Mark J. Webb

15.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
90 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Mark J. Webb is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark J. Webb has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 77 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Mark J. Webb's work include Climate variability and models (65 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (43 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (43 papers). Mark J. Webb is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (65 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (43 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (43 papers). Mark J. Webb collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Mark J. Webb's co-authors include Jonathan M. Gregory, David M. H. Sexton, Matthew Collins, Timothy Andrews, James M. Murphy, Sandrine Bony, David N. Barnett, Gareth S. Jones, David A. Stainforth and Karl E. Taylor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Mark J. Webb

87 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

Quantification of modelling uncertainties in a large ense... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2006 2015 2012 2007 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. 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 →
  2. How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes?
    2006 765 citations Sandrine Bony, Christopher S. Bretherton et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  3. Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
    2015 646 citations Sandrine Bony, Björn Stevens et al. profile →
  4. Forcing, feedbacks and climate sensitivity in CMIP5 coupled atmosphere‐ocean climate models
    2012 566 citations Timothy Andrews, Jonathan M. Gregory et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  5. Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide
    2007 537 citations Matthew Collins, David M. H. Sexton et al. Nature profile →
  6. COSP: Satellite simulation software for model assessment
    2011 460 citations Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo, Mark J. Webb 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
Mark J. Webb United Kingdom 42 8.9k 7.5k 799 603 343 90 9.9k
William Ingram United Kingdom 29 6.7k 0.8× 5.7k 0.8× 665 0.8× 611 1.0× 233 0.7× 51 7.8k
David M. H. Sexton United Kingdom 36 6.6k 0.7× 4.9k 0.6× 677 0.8× 1.0k 1.7× 394 1.1× 78 8.6k
Toshihiko Takemura Japan 55 9.5k 1.1× 9.6k 1.3× 777 1.0× 322 0.5× 137 0.4× 207 12.0k
Jean‐Louis Dufresne France 42 9.7k 1.1× 8.5k 1.1× 1.5k 1.9× 318 0.5× 269 0.8× 111 11.8k
Nicolas Bellouin United Kingdom 46 9.4k 1.1× 8.1k 1.1× 774 1.0× 1.0k 1.7× 158 0.5× 112 11.1k
Matthew J. Menne United States 30 6.7k 0.7× 5.4k 0.7× 1.7k 2.1× 687 1.1× 274 0.8× 51 8.4k
Ben Booth United Kingdom 36 4.9k 0.6× 3.4k 0.5× 883 1.1× 491 0.8× 239 0.7× 87 5.9k
Ricardo García‐Herrera Spain 46 6.3k 0.7× 5.3k 0.7× 762 1.0× 324 0.5× 145 0.4× 198 8.6k
Richard P. Allan United Kingdom 49 9.2k 1.0× 7.4k 1.0× 1.3k 1.6× 1.1k 1.8× 108 0.3× 165 10.7k
Colin Jones United Kingdom 35 5.6k 0.6× 4.7k 0.6× 865 1.1× 688 1.1× 112 0.3× 111 6.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Marvel, Kate & Mark J. Webb. (2025). Towards robust community assessments of the Earth's climate sensitivity. Earth System Dynamics. 16(1). 317–332.
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Andrews, Timothy, Leon Hermanson, Doug Smith, et al.. (2024). Feedbacks, Pattern Effects, and Efficacies in a Large Ensemble of HadGEM3‐GC3.1‐LL Historical Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(15). 1 indexed citations
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Webb, Mark J., F. Hugo Lambert, Geoffrey K. Vallis, et al.. (2024). Reduction in the Tropical High Cloud Fraction in Response to an Indirect Weakening of the Hadley Cell. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(5). 1 indexed citations
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Ringer, Mark A., Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo, & Mark J. Webb. (2023). Global and Regional Climate Feedbacks in Response to Uniform Warming and Cooling. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(24). 1 indexed citations
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Ogura, Tomoo, Mark J. Webb, & Adrian Lock. (2023). Positive Low Cloud Feedback Primarily Caused by Increasing Longwave Radiation From the Sea Surface in Two Versions of a Climate Model. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(20). 2 indexed citations
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Webb, Mark J., Adrian Lock, & Tomoo Ogura. (2023). What Are the Main Causes of Positive Subtropical Low Cloud Feedbacks in Climate Models?. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(1). 4 indexed citations
7.
Hill, Peter, Christopher E. Holloway, Michael P. Byrne, F. Hugo Lambert, & Mark J. Webb. (2023). Climate Models Underestimate Dynamic Cloud Feedbacks in the Tropics. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(15). 11 indexed citations
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Lambert, F. Hugo, Peter Challenor, Neil T. Lewis, et al.. (2020). Continuous Structural Parameterization: A Proposed Method for Representing Different Model Parameterizations Within One Structure Demonstrated for Atmospheric Convection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(8). 3 indexed citations
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Webb, Mark J. & Adrian Lock. (2020). Testing a Physical Hypothesis for the Relationship Between Climate Sensitivity and Double‐ITCZ Bias in Climate Models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(9). 8 indexed citations
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Andrews, Timothy, Jonathan M. Gregory, David Paynter, et al.. (2018). Accounting for Changing Temperature Patterns Increases Historical Estimates of Climate Sensitivity. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(16). 8490–8499. 137 indexed citations
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Webb, Mark J., Timothy Andrews, Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo, et al.. (2017). The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) contribution to CMIP6. Geoscientific model development. 10(1). 359–384. 207 indexed citations
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Webb, Mark J., Timothy Andrews, Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo, et al.. (2016). The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) contribution to CMIP6. 12 indexed citations
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Andrews, Timothy, Jonathan M. Gregory, & Mark J. Webb. (2014). The Dependence of Radiative Forcing and Feedback on Evolving Patterns of Surface Temperature Change in Climate Models. Journal of Climate. 28(4). 1630–1648. 282 indexed citations
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Webb, Mark J., F. Hugo Lambert, & Jonathan M. Gregory. (2012). Origins of differences in climate sensitivity, forcing and feedback in climate models. Climate Dynamics. 40(3-4). 677–707. 166 indexed citations
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Klein, Stephen A., Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo, Mark J. Webb, & Sandrine Bony. (2011). Using satellite simulators to diagnose cloud-processes in CMIP5 models. AGUFM. 2011.
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Joshi, Manoj, Mark J. Webb, Amanda C. Maycock, & Matthew Collins. (2010). Stratospheric water vapour and high climate sensitivity in a version of the HadSM3 climate model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(15). 7161–7167. 25 indexed citations
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Ogura, Tomoo, Seita Emori, Mark J. Webb, et al.. (2008). Towards Understanding Cloud Response in Atmospheric GCMs: The Use of Tendency Diagnostics. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 86(1). 69–79. 23 indexed citations
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Ogura, Tomoo, Mark J. Webb, Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo, et al.. (2008). Comparison of Cloud Response to CO2 Doubling in Two GCMs. SOLA. 4. 29–32. 5 indexed citations
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Darrah, Marjorie, Brian J. Taylor, & Mark J. Webb. (2005). A GEOMETRIC RULE EXTRACTION APPROACH USED FOR VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF A SAFETY CRITICAL APPLICATION. The Florida AI Research Society. 3(18). 624–627. 4 indexed citations
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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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