Chris Brierley

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Chris Brierley is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Brierley has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Atmospheric Science, 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Chris Brierley's work include Climate variability and models (23 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers). Chris Brierley is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (23 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers). Chris Brierley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Chris Brierley's co-authors include Mark Maslin, Alexey V. Fedorov, Simon L. Lewis, Alexander Koch, Zhonghui Liu, Jonathan P LaRiviere, K. T. Lawrence, Timothy D. Herbert, Susanne Shultz and Alice M. Milner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Chris Brierley

42 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years

2018 275 citations David Thornalley, Delia W Oppo et al. Nature profile →
Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492

2019 220 citations Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley et al. Quaternary Science Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Brierley United Kingdom	18	962	546	399	314	298	44	1.6k
Kristen M. Krumhardt United States	20	833 0.9×	920 1.7×	501 1.3×	499 1.6×	276 0.9×	41	2.1k
Tobias Friedrich United States	22	1.0k 1.1×	364 0.7×	508 1.3×	392 1.2×	280 0.9×	45	1.6k
Byron A. Steinman United States	29	2.1k 2.2×	1.5k 2.8×	454 1.1×	542 1.7×	215 0.7×	63	2.8k
Xinyu Wen China	16	1.2k 1.3×	480 0.9×	171 0.4×	390 1.2×	187 0.6×	45	1.5k
Myriam Khodri France	23	1.8k 1.9×	1.1k 2.0×	322 0.8×	248 0.8×	168 0.6×	69	2.1k
Martín Medina‐Elizalde United States	18	1.4k 1.5×	182 0.3×	300 0.8×	470 1.5×	483 1.6×	28	1.8k
Stephan Lorenz Germany	26	1.9k 2.0×	979 1.8×	419 1.1×	521 1.7×	222 0.7×	78	2.3k
Kaustubh Thirumalai United States	19	1.1k 1.2×	739 1.4×	450 1.1×	483 1.5×	142 0.5×	75	1.7k
Steven J. Phipps Australia	29	2.2k 2.3×	1.8k 3.3×	462 1.2×	472 1.5×	148 0.5×	68	3.0k
Bronwen Konecky United States	18	968 1.0×	558 1.0×	143 0.4×	371 1.2×	151 0.5×	36	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Brierley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Brierley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Brierley

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lunt, Daniel J., Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Chris Brierley, et al.. (2024). Paleoclimate data provide constraints on climate models' large-scale response to past CO2 changes. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 7 indexed citations

Brierley, Chris, et al.. (2024). Exploring Uncertainty of Trends in the North Pacific Jet Position. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(16). 4 indexed citations

Brierley, Chris, Jürgen Bader, Pascale Braconnot, et al.. (2023). No Consistent Simulated Trends in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation for the Past 6,000 Years. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(10). 4 indexed citations

Chandler, Richard E., Clair Barnes, & Chris Brierley. (2023). Characterizing Spatial Structure in Climate Model Ensembles. Journal of Climate. 37(3). 1053–1064. 1 indexed citations

Brierley, Chris, et al.. (2023). Indian Ocean variability changes in the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project. Climate of the past. 19(3). 681–701. 7 indexed citations

Martín‐Puertas, Celia, Armand Hernández, Eulogio Pardo‐Igúzquiza, et al.. (2023). Dampened predictable decadal North Atlantic climate fluctuations due to ice melting. Nature Geoscience. 16(4). 357–362. 6 indexed citations

Shi, Xiaoxu, Martin Werner, Chris Brierley, et al.. (2022). Calendar effects on surface air temperature and precipitation based on model-ensemble equilibrium and transient simulations from PMIP4 and PACMEDY. Climate of the past. 18(5). 1047–1070. 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Qiong, Frederik Schenk, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, et al.. (2022). Multi-centennial Holocene climate variability in proxy records and transient model simulations. Quaternary Science Reviews. 296. 107801–107801. 19 indexed citations

Zhao, Anni, et al.. (2022). Analysing the PMIP4-CMIP6 collection: a workflow and tool (pmip_p2fvar_analyzer v1). Geoscientific model development. 15(6). 2475–2488. 3 indexed citations

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Kikstra, Jarmo, et al.. (2021). The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability. Environmental Research Letters. 16(9). 94037–94037. 78 indexed citations

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Schlebusch, Carina M., Liisa Loog, Huw S. Groucutt, et al.. (2021). Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands? Strong claims from weak evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science. 130. 105374–105374. 6 indexed citations

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Nychka, Douglas, et al.. (2021). Global ensemble of temperatures over 1850–2018: quantification of uncertainties in observations, coverage, and spatial modeling (GETQUOCS). Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(11). 7103–7121. 1 indexed citations

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Koch, Alexander, Chris Brierley, & Simon L. Lewis. (2021). Effects of Earth system feedbacks on the potential mitigation of large-scale tropical forest restoration. Biogeosciences. 18(8). 2627–2647. 22 indexed citations

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Rehfeld, Kira, Raphaël Hébert, Juan M. Lora, Marcus Löfverström, & Chris Brierley. (2020). Variability of surface climate in simulations of past and future. Earth System Dynamics. 11(2). 447–468. 26 indexed citations

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Taylor, Richard G., et al.. (2020). Climate–groundwater dynamics inferred from GRACE and the role of hydraulic memory. Earth System Dynamics. 11(3). 775–791. 38 indexed citations

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Thornalley, David, Delia W Oppo, Pablo Ortega, et al.. (2018). Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years. Nature. 556(7700). 227–230. 275 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brierley, Chris & Ilana Wainer. (2018). Inter-annual variability in the tropical Atlantic from the Last Glacial Maximum into future climate projections simulated by CMIP5/PMIP3. Climate of the past. 14(10). 1377–1390. 18 indexed citations

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Brierley, Chris, Katie Manning, & Mark Maslin. (2018). Pastoralism may have delayed the end of the green Sahara. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4018–4018. 32 indexed citations

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Li, Hui, et al.. (2017). Regional variations in the ocean response to tropical cyclones: Ocean mixing versus low cloud suppression. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(4). 1947–1955. 6 indexed citations

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Brierley, Chris, Alan Thorpe, & Matthew Collins. (2008). An example of the dependence of the transient climate response on the temperature of the modelled climate state. Atmospheric Science Letters. 10(1). 23–28. 5 indexed citations

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