2026 Jonathan M. Gregory: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	115	155	145	8	8	329	60441

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
2018 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Jonathan M. Gregory is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant contribution to Environmental Science. This work spans subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their scientific output addresses several key topics: climate variability and models, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and geophysics and gravity measurements.

Jonathan M. Gregory has coauthored extensively with several frequent collaborators, including Robin S. Smith, Laure Zanna, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Quran Wu, and Heiko Goelzer.

Their frequent publication venues reflect a focus on climate and Earth system sciences. Major outlets include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geophysical Research Letters, The Cryosphere, Journal of Climate, and Climate Dynamics.

Notable recent papers highlight a concentration on ice sheet dynamics and sea level rise. These include:

Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, 2021, Nature
ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century, 2020, The Cryosphere
The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6, 2020, The Cryosphere
Aerosol-Forced AMOC Changes in CMIP6 Historical Simulations, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
Experimental protocol for sea level projections from ISMIP6 stand-alone ice sheet models, 2020, The Cryosphere

Jonathan M. Gregory's career includes recognition through several awards. They were honored with the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2018. In 2017, they were elected both as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

Global climate projections. Chapter 10

G A Meehl;T F Stocker;W D Collins;P Friedlingstein

6887
Citations
Global climate projections

G.A. Meehl;T. F. Stocker;W. D. Collins;P. Friedlingstein

6784
Citations
The simulation of SST, sea ice extents and ocean heat transports in a version of the Hadley Centre coupled model without flux adjustments

C. Gordon;C. Cooper;C. A. Senior;H. Banks

3287
Citations
Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level

N. L. Bindoff;Jürgen Willebrand;V. Artale;A. Cazenave

1993
Citations
Sea-Level Rise by 2100

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

1300
Citations
Changes in Sea Level

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

1235
Citations
Investigating the Causes of the Response of the Thermohaline Circulation to Past and Future Climate Changes

Ronald J. Stouffer;J. Yin;J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon

1171
Citations
A new method for diagnosing radiative forcing and climate sensitivity

J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;W. J. Ingram;M. A. Palmer;G. S. Jones

1128
Citations
Climate response to increasing levels of greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols

J. F. B. Mitchell;T. C. Johns;Jonathan M. Gregory;S. F. B. Tett

1014
Citations
The second Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM: model description, spinup and validation

Tim C. Johns;Ruth E. Carnell;Jenny F. Crossley;Jonathan M. Gregory

981
Citations
Sea Level Change

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

862
Citations
Forcing, feedbacks and climate sensitivity in CMIP5 coupled atmosphere-ocean climate models

Timothy Andrews;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory;Mark J. Webb;Karl E. Taylor

820
Citations
A study of the general characteristics of proton-antiproton collisions at √ s=0.2 to 0.9 TeV

C. Albajar;M. G. Albrow;O. C. Allkofer;B. Andrieu

717
Citations
A model intercomparison of changes in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration

J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon;R. J. Stouffer;A. J. Weaver

703
Citations
Anthropogenic climate change for 1860 to 2100 simulated with the HadCM3 model under updated emissions scenarios

T.C. Johns;J.M. Gregory;W.J. Ingram;C.E. Johnson

686
Citations
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

673
Citations
Penetration of Human-Induced Warming into the World's Oceans

Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Krishna M. AchutaRao;Peter J. Gleckler

645
Citations
The new hadley centre climate model (HadGEM1) : Evaluation of coupled simulations

T. C. Johns;C. F. Durman;H. T. Banks;M. J. Roberts

537
Citations
Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise

Tamsin L Edwards;Sophie Nowicki;Sophie Nowicki;Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

531
Citations
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

515
Citations
Land/sea warming ratio in response to climate change: IPCC AR4 model results and comparison with observations

Rowan T. Sutton;Buwen Dong;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory

482
Citations
Changes in sea level

Jonathan M. Gregory;J. A. Church

112
Citations
Avoiding dangerous climate change

M. R. Allen;N. Andronova;B. Booth;S. Dessai

54
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Lowe Met Office

John A. Church University of New South Wales

Timothy Andrews Met Office

Raúl Muñoz University of Valladolid

Philippe Huybrechts Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

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