C. M. Brierley

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 925 citations indexed

About

C. M. Brierley is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, C. M. Brierley has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 925 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Atmospheric Science, 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in C. M. Brierley's work include Climate variability and models (13 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (4 papers). C. M. Brierley is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (13 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (4 papers). C. M. Brierley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. C. M. Brierley's co-authors include Alexey V. Fedorov, Kerry Emanuel, K. T. Lawrence, Ana Christina Ravelo, Zhonghui Liu, Petra Dekens, Mark Maslin, Georgy E. Manucharyan, Glen Harris and Ben Booth and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

C. M. Brierley

19 papers receiving 912 citations

Hit Papers

Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth
    2013 296 citations Alexey V. Fedorov, C. M. Brierley et al. Nature profile →

Peers

C. M. Brierley
Uta Krebs‐Kanzow Germany
Danielle K. Stoll United States
J. A. Addison United States
Natalie Burls United States
William H. G. Roberts United Kingdom
Guangshan Chen United States
Isabelle Billy France
Tripti Bhattacharya United States
Colin P. Chilcott United Kingdom
Uta Krebs‐Kanzow Germany
C. M. Brierley
Citations per year, relative to C. M. Brierley C. M. Brierley (= 1×) peers Uta Krebs‐Kanzow

Countries citing papers authored by C. M. Brierley

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Fields of papers citing papers by C. M. Brierley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. M. Brierley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of C. M. Brierley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of C. M. Brierley 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 C. M. Brierley. C. M. Brierley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ford, Heather L., et al.. (2025). Reduced North Pacific Deep Water formation across the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2704–2704.
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Clift, Peter D., Xing Li, Yurui Zhang, et al.. (2025). Influence of Qinba Mountains on summer precipitation in the North-South transition zone based on WRF simulation. Environmental Research Communications. 7(6). 65013–65013.
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Lu, Zhengyao, Matthieu Carré, C. M. Brierley, et al.. (2025). Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene. Nature Geoscience. 18(4). 337–343. 5 indexed citations
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Barnes, Clair, Richard E. Chandler, & C. M. Brierley. (2024). A Comparison of Regional Climate Projections With a Range of Climate Sensitivities. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(2). 1 indexed citations
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Wainer, Ilana, et al.. (2020). Reduced Atlantic variability in the mid-Pliocene. Climatic Change. 160(3). 445–461. 1 indexed citations
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Brierley, C. M., et al.. (2017). Uncertainty in regional temperatures inferred from sparse global observations: Application to a probabilistic classification of El Niño. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(17). 9068–9074. 9 indexed citations
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Brierley, C. M., et al.. (2015). Tropical cyclone genesis potential across palaeoclimates. Climate of the past. 11(10). 1433–1451. 18 indexed citations
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Brierley, C. M.. (2015). Interannual climate variability seen in the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project. Climate of the past. 11(3). 605–618. 18 indexed citations
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Colleoni, Florence, Annalisa Cherchi, Simona Masina, & C. M. Brierley. (2015). Impact of global SST gradients on the Mediterranean runoff changes across the Plio‐Pleistocene transition. Paleoceanography. 30(6). 751–767. 8 indexed citations
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Maslin, Mark & C. M. Brierley. (2015). The role of orbital forcing in the Early Middle Pleistocene Transition. Quaternary International. 389. 47–55. 75 indexed citations
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Meyer, Kris De, Candice Howarth, Noël E. Smith, et al.. (2014). Time for Change? Climate Science Reconsidered: Report of the UCL Policy Commission on Communicating Climate Science, 2014. UCL Discovery (University College London). 17 indexed citations
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Fedorov, Alexey V., C. M. Brierley, K. T. Lawrence, et al.. (2013). Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth. Nature. 496(7443). 43–49. 296 indexed citations breakdown →
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Joshi, Manoj & C. M. Brierley. (2013). Stratospheric modulation of the Boreal response to Pliocene tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 365. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Brierley, C. M. & Alexey V. Fedorov. (2011). Tidal mixing around Indonesia and the Maritime continent: Implications for paleoclimate simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 38(24). n/a–n/a. 14 indexed citations
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Manucharyan, Georgy E., C. M. Brierley, & Alexey V. Fedorov. (2011). Climate impacts of intermittent upper ocean mixing induced by tropical cyclones. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(C11). 28 indexed citations
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Fedorov, Alexey V., C. M. Brierley, & Kerry Emanuel. (2010). Tropical cyclones and permanent El Niño in the early Pliocene epoch. Nature. 463(7284). 1066–1070. 193 indexed citations
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Brierley, C. M.. (2007). Ocean model uncertainty and time-dependent climate projections. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Collins, Matthew, C. M. Brierley, M. K. MacVean, Ben Booth, & Glen Harris. (2007). The Sensitivity of the Rate of Transient Climate Change to Ocean Physics Perturbations. Journal of Climate. 20(10). 2315–2320. 41 indexed citations

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