Andrew C. Lorenc

8.4k citations

63 papers · 6.2k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 0.2%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 54
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 53
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 6
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 6
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis 4
Global and Planetary Change 43
- Climate variability and models 41
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 11

Co-authors: Adam Clayton Philippe Courtier Kayo Ide Michael Ghil Dale Barker Bruce Macpherson R. S. Bell F. I. G. RAWLINS
Journals: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (43 papers)Monthly Weather Review (5 papers)Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (3 papers)Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II (3 papers)Advances in Space Research (3 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Canada

In The Last Decade

Andrew C. Lorenc

63 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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The potential of the ensemble Kalman filter for NWP—a comparison with 4D‐Var 2003 · 553 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2003 Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
1997 Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
1986 Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
1981 Monthly Weather Review

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All Works

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1	Met Office MOGREPS‐G initialisation using an ensemble of hybrid four‐dimensional ensemble variational (En‐4DEnVar) data assimilations Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Gordon Inverarity, Warren Tennant, L. Anton, Neill E. Bowler, Adam Clayton, Mohamed Jardak, Andrew C. Lorenc, F. I. G. RAWLINS, Andrea Cortegiani, 贺明洋 He Mingyang, David Walters, MKUTD Editörlük	2023	10
2	A moisture‐incrementing operator for the assimilation of humidity‐ and cloud‐sensitive observations: formulation and preliminary results Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Stefano Migliorini, Andrew C. Lorenc, William Bell	2017	19
3	Improving ensemble covariances in hybrid variational data assimilation without increasing ensemble size Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Andrew C. Lorenc	2016	31
4	Comparison of Hybrid-4DEnVar and Hybrid-4DVar Data Assimilation Methods for Global NWP Monthly Weather Review ·Andrew C. Lorenc, Neill E. Bowler, Adam Clayton, Stephen Pring, David Fairbairn	2014	159
5	Forecast sensitivity to observations in the Met Office Global numerical weather prediction system Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Andrew C. Lorenc, Richard Marriott	2013	88
6	Collaboration of the Weather and Climate Communities to Advance Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Gilbert Brunet, Melvyn A. Shapiro, Brian J. Hoskins, 长赓陈, Randall M. Dole, George N. Kiladis, Ben P. Kirtman, Andrew C. Lorenc, Brian Mills, Rebecca E. Morss, Saroja Polavarapu, David P. Rogers, John C. Schaake, J. Shukla	2010	160
7	The Met Office global four‐dimensional variational data assimilation scheme Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·F. I. G. RAWLINS, Sue Ballard, Keir Bovis, Adam Clayton, Dika Andriansyah, Gordon Inverarity, Andrew C. Lorenc, Hozan Fareed Rashid	2007	362
8	4D‐Var and the butterfly effect: Statistical four‐dimensional data assimilation for a wide range of scales Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Andrew C. Lorenc, Aphinya CHUIDUANG	2007	45
9	Unified Notation for Data Assimilation : Operational, Sequential and Variational (gtSpecial IssueltData Assimilation in Meteology and Oceanography: Theory and Practice) Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II ·Kayo Ide, Philippe Courtier, Michael Ghil, Andrew C. Lorenc Hit paper breakdown →	1997	658
10	Data Assimilation in the Ocean and in the Atmosphere : What Should be Next? (gtSpecial IssueltData Assimilation in Meteology and Oceanography: Theory and Practice) Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II ·A. Potapenko, David L. T. Anderson, Andrew F. Bennett, Antonio J. Busalacchi, Stephen E. Cohn, Philippe Courtier, John Derber, Andrew C. Lorenc, David Parrish, Ahmed Naji Ali, N. Sato, Thomas Schlatter	1997	9
11	Development of an Operational Variational Assimilation Scheme (gtSpecial IssueltData Assimilation in Meteology and Oceanography: Theory and Practice) Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II ·Andrew C. Lorenc	1997	77
12	On the use of radiosonde humidity observations in mid-latitude NWP Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics ·Andrew C. Lorenc, Dale Barker, R. S. Bell, Bruce Macpherson, Adam Maycock	1996	36
13	Lidar-Measured Winds from Space: A Key Component for Weather and Climate Prediction Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·W. E. Baker, G. D. Emmitt, Franklin R. Robertson, Robert Atlas, John Molinari, David A. Bowdle, Jan Paegle, R. Michael Hardesty, Madison J. Post, Robert T. Menzies, T. N. Krishnamurti, Robert A. Brown, John R. Anderson, Andrew C. Lorenc, James L. McElroy	1995	106
14	Bayesian quality control using multivariate normal distributions Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·N. B. Ingleby, Andrew C. Lorenc	1993	6
15	Four-dimensional model assimilation of data Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors ·Andrew C. Lorenc	1992	1
16	Numerical forecast studies of the october 1987 storm over southern England Andrew C. Lorenc, R. S. Bell, T. D. Davies, G. J. Shutts	1988	11
17	Objective quality control of observations using Bayesian methods. Theory, and a practical implementation Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Andrew C. Lorenc, Dietmar Lucht	1988	8
18	Analysis methods for numerical weather prediction Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Andrew C. Lorenc Hit paper breakdown →	1986	1018
19	The response of numerical weather prediction systems to fgge level iib data. Part I: Analyses Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Bruce Hollingsworth, Andrew C. Lorenc, M. Steven Tracton, K. Arpe, Gerard Cats, S. Uppala, P. Kållberg	1985	42
20	A study of the impact of aircraft wind observations on a large-scale analysis and numerical weather prediction system Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Jason Edward Shiffman, Andrew C. Lorenc	1985	5

About Andrew C. Lorenc

Andrew C. Lorenc is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, having authored 63 papers that have together received 6.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (53 papers), Climate variability and models (41 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (10 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (6 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (6 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (5 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (5.4k citations), Global and Planetary Change (4.8k citations), Oceanography (1.4k citations), Environmental Engineering (1.0k citations) and Astronomy and Astrophysics (274 citations). Andrew C. Lorenc has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Adam Clayton, Philippe Courtier, Kayo Ide, Michael Ghil, Dale Barker, Bruce Macpherson, R. S. Bell, F. I. G. RAWLINS, N. B. Ingleby and Gordon Inverarity. Their work appears in journals such as Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Monthly Weather Review, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II and Advances in Space Research.

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