Mike Cullen

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Mike Cullen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Cullen has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Atmospheric Science, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Mike Cullen's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (38 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (11 papers). Mike Cullen is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (38 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (11 papers). Mike Cullen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Mike Cullen's co-authors include Terry Davies, Andrew J. Malcolm, A. A. White, N. Wood, Andrew Staniforth, Robert James Purser, J. F. B. Mitchell, Ann Shelly, Sean Milton and Brian Golding and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mike Cullen

55 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

A new dynamical core for the Met Office's global and regi... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 250 500 750
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. A new dynamical core for the Met Office's global and regional modelling of the atmosphere
    2005 846 citations Mike Cullen et al. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mike Cullen United Kingdom 16 1.4k 1.2k 264 194 181 59 1.8k
Pavel Berloff United Kingdom 28 1.2k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 1.6k 6.2× 224 1.2× 75 0.4× 84 2.0k
David W. Reynolds United States 26 1.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.1× 73 0.3× 13 0.1× 151 0.8× 83 2.0k
G. J. Haltiner United States 10 694 0.5× 541 0.4× 307 1.2× 147 0.8× 152 0.8× 24 1.1k
Olivier Pauluis United States 28 1.7k 1.2× 1.6k 1.4× 491 1.9× 206 1.1× 157 0.9× 81 2.2k
Jon Reisner United States 20 1.5k 1.1× 1.6k 1.3× 112 0.4× 325 1.7× 219 1.2× 64 2.2k
Andrew C. Poje United States 25 674 0.5× 475 0.4× 1.2k 4.5× 306 1.6× 71 0.4× 62 1.9k
N. Wood United Kingdom 16 989 0.7× 822 0.7× 202 0.8× 234 1.2× 194 1.1× 29 1.4k
A. B. Kostinski United States 31 1.4k 1.0× 1.3k 1.1× 83 0.3× 129 0.7× 377 2.1× 91 2.3k
G. J. Shutts United Kingdom 29 3.3k 2.4× 2.8k 2.3× 958 3.6× 241 1.2× 336 1.9× 73 3.9k
Maarten H. P. Ambaum United Kingdom 22 1.6k 1.1× 1.6k 1.3× 644 2.4× 101 0.5× 64 0.4× 64 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike Cullen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Cullen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Beare, Robert J. & Mike Cullen. (2023). A balanced model of a hurricane vortex coupled to a boundary layer. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 149(757). 3290–3300.
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Methven, John, et al.. (2023). Examining the dynamics of a Borneo vortex using a balance approximation tool. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 4(4). 1019–1043. 4 indexed citations
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Cotter, Colin J., et al.. (2022). A new implementation of the geometric method for solving the Eady slice equations. Journal of Computational Physics. 469. 111542–111542. 2 indexed citations
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Sánchez, Claudio, John Methven, Suzanne L. Gray, & Mike Cullen. (2020). Linking rapid forecast error growth to diabatic processes. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 146(732). 3548–3569. 21 indexed citations
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Piccolo, C., et al.. (2018). Comparison of different representations of model error in ensemble forecasts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(718). 15–27. 14 indexed citations
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Cullen, Mike. (2018). The Use of Semigeostrophic Theory to Diagnose the Behaviour of an Atmospheric GCM. Fluids. 3(4). 72–72. 6 indexed citations
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Cheng, Bin, Mike Cullen, J. G. Esler, et al.. (2017). A model for moist convection in an ascending atmospheric column. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 143(708). 2925–2939. 1 indexed citations
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Piccolo, C. & Mike Cullen. (2015). Ensemble Data Assimilation Using a Unified Representation of Model Error. Monthly Weather Review. 144(1). 213–224. 14 indexed citations
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Cullen, Mike, et al.. (2014). Modelling static 3-D spatial background error covariances – the effect of vertical and horizontal transform order. Advances in science and research. 11(1). 63–67. 15 indexed citations
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Piccolo, C. & Mike Cullen. (2012). A new implementation of the adaptive mesh transform in the Met Office 3D‐Var System. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 138(667). 1560–1570. 15 indexed citations
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Brown, A. R., Sean Milton, Mike Cullen, et al.. (2012). Unified Modeling and Prediction of Weather and Climate: A 25-Year Journey. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 93(12). 1865–1877. 212 indexed citations
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Katz, D., Amos S. Lawless, Nancy Nichols, Mike Cullen, & Ross Bannister. (2011). Correlations of control variables in variational data assimilation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 137(656). 620–630. 12 indexed citations
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Piccolo, C. & Mike Cullen. (2011). Adaptive mesh method in the Met Office variational data assimilation system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 137(656). 631–640. 14 indexed citations
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Brenier, Yann & Mike Cullen. (2009). Rigorous derivation of the X-Z semigeostrophic equations. Communications in Mathematical Sciences. 7(3). 779–784. 6 indexed citations
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Cullen, Mike, et al.. (2003). The Fully Compressible Semi-Geostrophic System from Meteorology. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 167(4). 309–336. 19 indexed citations
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Cullen, Mike & Deborah Salmond. (2003). On the use of a predictor–corrector scheme to couple the dynamics with the physical parametrizations in the ECMWF model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 129(589). 1217–1236. 16 indexed citations
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Cullen, Mike & Wilfrid Gangbo. (2001). A Variational Approach for the 2-Dimensional Semi-Geostrophic Shallow Water Equations. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 156(3). 241–273. 38 indexed citations
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Cullen, Mike, et al.. (1987). Esso Energy Award Lecture, 1986 Advances in numerical weather prediction for aviation forecasting. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 410(1839). 255–268. 2 indexed citations
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Norbury, John & Mike Cullen. (1985). A note on the properties of the primitive hydrostatic equations of motion. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 111(470). 1135–1137. 2 indexed citations
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