B. J. McAvaney

14.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

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B. J. McAvaney is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, B. J. McAvaney has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Atmospheric Science and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in B. J. McAvaney's work include Climate variability and models (32 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers). B. J. McAvaney is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (32 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers). B. J. McAvaney collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. B. J. McAvaney's co-authors include Curt Covey, Ronald J. Stouffer, Gerald A. Meehl, Mojib Latif, Karl E. Taylor, J. F. B. Mitchell, Thomas L. Delworth, Akio Kitoh, Sylvie Joussaume and W Ogana and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

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B. J. McAvaney

41 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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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.

THE WCRP CMIP3 Multimodel Dataset: A New Era in Climate Change Research

2007 2.4k citations B. J. McAvaney, Karl E. Taylor et al. profile →
Climate change 2001, the scientific basis, chap. 8: model evaluation. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC

2001 1.9k citations B. J. McAvaney, Akio Kitoh et al. profile →

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#	Title	Journal	Authors	Indexed citations
1	Ranking the AR4 climate models over the Murray‐Darling Basin using simulated maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation	International Journal of Climatology	B. J. McAvaney, A. J. Pitman et al.	108
2	On the contribution of local feedback mechanisms to the range of climate sensitivity in two GCM ensembles	Climate Dynamics	M. J. Webb, C. A. Senior et al.	319
3	Global mean cloud feedbacks in idealized climate change experiments	Geophysical Research Letters	Mark A. Ringer, B. J. McAvaney et al.	62
4	An estimate of future climate change for western France using a statistical downscaling technique	Climate Dynamics	Bertrand Timbal, Anne Dufour et al.	79
5	The role of surface energy balance complexity in land surface models' sensitivity to increasing carbon dioxide	Climate Dynamics	A. J. Pitman, B. J. McAvaney	9
6	Surface energy balance complexity in GCM land surface models. Part II: coupled simulations	Climate Dynamics	C. E. Desborough, A. J. Pitman et al.	18
7	Influence of vegetation changes during the Last Glacial Maximum using the BMRC atmospheric general circulation model	Climate Dynamics	Ulrike Wyputta, B. J. McAvaney	39
8	Realisability constraints for land-surface schemes	Global and Planetary Change	GLENN HESS, B. J. McAvaney	4
9	The Surface Radiation Budget over Oceans and Continents	Journal of Climate	J. R. Garratt, Fred Prata et al.	32
10	A study of general circulation model climate feedbacks determined from perturbed sea surface temperature experiments	Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres	Robert Colman, B. J. McAvaney	90
11	Non-linear climate feedback analysis in an atmospheric general circulation model	Climate Dynamics	Robert Colman, Scott B. Power et al.	39
12	A non‐flux corrected transient CO₂ experiment using the BMRC Coupled Atmosphere/Ocean GCM	Geophysical Research Letters	Robert Colman, Scott B. Power et al.	12
13	Cloud‐radiative effects on implied oceanic energy transports as simulated by Atmospheric General Circulation Models	Geophysical Research Letters	Peter J. Gleckler, David A. Randall et al.	61
14	Modeling the Surface Heat Flux Response to Long-Lived SST Anomalies in the North Atlantic	Journal of Climate	Scott B. Power, Richard Kleeman et al.	21
15	The dependence of the climate sensitivity on convective parametrization: statistical evaluation	Global and Planetary Change	B. J. McAvaney	2
16	Divergent Circulations during the Onset of the 1978–79 Australian Monsoon	Monthly Weather Review	Noel E. Davidson, John L. McBride et al.	25
17	ANMRC Data Assimilation for the Southern Hemisphere	Monthly Weather Review	William Bourke, Kamal Puri et al.	2
18	Comparative Test of Direct and Iterative Methods for Solving Helmholtz-Type Equations	Monthly Weather Review	Lance M. Leslie, B. J. McAvaney	4
19	Comments on “A Direct Solution of Poisson's Equation by Generalized Sweep-Out Method”	Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II	B. J. McAvaney, Lance M. Leslie	5
20	Thermospheric observations combining chemical seeding and ground-based techniques—I. Winds, turbulence and the parameters of the neutral atmosphere	Planetary and Space Science	B. J. McAvaney, D. Rees et al.	48

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