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Overview

Rob Allan is a researcher affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on the areas of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and oceanography.

Their research topics include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Oceanographic and atmospheric processes
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Geophysics and gravity measurements
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics

Rob Allan has contributed to several scientific papers in notable publication venues. Some of their recent papers are:

  • Development of an Updated Global Land In Situ-Based Data Set of Temperature and Precipitation Extremes: HadEX3, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Global Climate, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Global Climate, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • El Niño Pacing Orchestrates Inter-Basin Pacific-Indian Ocean Interannual Connections, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

The researcher frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geoscience Data Journal
  • Climatic Change
  • Weather
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Rob Allan has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Ed Hawkins
  • Clive Wilkinson
  • Jürg Luterbacher
  • Stefan Brönnimann
  • Andrew M. Lorrey

Best Publications

  • The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project

    Gilbert P Compo;Gilbert P Compo;J. S. Whitaker;Prashant D Sardeshmukh;Prashant D Sardeshmukh;N. Matsui;N. Matsui

  • A signature of persistent natural thermohaline circulation cycles in observed climate

    Jeff R. Knight;Robert J. Allan;Chris K. Folland;Michael Vellinga

  • A new globally complete monthly historical gridded mean sea level pressure dataset (HadSLP2): 1850-2004

    Rob Allan;Tara Ansell

  • Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system

    Laura C. Slivinski;Laura C. Slivinski;Gilbert P. Compo;Gilbert P. Compo;Jeffrey S. Whitaker;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • El Nino - Southern Oscillation & Climatic Variability

    Rob Allan;Janette Lindesay;David Parker

  • El Nino Southern Oscillation and climatic variability

    R. Allan;J. Lindesay;D. Parker

  • Experimental Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation.

    David Stahle Stahle;R. D. D'Arrigo;P. J. Krusic;M. K. Cleaveland

  • Development of an updated global land In situ‐based data set of temperature and precipitation extremes : HadEX3

    Robert J.H. Dunn;Lisa V. Alexander;Markus G. Donat;Xuebin Zhang

  • ENSO and climatic signals across the Indian Ocean Basin in the global context: part I, interannual composite patterns

    C.J.C. Reason;R.J. Allan;J.A. Lindesay;T.J. Ansell

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • A further extension of the Tahiti-Darwin SOI, early ENSO events and Darwin pressure

    Robert J. Allan;Neville Nicholls;Phil D. Jones;Ian J. Butterworth

  • On the variability of ENSO over the past six centuries

    Rosanne D'Arrigo;Edward R. Cook;Rob J. Wilson;Rob Allan

  • An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3

    L. C. Slivinski;L. C. Slivinski;G. P. Compo;G. P. Compo;P. D. Sardeshmukh;P. D. Sardeshmukh;J. S. Whitaker

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative

    Rob Allan;Philip Brohan;Gilbert P. Compo;Roger Stone

  • Daily Mean Sea Level Pressure Reconstructions for the European–North Atlantic Region for the Period 1850–2003

    T. J. Ansell;P. D. Jones;R. J. Allan;D. Lister

  • Circulation Features Associated with the Winter Rainfall Decrease in Southwestern Australia.

    Robert J. Allan;Malcolm R. Haylock

  • Is there an Indian Ocean dipole and is it independent of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation?

    Robert J. Allan;Don Chambers;Wasyl Drosdowsky;Harry Hendon

  • El Niño Southern Oscillation influences in the Australasian region

    Robert J. Allan

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilbert P. Compo
Gilbert P. Compo National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Manola Brunet
Manola Brunet University of East Anglia
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Stefan Brönnimann
Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern
Russell S. Vose
Russell S. Vose National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Xiaolan L. Wang
Xiaolan L. Wang Environment and Climate Change Canada
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
John Kennedy
John Kennedy Met Office
Maurizio Maugeri
Maurizio Maugeri University of Milan

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