2026 Peter A. Stott: 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	87	663	628	50	48	268	40313

Peter A. Stott 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 Peter A. Stott sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 268 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter A. Stott 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 Peter A. Stott sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Peter A. Stott is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's primary research topics focus on Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate Change Policy and Economics, and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research.

Recent significant publications include:

Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe (2020), Environmental Research Letters
Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence (2021), Climatic Change
Towards advancing scientific knowledge of climate change impacts on short-duration rainfall extremes (2021), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901-2019) over the wettest place on Earth (2020), Environmental Research Letters
The increasing likelihood of temperatures above 30 to 40 °C in the United Kingdom (2020), Nature Communications

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as Nikolaos Christidis, Fraser C. Lott, Andrew Ciavarella, Daniel Cotterill, and Friederike E. L. Otto. These coauthors contribute to a diverse range of research themes aligned with climate and atmospheric sciences.

Peter A. Stott has published extensively in several scientific journals with the highest number of contributions appearing in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, followed by Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Atmospheric Science Letters, and Nature.

Best Publications

Climate Change 2007 Synthesis report

Lenny Bernstein;Peter Bosch;Osvaldo Canziani;Zhenlin Chen

5331
Citations
Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003

Peter A. Stott;D. A. Stone;M. R. Allen

2207
Citations
Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends

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

1305
Citations
Understanding and Attributing Climate Change

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

1301
Citations
The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions

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

1292
Citations
A new method for diagnosing radiative forcing and climate sensitivity

J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;W. J. Ingram;M. A. Palmer;G. S. Jones

1128
Citations
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas contribution to flood risk in England and Wales in autumn 2000

Pardeep Pall;Tolu Aina;Dáithí A. Stone;Peter A. Stott

1091
Citations
Detection of a direct carbon dioxide effect in continental river runoff records

N. Gedney;P. M. Cox;R. A. Betts;O. Boucher

1012
Citations
How climate change affects extreme weather events

Peter Stott;Peter Stott

941
Citations
External Control of 20th Century Temperature by Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings

Peter A. Stott;S. F. B. Tett;G. S. Jones;M. R. Allen

836
Citations
Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective

Stephanie C. Herring;Martin P. Hoerling;James P. Kossin;Thomas C. Peterson

795
Citations
Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events

Peter A. Stott;Nikolaos Christidis;Friederike E. L. Otto;Ying Sun

788
Citations
Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional

NL Bindoff;PA Stott;M AchutaRao;Allen

788
Citations
Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface

Simon F. B. Tett;Peter A. Stott;Myles R. Allen;William J. Ingram

659
Citations
Quantifying the uncertainty in forecasts of anthropogenic climate change

Myles R. Allen;Peter A. Stott;John F. B. Mitchell;Reiner Schnur

606
Citations
Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave

Nikolaos Christidis;Gareth S. Jones;Peter A. Stott

604
Citations
Estimating signal amplitudes in optimal fingerprinting, part I: theory

M. R. Allen;P. A. Stott

575
Citations
A Summary of the CMIP5 Experiment Design

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

557
Citations
Origins and estimates of uncertainty in predictions of twenty-first century temperature rise

Peter A. Stott;J. A. Kettleborough

488
Citations
Explaining Extreme Events of 2011 from a Climate Perspective

Thomas C. Peterson;Peter A. Stott;Stephanie Herring

425
Citations
Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change

Peter Stott;Nikolaos Christidis;Friederike Otto;Ying Sun

309
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Myles R. Allen University of Oxford

Gareth S. Jones Met Office

Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh

Nathan P. Gillett University of Victoria

Francis W. Zwiers University of Victoria

David J. Karoly Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading

Martin P. Hoerling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Peter Thorne National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

External Links

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