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David M. H. Sexton

David M. H. Sexton

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
14096
World Ranking
6590
National Ranking
514

Overview

David M. H. Sexton is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research topics focus on climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Frequent publication venues for Sexton's work include Climate Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Weather, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Recent papers by David M. H. Sexton include:

  • Increasing precipitation variability on daily-to-multiyear time scales in a warmer world, 2021, Science Advances
  • Trends in the atmospheric jet streams are emerging in observations and could be linked to tropical warming, 2023, Communications Earth & Environment
  • A perturbed parameter ensemble of HadGEM3-GC3.05 coupled model projections: part 1: selecting the parameter combinations, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • A perturbed parameter ensemble of HadGEM3-GC3.05 coupled model projections: part 2: global performance and future changes, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • Dynamical Differences Between Short and Long Blocks in the Northern Hemisphere, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Their frequent co-authors include John W. Rostron, Kalli Furtado, C. McSweeney, Kuniko Yamazaki, and Leighton A. Regayre. These collaborative relationships reflect ongoing contributions to climate and atmospheric science research communities.

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

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

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

  • UK Climate Projections Science Report: Climate Change projections

    J.M. Murphy;D.M.H. Sexton;G.J. Jenkins;B.B.B. Booth

  • 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

  • Anthropogenic climate change for 1860 to 2100 simulated with the HadCM3 model under updated emissions scenarios

    T.C. Johns;J.M. Gregory;W.J. Ingram;C.E. Johnson

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

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

  • Global temperature change and its uncertainties since 1861

    C K Folland;N A Rayner;S J Brown;T M Smith

  • UK Climate Projections Briefing Report

    Geoff J Jenkins;James M Murphy;David M Sexton;Jason A Lowe

  • Comparison of Modeled and Observed Trends in Indices of Daily Climate Extremes

    Dmitry Kiktev;David M. H. Sexton;Lisa Alexander;Chris K. Folland

  • Towards quantifying uncertainty in transient climate change

    Matthew Collins;Ben B. B. Booth;Glen R. Harris;James M. Murphy

  • 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

  • A methodology for probabilistic predictions of regional climate change from perturbed physics ensembles

    J.M Murphy;B.B.B Booth;M Collins;G.R Harris

  • Estimation of natural and anthropogenic contributions to twentieth century temperature change

    Simon F. B. Tett;Gareth S. Jones;Peter A. Stott;David C. Hill;David C. Hill

  • Mechanisms for the land/sea warming contrast exhibited by simulations of climate change

    Manoj M. Joshi;Manoj M. Joshi;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory;Mark J. Webb;David M. H. Sexton

  • Increasing precipitation variability on daily-to-multiyear time scales in a warmer world.

    Wenxia Zhang;Kalli Furtado;Peili Wu;Tianjun Zhou

  • Climate model errors, feedbacks and forcings: a comparison of perturbed physics and multi-model ensembles

    Matthew Collins;Ben B. B. Booth;B. Bhaskaran;Glen R. Harris

  • Multivariate probabilistic projections using imperfect climate models part I: outline of methodology

    David M. H. Sexton;James M. Murphy;Mat Collins;Mark J. Webb

  • 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

  • A new global gridded radiosonde temperature data base and recent temperature trends

    D. E. Parker;M. Gordon;D. P. N. Cullum;D. M. H. Sexton

  • Revised “LEPS” Scores for Assessing Climate Model Simulations and Long-Range Forecasts

    J. M. Potts;C. K. Folland;I. T. Jolliffe;D. Sexton

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Collins
Matthew Collins University of Exeter
Mark J. Webb
Mark J. Webb Met Office
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
William Ingram
William Ingram University of Oxford
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
Kenneth S. Carslaw
Kenneth S. Carslaw University of Leeds

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