Colin Jones

21.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
111 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Colin Jones is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Jones has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 77 papers in Atmospheric Science and 15 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Colin Jones's work include Climate variability and models (73 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (42 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (41 papers) Colin Jones is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (73 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (42 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (41 papers) Colin Jones collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States Colin Jones's co-authors include Ghassem Asrar, Filippo Giorgi, Ulrika Willén, Ulf Hansson, Anders Ullerstig, Patrick Samuelsson, Grigory Nikulin, Erik Kjellström, Klaus Wyser and Stefan Gollvik and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Colin Jones

108 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Addressing climate inform... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2012 2010 400 800 1.2k
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. Addressing climate information needs at the regional level: the CORDEX framework
    2009 1.4k citations Colin Jones et al. profile →
  2. Precipitation Climatology in an Ensemble of CORDEX-Africa Regional Climate Simulations
    2012 545 citations Grigory Nikulin, Colin Jones et al. profile →
  3. The Rossby Centre Regional Climate model RCA3: model description and performance
    2010 541 citations Colin Jones, Ulrika Willén et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Colin Jones United Kingdom 35 5.6k 4.7k 865 688 544 111 6.9k
Ben Booth United Kingdom 36 4.9k 0.9× 3.4k 0.7× 883 1.0× 491 0.7× 362 0.7× 87 5.9k
William J. Gutowski United States 36 6.2k 1.1× 4.9k 1.0× 680 0.8× 1.2k 1.8× 635 1.2× 133 7.9k
Gregory M. Flato Canada 39 4.7k 0.8× 5.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 588 0.9× 325 0.6× 71 7.4k
Erik Kjellström Sweden 44 5.6k 1.0× 4.5k 1.0× 864 1.0× 1.1k 1.6× 551 1.0× 129 7.8k
B. J. McAvaney Australia 24 4.6k 0.8× 3.7k 0.8× 805 0.9× 615 0.9× 400 0.7× 41 6.2k
Hideo Shiogama Japan 42 5.3k 0.9× 4.1k 0.9× 877 1.0× 522 0.8× 455 0.8× 167 6.4k
Grigory Nikulin Sweden 43 6.2k 1.1× 4.8k 1.0× 553 0.6× 1.1k 1.6× 959 1.8× 94 7.8k
Uwe Ulbrich Germany 43 5.4k 1.0× 4.7k 1.0× 933 1.1× 719 1.0× 197 0.4× 144 6.8k
Zhihong Jiang China 44 4.8k 0.9× 4.0k 0.8× 615 0.7× 734 1.1× 560 1.0× 138 5.9k
M. R. Haylock Australia 21 5.8k 1.0× 4.3k 0.9× 539 0.6× 969 1.4× 682 1.3× 27 7.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Jones

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Jones

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Jones

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colin Jones. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colin Jones 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 Colin Jones. Colin Jones 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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Mora, L. de, Ranjini Swaminathan, Richard P. Allan, et al.. (2023). Scenario choice impacts carbon allocation projection at global warming levels. Earth System Dynamics. 14(6). 1295–1315.
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Mulcahy, Jane P., Colin Jones, Steven T. Rumbold, et al.. (2023). UKESM1.1: development and evaluation of an updated configuration of the UK Earth System Model. Geoscientific model development. 16(6). 1569–1600. 18 indexed citations
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Smith, Robin S., Pierre Mathiot, Antony Siahaan, et al.. (2021). Coupling the U.K. Earth System Model to dynamic models of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. 18 indexed citations
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Hardacre, Catherine, Jane P. Mulcahy, Richard J. Pope, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of SO 2 , SO 4 2− and an updated SO 2 dry deposition parameterization in the United Kingdom Earth System Model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(24). 18465–18497. 10 indexed citations
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Hardacre, Catherine, Jane P. Mulcahy, Richard J. Pope, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of SO 2 , SO 4 2− and an updated SO 2 dry deposition parameterization in UKESM1. 1 indexed citations
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Yool, Andrew, Julien Palmiéri, Colin Jones, et al.. (2021). Evaluating the physical and biogeochemical state of the global ocean component of UKESM1 in CMIP6 historical simulations. Geoscientific model development. 14(6). 3437–3472. 32 indexed citations
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Smith, Robin S., Pierre Mathiot, Antony Siahaan, et al.. (2021). Coupling the U.K. Earth System Model to Dynamic Models of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(10). 26 indexed citations
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Mora, L. de, Alistair Sellar, Andrew Yool, et al.. (2020). Earth system music: music generated from the United Kingdom Earth System Model (UKESM1). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 263–278. 3 indexed citations
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Menary, Matthew, Jon Robson, Richard P. Allan, et al.. (2020). Aerosol-forced AMOC changes in CMIP6 historical simulations..
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Wu, Minchao, Grigory Nikulin, Erik Kjellström, et al.. (2020). The impact of regional climate model formulation and resolution on simulated precipitation in Africa. Earth System Dynamics. 11(2). 377–394. 24 indexed citations
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Heinze, Christoph, Veronika Eyring, Pierre Friedlingstein, et al.. (2019). ESD Reviews: Climate feedbacks in the Earth system and prospects for their evaluation. Earth System Dynamics. 10(3). 379–452. 60 indexed citations
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Wu, Minchao, Grigory Nikulin, Erik Kjellström, et al.. (2019). The impact of RCM formulation and resolution on simulated precipitation in Africa. 1 indexed citations
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Lauer, Axel, Colin Jones, Veronika Eyring, et al.. (2018). Process-level improvements in CMIP5 models and their impact on tropical variability, the Southern Ocean, and monsoons. Earth System Dynamics. 9(1). 33–67. 12 indexed citations
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Mora, L. de, Andrew Yool, Julien Palmiéri, et al.. (2018). BGC-val: a model- and grid-independent Python toolkit to evaluate marine biogeochemical models. Geoscientific model development. 11(10). 4215–4240. 2 indexed citations
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Falloon, Pete, Rutger Dankers, Richard Betts, et al.. (2012). Role of vegetation change in future climate under the A1B scenario and a climate stabilisation scenario, using the HadCM3C Earth system model. Biogeosciences. 9(11). 4739–4756. 24 indexed citations
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Devasthale, Abhay, Ulrika Willén, Karl‐Göran Karlsson, & Colin Jones. (2010). Quantifying the clear-sky temperature inversion frequency and strength over the Arctic Ocean during summer and winter seasons from AIRS profiles. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(12). 5565–5572. 89 indexed citations
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Mahowald, N. M., Keith Lindsay, Daniel Rothenberg, et al.. (2010). Desert dust and anthropogenic aerosol interactions in the Community Climate System Model coupled-carbon-climate model. 3 indexed citations
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Booth, Ben, Colin Jones, M. Collin, et al.. (2009). Global warming uncertainties due to carbon cycle feedbacks exceed those due to CO2 emissions. EGUGA. 4179. 1 indexed citations
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Falloon, Pete, Colin Jones, Melanie Ades, & Keryn I. Paul. (2009). Soil moisture controls of future global soil carbon changes - an unconsidered source of uncertainty. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9200. 1 indexed citations
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Döscher, Ralf, Ulrika Willén, Colin Jones, et al.. (2002). The development of the coupled regional ocean-atmosphere model RCAO. Boreal environment research. 183–192. 111 indexed citations

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