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46
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Len Shaffrey publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Len Shaffrey sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 134 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Len Shaffrey D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Len Shaffrey sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Len Shaffrey is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses extensively on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant work in subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's primary research topics encompass Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Len Shaffrey has published numerous papers in a range of scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "The Response of the Northern Hemisphere Storm Tracks and Jet Streams to Climate Change in the CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6 Climate Models" (2020) in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Recent decadal weakening of the summer Eurasian westerly jet attributable to anthropogenic aerosol emissions" (2022) in Nature Communications
  • "Development, Amplification, and Decay of Atlantic/European Summer Weather Patterns Linked to Spring North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures" (2020) in Journal of Climate
  • "An inter-comparison of Arctic synoptic scale storms between four global reanalysis datasets" (2020) in Climate Dynamics
  • "How Important Are Post-Tropical Cyclones for European Windstorm Risk?" (2020) in Geophysical Research Letters

Publications by Len Shaffrey frequently appear in venues such as Climate Dynamics, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate, and Geophysical Research Letters, reflecting a broad engagement with atmospheric and climatic sciences.

Collaboration with other researchers is a notable aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include Kevin I. Hodges, R. Schiemann, Ben Harvey, Buwen Dong, and Rowan Sutton.

Best Publications

  • A Multimodel Assessment of Future Projections of North Atlantic and European Extratropical Cyclones in the CMIP5 Climate Models

    Giuseppe Zappa;Len C. Shaffrey;Kevin I. Hodges;Phil G. Sansom

  • How much Northern Hemisphere precipitation is associated with extratropical cyclones

    Matthew Hawcroft;Len Shaffrey;Kevin Hodges;Helen Dacre

  • The Ability of CMIP5 Models to Simulate North Atlantic Extratropical Cyclones

    Giuseppe Zappa;Len C. Shaffrey;Kevin I. Hodges

  • Can Climate Models Capture the Structure of Extratropical Cyclones

    Jennifer L. Catto;Leonard Christopher Shaffrey;Kevin Ivan Hodges

  • The Response of the Northern Hemisphere Storm Tracks and Jet Streams to Climate Change in the CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6 Climate Models

    B. J. Harvey;P. Cook;L. C. Shaffrey;R. Schiemann

  • Equator-to-pole temperature differences and the extra-tropical storm track responses of the CMIP5 climate models

    B. J. Harvey;L. C. Shaffrey;T. J. Woollings

  • The evolution, seasonality and impacts of western disturbances

    Kieran M. R. Hunt;Andrew G. Turner;Len C. Shaffrey

  • The XWS open access catalogue of extreme European windstorms from 1979 to 2012

    J. F. Roberts;A. J. Champion;L. C. Dawkins;K. I. Hodges

  • Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Cyclones in a Warming Climate in the HiGEM High-Resolution Climate Model

    Jennifer L. Catto;Len C. Shaffrey;Kevin I. Hodges

  • Quantifying the increasing sensitivity of power systems to climate variability

    Hannah C. Bloomfield;David J. Brayshaw;Len C. Shaffrey;Phil J. Coker

  • Extratropical cyclones and the projected decline of winter Mediterranean precipitation in the CMIP5 models

    Gieuseppe Zappa;Matthew K. Hawcroft;Len Shaffrey;Emily Black

  • Understanding the rapid summer warming and changes in temperature extremes since the mid-1990s over Western Europe

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton;Len Shaffrey

  • How large are projected 21st century storm track changes

    Ben J. Harvey;Len C. Shaffrey;Tim J. Woollings;Giuseppe Zappa

  • An Intercomparison of Skill and Overconfidence/Underconfidence of the Wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation in Multimodel Seasonal Forecasts

    L. H. Baker;L. C. Shaffrey;R. T. Sutton;A. Weisheimer;A. Weisheimer

  • The effect of regional changes in anthropogenic aerosols on rainfall of the East Asian Summer Monsoon

    Liang Guo;Ellie Highwood;Len Shaffrey;Andy Turner

  • Bjerknes Compensation and the Decadal Variability of the Energy Transports in a Coupled Climate Model

    Len Shaffrey;Rowan Sutton

  • The resolution sensitivity of Northern Hemisphere blocking in four 25-km atmospheric global circulation models.

    Reinhard Schiemann;Marie-Estelle Demory;Len C. Shaffrey;Jane Strachan

  • The impact of North Atlantic sea surface temperature errors on the simulation of North Atlantic European region climate

    Sarah Keeley;Rowan Sutton;Len Shaffrey

  • Impact of Resolution on the Tropical Pacific Circulation in a Matrix of Coupled Models

    Malcolm J. Roberts;A. Clayton;M.-E. Demory;J. Donners

  • Can Polar Lows be Objectively Identified and Tracked in the ECMWF Operational Analysis and the ERA-Interim Reanalysis?

    Giuseppe Zappa;Len Shaffrey;Kevin Hodges

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin I. Hodges
Kevin I. Hodges University of Reading
Rowan Sutton
Rowan Sutton University of Reading
Joaquim G. Pinto
Joaquim G. Pinto Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Buwen Dong
Buwen Dong University of Reading
Tim Woollings
Tim Woollings University of Oxford
Andrew G. Turner
Andrew G. Turner University of Reading
David B. Stephenson
David B. Stephenson University of Exeter
Pier Luigi Vidale
Pier Luigi Vidale University of Reading
Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office

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