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Gareth S. Jones

Gareth S. Jones

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
33
Citations
10155
World Ranking
9504
National Ranking
707

Overview

Gareth S. Jones is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and meteorological phenomena and simulations. Additional areas of interest include oceanographic and atmospheric processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, atmospheric ozone and climate, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Jones's publication record includes peer-reviewed papers in several well-established scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Historical Simulations With HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6" (2020) in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "A Change in Climate State During a Pre-Industrial Simulation of the CMIP6 Model HadGEM3 Driven by Deep Ocean Drift" (2022) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Apples and Oranges: On comparing simulated historic near-surface temperature changes with observations" (2020) in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Comment on "Advanced Testing of Low, Medium, and High ECS CMIP6 GCM Simulations Versus ERA5-T2m" by N. Scafetta (2022)" (2023) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "The HadGEM3-GC3.1 Contribution to the CMIP6 Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project" (2024) in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

The scientist frequently collaborates with multiple co-authors, including Jeff Ridley, Timothy Andrews, Ed Blockley, Martin B. Andrews, and Leon Hermanson. Coauthor collaboration has contributed to several publications, particularly in modeling and climate simulation research.

Jones's contributions are published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Their work spans several subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, and environmental chemistry, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach to climate and environmental science.

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

  • A new method for diagnosing radiative forcing and climate sensitivity

    J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;W. J. Ingram;M. A. Palmer;G. S. Jones

  • The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

    C. D. Jones;J. K. Hughes;Nicolas Bellouin;S. C. Hardiman

  • External Control of 20th Century Temperature by Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings

    Peter A. Stott;S. F. B. Tett;G. S. Jones;M. R. Allen

  • Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave

    Nikolaos Christidis;Gareth S. Jones;Peter A. Stott

  • A Summary of the CMIP5 Experiment Design

    Karl E. Taylor;Ronald J. Stouffer;Gerald A. Meehl;Peter Cox

  • 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

  • Amplification of Surface Temperature Trends and Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere

    Benjamin D. Santer;Tom M. L. Wigley;Carl Mears;Frank J. Wentz

  • Attribution of observed historical near‒surface temperature variations to anthropogenic and natural causes using CMIP5 simulations

    Gareth S. Jones;Peter A. Stott;Nikolaos Christidis

  • Attribution of twentieth century temperature change to natural and anthropogenic causes

    P. A. Stott;S. F. B. Tett;G. S. Jones;M. R. Allen

  • A New HadGEM3-A-Based System for Attribution of Weather- and Climate-Related Extreme Events

    Nikolaos Christidis;Peter A. Stott;Adam A. Scaife;Alberto Arribas

  • Historical simulations with HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6

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

  • Role of volcanic and anthropogenic aerosols in the recent global surface warming slowdown

    Doug M. Smith;Ben B. B. Booth;Nick J. Dunstone;Rosie Eade

  • Forcings, Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity in HadGEM3-GC3.1 and UKESM1

    Timothy Andrews;Martin B. Andrews;Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo;Gareth S. Jones

  • Do Models Underestimate the Solar Contribution to Recent Climate Change

    Peter A. Stott;Gareth S. Jones;John F. B. Mitchell

  • Transient Climate Simulations with the HadGEM1 Climate Model: Causes of Past Warming and Future Climate Change

    Peter A. Stott;Gareth S. Jones;Jason A. Lowe;Peter Thorne

  • An AOGCM simulation of the climate response to a volcanic super-eruption

    Gareth S. Jones;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory;Peter A. Stott;Simon F. B. Tett

  • Human contribution to rapidly increasing frequency of very warm Northern Hemisphere summers

    Gareth S. Jones;Peter A. Stott;Nikolaos Christidis

  • The impact of volcanic eruptions in the period 2000–2013 on global mean temperature trends evaluated in the HadGEM2‐ES climate model

    Jim M. Haywood;Jim M. Haywood;Andy Jones;Gareth S. Jones

  • The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: an update from recent reconstructions and climate simulations

    Matthew Owens;Mike Lockwood;Ed Hawkins;Ilya G. Usoskin

  • Estimating signal amplitudes in optimal fingerprinting. Part II: application to general circulation models

    P. A. Stott;M. R. Allen;G. S. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Simon F. B. Tett
Simon F. B. Tett University of Edinburgh
William Ingram
William Ingram University of Oxford
Mark J. Webb
Mark J. Webb Met Office
Peter Thorne
Peter Thorne National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office
Nathan P. Gillett
Nathan P. Gillett University of Victoria

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