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Nick Dunstone

Nick Dunstone

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
10891
World Ranking
4035
National Ranking
310

Overview

Nick Dunstone is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans major subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The core of Dunstone's research explores topics such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

The most frequent publication venues where Dunstone's research appears include Environmental Research Letters, Atmospheric Science Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Dunstone has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably Adam A. Scaife, Doug Smith, Steven C. Hardiman, Leon Hermanson, and Sarah Ineson.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply, 2020, Nature
  • Robust but weak winter atmospheric circulation response to future Arctic sea ice loss, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Compound precipitation and wind extremes over Europe and their relationship to extratropical cyclones, 2021, Weather and Climate Extremes
  • WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update: A Prediction for 2021-25, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Predictability of European winter 2019/20: Indian Ocean dipole impacts on the NAO, 2020, Atmospheric Science Letters

These contributions illustrate a focus on predictive climate modeling, atmospheric circulation responses, and the interplay between oceanic indices and European climate patterns.

Best Publications

  • Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability

    Ben B. B. Booth;Nick J. Dunstone;Paul R. Halloran;Timothy Andrews

  • Skillful long‐range prediction of European and North American winters

    A. A. Scaife;A. Arribas;E. Blockley;A. Brookshaw

  • Solar forcing of winter climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere

    Sarah Ineson;Adam A. Scaife;Jeff R. Knight;James C. Manners

  • Skilful predictions of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation one year ahead

    Nick Dunstone;Doug Smith;Adam Scaife;Leon Hermanson

  • Do seasonal-to-decadal climate predictions underestimate the predictability of the real world?

    Rosie Eade;Doug Smith;Adam Scaife;Emily Wallace

  • Skilful multi-year predictions of Atlantic hurricane frequency

    Doug M. Smith;Rosie Eade;Nick J. Dunstone;David Fereday

  • Robust but weak winter atmospheric circulation response to future Arctic sea ice loss

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  • Robust skill of decadal climate predictions

    D. M. Smith;R. Eade;A. A. Scaife;A. A. Scaife;L.-P. Caron

  • North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply

    Doug M. Smith;A. Scaife;A. Scaife;Rosie Eade;P. Athanasiadis

  • Seasonal winter forecasts and the stratosphere

    A. A. Scaife;A. Yu. Karpechko;M. P. Baldwin;A. Brookshaw

  • High risk of unprecedented UK rainfall in the current climate.

    Vikki Thompson;Nick J. Dunstone;Adam A. Scaife;Doug M. Smith

  • Tropical rainfall, Rossby waves and regional winter climate predictions

    Adam A. Scaife;Adam A. Scaife;Ruth E. Comer;Nick J. Dunstone;Jeff R. Knight

  • Role of volcanic and anthropogenic aerosols in the recent global surface warming slowdown

    Doug M. Smith;Ben B. B. Booth;Nick J. Dunstone;Rosie Eade

  • Atmospheric Response to Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice: The Importance of Ocean–Atmosphere Coupling and the Background State

    Doug M. Smith;Nick J. Dunstone;Adam A. Scaife;Emma K. Fiedler

  • The influence of anthropogenic aerosol on multi-decadal variations of historical global climate

    L J Wilcox;E J Highwood;N J Dunstone

  • Predictability of the quasi‐biennial oscillation and its northern winter teleconnection on seasonal to decadal timescales

    Adam A. Scaife;Maria Athanassiadou;Martin Andrews;Alberto Arribas

  • Anthropogenic aerosol forcing of Atlantic tropical storms

    N. J. Dunstone;D. M. Smith;B. B. B. Booth;L. Hermanson

  • Multi‐year predictability of the tropical Atlantic atmosphere driven by the high latitude North Atlantic Ocean

    N. J. Dunstone;D. M. Smith;R. Eade

  • Importance of the deep ocean for estimating decadal changes in Earth's radiation balance

    Matthew D. Palmer;Douglas J. McNeall;Nick J. Dunstone

  • Intraseasonal Effects of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on North Atlantic Climate

    Blanca Ayarzagüena;Sarah Ineson;Nick J. Dunstone;Mark P. Baldwin

  • Surface magnetic fields on two accreting T Tauri stars: CV Cha and CR Cha

    G. A. J. Hussain;A. Collier Cameron;M. M. Jardine;N. Dunstone

  • High risk of unprecedented UK rainfall in the current climate

    R. Eade;V. Thompson;N. J. Dunstone;A. A. Scaife

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office
Doug Smith
Doug Smith Met Office
Rosie Eade
Rosie Eade Met Office
Jeff R. Knight
Jeff R. Knight Met Office
Sarah Ineson
Sarah Ineson Met Office
Moira Jardine
Moira Jardine University of St Andrews
Laura Wilcox
Laura Wilcox University of Reading
Holger Pohlmann
Holger Pohlmann Max Planck Society
Jean-François Donati
Jean-François Donati Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
A. Collier Cameron
A. Collier Cameron University of St Andrews

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