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D-Index
110
Citations
49444
World Ranking
197
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Tim Palmer is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their body of work spans mainly Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Artificial Intelligence. Other areas of expertise include Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The scientist's research interests focus largely on meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, and quantum mechanics and applications. Additional topics include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, statistical mechanics and entropy, quantum information and cryptography, and precipitation measurement and analysis.

Tim Palmer has published extensively in several scholarly venues. Frequent publication sites include arXiv (Cornell University), Film Matters, the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Collaborations have been a significant part of their research output. Frequent co-authors include Matthew Chantry, Peter Dueben, Milan Klöwer, Sam Hatfield, and Antje Weisheimer.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Tim Palmer are:

  • Opportunities and challenges for machine learning in weather and climate modelling: hard, medium and soft AI (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)
  • A Generative Deep Learning Approach to Stochastic Downscaling of Precipitation Forecasts (2022, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems)
  • Rethinking Superdeterminism (2020, Frontiers in Physics)
  • Ambitious partnership needed for reliable climate prediction (2022, Nature Climate Change)
  • Building Tangent-Linear and Adjoint Models for Data Assimilation With Neural Networks (2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems)

The scientist's professional recognition includes several distinguished awards. They have been named Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019, Member of Academia Europaea since 2004, and Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, since 2003.

Best Publications

  • Monsoons: Processes, predictability, and the prospects for prediction

    P. J. Webster;V. O. Magaña;T. N. Palmer;J. Shukla

  • The ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System: Methodology and validation

    F. Molteni;R. Buizza;T. N. Palmer;T. Petroliagis

  • Sahel rainfall and worldwide sea temperatures, 1901–85

    C. K. Folland;T. N. Palmer;D. E. Parker

  • Stochastic representation of model uncertainties in the ECMWF ensemble prediction system

    R. Buizza;M. Milleer;T. N. Palmer

  • DEVELOPMENT OF A EUROPEAN MULTIMODEL ENSEMBLE SYSTEM FOR SEASONAL-TO-INTERANNUAL PREDICTION (DEMETER)

    T. N. Palmer;A. Alessandri;U. Andersen;P. Cantelaube

  • Alleviation of a systematic westerly bias in general circulation and numerical weather prediction models through an orographic gravity wave drag parametrization

    T. N. Palmer;G. J. Shutts;R. Swinbank

  • Breaking planetary waves in the stratosphere

    M. E. McIntyre;T. N. Palmer

  • Ensemble forecasting

    M. Leutbecher;T. N. Palmer

  • The Singular-Vector Structure of the Atmospheric Global Circulation

    R. Buizza;T. N. Palmer

  • Quantifying the risk of extreme seasonal precipitation events in a changing climate

    T N Palmer;Jouni Räisänen

  • The rationale behind the success of multi-model ensembles in seasonal forecasting – I. Basic concept

    Renate Hagedorn;Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes;T. N. Palmer

  • Signature of recent climate change in frequencies of natural atmospheric circulation regimes

    S. Corti;F. Molteni;T. N. Palmer

  • Intraseasonal oscillations in 15 atmospheric general circulation models: results from an AMIP diagnostic subproject

    J. M. Slingo;K. R. Sperber;J. S. Boyle;J.-P. Ceron

  • A nonlinear dynamical perspective on model error : A proposal for non-local stochastic-dynamic parametrization in weather and climate prediction models

    T. N. Palmer

  • Singular Vectors, Metrics, and Adaptive Observations.

    T. N. Palmer;R. Gelaro;J. Barkmeijer;R. Buizza

  • The «surf zone» in the stratosphere

    M.E McIntyre;T.N Palmer

  • A Nonlinear Dynamical Perspective on Climate Prediction

    T. N. Palmer

  • EC-Earth A Seamless Earth-System Prediction Approach in Action

    Wilco Hazeleger;Camiel Severijns;Tido Semmler;Simona Ştefănescu

  • Malaria early warnings based on seasonal climate forecasts from multi-model ensembles

    M. C. Thomson;F. J. Doblas-Reyes;S. J. Mason;R. Hagedorn

  • Predicting uncertainty in forecasts of weather and climate

    T N Palmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Antje Weisheimer
Antje Weisheimer University of Oxford
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Roberto Buizza
Roberto Buizza Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Franco Molteni
Franco Molteni European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Thomas Jung
Thomas Jung Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Magdalena Balmaseda
Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Frederic Vitart
Frederic Vitart European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Noel Keenlyside
Noel Keenlyside University of Bergen
Brian J. Hoskins
Brian J. Hoskins University of Reading
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society

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