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Francis W. Zwiers

Francis W. Zwiers

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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
88
Citations
45232
World Ranking
634
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Francis W. Zwiers is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and has made substantial contributions to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses on multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics related to climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, hydrology and drought analysis, climate change impacts on agriculture, and flood risk assessment and management.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • A Global, Continental, and Regional Analysis of Changes in Extreme Precipitation (2020) published in Journal of Climate
  • Changes in Annual Extremes of Daily Temperature and Precipitation in CMIP6 Models (2020) published in Journal of Climate
  • Human influence on the 2021 British Columbia floods (2022) published in Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Rapid Warming in Summer Wet Bulb Globe Temperature in China with Human-Induced Climate Change (2020) published in Journal of Climate
  • Climate Model Projections for Canada: A Comparison of CMIP5 and CMIP6 (2021) published in ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Xuebin Zhang
  • Chao Li
  • Qiaohong Sun
  • Markus Schnorbus
  • Guilong Li

They have published extensively in several journals, with a majority of works appearing in the following venues:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN
  • Earth's Future

Recognition of their work is reflected in distinctions such as being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2018 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Statistical Analysis in Climate Research

    Robert B. Lund;Hans von Storch;Francis W. Zwiers

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes

    Seung-Ki Min;Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Francis W. Zwiers;Gabriele C. Hegerl

  • Indices for monitoring changes in extremes based on daily temperature and precipitation data

    Xuebin Zhang;Lisa Alexander;Gabriele C. Hegerl;Philip D. Jones;Philip D. Jones

  • Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 2. Future climate projections

    J. Sillmann;V. V. Kharin;F. W. Zwiers;X. Zhang

  • Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 1. Model evaluation in the present climate

    J. Sillmann;V. V. Kharin;X. Zhang;F. W. Zwiers

  • Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the IPCC ensemble of global coupled model simulations

    Viatcheslav V. Kharin;Francis W. Zwiers;Xuebin Zhang;Gabriele C. Hegerl

  • Global increasing trends in annual maximum daily precipitation

    Seth Westra;Lisa V. Alexander;Francis W. Zwiers

  • Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends

    Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Gabriele C. Hegerl;F. Hugo Lambert

  • Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the CMIP5 ensemble

    V. V. Kharin;F. W. Zwiers;X. Zhang;M. Wehner

  • Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires

    N. P. Gillett;A. J. Weaver;F. W. Zwiers;M. D. Flannigan

  • Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Issues Related to Modeling Extremes in Projections of Future Climate Change

    Gerald A. Meehl;Francis Zwiers;Jenni Evans;Thomas Knutson

  • Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events

    Peter A. Stott;Nikolaos Christidis;Friederike E. L. Otto;Ying Sun

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • An Introduction to Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Observations, Socioeconomic Impacts, Terrestrial Ecological Impacts, and Model Projections*

    Gerald A. Meehl;Thomas Karl;David R. Easterling;Stanley Changnon

  • Rapid increase in the risk of extreme summer heat in Eastern China

    Ying Sun;Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Lianchun Song

  • Changes in the Extremes in an Ensemble of Transient Climate Simulations with a Coupled Atmosphere–Ocean GCM

    Viatcheslav V. Kharin;Francis W. Zwiers

  • Estimating Extremes in Transient Climate Change Simulations

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  • Avoiding Inhomogeneity in Percentile-Based Indices of Temperature Extremes

    Xuebin Zhang;Gabriele Hegerl;Francis W. Zwiers;Jesse Kenyon

  • Taking Serial Correlation into Account in Tests of the Mean

    Francis W. Zwiers;Hans von Storch

  • Changes in the Extremes of the Climate Simulated by CCC GCM2 under CO2 Doubling

    Francis W. Zwiers;Viatcheslav V. Kharin

Frequent Co-Authors

Xuebin Zhang
Xuebin Zhang University of Victoria
Gabriele C. Hegerl
Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh
Nathan P. Gillett
Nathan P. Gillett University of Victoria
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office
Hans von Storch
Hans von Storch Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Viatcheslav V. Kharin
Viatcheslav V. Kharin Environment and Climate Change Canada
Xiaolan L. Wang
Xiaolan L. Wang Environment and Climate Change Canada
Andrew J. Weaver
Andrew J. Weaver University of Victoria
Val R. Swail
Val R. Swail Environment and Climate Change Canada
George J. Boer
George J. Boer Environment and Climate Change Canada

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