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Peter A. Stott

Peter A. Stott

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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
87
Citations
40313
World Ranking
663
National Ranking
50

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

  • Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003

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

  • Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends

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

  • Understanding and Attributing Climate Change

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

  • The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • How climate change affects extreme weather events

    Peter Stott;Peter Stott

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

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

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective

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

  • Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events

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

  • Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional

    NL Bindoff;PA Stott;M AchutaRao;Allen

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

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

  • Quantifying the uncertainty in forecasts of anthropogenic climate change

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

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

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

  • Estimating signal amplitudes in optimal fingerprinting, part I: theory

    M. R. Allen;P. A. Stott

  • A Summary of the CMIP5 Experiment Design

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

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

    Peter A. Stott;J. A. Kettleborough

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2011 from a Climate Perspective

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

  • Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change

    Peter Stott;Nikolaos Christidis;Friederike Otto;Ying Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Gabriele C. Hegerl
Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh
Nathan P. Gillett
Nathan P. Gillett University of Victoria
Francis W. Zwiers
Francis W. Zwiers University of Victoria
David J. Karoly
David J. Karoly Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
Martin P. Hoerling
Martin P. Hoerling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Peter Thorne
Peter Thorne National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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