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2023

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D-Index
85
Citations
41959
World Ranking
732
National Ranking
59

Timothy J. Osborn 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 Timothy J. Osborn sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 223 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Timothy J. Osborn 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 Timothy J. Osborn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Timothy J. Osborn is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and specializes in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research spans several interconnected fields of study, principally focusing on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

They have published extensively, contributing to 46 works in environmental science and 41 in earth and planetary sciences. Subfields of particular interest include global and planetary change (38 publications), atmospheric science (36 publications), oceanography (4 publications), management science and operations research (4 publications), and water science and technology (3 publications).

Their research topics cover a range of areas primarily related to climate and atmospheric processes. Main topics include climate variability and models (42 publications), meteorological phenomena and simulations (20 publications), hydrology and drought analysis (18 publications), geology and paleoclimatology research (12 publications), tree-ring climate responses (10 publications), precipitation measurement and analysis (10 publications), and oceanographic and atmospheric processes (8 publications).

Frequent collaborators in their research include Nele Reyniers, Nans Addor, Nicole Forstenhäusler, Yi He, and P. D. Jones. These collaborations have contributed to a broad range of interdisciplinary studies.

Osborn's work has appeared in various publication venues, with the most frequent being Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) where they have 10 publications. They have also contributed five times to the International Journal of Climatology, four times to Climatic Change, three times to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and twice to the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset, 2020, Scientific Data
  • An Updated Assessment of Near-Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The HadCRUT5 Data Set, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Land Surface Air Temperature Variations Across the Globe Updated to 2019: The CRUTEM5 Data Set, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • The Extreme Positive Indian Ocean Dipole of 2019 and Associated Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Response, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Updated high‐resolution grids of monthly climatic observations – the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

    I. Harris;Philip Jones;Philip Jones;Timothy Osborn;David Lister

  • Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset

    Ian Harris;Timothy J Osborn;Phil Jones;David Lister

  • Hemispheric and large-scale land-surface air temperature variations: An extensive revision and an update to 2010

    P. D. Jones;P. D. Jones;D. H. Lister;T. J. Osborn;C. Harpham

  • Influence of volcanic eruptions on Northern Hemisphere summer temperature over the past 600 years

    Keith R. Briffa;Philip D. Jones;Fritz H. Schweingruber;Timothy J. Osborn

  • Reduced sensitivity of recent tree-growth to temperature at high northern latitudes

    Keith Briffa;F.H. Schweingruber;Philip Jones;Timothy Osborn

  • The evolution of climate over the last millennium.

    P. D. Jones;T. J. Osborn;K. R. Briffa

  • An Updated Assessment of Near-Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The HadCRUT5 Data Set

    Colin P. Morice;John J. Kennedy;Nick A. Rayner;J. P. Winn

  • Information from paleoclimate archives

    Valerie Masson-Delmotte;Michael Schulz;A Abe-Ouchi;J Beer

  • Low-frequency temperature variations from a northern tree-ring density network

    Keith R. Briffa;Timothy J. Osborn;Fritz H. Schweingruber;Ian C. Harris

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation influence on Europe: climate impacts and associated physical mechanisms

    Ricardo M. Trigo;Timothy J. Osborn;João M. Corte-Real

  • North Atlantic oscillation influence on precipitation, river flow and water resources in the Iberian Peninsula

    Ricardo M. Trigo;Ricardo M. Trigo;David Pozo-Vázquez;Timothy J. Osborn;Yolanda Castro-Díez

  • The Arctic Ocean Response to the North Atlantic Oscillation

    R. R. Dickson;T. J. Osborn;J. W. Hurrell;J. Meincke

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Bao Yang;Chun Qin;Jianglin Wang;Minhui He

  • Precipitation sensitivity to global warming: Comparison of observations with HadCM2 simulations

    Mike Hulme;Timothy J. Osborn;Timothy C. Johns

  • Observed trends in the daily intensity of United Kingdom precipitation.

    Timothy J. Osborn;Mike Hulme;Philip D. Jones;Tracy A. Basnett

  • Adjusting variance for sample-size in tree-ring chronologies and other regional mean timeseries

    T. J. Osborn;K. R. Biffa;P. D. Jones

  • Climate and southern Africa's water-energy-food nexus

    Declan Conway;Emma Archer van Garderen;Emma Archer van Garderen;Delphine Deryng;Stephen Dorling

  • Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: the long term context

    Rob Wilson;Rob Wilson;Kevin Anchukaitis;Kevin Anchukaitis;Keith R. Briffa;Ulf Büntgen

  • Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss

    R. Warren;J. VanDerWal;J. Price;J. A. Welbergen

  • 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

  • Estimating Sampling Errors in Large-Scale Temperature Averages

    P. D. Jones;T. J. Osborn;K. R. Briffa

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Keith R. Briffa
Keith R. Briffa University of East Anglia
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Ian Harris
Ian Harris University of East Anglia
Jason Lowe
Jason Lowe Met Office
Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
Rachel Warren
Rachel Warren University of East Anglia
Manoj Joshi
Manoj Joshi University of East Anglia
Peter Thorne
Peter Thorne National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Willem A. Landman
Willem A. Landman University of Pretoria

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