Michael Vellinga

5.8k citations

34 papers · 3.6k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 22

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 0.5%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 28
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 13
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 10
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics 4
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 4
Global and Planetary Change 31
- Climate variability and models 30
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 4

Co-authors: Richard Wood Jeff Knight Chris K. Folland Michael Mann Robert J. Allan Peili Wu Alberto Arribas Adam A. Scaife
Journals: Climate Dynamics (7 papers)Journal of Climate (6 papers)Climatic Change (4 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (4 papers)Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States China

In The Last Decade

Michael Vellinga

33 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Global Seasonal forecast system version 5 (GloSea5): a high‐resolution seasonal forecast system 2014 · 559 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.

2014 Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
2005 Geophysical Research Letters
2002 Climatic Change

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1	Understanding the development of systematic errors in the Asian summer monsoon Geoscientific model development ·Gill Martin, Richard C. Levine, José M. Rodríguez, Michael Vellinga	2021	12
2	Skilful prediction of Sahel summer rainfall on inter-annual and multi-year timescales Nature Communications ·Katy Sheen, Doug Smith, Nick Dunstone, Rosie Eade, David P. Rowell, Michael Vellinga	2017	75
3	Different types of drifts in two seasonal forecast systems and their dependence on ENSO Climate Dynamics ·Leon Hermanson, Hong‐Li Ren, Michael Vellinga, Nick Dunstone, Patrick Hyder, Sarah Ineson, Adam A. Scaife, Doug Smith, Vikki Thompson, Bing Tian, K. D. Williams	2017	33
4	Can climate projection uncertainty be constrained over Africa using metrics of contemporary performance? Climatic Change ·David P. Rowell, C. A. Senior, Michael Vellinga, Richard Graham	2015	55
5	The impact of equilibrating hemispheric albedos on tropical performance in the HadGEM2‐ES coupled climate model Geophysical Research Letters ·Jim Haywood, Andy Jones, Nick Dunstone, Sean Milton, Michael Vellinga, Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo, Matt Hawcroft, Ben Kravitz, Jason N. S. Cole, Shingo Watanabe, Graeme L. Stephens	2015	53
6	Global Seasonal forecast system version 5 (GloSea5): a high‐resolution seasonal forecast system Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Craig MacLachlan, Alberto Arribas, K. Andrew Peterson, Anna Maidens, David Fereday, Adam A. Scaife, Margaret Gordon, Michael Vellinga, Andrew Williams, Ruth Comer, Joanne Camp, Prince Xavier, Gurvan Madec Hit paper breakdown →	2014	559
7	Response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to a reversal of greenhouse gas increases Climate Dynamics ·Laura Jackson, Nathalie Schaller, Robin S. Smith, Matthew D. Palmer, Michael Vellinga	2013	16
8	Heat budget of the upper Arctic Ocean under a warming climate Climate Dynamics ·Tim Graham, Michael Vellinga	2012	6
9	Seasonal forecasts for regional onset of the West African monsoon Climate Dynamics ·Michael Vellinga, Alberto Arribas, Richard Graham	2012	66
10	A multimodel comparison of centennial Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability Climate Dynamics ·Matthew Menary, Wonsun Park, Katja Lohmann, Michael Vellinga, Matthew D. Palmer, Mojib Latif, Johann Jungclaus	2011	57
11	Relations between Northward Ocean and Atmosphere Energy Transports in a Coupled Climate Model Journal of Climate ·Michael Vellinga, Peili Wu	2008	44
12	Impacts of thermohaline circulation shutdown in the twenty-first century Climatic Change ·Michael Vellinga, Richard Wood	2007	105
13	Towards a risk assessment for shutdown of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation CentAUR (University of Reading) ·Richard Wood, Matthew Collins, Jonathan M. Gregory, Glen Harris, Michael Vellinga	2006	10
14	Extreme events due to human-induced climate change Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·J. F. B. Mitchell, Jason Lowe, Richard Wood, Michael Vellinga	2006	126
15	Ecosystem Responses to Abrupt Climate Change: Teleconnections, Scale and the Hydrological Cycle Climatic Change ·Paul Higgins, Michael Vellinga	2004	31
16	Timely detection of anthropogenic change in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation Geophysical Research Letters ·Michael Vellinga, Richard Wood	2004	16
17	Low-Latitude Freshwater Influence on Centennial Variability of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Journal of Climate ·Michael Vellinga, Peili Wu	2004	213
18	Natural Variability of The Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation In Hadcm3 EGSGA ·Michael Vellinga, Ping Wu	2002	2
19	Processes Governing the Recovery of a Perturbed Thermohaline Circulation in HadCM3 Journal of Climate ·Michael Vellinga, Richard Wood, Jonathan M. Gregory	2002	94
20	Multiple Equilibria in Ocean Models as a Side Effect of Convective Adjustment Journal of Physical Oceanography ·Michael Vellinga	1998	20

About Michael Vellinga

Michael Vellinga is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, having authored 34 papers that have together received 3.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (30 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (12 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (5 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (4 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (4 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (2.7k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.9k citations), Oceanography (1.6k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (150 citations) and Environmental Chemistry (196 citations). Michael Vellinga has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Frequent co-authors include Richard Wood, Jeff Knight, Chris K. Folland, Michael Mann, Robert J. Allan, Peili Wu, Alberto Arribas, Adam A. Scaife, Craig MacLachlan and Margaret Gordon. Their work appears in journals such as Climate Dynamics, Journal of Climate, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.

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