Adam S. Phillips

20.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
48 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Adam S. Phillips is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam S. Phillips has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 40 papers in Atmospheric Science and 24 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Adam S. Phillips's work include Climate variability and models (42 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (23 papers). Adam S. Phillips is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (42 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (23 papers). Adam S. Phillips collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. Adam S. Phillips's co-authors include Clara Deser, Michael A. Alexander, James W. Hurrell, Haiyan Teng, Shang‐Ping Xie, Laurent Terray, Martin P. Hoerling, Reto Knutti, Susan Solomon and John Fasullo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Adam S. Phillips

46 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Uncertainty in climate change projections: the role of internal variability

2010 1.3k citations Clara Deser, Adam S. Phillips et al. profile →
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

2016 955 citations Matthew Newman, Michael A. Alexander et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Sea Surface Temperature Variability: Patterns and Mechanisms

2009 847 citations Clara Deser, Michael A. Alexander et al. profile →
Communication of the role of natural variability in future North American climate

2012 669 citations Clara Deser, Reto Knutti et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Projecting North American Climate over the Next 50 Years: Uncertainty due to Internal Variability*

2013 400 citations Clara Deser, Adam S. Phillips et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers

Adam S. Phillips

GPC

OCEAN

ECOLO

WST

Masahiro Watanabe Japan

Jian Lu United States

Masahide Kimoto Japan

Haiyan Teng United States

Noel Keenlyside Norway

Peter J. Gleckler United States

Antonio Navarra Italy

Laurent Terray France

Masato Sugi Japan

Scott B. Power Australia

Masahiro Watanabe Japan

Adam S. Phillips

9.9k ×1.2

GPC

8.9k ×1.3

3.5k ×1.1

OCEAN

338 ×0.7

ECOLO

344 ×0.7

WST

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Countries citing papers authored by Adam S. Phillips

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adam S. Phillips

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Adam S. Phillips. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Adam S. Phillips based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Adam S. Phillips. Adam S. Phillips is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Maher, Nicola, Adam S. Phillips, Robert C. J. Wills, et al.. (2025). The updated Multi-Model Large Ensemble Archive and the Climate Variability Diagnostics Package: new tools for the study of climate variability and change. Geoscientific model development. 18(18). 6341–6365. 2 indexed citations

Lehner, Flavio, Isla R. Simpson, Clara Deser, et al.. (2025). Recent southwestern US drought exacerbated by anthropogenic aerosols and tropical ocean warming. Nature Geoscience. 18(7). 578–585.

Fasullo, John, Julie M. Caron, Adam S. Phillips, et al.. (2024). Modes of Variability in E3SM and CESM Large Ensembles. Journal of Climate. 37(8). 2629–2653. 2 indexed citations

Deser, Clara, Adam S. Phillips, Michael A. Alexander, et al.. (2024). Future Changes in the Intensity and Duration of Marine Heat and Cold Waves: Insights from Coupled Model Initial-Condition Large Ensembles. Journal of Climate. 37(6). 1877–1902. 17 indexed citations

Runge, Jakob, et al.. (2023). Regime-oriented causal model evaluation of Atlantic–Pacific teleconnections in CMIP6. Earth System Dynamics. 14(2). 309–344. 12 indexed citations

Alexander, Michael A., James D. Scott, Michael G. Jacox, et al.. (2023). A survey of coastal conditions around the continental US using a high-resolution ocean reanalysis. Progress In Oceanography. 216. 103055–103055. 4 indexed citations

Deser, Clara & Adam S. Phillips. (2023). A range of outcomes: the combined effects of internal variability and anthropogenic forcing on regional climate trends over Europe. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 30(1). 63–84. 26 indexed citations

Deser, Clara & Adam S. Phillips. (2023). Spurious Indo‐Pacific Connections to Internal Atlantic Multidecadal Variability Introduced by the Global Temperature Residual Method. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(3). 12 indexed citations

Deser, Clara, Adam S. Phillips, Isla R. Simpson, et al.. (2020). Isolating the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases: A New CESM1 Large Ensemble Community Resource. Journal of Climate. 33(18). 7835–7858. 125 indexed citations

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Fasullo, John, Adam S. Phillips, & Clara Deser. (2020). Evaluation of Leading Modes of Climate Variability in the CMIP Archives. Journal of Climate. 33(13). 5527–5545. 78 indexed citations

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Phillips, Adam S., Clara Deser, John Fasullo, David P. Schneider, & Isla R. Simpson. (2020). Assessing Climate Variability and Change in Model Large Ensembles: A User's Guide to the "Climate Variability Diagnostics Package for Large Ensembles". UCAR/NCAR. 15 indexed citations

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Capotondi, Antonietta, Clara Deser, Adam S. Phillips, Yuko Okumura, & Sarah M. Larson. (2020). ENSO and Pacific Decadal Variability in the Community Earth System Model Version 2. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(12). 87 indexed citations

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Deser, Clara, Laurent Terray, & Adam S. Phillips. (2016). Forced and Internal Components of Winter Air Temperature Trends over North America during the past 50 Years: Mechanisms and Implications*. Journal of Climate. 29(6). 2237–2258. 243 indexed citations

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Phillips, Adam S., Clara Deser, & John Fasullo. (2014). Evaluating Modes of Variability in Climate Models. Eos. 95(49). 453–455. 76 indexed citations

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Trenberth, Kevin E., John Fasullo, Grant Branstator, & Adam S. Phillips. (2014). Seasonal aspects of the recent pause in surface warming. Nature Climate Change. 4(10). 911–916. 269 indexed citations

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Ghatak, Debjani, Clara Deser, Allan Frei, et al.. (2012). Simulated Siberian snow cover response to observed Arctic sea ice loss, 1979–2008. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(D23). 37 indexed citations

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Danabasoglu, Gökhan, S. G. Yeager, Young‐Oh Kwon, et al.. (2012). Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in CCSM4. Journal of Climate. 25(15). 5153–5172. 141 indexed citations

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Deser, Clara, Reto Knutti, Susan Solomon, & Adam S. Phillips. (2012). Communication of the role of natural variability in future North American climate. Nature Climate Change. 2(11). 775–779. 669 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cassou, Christophe, Laurent Terray, & Adam S. Phillips. (2005). Tropical Atlantic Influence on European Heat Waves. Journal of Climate. 18(15). 2805–2811. 358 indexed citations

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Deser, Clara, Adam S. Phillips, & James W. Hurrell. (2004). Pacific Interdecadal Climate Variability: Linkages between the Tropics and the North Pacific during Boreal Winter since 1900. Journal of Climate. 17(16). 3109–3124. 479 indexed citations

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