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Eleanor J. Burke

Eleanor J. Burke

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
12550
World Ranking
5958
National Ranking
463

Overview

Eleanor J. Burke is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work covers several specialized subfields, including:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Environmental Chemistry

Burke's research topics include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Climate variability and models
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Frequent co-authors contributing to their body of work include Sarah Chadburn, Chantelle Burton, Sebastian Westermann, Noah Smith, and Chris Jones.

Burke has published research in multiple venues, with the most common being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Biogeosciences
  • Environmental Research Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Burke illustrate the breadth of their research interests and include the following:

  • "Historical Simulations With HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Evaluating permafrost physics in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) models and their sensitivity to climate change," 2020, The Cryosphere
  • "Scientific and Human Errors in a Snow Model Intercomparison," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Soil moisture and hydrology projections of the permafrost region - a model intercomparison," 2020, The Cryosphere
  • "JULES-CN: a coupled terrestrial carbon-nitrogen scheme (JULES vn5.1)," 2021, Geoscientific Model Development

Best Publications

  • Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century

    Jemma Gornall;Richard Betts;Eleanor Burke;Robin Clark

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

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

  • 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

  • Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

    Dmitry Yumashev;Christopher Hope;Kevin Schaefer;Kathrin Riemann-Campe

  • Modeling the Recent Evolution of Global Drought and Projections for the Twenty-First Century with the Hadley Centre Climate Model

    Eleanor J. Burke;Simon J. Brown;Nikolaos Christidis

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Dependence of the evolution of carbon dynamics in the northern permafrost region on the trajectory of climate change.

    A. David McGuire;David M. Lawrence;Charles Koven;Joy S. Clein

  • An observation-based constraint on permafrost loss as a function of global warming

    S. E. Chadburn;S. E. Chadburn;E. J. Burke;P. M. Cox;P. Friedlingstein

  • Land-use emissions play a critical role in land-based mitigation for Paris climate targets

    Anna B. Harper;Tom Powell;Peter M. Cox;Joanna House

  • Evaluating Uncertainties in the Projection of Future Drought

    Eleanor J. Burke;Simon J. Brown

  • Historical simulations with HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6

    Martin B. Andrews;Jeff K. Ridley;Richard A. Wood;Timothy Andrews

  • Reversibility in an Earth System model in response to CO 2 concentration changes

    O Boucher;P R Halloran;E J Burke;M Doutriaux-Boucher

  • A simplified, data-constrained approach to estimate the permafrost carbon-climate feedback

    C.D Koven;E.A.G. Schuur;C Schädel;T. J Bohn

  • Path-dependent reductions in CO2 emission budgets caused by permafrost carbon release

    T. Gasser;M. Kechiar;M. Kechiar;P Ciais;E.J. Burke

  • Evaluating permafrost physics in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) models and their sensitivity to climate change

    Eleanor J. Burke;Yu Zhang;Gerhard Krinner

  • Variability in the sensitivity among model simulations of permafrost and carbon dynamics in the permafrost region between 1960 and 2009

    A. David McGuire;Charles Koven;David M. Lawrence;Joy S. Clein

  • Scientific and Human Errors in a Snow Model Intercomparison

    Cecile B. Menard;Richard Essery;Gerhard Krinner;Gabriele Arduini

  • Soil moisture and hydrology projections of the permafrost region – a model intercomparison

    Christian G. Andresen;Christian G. Andresen;David M. Lawrence;Cathy J. Wilson;A. David McGuire

  • An extreme value analysis of UK drought and projections of change in the future

    Eleanor J. Burke;Richard H.J. Perry;Simon J. Brown

  • JULES-CN: a coupled terrestrial carbon–nitrogen scheme (JULES vn5.1)

    Andrew J. Wiltshire;Andrew J. Wiltshire;Eleanor J. Burke;Sarah E. Chadburn;Chris D. Jones

  • Uncertainties in the global temperature change caused by carbon release from permafrost thawing

    E. J. Burke;I. P. Hartley;C. D. Jones

  • A 16-year record (2002–2017) of permafrost, active-layer, and meteorological conditions at the Samoylov Island Arctic permafrost research site, Lena River delta, northern Siberia: an opportunity to validate remote-sensing data and land surface, snow, and permafrost models

    Julia Boike;Julia Boike;Jan Nitzbon;Jan Nitzbon;Jan Nitzbon;Katharina Anders;Mikhail N Grigoriev

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian Westermann
Sebastian Westermann University of Oslo
Ernst Hauber
Ernst Hauber German Aerospace Center
Gerhard Krinner
Gerhard Krinner Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Peter M. Cox
Peter M. Cox University of Exeter
Julia Boike
Julia Boike Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Annette Rinke
Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gustaf Hugelius
Gustaf Hugelius Stockholm University
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter

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