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.

In The Last Decade

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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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. J. McAvaney Australia	24	4.6k	3.7k	805	615	491	41	6.2k
T. C. Johns United Kingdom	20	6.0k 1.3×	4.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.7×	649 1.1×	707 1.4×	29	8.2k
Gregory M. Flato Canada	39	4.7k 1.0×	5.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.4×	588 1.0×	504 1.0×	71	7.4k
M. Noguer United Kingdom	7	3.6k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	611 0.8×	418 0.7×	766 1.6×	12	5.9k
Toru Nozawa Japan	29	4.8k 1.0×	3.8k 1.0×	611 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	478 1.0×	56	6.2k
Colin Jones United Kingdom	35	5.6k 1.2×	4.7k 1.3×	865 1.1×	688 1.1×	418 0.9×	111	6.9k
Ben Booth United Kingdom	36	4.9k 1.1×	3.4k 0.9×	883 1.1×	491 0.8×	360 0.7×	87	5.9k
William J. Gutowski United States	36	6.2k 1.3×	4.9k 1.3×	680 0.8×	1.2k 2.0×	491 1.0×	133	7.9k
M. R. Haylock Australia	21	5.8k 1.3×	4.3k 1.2×	539 0.7×	969 1.6×	512 1.0×	27	7.2k
Jouni Räisänen Finland	32	3.5k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	423 0.5×	953 1.5×	496 1.0×	128	5.2k
Erik Kjellström Sweden	44	5.6k 1.2×	4.5k 1.2×	864 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	510 1.0×	129	7.8k

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McAvaney, B. J., et al.. (2007). Ranking the AR4 climate models over the Murray‐Darling Basin using simulated maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation. International Journal of Climatology. 28(8). 1097–1112. 108 indexed citations

Webb, M. J., C. A. Senior, David M. H. Sexton, et al.. (2006). On the contribution of local feedback mechanisms to the range of climate sensitivity in two GCM ensembles. Climate Dynamics. 27(1). 17–38. 319 indexed citations

Ringer, Mark A., B. J. McAvaney, N. G. Andronova, et al.. (2006). Global mean cloud feedbacks in idealized climate change experiments. Geophysical Research Letters. 33(7). 62 indexed citations

Timbal, Bertrand, Anne Dufour, & B. J. McAvaney. (2003). An estimate of future climate change for western France using a statistical downscaling technique. Climate Dynamics. 20(7-8). 807–823. 79 indexed citations

Pitman, A. J. & B. J. McAvaney. (2002). The role of surface energy balance complexity in land surface models' sensitivity to increasing carbon dioxide. Climate Dynamics. 19(7). 609–618. 9 indexed citations

Desborough, C. E., A. J. Pitman, & B. J. McAvaney. (2001). Surface energy balance complexity in GCM land surface models. Part II: coupled simulations. Climate Dynamics. 17(8). 615–626. 18 indexed citations

Wyputta, Ulrike & B. J. McAvaney. (2001). Influence of vegetation changes during the Last Glacial Maximum using the BMRC atmospheric general circulation model. Climate Dynamics. 17(12). 923–932. 39 indexed citations

HESS, GLENN & B. J. McAvaney. (1998). Realisability constraints for land-surface schemes. Global and Planetary Change. 19(1-4). 241–245. 4 indexed citations

Garratt, J. R., Fred Prata, Leon Rotstayn, B. J. McAvaney, & S. Cusack. (1998). The Surface Radiation Budget over Oceans and Continents. Journal of Climate. 11(8). 1951–1968. 32 indexed citations

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Colman, Robert & B. J. McAvaney. (1997). A study of general circulation model climate feedbacks determined from perturbed sea surface temperature experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(D16). 19383–19402. 90 indexed citations

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Colman, Robert, Scott B. Power, & B. J. McAvaney. (1997). Non-linear climate feedback analysis in an atmospheric general circulation model. Climate Dynamics. 13(10). 717–731. 39 indexed citations

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Colman, Robert, et al.. (1995). A non‐flux corrected transient CO₂ experiment using the BMRC Coupled Atmosphere/Ocean GCM. Geophysical Research Letters. 22(22). 3047–3050. 12 indexed citations

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Gleckler, Peter J., David A. Randall, G. J. Boer, et al.. (1995). Cloud‐radiative effects on implied oceanic energy transports as simulated by Atmospheric General Circulation Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 22(7). 791–794. 61 indexed citations

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Power, Scott B., Richard Kleeman, Robert Colman, & B. J. McAvaney. (1995). Modeling the Surface Heat Flux Response to Long-Lived SST Anomalies in the North Atlantic. Journal of Climate. 8(9). 2161–2180. 21 indexed citations

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McAvaney, B. J.. (1995). The dependence of the climate sensitivity on convective parametrization: statistical evaluation. Global and Planetary Change. 10(1-4). 181–200. 2 indexed citations

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Davidson, Noel E., John L. McBride, & B. J. McAvaney. (1984). Divergent Circulations during the Onset of the 1978–79 Australian Monsoon. Monthly Weather Review. 112(9). 1684–1696. 25 indexed citations

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Bourke, William, et al.. (1982). ANMRC Data Assimilation for the Southern Hemisphere. Monthly Weather Review. 110(12). 1749–1772. 2 indexed citations

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Leslie, Lance M. & B. J. McAvaney. (1973). Comparative Test of Direct and Iterative Methods for Solving Helmholtz-Type Equations. Monthly Weather Review. 101(3). 235–239. 4 indexed citations

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McAvaney, B. J. & Lance M. Leslie. (1972). Comments on “A Direct Solution of Poisson's Equation by Generalized Sweep-Out Method”. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 50(2). 136–137. 5 indexed citations

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McAvaney, B. J., et al.. (1972). Thermospheric observations combining chemical seeding and ground-based techniques—I. Winds, turbulence and the parameters of the neutral atmosphere. Planetary and Space Science. 20(5). 761–789. 48 indexed citations

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