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John C. King is affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom and has made contributions to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The main topics covered in John C. King's work include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Polar Research and Ecology

John C. King frequently publishes in various academic venues, with a particular concentration in:

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Some recent notable papers include:

  • "An evaluation of surface meteorology and fluxes over the Iceland and Greenland Seas in ERA5 reanalysis: The impact of sea ice distribution" (2020) published in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Extreme Temperatures in the Antarctic" (2021) published in Journal of Climate
  • "Atmospheric Drivers of Melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf: Surface Energy Budget Regimes and the Impact of Foehn" (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "An Extreme High Temperature Event in Coastal East Antarctica Associated With an Atmospheric River and Record Summer Downslope Winds" (2022) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica "Heat" Wave. Part I: Observations and Meteorological Drivers" (2023) published in Journal of Climate

Throughout their career, John C. King has collaborated with several coauthors, most frequently with Hua Lu, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Tony Phillips, Ella Gilbert, and Andrew Orr.

Best Publications

  • Recent Rapid Regional Climate Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula

    David G. Vaughan;Gareth J. Marshall;William M. Connolley;Claire Parkinson

  • Antarctic meteorology and climatology

    John Chritopher King;J. Turner

  • Rapid climate change in the ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula during the second half of the 20th century

    Michael P. Meredith;John C. King

  • Absence of 21st century warming on Antarctic Peninsula consistent with natural variability

    John Turner;Hua Lu;Ian White;John C. King

  • Recent climate variability in the vicinity of the antarctic peninsula

    John C. King

  • Climate change and the marine ecosystem of the western Antarctic Peninsula

    Andrew Clarke;Eugene J Murphy;Michael P Meredith;John C King

  • The Impact of a Changing Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode on Antarctic Peninsula Summer Temperatures

    Gareth J. Marshall;Andrew Orr;Nicole P. M. van Lipzig;John C. King

  • Devil in the Detail

    David G. Vaughan;Gareth J. Marshall;William M. Connolley;John C. King

  • Causes of exceptional atmospheric circulation changes in the Southern Hemisphere

    Gareth J. Marshall;Peter A. Stott;John Turner;William M. Connolley

  • U.K. HiGEM: The New U.K. High-Resolution Global Environment Model― Model Description and Basic Evaluation

    Leonard Christopher Shaffrey;I. Stevens;Warwick Norton;M. J. Roberts

  • Climate change in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1945: observations and possible causes

    J. C. King;S. A. Harangozo

  • Precipitation, sublimation, and snow drift in the Antarctic Peninsula region from a regional atmospheric model

    N. P. M. van Lipzig;N. P. M. van Lipzig;J. C. King;T. A. Lachlan-Cope;M. R. van den Broeke

  • Climatology of the three coastal Antarctic stations Dumont D'urville, Neumayer and Halley

    Gert König-Langlo;J. King;P. Pettré

  • Antarctic Peninsula climate variability and its causes as revealed by analysis of instrumental records

    John C. King;John Turner;Gareth J. Marshall;William Connolley

  • Some measurements of turbulence over an antarctic ice shelf

    J. C. King

  • Heat and water vapour fluxes and scalar roughness lengths over an Antarctic ice shelf

    J. C. King;P. S. Anderson

  • Surface melt and ponding on Larsen C Ice Shelf and the impact of föhn winds

    Adrian J. Luckman;Andrew Elvidge;Daniela Jansen;Bernd Kulessa

  • 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

  • Characteristics of Summer Airflow over the Antarctic Peninsula in Response to Recent Strengthening of Westerly Circumpolar Winds

    Andrew Orr;Gareth J. Marshall;Julian C. R. Hunt;Joel Sommeria

  • Measurements and predictions of flow and turbulence over an isolated hill of moderate slope

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Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Orr
Andrew Orr British Antarctic Survey
Ian A. Renfrew
Ian A. Renfrew University of East Anglia
Gareth J. Marshall
Gareth J. Marshall British Antarctic Survey
John Turner
John Turner Natural Environment Research Council
David G. Vaughan
David G. Vaughan British Antarctic Survey
Adrian Luckman
Adrian Luckman Swansea University
Graham W. Mann
Graham W. Mann University of Leeds
Peter Kuipers Munneke
Peter Kuipers Munneke Utrecht University
Michael P. Meredith
Michael P. Meredith British Antarctic Survey
Thomas J. Bracegirdle
Thomas J. Bracegirdle British Antarctic Survey

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