David A. Stainforth

8.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
67 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

David A. Stainforth is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Stainforth has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 28 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in David A. Stainforth's work include Climate variability and models (38 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (24 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (22 papers). David A. Stainforth is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (38 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (24 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (22 papers). David A. Stainforth collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Africa. David A. Stainforth's co-authors include Myles Allen, James M. Murphy, David M. H. Sexton, Matthew Collins, Mark J. Webb, Gareth S. Jones, David N. Barnett, Lorna Smith, David J. Frame and J. Kettleborough and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David A. Stainforth

64 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Quantification of modelling uncertainties in a large ensemble of climate change simulations

2004 1.3k citations James M. Murphy, David M. H. Sexton et al. Nature profile →
Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases

2005 857 citations David A. Stainforth, T. Aina et al. Nature profile →
Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

2018 436 citations Theodore G. Shepherd, Emily Boyd et al. Climatic Change profile →
The missing risks of climate change

2022 143 citations James Rising, Marco Tedesco et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
David A. Stainforth	4.1k	2.8k	685	587	494	67	5.8k
Friederike E. L. Otto	5.5k 1.3×	3.1k 1.1×	537 0.8×	481 0.8×	718 1.5×	144	7.7k
Andrew D. King	3.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	350 0.5×	201 0.3×	445 0.9×	142	4.4k
James S. Risbey	5.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.1×	665 1.0×	418 0.7×	676 1.4×	152	7.2k
C. M. Goodess	4.1k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	911 1.3×	225 0.4×	536 1.1×	63	5.6k
Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner	3.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	537 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	639 1.3×	118	6.3k
David M. H. Sexton	6.6k 1.6×	4.9k 1.7×	1.0k 1.5×	394 0.7×	648 1.3×	78	8.6k
Thomas F. Stocker	2.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	349 0.5×	349 0.6×	545 1.1×	22	4.3k
Brent Yarnal	3.3k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	642 0.9×	240 0.4×	636 1.3×	87	5.2k
Dáithí A. Stone	5.8k 1.4×	4.0k 1.4×	603 0.9×	327 0.6×	638 1.3×	107	7.4k
Simon J. Mason	4.3k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	566 0.8×	165 0.3×	946 1.9×	131	6.4k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Calel, Raphael & David A. Stainforth. (2024). Little floods everywhere: what will climate change mean for you?. Climatic Change. 178(1).

Stainforth, David A., et al.. (2024). The evolution of a non-autonomous chaotic system under non-periodic forcing: A climate change example. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 34(1).

Watkins, N. W., Raphael Calel, S. C. Chapman, et al.. (2024). The challenge of non-Markovian energy balance models in climate. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 34(7). 3 indexed citations

Dessai, Suraje, et al.. (2024). Perspectives on the quality of climate information for adaptation decision support. Climatic Change. 177(11). 163–163. 1 indexed citations

Rising, James, Marco Tedesco, Franziska Piontek, & David A. Stainforth. (2022). The missing risks of climate change. Nature. 610(7933). 643–651. 143 indexed citations breakdown →

Dessai, Suraje, et al.. (2021). Assessing the quality of state-of-the-art regional climate information: the case of the UK Climate Projections 2018. Climatic Change. 168(1-2). 6 indexed citations

Stainforth, David A. & Raphael Calel. (2020). New priorities for climate science and climate economics in the 2020s. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3864–3864. 11 indexed citations

Calel, Raphael, S. C. Chapman, David A. Stainforth, & N. W. Watkins. (2020). Temperature variability implies greater economic damages from climate change. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5028–5028. 33 indexed citations

Chapman, S. C., N. W. Watkins, & David A. Stainforth. (2019). Warming Trends in Summer Heatwaves. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(3). 1634–1640. 41 indexed citations

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Bhave, Ajay, Declan Conway, Suraje Dessai, & David A. Stainforth. (2018). Water Resource Planning Under Future Climate and Socioeconomic Uncertainty in the Cauvery River Basin in Karnataka, India. Water Resources Research. 54(2). 708–728. 93 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Theodore G., Emily Boyd, Raphael Calel, et al.. (2018). Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change. Climatic Change. 151(3-4). 555–571. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bhave, Ajay, Suraje Dessai, Declan Conway, & David A. Stainforth. (2016). Application of stakeholder-based and modelling approaches for supporting robust adaptation decision making under future climatic uncertainty and changing urban-agricultural water demand. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Chapman, S. C., David A. Stainforth, & N. W. Watkins. (2015). Limits to the quantification of local climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 10(9). 94018–94018. 7 indexed citations

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Smith, Leonard A. & David A. Stainforth. (2014). Putting the Weather Back Into Climate. EGUGA. 15461.

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Chapman, S. C., David A. Stainforth, & N. W. Watkins. (2013). On estimating local long-term climate trends. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 371(1991). 20120287–20120287. 14 indexed citations

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Stainforth, David A., T. Aina, C. Christensen, et al.. (2005). Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases. Nature. 433(7024). 403–406. 857 indexed citations breakdown →

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Murphy, James M., David M. H. Sexton, David N. Barnett, et al.. (2004). Quantification of modelling uncertainties in a large ensemble of climate change simulations. Nature. 430(7001). 768–772. 1318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stainforth, David A., et al.. (2002). Computing in Science & Eng.: Scientific Programming - Distributed Computing for Public-Interest Climate Modeling Research.. IEEE Distributed Systems Online. 3. 1 indexed citations

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Stainforth, David A., J. Kettleborough, Andrew Simpson, et al.. (2002). Climateprediction.net: Design Principles for Publicresource Modeling Research.. 32–38. 19 indexed citations

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Allen, Myles & David A. Stainforth. (2002). Towards objective probabalistic climate forecasting. Nature. 419(6903). 228–228. 292 indexed citations

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