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Environmental Sciences
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2023

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Environmental Sciences

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103
Citations
69265
World Ranking
303
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Peter M. Cox is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research focuses on areas including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Climate Variability and Models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Forest Ecology and Management.

They have contributed to a number of recent papers, including:

  • Emergent constraints on transient climate response (TCR) and equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) from historical warming in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models, 2020, Earth System Dynamics
  • Overshooting tipping point thresholds in a changing climate, 2021, Nature
  • Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate, 2020, New Phytologist
  • JULES-CN: a coupled terrestrial carbon-nitrogen scheme (JULES vn5.1), 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • A spatial emergent constraint on the sensitivity of soil carbon turnover to global warming, 2020, Nature Communications

Peter M. Cox collaborates frequently with several fellow researchers, notably:

  • Chris Huntingford
  • Paul Ritchie
  • Pierre Friedlingstein
  • Mark S. Williamson
  • Anna Harper

Their work has been published frequently in a number of scientific journals, with multiple contributions to:

  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Biogeosciences
  • New Phytologist
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Nature Communications

In addition to journal articles, Peter M. Cox has published a book titled Anthropocene Mobilities, scheduled to be released by Bloomsbury Publishing plc in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model

    Peter M. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Chris D. Jones;Steven A. Spall

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation

    Randal D. Koster;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Zhichang Guo;Gordon Bonan

  • Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry

    Surabi Menon;Kenneth L. Denman;Guy Brasseur;Amnat Chidthaisong

  • Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry

    Kenneth L. Denman;Guy Brasseur;Amnat Chidthaisong;Philippe Ciais

  • Evaluation of climate models

    G. M. Flato;J. Marotzke;B. Abiodun;Pascale Braconnot

  • Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

    Wolfgang Cramer;Alberte Bondeau;F. Ian Woodward;I. Colin Prentice

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

    Stephan Sitch;C. Huntingford;N. Gedney;P. E. Levy

  • The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Kristine Belesova

  • The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 1: Energy and water fluxes

    M. J. Best;M. Pryor;D. B. Clark;G. G. Rooney

  • Indirect radiative forcing of climate change through ozone effects on the land-carbon sink

    S. Sitch;P. M. Cox;W. J. Collins;C. Huntingford

  • Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink

    Lina M. Mercado;Nicolas Bellouin;Stephen Sitch;Olivier Boucher

  • The impact of new land surface physics on the GCM simulation of climate and climate sensitivity

    P. M. Cox;R. A. Betts;C. B. Bunton;R. L. H. Essery

  • Amazonian forest dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century

    P. M. Cox;R. A. Betts;M. Collins;P. P. Harris

  • The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 2: Carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics

    D. B. Clark;L. M. Mercado;S. Sitch;C. D. Jones

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

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

  • GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview

    Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Gordon Bonan

  • Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future

    Meinrat O. Andreae;Chris D. Jones;Peter M. Cox

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Huntingford
Chris Huntingford Natural Environment Research Council
Chris D. Jones
Chris D. Jones Met Office
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Lina M. Mercado
Lina M. Mercado University of Exeter
Nicola Gedney
Nicola Gedney Met Office
Olivier Boucher
Olivier Boucher Sorbonne University
Timothy M. Lenton
Timothy M. Lenton University of Exeter

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