Ed Hawkins

29.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
148 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Ed Hawkins is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ed Hawkins has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 98 papers in Atmospheric Science and 24 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Ed Hawkins's work include Climate variability and models (106 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (51 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (37 papers). Ed Hawkins is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (106 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (51 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (37 papers). Ed Hawkins collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Ed Hawkins's co-authors include Rowan Sutton, P. D. Jones, Thomas R. Anderson, Jonathan J. Day, Steffen Tietsche, Keith Haines, Nathanael Melia, Erich Fischer, Andrew J. Challinor and Manoj Joshi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ed Hawkins

144 papers receiving 12.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions

2009 1.9k citations Ed Hawkins, Rowan Sutton Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
Global risk of deadly heat

2017 1.1k citations Camilo Mora, Bénédicte Dousset et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change

2010 822 citations Ed Hawkins, Rowan Sutton profile →
CO2, the greenhouse effect and global warming: from the pioneering work of Arrhenius and Callendar to today's Earth System Models

2016 614 citations Ed Hawkins et al. profile →
Decadal Prediction

2009 577 citations Ed Hawkins, Gabriele C. Hegerl et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
Time of emergence of climate signals

2011 423 citations Ed Hawkins, Rowan Sutton Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6

2020 371 citations Erich Fischer, Ed Hawkins et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →
Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown

2016 294 citations Michael Mann, Ed Hawkins et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Sea ice decline and 21st century trans‐Arctic shipping routes

2016 283 citations Ed Hawkins et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Ed Hawkins

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ed Hawkins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ed Hawkins

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Warming Stripes Spark Climate Conversations: From the Ocean to the Stratosphere 2025 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Ed Hawkins, Richard G. Williams, Paul J. Young, (unknown), Samantha Burgess, Ellie Highwood, William J. Randel, Vassil Roussenov, Doug Smith, (unknown)	0
2	How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Timo Kelder, Dorothy Heinrich, Lisette Klok, Vikki Thompson, (unknown), Ed Hawkins, Louise Slater, Laura Suárez‐Gutiérrez, Robert L. Wilby, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Elisabeth Stephens, Stephen Burt, Bart van den Hurk, Hylke de Vries, Karin van der Wiel, E. Lisa F. Schipper, (unknown), Ellen van Bueren, Erich Fischer	10
3	Anticipating the unseen: a community review on how to better prepare for exceptional weather events 2024 ·Timo Kelder, Lisette Klok, Louise Slater, Vikki Thompson, (unknown), Laura Suárez‐Gutiérrez, Robert L. Wilby, Dorothy Heinrich, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Elisabeth Stephens, Ed Hawkins, Stephen Burt, Bart van den Hurk, Hylke de Vries, Karin van der Wiel, Erich Fischer	1
4	Reversal of Projected European Summer Precipitation Decline in a Stabilizing Climate 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Andrea J. Dittus, Matthew Collins, Rowan Sutton, Ed Hawkins	9
5	Emergence of multivariate climate change signals 2024 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Andrew D. King, Luke J. Harrington, Ed Hawkins, Seungmok Paik, (unknown), Seung‐Ki Min, (unknown)	0
6	The modelled climatic response to the 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle and its role in decadal temperature trends 2023 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Manoj Joshi, Rob A. Hall, David P. Stevens, Ed Hawkins	3
7	Climate change emergence over people’s lifetimes 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Andrew D. King, (unknown), Luke J. Harrington, Ed Hawkins, (unknown)	4
8	Rescuing historical weather observations improves quantification of severe windstorm risks 2023 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Ed Hawkins, Philip Brohan, Samantha Burgess, Stephen Burt, Gilbert P. Compo, Suzanne L. Gray, Ivan D. Haigh, Hans Hersbach, (unknown), Oscar Martínez‐Alvarado, Chesley McColl, Andrew Schurer, Laura Slivinski, Joanne Williams	11
9	Empirical evidence for multidecadal scale global atmospheric electric circuit modulation by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation 2022 ·Environmental Research Letters ·R. G. Harrison, Keri Nicoll, Manoj Joshi, Ed Hawkins	5
10	Drivers of Recent North Pacific Decadal Variability: The Role of Aerosol Forcing 2021 ·Earth s Future ·Andrea J. Dittus, Ed Hawkins, Jon Robson, Doug Smith, Laura J. Wilcox	24
11	Detectability of COVID-19 global emissions reductions in local CO₂ concentration measurements 2021 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Helen Dacre, Luke M. Western, Daniel Say, Simon O’Doherty, Tim Arnold, Chris Rennick, Ed Hawkins	6
12	Observed Emergence of the Climate Change Signal: From the Familiar to the Unknown 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Ed Hawkins, David J. Frame, Luke J. Harrington, Manoj Joshi, Andrew D. King, Maisa Rojas, Rowan Sutton	108
13	Science Directions in a Post COP21 World of Transient Climate Change: Enabling Regional to Local Predictions in Support of Reliable Climate Information 2018 ·Earth s Future ·Detlef Stammer, Annalisa Bracco, Pascale Braconnot, Guy Brasseur, Stephen M. Griffies, Ed Hawkins	5
14	Global risk of deadly heat breakdown → 2017 ·Nature Climate Change ·Camilo Mora, Bénédicte Dousset, Iain R. Caldwell, (unknown), Rollan C. Geronimo, (unknown), Chelsie W. W. Counsell, (unknown), Emily T. Johnston, (unknown), Matthew P. Lucas, (unknown), (unknown), Han Tseng, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Lisa R. Leon, Ed Hawkins, Clay Trauernicht	1066
15	Importance of the pre-industrial baseline for likelihood of exceeding Paris goals 2017 ·Nature Climate Change ·Andrew Schurer, Michael Mann, Ed Hawkins, Simon F. B. Tett, Gabriele C. Hegerl	100
16	The Arctic Predictability and Prediction on Seasonal-to-Interannual TimEscales (APPOSITE) data set version 1 2016 ·Geoscientific model development ·Jonathan J. Day, Steffen Tietsche, Matthew Collins, Helge Goessling, Virginie Guémas, (unknown), William J. Hurlin, Masayoshi Ishii, Sarah Keeley, Daniela Matei, Rym Msadek, Michael Sigmond, Hiroaki Tatebe, Ed Hawkins	25
17	The Maunder minimum (1645–1715) was indeed a grand minimum: A reassessment of multiple datasets 2015 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Ilya Usoskin, R. Arlt, Eleanna Asvestari, Ed Hawkins, M. J. Käpylä, G. A. Kovaltsov, N. A. Krivova, M. Lockwood, К. Мурсула, (unknown), M. J. Owens, Christopher J. Scott, D. D. Sokoloff, S. K. Solanki, Willie Soon, J. M. Vaquero	96
18	The Arctic Predictability and Prediction on Seasonal-to-Interannual TimEscales (APPOSITE) data set 2015 ·Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) ·Jonathan J. Day, Steffen Tietsche, Matthew Collins, Helge Goessling, Virginie Guémas, (unknown), William J. Hurlin, Masayoshi Ishii, Sarah Keeley, Daniela Matei, Rym Msadek, Michael Sigmond, Hiroaki Tatebe, Ed Hawkins	3
19	A global empirical system for probabilistic seasonal climate prediction 2015 ·Geoscientific model development ·Jonathan Eden, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Ed Hawkins, Emma Suckling	22
20	Atlantic overturning in decline? 2013 ·Nature Geoscience ·Jon Robson, Dan Hodson, Ed Hawkins, Rowan Sutton	117

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