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Overview

Ian Simmonds is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics within their fields, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Their frequent collaboration with other researchers is reflected in co-authors such as Dehai Luo, Yao Yao, Binhe Luo, Aiguo Dai, and Linhao Zhong. These collaborations have contributed to a number of publications in respected scientific venues.

Ian Simmonds has published extensively in journals including:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth's Future
  • Nature Communications
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Journal of Climate

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ian Simmonds are:

  • "Trends and variability in polar sea ice, global atmospheric circulations, and baroclinicity" (2021) published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • "ICRP Publication 147: Use of Dose Quantities in Radiological Protection" (2021) in Annals of the ICRP (co-authored by John Harrison)
  • "Global analysis of cyclone-induced compound precipitation and wind extreme events" (2021) in Weather and Climate Extremes (co-authored by Martina Messmer)
  • "Collaborative impact of the NAO and atmospheric blocking on European heatwaves, with a focus on the hot summer of 2018" (2020) in Environmental Research Letters (co-authored by Muyuan Li)
  • "A Connection of Winter Eurasian Cold Anomaly to the Modulation of Ural Blocking by ENSO" (2021) in Geophysical Research Letters (co-authored by Binhe Luo)

Best Publications

  • The central role of diminishing sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplification.

    James A. Screen;Ian Simmonds

  • IMILAST: A Community Effort to Intercompare Extratropical Cyclone Detection and Tracking Algorithms

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmu S. Benestad

  • A numerical scheme for tracking cyclone centres from digital data. Part I: development and operation of the scheme

    RJ Murray;I Simmonds

  • Quantification of the Influences of Wind and Cloud on the Nocturnal Urban Heat Island of a Large City

    C. J. G. Morris;I. Simmonds;N. Plummer

  • Mean Southern Hemisphere Extratropical Cyclone Behavior in the 40-Year NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis

    Ian Simmonds;Kevin Keay

  • Exploring links between Arctic amplification and mid‐latitude weather

    James A. Screen;James A. Screen;Ian Simmonds

  • The Atmospheric Response to Three Decades of Observed Arctic Sea Ice Loss

    James A. Screen;Ian Simmonds;Clara Deser;Robert Tomas

  • Amplified mid-latitude planetary waves favour particular regional weather extremes

    James A. Screen;Ian Simmonds

  • Increasing fall-winter energy loss from the Arctic Ocean and its role in Arctic temperature amplification

    James A. Screen;Ian Simmonds

  • Atmospheric Water Vapor Flux and Its Association with Rainfall over China in Summer

    Ian Simmonds;Daohua Bi;Pandora Hope

  • Impact of Ural Blocking on Winter Warm Arctic–Cold Eurasian Anomalies. Part I: Blocking-Induced Amplification

    Dehai Luo;Yiqing Xiao;Yiqing Xiao;Yao Yao;Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai

  • Local and remote controls on observed Arctic warming

    James A. Screen;Clara Deser;Ian Simmonds

  • Association between Australian rainfall and the Southern Annular Mode

    Belinda Meneghini;Ian Simmonds;Ian N. Smith

  • Comparing and contrasting the behaviour of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice over the 35 year period 1979-2013

    Ian Simmonds

  • Atmospheric impacts of Arctic sea-ice loss, 1979–2009: separating forced change from atmospheric internal variability

    James A. Screen;James A. Screen;Clara Deser;Ian Simmonds;Robert Tomas

  • The great Arctic cyclone of August 2012

    Ian Simmonds;Irina Rudeva

  • A climatology of Southern Hemisphere extratropical cyclones

    David A Jones;Ian Simmonds

  • Synoptic Activity in the Seas around Antarctica

    Ian Simmonds;Kevin Keay;Eun-Pa Lim

  • Extraordinary September Arctic sea ice reductions and their relationships with storm behavior over 1979–2008

    Ian Simmonds;Kevin Keay

  • Relationships between the Interannual Variability of Antarctic Sea Ice and the Southern Oscillation

    Ian Simmonds;T. H. Jacka

  • Increased Quasi Stationarity and Persistence of Winter Ural Blocking and Eurasian Extreme Cold Events in Response to Arctic Warming. Part I: Insights from Observational Analyses

    Yao Yao;Dehai Luo;Aiguo Dai;Ian Simmonds

  • Variability of Southern Hemisphere extratropical cyclone behavior, 1958-97

    Ian Simmonds;Kevin Keay

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Screen
James A. Screen University of Exeter
Aiguo Dai
Aiguo Dai University at Albany, State University of New York
David Noone
David Noone University of Auckland
Gregor C. Leckebusch
Gregor C. Leckebusch University of Birmingham
Heini Wernli
Heini Wernli ETH Zurich
Eun-Pa Lim
Eun-Pa Lim Bureau of Meteorology
Sergey K. Gulev
Sergey K. Gulev Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov Russian Academy of Sciences
Christoph C. Raible
Christoph C. Raible University of Bern
Tim Cowan
Tim Cowan University of Southern Queensland
Piero Lionello
Piero Lionello University of Salento

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