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Overview

Doug Smith is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional engagement in Oceanography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research covers a wide range of main topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Doug Smith has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Atmospheric Science Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Doug Smith include:

  • North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply, 2020, Nature
  • Robust but weak winter atmospheric circulation response to future Arctic sea ice loss, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Current and Emerging Developments in Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects, 2021, Science

Smith frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Nick Dunstone, Adam A. Scaife, Leon Hermanson, Steven C. Hardiman, and Rosie Eade. Co-authorship counts indicate significant collaboration, especially with Dunstone and Scaife.

Best Publications

  • Improved surface temperature prediction for the coming decade from a global climate model.

    Doug M. Smith;Stephen Cusack;Andrew W. Colman;Chris K. Folland

  • Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful?

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa M. Goddard;James Murphy;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Skillful long‐range prediction of European and North American winters

    A. A. Scaife;A. Arribas;E. Blockley;A. Brookshaw

  • High interannual variability of sea ice thickness in the Arctic region.

    Seymour Laxon;Neil Peacock;Doug Smith

  • Decadal Climate Prediction: An Update from the Trenches

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa Goddard;George Boer;Robert Burgman

  • Robust warming of the global upper ocean

    John M. Lyman;John M. Lyman;Simon A. Good;Viktor V. Gouretski;Masayoshi Ishii

  • A signal-to-noise paradox in climate science

    Adam A. Scaife;Adam A. Scaife;Doug Smith

  • Consistency and discrepancy in the atmospheric response to Arctic sea-ice loss across climate models

    James A. Screen;Clara Deser;Doug M. Smith;Xiangdong Zhang

  • A review of climate risk information for adaptation and development planning.

    R.L Wilby;J Troni;Y Biot;L Tedd

  • Skilful predictions of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation one year ahead

    Nick Dunstone;Doug Smith;Adam Scaife;Leon Hermanson

  • Do seasonal-to-decadal climate predictions underestimate the predictability of the real world?

    Rosie Eade;Doug Smith;Adam Scaife;Emily Wallace

  • The Polar Amplification Model Intercomparison Project (PAMIP) contribution to CMIP6: investigating the causes and consequences of polar amplification

    Doug M. Smith;James A. Screen;Clara Deser;Judah Cohen

  • Skilful multi-year predictions of Atlantic hurricane frequency

    Doug M. Smith;Rosie Eade;Nick J. Dunstone;David Fereday

  • Genomic Sequencing of Pleistocene Cave Bears

    James P. Noonan;Michael Hofreiter;Doug Smith;James R. Priest

  • Causes of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic ocean in the mid 1990s

    Jon Robson;Rowan Sutton;Katja Lohmann;Doug Smith

  • Robust skill of decadal climate predictions

    D. M. Smith;R. Eade;A. A. Scaife;A. A. Scaife;L.-P. Caron

  • North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply

    Doug M. Smith;A. Scaife;A. Scaife;Rosie Eade;P. Athanasiadis

  • Current and emerging developments in subseasonal to decadal prediction

    William J. Merryfield;Johanna Baehr;Lauriane Batté;Emily J. Becker

  • Seasonal winter forecasts and the stratosphere

    A. A. Scaife;A. Yu. Karpechko;M. P. Baldwin;A. Brookshaw

  • High risk of unprecedented UK rainfall in the current climate.

    Vikki Thompson;Nick J. Dunstone;Adam A. Scaife;Doug M. Smith

  • An objective ocean temperature and salinity analysis using covariances from a global climate model

    Doug M. Smith;James M. Murphy

  • Near-term climate change:Projections and predictability

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff;Paul J. Durack;Andrew Slater;Philip Cameron-Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office
Nick Dunstone
Nick Dunstone Met Office
Rosie Eade
Rosie Eade Met Office
Rowan Sutton
Rowan Sutton University of Reading
Jeff R. Knight
Jeff R. Knight Met Office
Holger Pohlmann
Holger Pohlmann Max Planck Society
Ed Hawkins
Ed Hawkins University of Reading
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Wolfgang A. Müller
Wolfgang A. Müller Max Planck Society

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