2026 David A. Stainforth: 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	36	9020	8652	671	649	114	10637

Overview

David A. Stainforth is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields related to climate science, economics, and environmental dynamics.

The scientist's recent papers include the following:

"The missing risks of climate change" (2022, Nature)
"Temperature variability implies greater economic damages from climate change" (2020, Nature Communications)
"On the appropriate and inappropriate uses of probability distributions in climate projections and some alternatives" (2021, Climatic Change)
"New priorities for climate science and climate economics in the 2020s" (2020, Nature Communications)
"Assessing the Quality of Regional Climate Information" (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)

Prominent frequent co-authors of David A. Stainforth include:

S. C. Chapman
Raphael Calel
Watkins W. Nicholas
Francisco de Melo Viríssimo

David A. Stainforth's scholarly output is frequently published in a range of venues, with notable publication counts in:

Harvard Dataverse
Climatic Change
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Nature

The main subfields of study encompassed by Stainforth's work include:

Global and Planetary Change
Economics and Econometrics
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Atmospheric Science
Sociology and Political Science

The primary research topics covered in their publications address climate and environmental issues, specifically:

Climate Change Policy and Economics
Climate variability and models
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

Best Publications

Quantification of modelling uncertainties in a large ensemble of climate change simulations

James M. Murphy;David M. H. Sexton;David N. Barnett;Gareth S. Jones

2079
Citations
Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases.

David A. Stainforth;T. Aina;C. Christensen;M. Collins

1465
Citations
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

683
Citations
Confidence, uncertainty and decision-support relevance in climate predictions.

David A. Stainforth;David A. Stainforth;M. R. Allen;Edward Tredger;Leonard A. Smith

576
Citations
The Development of a Free-Surface Bryan–Cox–Semtner Ocean Model

Peter D. Killworth;David Stainforth;David J. Webb;Stephen M. Paterson

539
Citations
Multispectral imaging contributions to global land ice measurements from space

Jeffrey S. Kargel;Michael J. Abrams;Michael P. Bishop;Andrew Bush

350
Citations
Towards objective probabalistic climate forecasting.

Myles R. Allen;David A. Stainforth

307
Citations
The missing risks of climate change

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291
Citations
Issues in the interpretation of climate model ensembles to inform decisions

David A Stainforth;David A Stainforth;Thomas E Downing;Richard Washington;Ana Lopez

287
Citations
Realistic quasi‐biennial oscillations in a simulation of the global climate

Adam A. Scaife;Neal Butchart;Christopher D. Warner;David Stainforth

227
Citations
Constraining Climate Sensitivity from the Seasonal Cycle in Surface Temperature

Reto Knutti;Gerald A. Meehl;Myles R. Allen;David A. Stainforth

223
Citations
Analyzing the Climate Sensitivity of the HadSM3 Climate Model Using Ensembles from Different but Related Experiments

Jonathan Rougier;David M. H Sexton;James M. Murphy;David A. Stainforth

216
Citations
Constraining climate forecasts: The role of prior assumptions

D. J. Frame;B. B. B. Booth;J. A. Kettleborough;D. A. Stainforth

207
Citations
Tales of future weather

W. Hazeleger;W. Hazeleger;B.J.J.M. van den Hurk;B.J.J.M. van den Hurk;E. Min;G.J. van Oldenborgh

206
Citations
Irreducible uncertainty in near-term climate projections

Ed Hawkins;Robin S. Smith;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory;David A. Stainforth;David A. Stainforth;David A. Stainforth

196
Citations
Constraints on climate change from a multi‐thousand member ensemble of simulations

C. Piani;D. J. Frame;D. A. Stainforth;M. R. Allen

190
Citations
Water resource planning under future climate and socioeconomic uncertainty in the Cauvery River Basin in Karnataka, India

Ajay Gajanan Bhave;Ajay Gajanan Bhave;Declan Conway;Suraje Dessai;David A. Stainforth;David A. Stainforth

146
Citations
Barriers and opportunities for robust decision making approaches to support climate change adaptation in the developing world

Ajay Gajanan Bhave;Ajay Gajanan Bhave;Declan Conway;Suraje Dessai;David A. Stainforth

134
Citations
Association of parameter, software, and hardware variation with large-scale behavior across 57,000 climate models

Christopher G. Knight;Sylvia H. E. Knight;Neil Massey;Tolu Aina

124
Citations
Two Approaches to Quantifying Uncertainty in Global Temperature Changes

Ana Lopez;Claudia Tebaldi;Mark New;Dave Stainforth

101
Citations
Adaptation to Global Warming: Do Climate Models Tell Us What We Need to Know?

Naomi Oreskes;David A. Stainforth;Leonard A. Smith

97
Citations
Avoiding dangerous climate change

M. R. Allen;N. Andronova;B. Booth;S. Dessai

54
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Myles R. Allen University of Oxford

Suraje Dessai University of Leeds

Matthew D. Collins University of Reading

Declan Conway London School of Economics and Political Science

David J. Frame Victoria University of Wellington

Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading

David M. H. Sexton Met Office

Wilco Hazeleger Utrecht University

Thomas E. Downing Stockholm Environment Institute

James M. Murphy Met Office

External Links

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