Mark McCarthy

4.1k citations

57 papers · 2.9k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 1%
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Atmospheric Science top 2%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Papers in ⓘ

Global and Planetary Change 48
- Climate variability and models 43
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 12
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis 7
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management 5
Atmospheric Science 38
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 29
- Climate change and permafrost 5

Co-authors: Richard Betts (4 shared papers)Martin Best (2 shared papers)Mike Kendon (15 shared papers)Peter Thorne (9 shared papers)Tim Legg (4 shared papers)Holly Titchner (11 shared papers)Simon F. B. Tett (4 shared papers)D. E. Parker (4 shared papers)
Journals: International Journal of Climatology (13 papers)Journal of Climate (4 papers)Atmospheric Science Letters (3 papers)Geoscience Data Journal (3 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Poland

In The Last Decade

Mark McCarthy

55 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Climate change in cities due to global warming and urban effects 2010 · 625 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 Geophysical Research Letters
2009 UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia)

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Co-authors

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1	Climate change in cities due to global warming and urban effects Geophysical Research Letters ·Mark McCarthy, Martin Best, Richard Betts Hit paper breakdown →	2010	625
2	UK Climate Projections Science Report: Climate Change Projections UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·James M. Murphy, David M. H. Sexton, Geoff Jenkins, Ben Booth, Celia Brown, Ross Clark, Matthew Collins, Glen Harris, Elizabeth Kendon, Richard Betts, Simon J. Brown, Kathryn Humphrey, Mark McCarthy, Ruth E. McDonald, Ag Stephens, Craig Wallace, Rachel Warren, Robert L. Wilby, Richard Wood Hit paper breakdown →	2009	534
3	HadUK‐Grid—A new UK dataset of gridded climate observations Geoscience Data Journal ·Dan Hollis, Mark McCarthy, Michael Kendon, Tim Legg, I. Simpson	2019	200
4	Revisiting radiosonde upper air temperatures from 1958 to 2002 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Peter Thorne, D. E. Parker, Simon F. B. Tett, P. D. Jones, Mark McCarthy, Holly Coleman, Philip Brohan	2005	182
5	A quantification of uncertainties in historical tropical tropospheric temperature trends from radiosondes Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Peter Thorne, Philip Brohan, Holly Titchner, Mark McCarthy, Steven C. Sherwood, Thomas C. Peterson, Leopold Haimberger, D. E. Parker, Simon F. B. Tett, Benjamin D. Santer, David Fereday, John Kennedy	2011	89
6	The UK’s wet and stormy winter of 2013/2014 Weather ·Mike Kendon, Mark McCarthy	2015	84
7	State of the UK climate 2018 International Journal of Climatology ·Mike Kendon, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, Tim Legg	2019	73
8	The increasing likelihood of temperatures above 30 to 40 °C in the United Kingdom Nature Communications ·Nikolaos Christidis, Mark McCarthy, Peter A. Stott	2020	65
9	An Analysis of Tropospheric Humidity Trends from Radiosondes Journal of Climate ·Mark McCarthy, Peter Thorne, Holly Titchner	2009	63
10	The recent storms and floods in the UK NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council) ·Julia Slingo, Stephen E. Belcher, Adam A. Scaife, Mark McCarthy, Andy Saulter, Kirsty McBeath, Alan Jenkins, Chris Huntingford, Terry Marsh, Jamie Hannaford, Simon Parry	2014	62
11	Critically Reassessing Tropospheric Temperature Trends from Radiosondes Using Realistic Validation Experiments Journal of Climate ·Holly Titchner, Peter Thorne, Mark McCarthy, Simon F. B. Tett, Leopold Haimberger, D. E. Parker	2008	60
12	Drivers of the UK summer heatwave of 2018 Weather ·Mark McCarthy, Nikolaos Christidis, Nick Dunstone, David Fereday, Gillian Kay, Albert Klein Tank, Jason Lowe, J. C. Petch, Adam A. Scaife, Peter A. Stott	2019	57
13	State of the UK Climate 2020 International Journal of Climatology ·Mike Kendon, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, Tim H. Sparks, Judith Garforth	2021	54
14	A new heatwave definition for the UK Weather ·Mark McCarthy, Lynne Armstrong, Neil Armstrong	2019	54
15	State of the UK Climate 2019 International Journal of Climatology ·Mike Kendon, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, Tim H. Sparks, Judith Garforth	2020	54
16	Simulating climate change in UK cities using a regional climate model, HadRM3 International Journal of Climatology ·Mark McCarthy, Colin Harpham, C. M. Goodess, P. D. Jones	2011	50
17	Probabilistic spatial risk assessment of heat impacts and adaptations for London Climatic Change ·Katie Jenkins, Jim W. Hall, Vassilis Glenis, Chris Kilsby, Mark McCarthy, C. M. Goodess, Duncan Smith, Nick Malleson, Mark Birkin	2014	49
18	Assessing Bias and Uncertainty in the HadAT-Adjusted Radiosonde Climate Record Journal of Climate ·Mark McCarthy, Holly Titchner, Peter Thorne, Simon F. B. Tett, Leopold Haimberger, D. E. Parker	2008	49
19	A 305-year continuous monthly rainfall series for the island of Ireland (1711–2016) Climate of the past ·Conor Murphy, Ciarán Broderick, Timothy P. Burt, Mary Curley, Catriona Duffy, Julia Hall, Shaun Harrigan, Tom Matthews, Neil Macdonald, Gerard McCarthy, Mark McCarthy, Donal Mullan, Simon Noone, Timothy J. Osborn, Ciara Ryan, John Sweeney, Peter Thorne, Séamus Walsh, Robert L. Wilby	2018	46
20	State of the UK Climate 2021 International Journal of Climatology ·Mike Kendon, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, Tim H. Sparks, Judith Garforth, John Kennedy	2022	38

About Mark McCarthy

Mark McCarthy is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Ecological Modeling, having authored 57 papers that have together received 2.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (43 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (12 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (7 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (6 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (6 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (5 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.8k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.1k citations), Environmental Engineering (725 citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (582 citations) and Water Science and Technology (263 citations). Mark McCarthy has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. Frequent co-authors include Richard Betts, Martin Best, Mike Kendon, Peter Thorne, Tim Legg, Holly Titchner, Simon F. B. Tett, D. E. Parker, Svetlana Jevrejeva and Andrew Matthews. Their work appears in journals such as International Journal of Climatology, Journal of Climate, Atmospheric Science Letters, Geoscience Data Journal and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

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