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Nick Rayner 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 Nick Rayner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 78 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nick Rayner 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 Nick Rayner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Nick Rayner is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. Additionally, their work touches on Economics and Econometrics as well as Pollution.

The main topics of their research include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and Climate Change Policy and Economics.

They have published in various peer-reviewed venues. Frequent publication venues include Weather, Scientific Data, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Nature.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • An Updated Assessment of Near-Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The HadCRUT5 Data Set, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Approaching 1.5 °C: how will we know we've reached this crucial warming mark?, 2023, Nature
  • Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1980 for climate applications, 2024, Scientific Data
  • An ensemble reconstruction of global monthly sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration 1000-1849, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Space-based Earth observation in support of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, 2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science

Nick Rayner frequently co-authors research with the following colleagues:

  • Colin Morice
  • Robert Dunn
  • John Kennedy
  • Rachel Killick
  • Mark McCarthy

Best Publications

  • Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century

    N. A. Rayner;D. E. Parker;E. B. Horton;C. K. Folland

  • The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

    S. M. Uppala;P. W. Kållberg;Adrian J. Simmons;U. Andrae

  • An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis for Climate

    Richard W. Reynolds;Nick A. Rayner;Thomas M. Smith;Diane C. Stokes

  • Quantifying uncertainties in global and regional temperature change using an ensemble of observational estimates: The HadCRUT4 data set

    Colin P. Morice;John J. Kennedy;Nick A. Rayner;Phil D. Jones;Phil D. Jones

  • EN4: Quality controlled ocean temperature and salinity profiles and monthly objective analyses with uncertainty estimates

    Simon A. Good;Matthew J. Martin;Nick A. Rayner

  • Improved analyses of changes and uncertainties in sea surface temperature measured in Situ since the mid-nineteenth century: The HadSST2 dataset

    Nick A. Rayner;P. Brohan;D. E. Parker;C. K. Folland

  • An Updated Assessment of Near-Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The HadCRUT5 Data Set

    Colin P. Morice;John J. Kennedy;Nick A. Rayner;J. P. Winn

  • The Met Office Hadley Centre sea ice and sea surface temperature data set, version 2: 1. Sea ice concentrations

    Holly A. Titchner;Nick A. Rayner

  • The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment High-resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project

    Craig Donlon;I. Robinson;K. S. Casey;J. Vazquez-Cuervo

  • Global temperature change and its uncertainties since 1861

    C K Folland;N A Rayner;S J Brown;T M Smith

  • Reassessing biases and other uncertainties in sea surface temperature observations measured in situ since 1850: 2. Biases and homogenization

    J. J. Kennedy;N. A. Rayner;R. O. Smith;D. E. Parker

  • Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications.

    Christopher J. Merchant;Owen Embury;Claire E. Bulgin;Thomas Block

  • Reassessing biases and other uncertainties in sea surface temperature observations measured in situ since 1850: 1. Measurement and sampling uncertainties

    J. J. Kennedy;N. A. Rayner;R. O. Smith;D. E. Parker

  • ICOADS Release 3.0: a major update to the historical marine climate record

    Eric Freeman;Scott D. Woodruff;Scott D. Woodruff;Steven J. Worley;Sandra J. Lubker

  • Climate forcings in Goddard Institute for Space Studies SI2000 simulations

    J. Hansen;M. Sato;M. Sato;L. Nazarenko;L. Nazarenko;R. Ruedy

  • Adjusting for sampling density in grid box land and ocean surface temperature time series

    P. D. Jones;T. J. Osborn;K. R. Briffa;C. K. Folland

  • An Observationally Based Estimate of the Climate Sensitivity

    Jonathan M. Gregory;R. J. Stouffer;S. C. B. Raper;P. A. Stott

  • CERA-20C: A Coupled Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century

    Patrick Laloyaux;Eric de Boisseson;Magdalena Balmaseda;Jean-Raymond Bidlot

  • An Ensemble Data Set of Sea Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The Met Office Hadley Centre HadSST.4.0.0.0 Data Set

    J. J. Kennedy;N. A. Rayner;C. P. Atkinson;R. E. Killick

  • Daily Mean Sea Level Pressure Reconstructions for the European–North Atlantic Region for the Period 1850–2003

    T. J. Ansell;P. D. Jones;R. J. Allan;D. Lister

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Merchant
Christopher J. Merchant University of Reading
John Kennedy
John Kennedy Met Office
David Parker
David Parker Met Office
Elizabeth C. Kent
Elizabeth C. Kent National Oceanography Centre
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Roger Saunders
Roger Saunders Met Office
Richard W. Reynolds
Richard W. Reynolds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Peter Thorne
Peter Thorne National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Stefan Brönnimann
Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern

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