Merchant;RA Saunders;C Downy

  • Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications.

    Christopher J. Merchant;Owen Embury;Claire E. Bulgin;Thomas Block

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • Observational needs of sea surface temperature

    Anne Grace O'Carroll;Edward M Armstrong;Helen Beggs;Marouan Bouali

  • Global lake thermal regions shift under climate change

    Stephen C. Maberly;Ruth A. O'Donnell;R. Iestyn Woolway;Mark E. J. Cutler

  • Probabilistic physically based cloud screening of satellite infrared imagery for operational sea surface temperature retrieval

    C. J. Merchant;A. R. Harris;E. Maturi;S. Maccallum

  • Atlantic hurricanes and NW Pacific typhoons: ENSO spatial impacts on occurrence and landfall

    M. A. Saunders;R. E. Chandler;Christopher Merchant;F. P. Roberts

  • Optimal estimation of sea surface temperature from split-window observations

    C.J. Merchant;P. Le Borgne;A. Marsouin;H. Roquet

  • Saharan dust in nighttime thermal imagery: Detection and reduction of related biases in retrieved sea surface temperature

    C.J. Merchant;O. Embury;P. Le Borgne;B. Bellec

  • Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI)

    Christopher J. Merchant;Owen Embury;Jonah Roberts‐Jones;Emma Fiedler

  • Warming of Central European lakes and their response to the 1980s climate regime shift

    R. Iestyn Woolway;Martin T. Dokulil;Wlodzimierz Marszelewski;Martin Schmid

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Uncertainty information in climate data records from Earth observation

    Christopher J. Merchant;Frank Paul;Thomas Popp;Michael Ablain

  • Multi-satellite measurements of large diurnal warming events

    Chelle L. Gentemann;Peter J. Minnett;Pierre Le Borgne;Christopher J. Merchant

  • Surface water temperature observations of large lakes by optimal estimation

    Stuart N. MacCallum;Christopher J. Merchant

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Iestyn Woolway
R. Iestyn Woolway Bangor University
Nick Rayner
Nick Rayner Met Office
Craig Donlon
Craig Donlon European Space Agency
Peter J. Minnett
Peter J. Minnett University of Miami
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Martin Schmid
Martin Schmid Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Elizabeth C. Kent
Elizabeth C. Kent National Oceanography Centre
John Kennedy
John Kennedy Met Office
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Linda May
Linda May Natural Environment Research Council

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