Colin Morice

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
33 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Colin Morice is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Morice has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Colin Morice's work include Climate variability and models (24 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers). Colin Morice is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (24 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers). Colin Morice collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Saudi Arabia. Colin Morice's co-authors include P. D. Jones, Nick A Rayner, John Kennedy, Timothy J. Osborn, David Lister, M. Salmon, Colin Harpham, Robert Dunn, I. Simpson and Jonathan Winn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Colin Morice

31 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Quantifying uncertainties in global and regional temperature change using an ensemble of observational estimates: The HadCRUT4 data set

2012 1.3k citations Colin Morice, John Kennedy et al. profile →
Hemispheric and large‐scale land‐surface air temperature variations: An extensive revision and an update to 2010

2012 661 citations P. D. Jones, David Lister et al. profile →
An Updated Assessment of Near‐Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The HadCRUT5 Data Set

2020 533 citations Colin Morice, John Kennedy et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin Morice United Kingdom	13	2.3k	1.9k	392	191	188	33	3.0k
David Pozo‐Vázquez Spain	37	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	326 0.8×	75 0.4×	381 2.0×	75	3.9k
Eric Gilleland United States	25	2.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	184 0.5×	130 0.7×	406 2.2×	70	2.9k
Cheng Sun China	33	2.9k 1.3×	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 3.3×	43 0.2×	121 0.6×	157	3.8k
Xin Lin China	28	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	228 0.6×	43 0.2×	396 2.1×	76	3.0k
Xufeng Niu United States	24	834 0.4×	729 0.4×	334 0.9×	94 0.5×	148 0.8×	59	1.8k
Henning W. Rust Germany	24	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	128 0.3×	219 1.1×	278 1.5×	82	2.9k
David Carvalho Portugal	31	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	413 1.1×	76 0.4×	674 3.6×	62	2.9k
Colin Harpham United Kingdom	19	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	100 0.3×	52 0.3×	384 2.0×	31	2.5k
Jesús Fernández Spain	28	2.7k 1.2×	2.2k 1.1×	218 0.6×	42 0.2×	273 1.5×	79	3.3k
Tilo Ziehn Australia	19	1.1k 0.5×	745 0.4×	227 0.6×	65 0.3×	159 0.8×	53	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Morice

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Morice

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Morice

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

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Taylor, Michael, Timothy J. Osborn, Kevin Cowtan, et al.. (2025). GloSAT LATsdb : A Global Compilation of Land Air Temperature Station Records With Updated Climatological Normals From Local Expectation Kriging. Geoscience Data Journal. 12(4).

Ballinger, Andrew, Andrew Schurer, Gabriele C. Hegerl, et al.. (2025). Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century. Environmental Research Letters. 21(1). 14022–14022.

Dunn, Robert, Holly Titchner, Mike Kendon, et al.. (2024). Global and regional climate in 2023. Weather. 79(12). 400–412. 1 indexed citations

Yoshioka, Masaru, Daniel P. Grosvenor, Ben Booth, Colin Morice, & K. S. Carslaw. (2024). Warming effects of reduced sulfur emissions from shipping. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(23). 13681–13692. 10 indexed citations

Dunstone, Nick, Doug Smith, Andrew Colman, et al.. (2024). Will 2024 be the first year that global temperature exceeds 1.5°C?. Atmospheric Science Letters. 25(9). 15 indexed citations

Dunn, Robert, et al.. (2023). Global and regional climate in 2022. Weather. 78(12). 328–336. 5 indexed citations

Betts, Richard, Stephen E. Belcher, Leon Hermanson, et al.. (2023). Approaching 1.5 °C: how will we know we’ve reached this crucial warming mark?. Nature. 624(7990). 33–35. 35 indexed citations

Bodas‐Salcedo, Alejandro, Jonathan M. Gregory, David M. H. Sexton, & Colin Morice. (2022). Assessment of Large-Scale Indices of Surface Temperature during the Historical Period in the CMIP6 Ensemble. Journal of Climate. 36(7). 2055–2072. 1 indexed citations

Dunn, Robert & Colin Morice. (2022). On the effect of reference periods on trends in percentile-based extreme temperature indices. Environmental Research Letters. 17(3). 34026–34026. 14 indexed citations

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Kennedy, John, Nikolaos Christidis, Robert Dunn, et al.. (2022). Global and regional climate in 2021. Weather. 77(12). 404–412. 3 indexed citations

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Osborn, Timothy J., P. D. Jones, David Lister, et al.. (2020). Land Surface Air Temperature Variations Across the Globe Updated to 2019: The CRUTEM5 Data Set. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(2). 124 indexed citations

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Morice, Colin, John Kennedy, Nick A Rayner, et al.. (2020). An Updated Assessment of Near‐Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The HadCRUT5 Data Set. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(3). 533 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kennedy, John, Rachel Killick, Robert Dunn, et al.. (2019). Global and regional climate in 2018. Weather. 74(10). 332–340. 3 indexed citations

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Kennedy, John, Robert Dunn, Holly Titchner, et al.. (2018). Global and regional climate in 2017. Weather. 73(12). 382–390. 1 indexed citations

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Kennedy, John, Colin Morice, D. E. Parker, & Mike Kendon. (2016). Global and regional climate in 2015. Weather. 71(8). 185–192. 9 indexed citations

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Dunn, Robert, Kate M. Willett, Colin Morice, & D. E. Parker. (2014). Pairwise homogeneity assessment of HadISD. Climate of the past. 10(4). 1501–1522. 46 indexed citations

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Merchant, Christopher J., et al.. (2014). An Investigation into the Impact of using Various Techniques to Estimate Arctic Surface Air Temperature Anomalies*. Journal of Climate. 28(5). 1743–1763. 18 indexed citations

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Veres, Sándor M., et al.. (2011). Autonomous vehicle control systems — a review of decision making. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control Engineering. 225(2). 155–195. 102 indexed citations

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Morice, Colin, Sándor M. Veres, & Stephen McPhail. (2009). Terrain referencing for autonomous navigation of underwater vehicles. 28 indexed citations

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Higgins, William E., Colin Morice, & E. L. Ritman. (1993). Shape-based interpolation of tree-like structures in three-dimensional images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 12(3). 439–450. 60 indexed citations

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