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Shaun Lovejoy

Shaun Lovejoy

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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
16450
World Ranking
2302
National Ranking
89

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Shaun Lovejoy is affiliated with McGill University in Canada, contributing extensively to Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Economics and Econometrics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on topics such as Climate variability and models, Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Fractional Differential Equations Solutions.

Shaun Lovejoy has published research in frequent venues including Earth System Dynamics, Climate Dynamics, Meteorology, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, and the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Shaun Lovejoy include:

  • The fractional energy balance equation, 2021, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • The Future of Climate Modelling: Weather Details, Macroweather Stochastics-Or Both?, 2022, Meteorology

Additional relevant recent publications in related fields feature co-authors associated with their network, such as Andrej Spiridonov, Raphaël Hébert, and Lenin Del Rio Amador. These works include:

  • An observation-based scaling model for climate sensitivity estimates and global projections to 2100, 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • Life rather than climate influences diversity at scales greater than 40 million years, 2022, Nature
  • Long-Range Forecasting as a Past Value Problem: Untangling Correlations and Causality With Scaling, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors in Shaun Lovejoy's research include Andrej Spiridonov, Raphaël Hébert, Lenin Del Rio Amador, Roman Procyk, and Fabrice Lambert.

Shaun Lovejoy was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2016, recognizing contributions to the field.

Best Publications

  • Physical modeling and analysis of rain and clouds by anisotropic scaling multiplicative processes

    Daniel Schertzer;Shaun Lovejoy

  • Area-perimeter relation for rain and cloud areas.

    S. Lovejoy

  • Fractal properties of rain, and a fractal model

    S. Lovejoy;B. B. Mandelbrot

  • Universal Multifractals: Theory and Observations for Rain and Clouds

    Y. Tessier;S. Lovejoy;D. Schertzer

  • Multifractal analysis and modeling of rainfall and river flows and scaling, causal transfer functions

    Yves Tessier;Shaun Lovejoy;Pierre Hubert;Daniel Schertzer

  • Multifractals, universality classes and satellite and radar measurements of cloud and rain fields

    Shaun Lovejoy;Daniel Schertzer

  • Multifractal Cascade Dynamics and Turbulent Intermittency

    D. Schertzer;S. Lovejoy;F. Schmitt;Y. Chigirinskaya

  • Generalized Scale Invariance in the Atmosphere and Fractal Models of Rain

    S. Lovejoy;D. Schertzer

  • The Weather and Climate: Emergent Laws and Multifractal Cascades

    Shaun Lovejoy;Daniel Schertzer

  • Functional box-counting and multiple elliptical dimensions in rain.

    S. Lovejoy;D. Schertzer;A. A. Tsonis

  • Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5

    G. A. Schmidt;J. D. Annan;P. J. Bartlein;B. I. Cook

  • Multifractal analysis of daily river flows including extremes for basins of five to two million square kilometres, one day to 75 years

    G. Pandey;S. Lovejoy;D. Schertzer

  • Scale Invariance, Symmetries, Fractals, and Stochastic Simulations of Atmospheric Phenomena

    S. Lovejoy;D. Schertzer

  • Causal space‐time multifractal processes: Predictability and forecasting of rain fields

    David Marsan;Daniel Schertzer;Shaun Lovejoy

  • The Dimension and Intermittency of Atmospheric Dynamics

    D. Schertzer;S. Lovejoy

  • Multifractals and extreme rainfall events

    P. Hubert;Y. Tessier;S. Lovejoy;D. Schertzer

  • Generalised scale invariance in turbulent phenomena

    D. Schertzer;S. Lovejoy

  • Universal Multifractals Do Exist!: Comments on “A Statistical Analysis of Mesoscale Rainfall as a Random Cascade”

    D. Schertzer;S. Lovejoy

  • Universal multifractal analysis as a tool to characterize multiscale intermittent patterns : example of phytoplankton distribution in turbulent coastal waters

    Laurent Seuront;François Schmitt;Yvan Lagadeuc;Daniel Schertzer

  • The delineation of rain areas from visible and IR satellite data for GATE and mid‐latitudes

    S. Lovejoy;G.L. Austin

  • Scaling and multifractal fields in the solid earth and topography

    Shaun Lovejoy;Daniel Schertzer

  • Multifractals and rain

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Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Schertzer
Daniel Schertzer École des Ponts ParisTech
Adrian F. Tuck
Adrian F. Tuck Imperial College London
Costas A. Varotsos
Costas A. Varotsos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Jan-Peter Muller
Jan-Peter Muller University College London
John Stix
John Stix McGill University
Anthony B. Davis
Anthony B. Davis California Institute of Technology
Jinqiao Duan
Jinqiao Duan Great Bay University
Vijay K. Gupta
Vijay K. Gupta University of Colorado Boulder
Michel Crucifix
Michel Crucifix Université Catholique de Louvain
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading

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