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Jeff R. Knight

Jeff R. Knight

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
14585
World Ranking
4648
National Ranking
358

Overview

Jeff R. Knight is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these broad fields, their work focuses extensively on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography, with additional contributions to Astronomy and Astrophysics and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research addresses several key topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Among recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Jeff R. Knight are:

  • Implementation of U.K. Earth System Models for CMIP6, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Historical Simulations With HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Robust but weak winter atmospheric circulation response to future Arctic sea ice loss, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Predictability of European winter 2019/20: Indian Ocean dipole impacts on the NAO, 2020, Atmospheric Science Letters
  • Forecasting extreme stratospheric polar vortex events, 2020, Nature Communications

Jeff R. Knight frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Adam A. Scaife
  • Nick Dunstone
  • Martin B. Andrews
  • Doug Smith
  • Steven C. Hardiman

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in specific scholarly venues, most notably:

  • Atmospheric Science Letters
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • A signature of persistent natural thermohaline circulation cycles in observed climate

    Jeff R. Knight;Robert J. Allan;Chris K. Folland;Michael Vellinga

  • Climate impacts of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

    Jeff R. Knight;Chris K. Folland;Adam A. Scaife

  • The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

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

  • The summer North Atlantic Oscillation: past, present, and future.

    Chris K. Folland;Jeff R. Knight;Hans W. Linderholm;David Fereday

  • Skillful long‐range prediction of European and North American winters

    A. A. Scaife;A. Arribas;E. Blockley;A. Brookshaw

  • Solar forcing of winter climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere

    Sarah Ineson;Adam A. Scaife;Jeff R. Knight;James C. Manners

  • Skilful predictions of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation one year ahead

    Nick Dunstone;Doug Smith;Adam Scaife;Leon Hermanson

  • A stratospheric influence on the winter NAO and North Atlantic surface climate

    Adam A. Scaife;Jeff R. Knight;Geoff K. Vallis;Chris K. Folland

  • Global impacts of the 1980s regime shift

    Philip C. Reid;Renata E. Hari;Grégory Beaugrand;David M. Livingstone

  • European Climate Extremes and the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Adam A Scaife;Chris K Folland;Lisa Victoria Alexander;Anders Moberg

  • Decadal to multidecadal variability and the climate change background

    David Parker;Chris Folland;Adam Scaife;Jeff Knight

  • The role of the stratosphere in subseasonal to seasonal prediction Part II: Predictability arising from stratosphere ‐ troposphere coupling

    Daniela I. V. Domeisen;Amy H. Butler;Amy H. Butler;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez;Blanca Ayarzagüena;Blanca Ayarzagüena

  • El Nino and a record CO2 rise

    Richard A. Betts;Richard A. Betts;Chris D. Jones;Jeff R. Knight;Ralph F. Keeling

  • Strong constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions

    Florent F. Malavelle;Jim M. Haywood;Jim M. Haywood;Andy Jones;Andrew Gettelman

  • Robust but weak winter atmospheric circulation response to future Arctic sea ice loss

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  • Implementation of U.K. Earth system models for CMIP6

    Alistair A. Sellar;Jeremy Walton;Colin G. Jones;Richard Wood

  • Atmospheric Blocking and Mean Biases in Climate Models

    Adam A. Scaife;Tim Woollings;Jeff Knight;Gill Martin

  • 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

  • An unexpected disruption of the atmospheric quasi-biennial oscillation

    Scott M. Osprey;Neal Butchart;Jeff R. Knight;Adam A. Scaife;Adam A. Scaife

  • Tropical rainfall, Rossby waves and regional winter climate predictions

    Adam A. Scaife;Adam A. Scaife;Ruth E. Comer;Nick J. Dunstone;Jeff R. Knight

  • A lagged response to the 11 year solar cycle in observed winter Atlantic/European weather patterns

    Lesley J. Gray;Adam A. Scaife;Daniel M. Mitchell;Scott Osprey

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office
Nick Dunstone
Nick Dunstone Met Office
Doug Smith
Doug Smith Met Office
Sarah Ineson
Sarah Ineson Met Office
Lesley J. Gray
Lesley J. Gray University of Oxford
Antje Weisheimer
Antje Weisheimer University of Oxford
Rosie Eade
Rosie Eade Met Office

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