2026 Neal Butchart: 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	66	2089	1993	171	165	138	16271

Overview

Neal Butchart is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom and has a research focus in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 39 publications, and Environmental Science, contributing 28 publications. Within these fields, they specialize in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Oceanography.

Their main research topics include:

Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Climate variability and models
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics

The scientist has published extensively in several notable journals. Frequent venues include:

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Geophysical Research Letters
Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Weather and Climate Dynamics

Noteworthy recent papers by Neal Butchart consist of:

"Sudden Stratospheric Warmings" (2020) published in Reviews of Geophysics
"Progress in Simulating the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in CMIP Models" (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
"Evaluation of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in global climate models for the SPARC QBO-initiative" (2020) published in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
"Uncertainty in the Response of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling to Quadrupled CO₂ Concentrations in CMIP6 Models" (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
"Response of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation to a warming climate in global climate models" (2020) published in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Collaborations feature frequently in their work, with recurring co-authors including:

Scott Osprey
James Anstey
Yoshio Kawatani
Jadwiga H. Richter
Andrew C. Bushell

Best Publications

The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

C. D. Jones;J. K. Hughes;Nicolas Bellouin;S. C. Hardiman

903
Citations
The Brewer‐Dobson circulation

Neal Butchart

838
Citations
The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

N. Bellouin;W. J. Collins;I. D. Culverwell

835
Citations
Stratospheric influence on tropospheric jet streams, storm tracks and surface weather

Joseph Kidston;Adam A. Scaife;Steven C. Hardiman;Daniel M. Mitchell

750
Citations
The Area of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex as a Diagnostic for Tracer Transport on an Isentropic Surface

Neal Butchart;Ellis E. Remsberg

555
Citations
Defining Sudden Stratospheric Warmings

Amy H. Butler;Dian J. Seidel;Steven C. Hardiman;Neal Butchart

545
Citations
Assessment of temperature, trace species, and ozone in chemistry-climate model simulations of the recent past

V. Eyring;N. Butchart;D. W. Waugh;H. Akiyoshi

541
Citations
Sudden Stratospheric Warmings

Mark P. Baldwin;Blanca Ayarzagüena;Thomas Birner;Thomas Birner;Neal Butchart

505
Citations
Simulations of anthropogenic change in the strength of the Brewer–Dobson circulation

N. Butchart;A. A. Scaife;M. Bourqui;M. Bourqui;J. de Grandpre

478
Citations
Review of the global models used within phase 1 of the Chemistry–Climate Model Initiative (CCMI)

Olaf Morgenstern;Michaela I. Hegglin;Eugene Rozanov;Fiona M. O'Connor

431
Citations
Multimodel projections of stratospheric ozone in the 21st century

V. Eyring;D. W. Waugh;G. E. Bodeker;Eugene C. Cordero

388
Citations
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

386
Citations
Removal of chlorofluorocarbons by increased mass exchange between the stratosphere and troposphere in a changing climate

Neal Butchart;Adam A. Scaife

361
Citations
Chemistry-Climate Model Simulations of Twenty- First Century Stratospheric Climate and Circulation Changes

Neal Butchart;I. Cionni;V. Eyring;T. G. Shepherd

334
Citations
A comparison of model-simulated trends in stratospheric temperatures

K. P. Shine;M. S. Bourqui;P. M. de F. Forster;S. H. E. Hare

264
Citations
Possibility of an Arctic ozone hole in a doubled-CO2 climate

John Austin;Neal Butchart;Keith P. Shine

253
Citations
Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Tropics and global trends

A. Gettelman;M. I. Hegglin;S.-W. Son;Jung-Hyun Kim

252
Citations
An unexpected disruption of the atmospheric quasi-biennial oscillation

Scott M. Osprey;Neal Butchart;Jeff R. Knight;Adam A. Scaife;Adam A. Scaife

229
Citations
Realistic quasi‐biennial oscillations in a simulation of the global climate

Adam A. Scaife;Neal Butchart;Christopher D. Warner;David Stainforth

227
Citations
Multimodel climate and variability of the stratosphere

N. Butchart;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez;I. Cionni;S. C. Hardiman

226
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam A. Scaife Met Office

Steven C. Hardiman Met Office

John Austin Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Lesley J. Gray University of Oxford

Eugene Rozanov Saint Petersburg State University

Olaf Morgenstern National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

David A. Plummer Environment and Climate Change Canada

Rolando R. Garcia National Center for Atmospheric Research

Fiona M. O'Connor Met Office

Guang Zeng National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

External Links

Personal website of Neal Butchart

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