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Nigel Roberts

Nigel Roberts

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
39
Citations
10438
World Ranking
8233
National Ranking
624

Nigel Roberts 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 Nigel Roberts sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 102 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nigel Roberts 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 Nigel Roberts sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nigel Roberts is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom, conducting research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers topics in atmospheric science and climate-related studies through multiple recent publications.

Their research spans diverse topics including meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, urban heat island mitigation, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and wind and air flow studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nigel Roberts include:

  • "Extreme windstorms and sting jets in convection-permitting climate simulations over Europe," 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • "Greater Future U.K. Winter Precipitation Increase in New Convection-Permitting Scenarios," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "The hectometric modelling challenge: Gaps in the current state of the art and ways forward towards the implementation of 100-m scale weather and climate models," 2024, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland," 2023, Weather and Climate Extremes
  • "A Novel Set of Geometric Verification Test Fields with Application to Distance Measures," 2020, Monthly Weather Review

Frequent collaborators of Nigel Roberts include Riccardo Bocco, Elizabeth Kendon, Colin Manning, Hayley J. Fowler, and Dan Suri. Collaboration patterns suggest ongoing teamwork in atmospheric and climate research projects.

The primary venues where Roberts has published include Climate Dynamics, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Journal of Climate, Weather and Climate Extremes, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Nigel Roberts has also contributed to book publications, notably with Graduate Institute Publications eBooks. One such work is titled "An Israeli-Palestinian Federation: An Alternative Approach to Peace," published in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Scale-Selective Verification of Rainfall Accumulations from High-Resolution Forecasts of Convective Events

    Nigel M. Roberts;Humphrey W. Lean

  • Future changes to the intensity and frequency of short‐duration extreme rainfall

    S. Westra;H. J. Fowler;J. P. Evans;L. V. Alexander

  • Heavier summer downpours with climate change revealed by weather forecast resolution model

    Elizabeth J. Kendon;Nigel M. Roberts;Hayley J. Fowler;Malcolm J. Roberts

  • Realism of Rainfall in a Very High-Resolution Regional Climate Model

    Elizabeth J. Kendon;Nigel M. Roberts;Catherine A. Senior;Malcolm J. Roberts

  • Characteristics of high-resolution versions of the Met Office unified model for forecasting convection over the United Kingdom

    Humphrey W. Lean;Peter A. Clark;Mark Dixon;Nigel M. Roberts

  • Do Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Models Improve Projections of Future Precipitation Change?

    Elizabeth J. Kendon;Nikolina Ban;Nigel M. Roberts;Hayley J. Fowler

  • Convection-permitting models: a step-change in rainfall forecasting

    Peter Clark;Nigel Roberts;Humphrey Lean;Susan P. Ballard

  • Numerical Aspects of the Application of Recursive Filters to Variational Statistical Analysis. Part II: Spatially Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic General Covariances

    R. James Purser;Wan-Shu Wu;David F. Parrish;Nigel M. Roberts

  • Structure of a frontal cyclone

    K. A. Browning;N. M. Roberts

  • Assessing the spatial and temporal variation in the skill of precipitation forecasts from an NWP model

    Nigel Roberts

  • Statistical Postprocessing for Weather Forecasts: Review, Challenges, and Avenues in a Big Data World

    Stéphane Vannitsem;John Bjørnar Bremnes;Jonathan Demaeyer;Gavin R. Evans

  • Intercomparison of Spatial Forecast Verification Methods: Identifying Skillful Spatial Scales Using the Fractions Skill Score

    Marion Mittermaier;Nigel Roberts

  • Numerical Aspects of the Application of Recursive Filters to Variational Statistical Analysis. Part I: Spatially Homogeneous and Isotropic Gaussian Covariances

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  • The value of high-resolution Met Office regional climate models in the simulation of multi-hourly precipitation extremes

    Steven C. Chan;Elizabeth J. Kendon;Hayley J. Fowler;Stephen Blenkinsop

  • A long‐term assessment of precipitation forecast skill using the Fractions Skill Score

    Marion Mittermaier;Nigel Roberts;Simon A. Thompson

  • The Convective Storm Initiation Project

    Keith A. Browning;Alan M. Blyth;Peter A. Clark;Ulrich Corsmeier

  • The Met Office convective-scale ensemble, MOGREPS-UK

    Susanna Hagelin;Joohyung Son;Joohyung Son;Richard Swinbank;Anne McCabe

  • Downturn in scaling of UK extreme rainfall with temperature for future hottest days

    Steven C. Chan;Elizabeth J. Kendon;Nigel M. Roberts;Hayley J. Fowler

  • Impact of Data Assimilation on Forecasting Convection over the United Kingdom Using a High-Resolution Version of the Met Office Unified Model

    Mark Dixon;Zhihong Li;Humphrey Lean;Nigel Roberts

  • Temperature influences on intense UK hourly precipitation and dependency on large-scale circulation

    S Blenkinsop;SC Chan;SC Chan;EJ Kendon;NM Roberts

  • Amelioration of global warming by controlled enhancement of the albedo and longevity of low‐level maritime clouds

    John Latham

  • Use of high-resolution NWP rainfall and river flow forecasts for advance warning of the Carlisle flood, north-west England

    Nigel M. Roberts;Steven J. Cole;Richard M. Forbes;Robert J. Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

Hayley J. Fowler
Hayley J. Fowler Newcastle University
Stephen Blenkinsop
Stephen Blenkinsop Newcastle University
Keith A. Browning
Keith A. Browning University of Reading
Suzanne L. Gray
Suzanne L. Gray University of Reading
John Methven
John Methven University of Reading
David M. Schultz
David M. Schultz University of Manchester
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Geert Lenderink
Geert Lenderink Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

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