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48
Citations
6667
World Ranking
5636
National Ranking
433

Overview

Ian A. Renfrew is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Medicine. Their research predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography, with specific interests in Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, cryospheric studies and observations, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate change and permafrost, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Recent publications by Ian A. Renfrew include:

  • An evaluation of surface meteorology and fluxes over the Iceland and Greenland Seas in ERA5 reanalysis: The impact of sea ice distribution (2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society)

Their frequent co-authors reflect collaborative research within related fields. These include:

  • Andrew D. Elvidge
  • Ian M. Brooks
  • Christopher Barrell
  • John King
  • Alexandra Weiss

Ian A. Renfrew's work has been published primarily in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • Journal of Climate

Their contributions span multiple important topics, which include:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Best Publications

  • Advancing Polar Prediction Capabilities on Daily to Seasonal Time Scales

    Thomas Jung;Neil D. Gordon;Peter Bauer;David H. Bromwich

  • A Comparison of Surface Layer and Surface Turbulent Flux Observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF Analyses and NCEP Reanalyses

    Ian A. Renfrew;G. W. K. Moore;Peter S. Guest;Karl Bumke

  • High-Latitude Ocean and Sea Ice Surface Fluxes: Challenges for Climate Research

    Mark A. Bourassa;Mark A. Bourassa;Sarah T. Gille;Cecilia Bitz;David Carlson

  • Tip Jets and Barrier Winds: A QuikSCAT Climatology of High Wind Speed Events around Greenland.

    G. W. K. Moore;I. A. Renfrew

  • Advances in understanding and parameterization of small-scale physical processes in the marine Arctic climate system : a review

    Timo Vihma;Timo Vihma;R. Pirazzini;I. Fer;I. A. Renfrew

  • Multidecadal Mobility of the North Atlantic Oscillation

    G. W. K. Moore;Ian A. Renfrew;Robert S. Pickart

  • The Causes of Foehn Warming in the Lee of Mountains

    Andrew D. Elvidge;Ian A. Renfrew

  • An Extreme Cold-Air Outbreak over the Labrador Sea: Roll Vortices and Air–Sea Interaction

    Ian A. Renfrew;G. W. K. Moore

  • Cold European winters: interplay between the NAO and the East Atlantic mode

    G. W. K. Moore;I. A. Renfrew

  • Coastal polynyas in the southern Weddell Sea: Variability of the surface energy budget

    Ian A. Renfrew;John C. King;Thorsten Markus

  • Variability in the freshwater balance of northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula: results from δ18O

    Michael P. Meredith;Mark A. Brandon;Margaret I. Wallace;Andrew Clarke

  • The impact of polar mesoscale storms on northeast Atlantic Ocean circulation

    Alan Condron;Ian A. Renfrew

  • Aircraft‐based observations of air–sea fluxes over Denmark Strait and the Irminger Sea during high wind speed conditions

    G. N. Petersen;I. A. Renfrew

  • Evaluation of four global reanalysis products using in situ observations in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica

    R. W. Jones;I. A. Renfrew;Andrew M.W. Orr;B. G. M. Webber

  • A Climatology of Wintertime Barrier Winds off Southeast Greenland

    B. E. Harden;I. A. Renfrew;G. N. Petersen

  • Decreasing intensity of open-ocean convection in the Greenland and Iceland seas

    George William Kent Moore;Kjetil Våge;Robert S. Pickart;Ian A. Renfrew

  • An Assessment of the Surface Turbulent Heat Fluxes from the NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis over the Western Boundary Currents

    G. W. K. Moore;I. A. Renfrew

  • Polar Mesoscale Cyclones in the Northeast Atlantic: Comparing Climatologies from ERA-40 and Satellite Imagery

    Alan Condron;Grant R. Bigg;Ian A. Renfrew

  • Foehn jets over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

    Andrew D. Elvidge;Ian A. Renfrew;John C. King;Andrew Orr

  • Changes in the freshwater composition of the upper ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula during the first decade of the 21st century

    Michael P. Meredith;Margaret I. Wallace;Sharon E. Stammerjohn;Ian A. Renfrew

  • High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research

    Mark Bourassa;Sarah Tragler Gille;Cecilia M. Bitz;David Carlson

  • Flux observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF analyses and NCEP reanalyses

    I.A. Renfrew;P.S. Guest;G.W.K. Moore;Karl Bumke

Frequent Co-Authors

G. W. K. Moore
G. W. K. Moore University of Toronto
John C. King
John C. King British Antarctic Survey
Robert S. Pickart
Robert S. Pickart Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
David H. Bromwich
David H. Bromwich The Ohio State University
Thomas Jung
Thomas Jung Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Christopher W. Fairall
Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Andrew Orr
Andrew Orr British Antarctic Survey
Peter Bauer
Peter Bauer European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Trond Iversen
Trond Iversen Norwegian Meteorological Institute

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