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Stephen E. Belcher

Stephen E. Belcher

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
14315
World Ranking
2007
National Ranking
164

Stephen E. Belcher 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 Stephen E. Belcher sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 188 publications — 60th percentile

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Stephen E. Belcher 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 Stephen E. Belcher sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Stephen E. Belcher is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Sociology and Political Science, and Archeology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, African Studies and Ethnography, and Cultural Identity and Heritage.

Stephen E. Belcher has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers, including:

  • Ambitious partnership needed for reliable climate prediction, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Approaching 1.5 °C: how will we know we've reached this crucial warming mark?, 2023, Nature
  • U.K. Community Earth System Modeling for CMIP6, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • A comparison of five surface mixed layer models with a year of observations in the North Atlantic, 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • Variability in North Sea wind energy and the potential for prolonged winter wind drought, 2023, Atmospheric Science Letters

Frequent co-authorship includes collaborations with Adam A. Scaife, Albert Klein Tank, Peter A. Stott, Nick Dunstone, and Julia Slingo. These partnerships indicate active engagement in multi-author research projects across climate science and meteorology.

The venues where Stephen E. Belcher's research appears frequently encompass Nature Climate Change, Nature, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Progress In Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science Letters. This publication record reflects a presence in several important journals within the climate and atmospheric research communities.

Best Publications

  • Constructing design weather data for future climates

    SE Belcher;JN Hacker;DS Powell

  • The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First Results from Phase 1

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J. Barlow

  • Mean Flow and Turbulence Statistics Over Groups of Urban-like Cubical Obstacles

    O. Coceal;T. G. Thomas;I. P. Castro;S. E. Belcher

  • Adjustment of a turbulent boundary layer to a canopy of roughness elements

    S. E. Belcher;N. Jerram;J. C. R. Hunt

  • TURBULENT FLOW OVER HILLS AND WAVES

    S. E. Belcher;J. C. R. Hunt

  • Initial results from Phase 2 of the international urban energy balance model comparison

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J.J. Baik

  • A global perspective on Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer

    Stephen E. Belcher;Stephen E. Belcher;Alan A.L.M. Grant;Kirsty E. Hanley;Baylor Fox-Kemper;Baylor Fox-Kemper

  • A canopy model of mean winds through urban areas

    O. Coceal;S. E. Belcher

  • Simulations of the London urban heat island

    S. I. Bohnenstengel;S. Evans;Peter A. Clark;S. E. Belcher

  • The Wind in the Willows: Flows in Forest Canopies in Complex Terrain

    Stephen E. Belcher;Ian N. Harman;John J. Finnigan

  • A Global Climatology of Wind–Wave Interaction

    Kirsty E. Hanley;Stephen E. Belcher;Peter P. Sullivan

  • Coupling between air flow in streets and the well-developed boundary layer aloft

    P Louka;S.E Belcher;R.G Harrison

  • The Role of Wave-Induced Coriolis–Stokes Forcing on the Wind-Driven Mixed Layer

    Jeff A. Polton;David M. Lewis;Stephen E. Belcher

  • High risk of unprecedented UK rainfall in the current climate.

    Vikki Thompson;Nick J. Dunstone;Adam A. Scaife;Doug M. Smith

  • Flow over a hill covered with a plant canopy

    J. J. Finnigan;S. E. Belcher

  • Tropical rainfall, Rossby waves and regional winter climate predictions

    Adam A. Scaife;Adam A. Scaife;Ruth E. Comer;Nick J. Dunstone;Jeff R. Knight

  • On the distortion of turbulence by a progressive surface wave

    M. A. C. Teixeira;S. E. Belcher

  • Mixing and transport in urban areas

    Stephen E Belcher

  • Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors.

    Patrick Hyder;John M. Edwards;Richard P. Allan;Helene T. Hewitt

  • Characteristics of Langmuir Turbulence in the Ocean Mixed Layer

    Alan L. M. Grant;Stephen E. Belcher

  • Flow field measurements in the proximity of an urban intersection in London, UK

    A. Dobre;S. J. Arnold;S. J. Arnold;R. J. Smalley;J. W. D. Boddy

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet F. Barlow
Janet F. Barlow University of Reading
Alan Robins
Alan Robins University of Surrey
Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office
Alison S. Tomlin
Alison S. Tomlin University of Leeds
Doug Smith
Doug Smith Met Office
Dudley E. Shallcross
Dudley E. Shallcross University of Bristol
Peter P. Sullivan
Peter P. Sullivan National Center for Atmospheric Research
Nick Dunstone
Nick Dunstone Met Office
C. S. B. Grimmond
C. S. B. Grimmond University of Reading

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