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22116
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2706
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209

Simon F. B. Tett 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 Simon F. B. Tett sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 196 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Simon F. B. Tett 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 Simon F. B. Tett sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Simon F. B. Tett is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. The scientist's research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to the analysis of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and environmental engineering. Their work encompasses subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and economics and econometrics.

The core topics covered in their research include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate change and health impacts, cryospheric studies and observations, hydrology and drought analysis, urban heat island mitigation, and atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Simon F. B. Tett has published extensively in scientific journals and has contributed multiple papers to well-known venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Climate

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Simon F. B. Tett include:

  • Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • Anthropogenically-driven increases in the risks of summertime compound hot extremes (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Carbon accounting for negative emissions technologies (2021, Climate Policy)
  • Underestimated Change of Wet-Bulb Temperatures Over East and South China (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Homogenized Daily Relative Humidity Series in China during 1960-2017 (2020, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences)

The scientist frequently collaborates with various researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Fraser C. Lott
  • Buwen Dong
  • Nicolas Freychet
  • Zhongwei Yan
  • Dongqian Wang

Best Publications

  • Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature changes: A new data set from 1850

    Philip Brohan;John J. Kennedy;Ian Harris;Simon F. B. Tett

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: Interpretation, integration and comparison with General Circulation Model control-run temperatures

    P. D. Jones;K. R. Briffa;T. P. Barnett;S. F. B. Tett

  • Climate response to increasing levels of greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols

    J. F. B. Mitchell;T. C. Johns;Jonathan M. Gregory;S. F. B. Tett

  • Improved analyses of changes and uncertainties in sea surface temperature measured in Situ since the mid-nineteenth century: The HadSST2 dataset

    Nick A. Rayner;P. Brohan;D. E. Parker;C. K. Folland

  • The second Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM: model description, spinup and validation

    Tim C. Johns;Ruth E. Carnell;Jenny F. Crossley;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • External Control of 20th Century Temperature by Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings

    Peter A. Stott;S. F. B. Tett;G. S. Jones;M. R. Allen

  • A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere

    B. D. Santer;K. E. Taylor;T. M. L. Wigley;T. C. Johns

  • Anthropogenic climate change for 1860 to 2100 simulated with the HadCM3 model under updated emissions scenarios

    T.C. Johns;J.M. Gregory;W.J. Ingram;C.E. Johnson

  • Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

    Theodore G. Shepherd;Emily Boyd;Raphael A. Calel;Raphael A. Calel;Sandra C. Chapman;Sandra C. Chapman

  • Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface

    Simon F. B. Tett;Peter A. Stott;Myles R. Allen;William J. Ingram

  • Reconstructing Past Climate from Noisy Data

    Hans von Storch;Eduardo Zorita;Julie M. Jones;Yegor Dimitriev

  • Checking for model consistency in optimal fingerprinting

    M. R. Allen;S. F. B. Tett

  • The internal climate variability of HadCM3, a version of the Hadley Centre coupled model without flux adjustments

    M. Collins;S. F. B. Tett;C. Cooper

  • Evaluation of the North Atlantic Oscillation as simulated by a coupled climate model

    T. J. Osborn;K. R. Briffa;S. F. B. Tett;P. D. Jones

  • European climate response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the last half millennium

    Erich Fischer;Erich Fischer;Jürg Luterbacher;Eduardo Zorita;S Tett

  • Estimation of natural and anthropogenic contributions to twentieth century temperature change

    Simon F. B. Tett;Gareth S. Jones;Peter A. Stott;David C. Hill;David C. Hill

  • Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities

    Jun Wang;Yang Chen;Weilin Liao;Guanhao He

  • Anthropogenically-driven increases in the risks of summertime compound hot extremes

    Jun Wang;Yang Chen;Simon F. B. Tett;Zhongwei Yan

  • Human Influence on the Atmospheric Vertical Temperature Structure: Detection and Observations

    Simon F. B. Tett;John F. B. Mitchell;David E. Parker;Myles R. Allen

  • Revisiting radiosonde upper air temperatures from 1958 to 2002

    Peter W. Thorne;David E. Parker;Simon F. B. Tett;Phil D. Jones

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

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

  • Small influence of solar variability on climate over the past millennium

    Andrew P. Schurer;Simon F. B. Tett;Gabriele C. Hegerl

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriele C. Hegerl
Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
Buwen Dong
Buwen Dong University of Reading
Peter Thorne
Peter Thorne National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Tim Cowan
Tim Cowan University of Southern Queensland

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