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Overview

Peter B. Hitchcock is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these areas, their work focuses heavily on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Astronomy and Astrophysics, with additional interests in Oceanography and Earth-Surface Processes.

The core topics of their research encompass climate variability and models, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, astro and planetary science, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Their publication record includes contributions to several frequently appearing academic venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Monthly Weather Review

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter B. Hitchcock include:

  • "Northern hemisphere cold air outbreaks are more likely to be severe during weak polar vortex conditions" (2021) published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Uncertainty in the Response of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling to Quadrupled CO2 Concentrations in CMIP6 Models" (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "The Influence of the Stratosphere on the Tropical Troposphere" (2021) published in Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • "The Generic Nature of the Tropospheric Response to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings" (2020) published in Journal of Climate
  • "A Regime Perspective on the North Atlantic Eddy-Driven Jet Response to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings" (2020) published in Journal of Climate

Frequent collaborators in their research have included Isla R. Simpson, Ying Dai, Chaim I. Garfinkel, Amy H. Butler, and Riwal Plougonven.

Best Publications

  • Structural Chemistry of 1,2 Dilauroyl-DL-phosphatidylethanolamine: Molecular Conformation and Intermolecular Packing of Phospholipids

    Peter B. Hitchcock;Ronald Mason;K. Mark Thomas;G. Graham Shipley

  • Preparation and characterization of C 60 Br 6 and C 60 Br 8

    Paul R. Birkett;Peter B. Hitchcock;Harold W. Kroto;Roger Taylor

  • Hydrogen bonding in imidazolium salts and its implications for ambient-temperature halogenoaluminate(III) ionic liquids

    Ahmed Elaiwi;Peter B. Hitchcock;Kenneth R. Seddon;Narmatha Srinivasan

  • Lanthanum does form stable molecular compounds in the +2 oxidation state.

    Peter B. Hitchcock;Michael F. Lappert;Laurent Maron;Andrey V. Protchenko

  • Reductive Cyclotrimerization of Carbon Monoxide to the Deltate Dianion by an Organometallic Uranium Complex

    Owen T. Summerscales;F. Geoffrey N. Cloke;Peter B. Hitchcock;Jennifer C. Green

  • Subvalent Group 4B metal alkyls and amides. Part 9. Germanium and tin alkene analogues, the dimetallenes M2R4[M = Ge or Sn, R = CH(SiMe3)2]: X-ray structures, molecular orbital calculations for M2H4, and trends in the series M2R′4[M = C, Si, Ge, or Sn; R′= R, Ph, C6H2Me3-2,4,6, or C6H3Et2-2,6]

    David E. Goldberg;Peter B. Hitchcock;Michael F. Lappert;K. Mark Thomas

  • Hydrogen-bond acceptor abilities of tetrachlorometalate(II) complexes in ionic liquids

    Peter B. Hitchcock;Kenneth R. Seddon;Thomas Welton

  • Synthesis and Structure of a rac‐Tris(divinyldisiloxane) diplatinum(0) Complex and its Reaction with Maleic Anhydride

    Peter B. Hitchcock;Michael F. Lappert;Nicholas J. W. Warhurst

  • A convenient and novel route to bis(.eta.-alkyne)platinum(0) and other platinum(0) complexes from Speier's hydrosilylation catalyst H2[PtCl6].xH2O. X-ray structure of [Pt{(.eta.-CH2=CHSiMe2)2O}(P-t-Bu3)]

    Grish. Chandra;Peter Y. Lo;Peter B. Hitchcock;Michael F. Lappert

  • Calcium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydrophosphination

    Mark R. Crimmin;Anthony G. M. Barrett;Michael S. Hill;Peter B. Hitchcock

  • Synthesis and structural characterisation of the first neutral homoleptic lanthanide metal(III) alkyls: [LnR3][Ln = La or Sm, R = CH(SiMe3)2]

    Peter B. Hitchcock;Michael F. Lappert;Richard G. Smith;Ruth A. Bartlett

  • Reversible Binding and Reduction of Dinitrogen by a Uranium(III) Pentalene Complex

    F Geoffrey N Cloke;Peter B Hitchcock

  • Reductive Cleavage of Dinitrogen by a Vanadium Diamidoamine Complex: the Molecular Structures of [V(Me3SiN{CH2CH2NSiMe3}2)(μ-N)]2 and K[V(Me3SiN{CH2CH2NSiMe3}2)(μ-N)]2

    Guy K B Clentsmith;Vanessa M E Bates;Peter B Hitchcock;F Geoffrey N Cloke

  • A Monomeric Solvent-Free Bent Lanthanide Dialkyl and a Lanthanide Analog of a Grignard Reagent. Crystal Structures of Yb{C(SiMe3)3}2 and [Yb{C(SiMe3)3}I.cntdot.OEt2]2

    C. Eaborn;P.B. Hitchcock;K. Izod;J.D. Smith

  • Reductive Cyclotetramerization of CO to Squarate by a U(III) Complex: The X-ray Crystal Structure of [(U (η-C8H6{SiiPr3-1,4}2)(η-C5Me4H)]2(μ-η2: η2-C4O4)

    Owen T Summerscales;F Geoffrey N Cloke;Peter B Hitchcock;Jennifer C Green

  • Mechanistic Studies on the Reductive Cyclooligomerisation of CO by U(III) Mixed Sandwich Complexes; the Molecular Structure of [(U(η-C8H6{SiiPr3-1,4}2)(η-Cp*)]2(μ-η1:η1-C2O2)

    Alistair S Frey;F Geoffrey N Cloke;Peter B Hitchcock;Iain J Day

  • Unusual Reactivity of a Nickel N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Complex: tert‐Butyl Group Cleavage and Silicone Grease Activation

    Stephen Caddick;F. Geoffrey N. Cloke;Peter B. Hitchcock;Alexandra K. de K. Lewis

  • Three- and four-co-ordinate, hydrocarbon-soluble-aryloxides of scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanoids; X-ray crystal structure of tris(2,6-di-t-butyl-4-methylphenoxo)scandium

    Peter B. Hitchcock;Michael F. Lappert;Anirudh Singh

  • A refinement analysis of the crystallography of the phospholipid, 1,2-dilauroyl-DL-phosphatidylethanolamine, and some remarks on lipid—lipid and lipid-protein interactions

    M. Elder;P. Hitchcock;Ronald Mason;G. G. Shipley

  • Upon the structure of room temperature halogenoaluminate ionic liquids

    Ala'a K. Abdul-Sada;Anthony M. Greenway;Peter B. Hitchcock;Thamer J. Mohammed

  • X-ray structure determination—A practical guide

    Peter B. Hitchcock

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Lappert
Michael F. Lappert University of Sussex
Colin Eaborn
Colin Eaborn University of Sussex
F. Geoffrey N. Cloke
F. Geoffrey N. Cloke University of Sussex
Michael S. Hill
Michael S. Hill University of Bath
Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor University of Brighton
Kenneth R. Seddon
Kenneth R. Seddon Queen's University Belfast
Harold W. Kroto
Harold W. Kroto Florida State University
Jennifer C. Green
Jennifer C. Green University of Oxford
László Nyulászi
László Nyulászi Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Stephen Caddick
Stephen Caddick University College London

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