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Richard Essery is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research centers primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science as a main subfield. They also explore areas including Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Engineering.

Essery's work extensively covers topics such as Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Landslides and related hazards, Climate variability and models, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Their recent publications include:

  • Historical Northern Hemisphere snow cover trends and projected changes in the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Scientific and Human Errors in a Snow Model Intercomparison, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Resolving Small-Scale Forest Snow Patterns Using an Energy Balance Snow Model With a One-Layer Canopy, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Data Assimilation Improves Estimates of Climate-Sensitive Seasonal Snow, 2020, Current Climate Change Reports
  • Increasing the Physical Representation of Forest-Snow Processes in Coarse-Resolution Models: Lessons Learned From Upscaling Hyper-Resolution Simulations, 2021, Water Resources Research

Frequently, Essery collaborates with other researchers. Notable frequent coauthors include Nick Rutter, Melody Sandells, Chris Derksen, Cécile B. Ménard, and Giulia Mazzotti.

Their research has appeared in multiple publication venues, with the most frequent including:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Water Resources Research
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 7.0/7.1 and JULES Global Land 7.0 configurations

    David Walters;Anthony J. Baran;Anthony J. Baran;Ian Boutle;Malcolm Brooks

  • Explicit representation of subgrid heterogeneity in a GCM land surface scheme

    R. L. H. Essery;M. J. Best;RA Betts;Peter M. Cox

  • Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

    Nick Rutter;Richard Essery;John Pomeroy;Nuria Altimir

  • An evaluation of snow accumulation and ablation processes for land surface modelling

    J. W. Pomeroy;D. M. Gray;K. R. Shook;B. Toth

  • A comparison of 1701 snow models using observations from an alpine site

    Richard Essery;Samuel Morin;Yves Lejeune;Cécile B Ménard

  • The Changing Face of Arctic Snow Cover: A Synthesis of Observed and Projected Changes

    Terry V. Callaghan;Margareta Johansson;Ross D. Brown;Pavel Ya. Groisman

  • Validation of the energy budget of an alpine snowpack simulated by several snow models (SnowMIP project)

    Pierre Etchevers;Eric Martin;Ross Brown;Charles Fierz

  • 2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS)

    Helmut Rott;Donald W. Cline;Claude Duguay;Richard Essery

  • The Influence of Land Use Change on Climate in the Sahel

    Christopher M. Taylor;Eric F. Lambin;Nathalie Stephenne;Richard J. Harding

  • SNOWMIP2: an evaluation of forest snow process simulations.

    Richard Essery;Nick Rutter;John Pomeroy;Robert Baxter

  • Cold Regions Hydrology High-Resolution Observatory for Snow and Cold Land Processes

    Helmut Rott;Simon H Yueh;Donald W Cline;Claude Duguay

  • Changing Arctic Snow Cover: A Review of Recent Developments and Assessment of Future Needs for Observations, Modelling, and Impacts

    Stef Bokhorst;Stine Højlund Pedersen;Ludovic Brucker;Ludovic Brucker;Oleg Anisimov

  • Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e) - 1: Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

    Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;L. Phil Graham

  • A distributed model of blowing snow over complex terrain

    Richard Essery;Long Li;John Pomeroy

  • Multiple Effects of Changes in Arctic Snow Cover

    Terry V. Callaghan;Margareta Johansson;Ross D. Brown;Pavel Ya Groisman

  • The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing

    Jean Luc Widlowski;Corrado Mio;Mathias Disney;Jennifer Adams

  • Historical Northern Hemisphere snow cover trends and projected changes in the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble

    Lawrence Mudryk;María Santolaria-Otín;Gerhard Krinner;Martin Ménégoz

  • Shrub tundra snowmelt

    J.W. Pomeroy;D.S. Bewley;R.L.H. Essery;N.R. Hedstrom

  • Incoming longwave radiation to melting snow: observations, sensitivity and estimation in Northern environments

    J. E. Sicart;J. E. Sicart;J. W. Pomeroy;Richard Essery;D. Bewley

  • ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks

    Gerhard Krinner;Chris Derksen;Richard Essery;Mark Flanner

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Pomeroy
John W. Pomeroy University of Saskatchewan
Helmut Rott
Helmut Rott University of Innsbruck
Giovanni Macelloni
Giovanni Macelloni National Research Council (CNR)
Claude R. Duguay
Claude R. Duguay University of Waterloo
Jouni Pulliainen
Jouni Pulliainen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Chris Derksen
Chris Derksen Environment and Climate Change Canada
Danny Marks
Danny Marks Agricultural Research Service
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Timothy E. Link
Timothy E. Link University of Idaho
Peter M. Cox
Peter M. Cox University of Exeter

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