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Overview

Keith Haines is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses on several interrelated subfields including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research themes span multiple topics, with a strong emphasis on climate variability and models, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and marine and coastal ecosystems. Other areas of focus include meteorological phenomena and simulations, geophysics and gravity measurements, ocean acidification effects and responses, as well as solar and space plasma dynamics.

Key recent publications by Keith Haines include:

  • Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Improved High Resolution Ocean Reanalyses Using a Simple Smoother Algorithm, 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Perturbed Biology and Physics Signatures in a 1-D Ocean Biogeochemical Model Ensemble, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Water and energy budgets over hydrological basins on short and long timescales, 2023, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Precipitation explains GRACE water storage variability over large endorheic basins in the 21st century, 2023, Frontiers in Environmental Science

Frequent collaborators in Keith Haines's research include Bo Dong, Matthew Martin, Samantha Petch, Tristan Quaife, and Paul Strubinger Sandoval. These coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications, reflecting ongoing partnerships within their scientific work.

Publication venues where Keith Haines has frequently published encompass:

  • Open Research Europe
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Ocean Science
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Sea ice decline and 21st century trans‐Arctic shipping routes

    Nat Melia;Keith Haines;Ed Hawkins

  • Altimetric assimilation with water property conservation

    Mike Cooper;Keith Haines

  • The Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project (ORA-IP)

    M. A. Balmaseda;F. Hernandez;A. Storto;M. D. Palmer

  • Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

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  • Modeling the paleocirculation of the Mediterranean: The Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene with emphasis on the formation of sapropel S 1

    Paul G. Myers;Keith Haines;Eelco J. Rohling

  • Eddy-forced coherent structures as a prototype of atmospheric blocking

    Keith Haines;John Marshall

  • Isolating the signal of ocean global warming

    M. D. Palmer;K. Haines;S. F. B. Tett;T. J. Ansell

  • Eddy-permitting ocean circulation hindcasts of past decades

    Bernard Barnier;Laurent Brodeau;Julien Le Sommer;Jean-Marc Molines

  • An assessment of ten ocean reanalyses in the polar regions

    Petteri Uotila;Hugues Goosse;Keith Haines;Matthieu Chevallier

  • How does the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) retain its population structure during its larval migration across the North Atlantic Ocean

    A James Kettle;Keith Haines

  • Modeling the dispersal of Levantine Intermediate Water and its role in Mediterranean deep water formation

    Peili Wu;Keith Haines

  • Intercomparison of the Arctic sea ice cover in global ocean–sea ice reanalyses from the ORA-IP project

    Matthieu Chevallier;Gregory C. Smith;Frédéric Dupont;Jean-François Lemieux

  • THE NEED FOR A DYNAMICAL CLIMATE REANALYSIS

    Lennart Bengtsson;Phil Arkin;Paul Berrisford;Philippe Bougeault

  • Ocean heat content variability and change in an ensemble of ocean reanalyses

    M. D. Palmer;C. D. Roberts;M. Balmaseda;Y. S. Chang

  • Use of the Temperature Salinity Relation in a Data Assimilation Context

    Alberto Troccoli;Keith Haines

  • Ocean reanalyses: Recent advances and unsolved challenges

    Andrea Storto;Aida Alvera-Azcárate;Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda;Alexander Barth

  • Origin and Impact of Initialization Shocks in Coupled Atmosphere–Ocean Forecasts*

    David P. Mulholland;Patrick Laloyaux;Keith Haines;Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda

  • Modelling the global coastal ocean.

    Jason Holt;James Harle;Roger Proctor;Sylvain Michel

  • An assessment of air–sea heat fluxes from ocean and coupled reanalyses

    Maria Valdivieso;Keith Haines;Magdalena Balmaseda;You-Soon Chang;You-Soon Chang

  • A Direct Method for Assimilating Sea Surface Height Data into Ocean Models with Adjustments to the Deep Circulation

    K. Haines

  • Calculating the Ocean’s Mean Dynamic Topography from a Mean Sea Surface and a Geoid

    Rory J. Bingham;Keith Haines;Chris W. Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Magdalena Balmaseda
Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Matthew Martin
Matthew Martin Met Office
Armin Köhl
Armin Köhl Universität Hamburg
Matthew D. Palmer
Matthew D. Palmer University of Bristol
Johnny A. Johannessen
Johnny A. Johannessen Naval Postgraduate School
Ed Hawkins
Ed Hawkins University of Reading
Paul G. Myers
Paul G. Myers University of Alberta
Per Knudsen
Per Knudsen Technical University of Denmark
Tong Lee
Tong Lee California Institute of Technology

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