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Nathan P. Gillett

Nathan P. Gillett

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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
83
Citations
32710
World Ranking
822
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Nathan P. Gillett is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

The scientist's publication record reflects a broad engagement with topics related to climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and meteorological phenomena and simulations. Other notable areas of work include climate change and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, climate change policy and economics, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Joeri Rogelj, Piers Forster, Elizaveta Malinina, Pierre Friedlingstein, and Aurélien Ribes, demonstrating collaborative efforts within the scientific community.

Gillett's work has been published extensively in several renowned venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth system science data

Their most cited recent papers include:

  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change (2021), published in Nature Climate Change
  • Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada in June 2021 (2022), published in Earth System Dynamics
  • Making climate projections conditional on historical observations (2021), published in Science Advances
  • Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence (2023), published in Earth system science data
  • Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period (2021), published in Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

  • Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks

    Josep G. Canadell;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Christopher B. Field

  • Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends

    Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Gabriele C. Hegerl;F. Hugo Lambert

  • Understanding and Attributing Climate Change

    Gabriele Hegerl;Francis Zwiers;Pascale Braconnot;N.P. Gillett

  • The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions

    H. Damon Matthews;Nathan P. Gillett;Peter A. Stott;Kirsten Zickfeld

  • Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Due to Recent Climate Change

    Corinne Le Quéré;Christian Rödenbeck;Erik T. Buitenhuis;Thomas J. Conway

  • The Canadian Earth System Model version 5 (CanESM5.0.3)

    Neil C. Swart;Jason N. S. Cole;Viatcheslav V. Kharin;Mike Lazare

  • Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires

    N. P. Gillett;A. J. Weaver;F. W. Zwiers;M. D. Flannigan

  • Response to Comments on "Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Due to Recent Climate Change"

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Christian Rödenbeck;Erik T. Buitenhuis;Thomas J. Conway

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional

    NL Bindoff;PA Stott;M AchutaRao;Allen

  • Simulation of recent southern hemisphere climate change.

    Nathan P. Gillett;Nathan P. Gillett;David W. J. Thompson;David W. J. Thompson

  • Regional climate impacts of the Southern Annular Mode

    N. P. Gillett;T. D. Kell;P. D. Jones

  • A Summary of the CMIP5 Experiment Design

    Karl E. Taylor;Ronald J. Stouffer;Gerald A. Meehl;Peter Cox

  • The Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP v1.0)contribution to CMIP6

    Nathan P. Gillett;Hideo Shiogama;Bernd Funke;Gabriele Hegerl

  • Attribution of observed surface humidity changes to human influence

    Katharine M. Willett;Nathan P. Gillett;Philip D. Jones;Peter W. Thorne

  • Detection and attribution of climate change: a regional perspective.

    Peter A. Stott;Nathan P. Gillett;Gabriele C. Hegerl;David J. Karoly

  • Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content

    B. D. Santer;C. Mears;F. J. Wentz;K. E. Taylor

  • Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown

    John C. Fyfe;Gerald A. Meehl;Matthew H. England;Michael E. Mann

  • An update of observed stratospheric temperature trends

    William J. Randel;Keith P. Shine;John Austin;John Barnett

  • Constraining the Ratio of Global Warming to Cumulative CO2 Emissions Using CMIP5 Simulations

    Nathan P. Gillett;Vivek K. Arora;Damon Matthews;Myles R. Allen

  • Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment

    S.-W. Son.;E. P. Gerber;J. Perlwitz;J. Perlwitz;L. M. Polvani

Frequent Co-Authors

Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office
Francis W. Zwiers
Francis W. Zwiers University of Victoria
Joeri Rogelj
Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London
Vivek K. Arora
Vivek K. Arora University of Victoria
Gabriele C. Hegerl
Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh
John C. Fyfe
John C. Fyfe University of Victoria
John F. Scinocca
John F. Scinocca University of Victoria
Michael Sigmond
Michael Sigmond Environment and Climate Change Canada
Andrew J. Weaver
Andrew J. Weaver University of Victoria

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