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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2018 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Overview

John A. Church is primarily affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing mainly on Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including climate variability and models, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, geophysics and gravity measurements, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

The scientist has published numerous papers in various notable venues, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters. Other publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earth system science data, and Earth's Future. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy go?" (2023, Earth system science data)
  • "A High-End Estimate of Sea Level Rise for Practitioners" (2022, Earth's Future)
  • "A Mass and Energy Conservation Analysis of Drift in the CMIP6 Ensemble" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "Regional Dynamic Sea Level Simulated in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models: Mean Biases, Future Projections, and Their Linkages" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "Reconciling global mean and regional sea level change in projections and observations" (2021, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors of John A. Church include Neale Smith, Xuebin Zhang, Xianyao Chen, Jonathan M. Gregory, and Jinping Wang. These collaborations have contributed to the breadth and depth of their work on climate-related topics.

In addition to research articles, John A. Church has also published a book titled Alberta through the University of Toronto Press in 2022.

The scientist has been recognized with professional awards including the Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020 and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2018.

Best Publications

  • A 20th century acceleration in global sea-level rise

    John A. Church;John A. Church;Neil J. White;Neil J. White

  • Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century

    John A. Church;Neil J. White

  • Sea-Level Rise by 2100

    John A. Church;Peter U. Clark;Anny Cazenave;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Changes in Sea Level

    J. A. Church;J. M. Gregory;Philippe Huybrechts;M. Kuhn

  • Recent Climate Observations Compared to Projections

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Anny Cazenave;John A. Church;James E. Hansen

  • Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise

    Catia M. Domingues;John A. Church;John A. Church;Neil J. White;Neil J. White;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Estimates of the Regional Distribution of Sea Level Rise over the 1950–2000 Period

    John A. Church;Neil J. White;Richard Coleman;Kurt Lambeck

  • Sea Level Change

    J. A. Church;P. U. Clark;A. Cazenave;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Revisiting the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008

    John A. Church;Neil J. White;Leonard F. Konikow;Catia M. Domingues

  • A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change

    J. P. Abraham;M. Baringer;N. L. Bindoff;N. L. Bindoff;N. L. Bindoff;T. Boyer

  • Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006

    Dean Roemmich;John Church;John Gilson;Didier Monselesan

  • Concepts and terminology for sea level: mean, variability and change, both local and global

    Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory;Stephen M. Griffies;Chris W. Hughes;Jason A. Lowe;Jason A. Lowe

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • The increasing rate of global mean sea-level rise during 1993–2014

    Xianyao Chen;Xuebin Zhang;John A. Church;Christopher S. Watson

  • The nitrogen legacy: emerging evidence of nitrogen accumulation in anthropogenic landscapes

    K J Van Meter;N B Basu;J J Veenstra;C L Burras

  • Observed decreases in oxygen content of the global ocean

    Kieran P. Helm;Kieran P. Helm;Nathaniel L. Bindoff;John A. Church;John A. Church

  • Sea-level rise at tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean islands

    John A. Church;John A. Church;Neil J. White;Neil J. White;John R. Hunter

  • Energy budget constraints on climate response

    Alexander Otto;Friederike E. L. Otto;Olivier Boucher;John Church

  • The Leeuwin Current off Western Australia, 1986–1987

    Robert L. Smith;Adriana Huyer;J. Stuart Godfrey;John A. Church

  • Large-scale freshening of intermediate waters in the Pacific and Indian oceans

    Annie P. S. Wong;Nathaniel L. Bindoff;John A. Church

  • Ocean circulation and climate: observing and modelling the global ocean

    Gerold Siedler;John Church;John Gould

  • Changes in sea level

    Jonathan M. Gregory;J. A. Church

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil J. White
Neil J. White CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
Catia M. Domingues
Catia M. Domingues National Oceanography Centre
Nathaniel L. Bindoff
Nathaniel L. Bindoff University of Tasmania
Richard Coleman
Richard Coleman University of Tasmania
Susan Wijffels
Susan Wijffels Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Detlef Stammer
Detlef Stammer Universität Hamburg
Christopher Watson
Christopher Watson University of Tasmania
Jason Lowe
Jason Lowe Met Office
Kathleen L. McInnes
Kathleen L. McInnes Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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