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2023

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D-Index
73
Citations
24340
World Ranking
1393
National Ranking
114

Rowan Sutton publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rowan Sutton sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 210 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Rowan Sutton D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rowan Sutton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Rowan Sutton is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography, with additional involvement in Sociology and Political Science as well as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research focuses extensively on topics related to climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes. They have also contributed to studies on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Rowan Sutton's recent publications illustrate the themes and scope of their scientific inquiries. These include:

  • Historical Simulations With HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6 (2020) in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Observed Emergence of the Climate Change Signal: From the Familiar to the Unknown (2020) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Aerosol-Forced AMOC Changes in CMIP6 Historical Simulations (2020) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Recent decadal weakening of the summer Eurasian westerly jet attributable to anthropogenic aerosol emissions (2022) in Nature Communications
  • The Role of Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing in the 1850-1985 Strengthening of the AMOC in CMIP6 Historical Simulations (2022) in Journal of Climate

Their publication record includes frequent contributions to several prominent journals. These venues include:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Rowan Sutton collaborates regularly with other researchers, with notable coauthors such as Jon Robson, Ed Hawkins, Laura J. Wilcox, Buwen Dong, and Scott Osprey. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary engagement with climate science and atmospheric research communities.

Best Publications

  • The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions

    Edward Hawkins;Rowan Timothy Sutton

  • Atlantic Ocean Forcing of North American and European Summer Climate

    Rowan T. Sutton;Daniel L. R. Hodson

  • Near-term climate change: Projections and predictability

    Ben Kirtman;Scott B. Power;Akintayo John Adedoyin;George J. Boer

  • The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change

    Ed Hawkins;Rowan T. Sutton

  • Atmospheric GCM Response to Extratropical SST Anomalies: Synthesis and Evaluation*

    Y. Kushnir;W. A. Robinson;I. Bladé;N. M. J. Hall

  • Time of emergence of climate signals

    Ed Hawkins;Rowan Sutton

  • Decadal Climate Prediction: An Update from the Trenches

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa Goddard;George Boer;Robert Burgman

  • A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts

    Rong Zhang;Rowan Sutton;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Young Oh Kwon

  • Atlantic Ocean influence on a shift in European climate in the 1990s

    Rowan T. Sutton;Buwen Dong

  • Land/sea warming ratio in response to climate change: IPCC AR4 model results and comparison with observations

    Rowan T. Sutton;Buwen Dong;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Decadal predictability of North Atlantic sea surface temperature and climate

    R. T. Sutton;R. T. Sutton;M. R. Allen;M. R. Allen

  • Have Aerosols Caused the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

    Rong Zhang;Thomas L. Delworth;Rowan Sutton;Daniel L. R. Hodson

  • A review of climate risk information for adaptation and development planning.

    R.L Wilby;J Troni;Y Biot;L Tedd

  • A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments

    L. Goddard;A. Kumar;A. Solomon;D. Smith

  • The influence of a weakening of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO

    Axel Timmermann;Y. Okumura;Soon-Il An;Amy Clement

  • Climate Response to Basin-Scale Warming and Cooling of the North Atlantic Ocean

    Rowan T. Sutton;Daniel L. R. Hodson

  • Multidecadal modulation of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variance by Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures

    Buwen Dong;Rowan T. Sutton;Adam A. Scaife

  • Causes of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic ocean in the mid 1990s

    Jon Robson;Rowan Sutton;Katja Lohmann;Doug Smith

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

  • Past, Present, and Future Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

    Meric Srokosz;M. Baringer;H. Bryden;Stuart Cunningham

Frequent Co-Authors

Buwen Dong
Buwen Dong University of Reading
Ed Hawkins
Ed Hawkins University of Reading
Len Shaffrey
Len Shaffrey University of Reading
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
Doug Smith
Doug Smith Met Office
Laura Wilcox
Laura Wilcox University of Reading
Holger Pohlmann
Holger Pohlmann Max Planck Society
Thomas L. Delworth
Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Noel Keenlyside
Noel Keenlyside University of Bergen
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research

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