Nigel Roberts

8.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
60 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Nigel Roberts is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nigel Roberts has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Atmospheric Science, 51 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nigel Roberts's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (51 papers), Climate variability and models (43 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (14 papers). Nigel Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (51 papers), Climate variability and models (43 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (14 papers). Nigel Roberts collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Nigel Roberts's co-authors include Humphrey Lean, Elizabeth Kendon, Hayley J. Fowler, Malcolm Roberts, C. A. Senior, Steven Chan, Jason P. Evans, Fiona Johnson, Peter Berg and David Parrish and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Climate, Nature Climate Change and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nigel Roberts

57 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Future changes to the intensity and frequency of short-duration extreme rainfall

2014 1.1k citations Hayley J. Fowler, Elizabeth Kendon et al. profile →
Scale-Selective Verification of Rainfall Accumulations from High-Resolution Forecasts of Convective Events

2008 983 citations Nigel Roberts, Humphrey Lean Monthly Weather Review profile →
Heavier summer downpours with climate change revealed by weather forecast resolution model

2014 564 citations Elizabeth Kendon, Nigel Roberts et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nigel Roberts	5.5k	5.0k	677	646	276	60	6.2k
Changhai Liu	4.8k 0.9×	4.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	304 0.5×	269 1.0×	106	6.0k
Vincenzo Levizzani	4.2k 0.8×	4.9k 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	1.1k 1.7×	362 1.3×	116	5.9k
Andreas F. Prein	5.6k 1.0×	4.8k 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	409 0.6×	180 0.7×	94	6.5k
Ali Behrangi	3.1k 0.6×	3.5k 0.7×	870 1.3×	789 1.2×	432 1.6×	137	4.8k
Kyoko Ikeda	5.1k 0.9×	5.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.9×	564 0.9×	167 0.6×	82	6.6k
Michael G. Bosilovich	4.1k 0.7×	3.7k 0.7×	811 1.2×	852 1.3×	677 2.5×	89	5.1k
Nikolina Ban	3.5k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	500 0.7×	294 0.5×	155 0.6×	34	4.0k
Michael A. Palecki	2.4k 0.4×	2.3k 0.5×	479 0.7×	747 1.2×	336 1.2×	45	3.6k
D. S. Pai	4.2k 0.8×	3.0k 0.6×	761 1.1×	738 1.1×	472 1.7×	78	5.0k
Kevin W. Manning	5.2k 0.9×	5.4k 1.1×	855 1.3×	1.9k 3.0×	333 1.2×	40	7.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Nigel Roberts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nigel Roberts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nigel Roberts

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nigel Roberts. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nigel Roberts 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 Nigel Roberts. Nigel Roberts 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

Roberts, Nigel, et al.. (2025). An Israeli-Palestinian Federation: An Alternative Approach to Peace. Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies).

Lavers, David A., Gabriele Villarini, Hannah Cloke, et al.. (2025). How bad is the rain? Applying the extreme rain multiplier globally and for climate monitoring activities. Meteorological Applications. 32(2).

Manning, Colin, Elizabeth Kendon, Hayley J. Fowler, & Nigel Roberts. (2023). Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland. Weather and Climate Extremes. 40. 100562–100562. 9 indexed citations

Sharma, Kuldeep, et al.. (2023). Adaptive selection of members for convective-permitting regional ensemble prediction over the western Maritime Continent. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 1 indexed citations

Kendon, Elizabeth, Nigel Roberts, Giorgia Fosser, et al.. (2020). Greater Future U.K. Winter Precipitation Increase in New Convection-Permitting Scenarios. Journal of Climate. 33(17). 7303–7318. 26 indexed citations

Gilleland, Eric, Gregor Skok, Barbara G. Brown, et al.. (2020). A Novel Set of Geometric Verification Test Fields with Application to Distance Measures. Monthly Weather Review. 148(4). 1653–1673. 11 indexed citations

Gray, Suzanne L., et al.. (2019). Downstream influence of mesoscale convective systems. Part 1: influence on forecast evolution. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(724). 2933–2952. 14 indexed citations

Gray, Suzanne L., et al.. (2019). Downstream influence of mesoscale convective systems. Part 2: Influence on ensemble forecast skill and spread. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(724). 2953–2972. 6 indexed citations

Ayliffe, Ben & Nigel Roberts. (2019). IMPROVER: A probabilistic, multi-model post-processing system for meteorological forecasts. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5255. 1 indexed citations

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Frame, Thomas, et al.. (2019). The added value of convection‐permitting ensemble forecasts of sea breeze compared to a Bayesian forecast driven by the global ensemble. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(721). 1780–1798. 18 indexed citations

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Chan, Steven, Elizabeth Kendon, Nigel Roberts, Stephen Blenkinsop, & Hayley J. Fowler. (2017). Large-Scale Predictors for Extreme Hourly Precipitation Events in Convection-Permitting Climate Simulations. Journal of Climate. 31(6). 2115–2131. 21 indexed citations

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Simonin, David, Clive Pierce, Nigel Roberts, Susan Ballard, & Zhihong Li. (2017). Performance of Met Office hourly cycling NWP‐based nowcasting for precipitation forecasts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 143(708). 2862–2873. 30 indexed citations

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Roberts, Nigel, et al.. (2016). A new method for the characterization and verification of local spatial predictability for convective‐scale ensembles. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 142(698). 1982–1996. 28 indexed citations

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Kendon, Elizabeth, Nigel Roberts, Hayley J. Fowler, et al.. (2014). Heavier summer downpours with climate change revealed by weather forecast resolution model. Nature Climate Change. 4(7). 570–576. 564 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leoncini, Giovanni, et al.. (2014). A Spatial View of Ensemble Spread in Convection Permitting Ensembles. Monthly Weather Review. 142(11). 4091–4107. 59 indexed citations

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Hanley, Kirsty, Daniel J. Kirshbaum, Nigel Roberts, & Giovanni Leoncini. (2012). Sensitivities of a Squall Line over Central Europe in a Convective-Scale Ensemble. Monthly Weather Review. 141(1). 112–133. 41 indexed citations

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Hanley, Kirsty, Daniel J. Kirshbaum, S. E. Belcher, Nigel Roberts, & Giovanni Leoncini. (2011). Ensemble predictability of an isolated mountain thunderstorm in a high‐resolution model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 137(661). 2124–2137. 37 indexed citations

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Lean, Humphrey, Peter Clark, Mark Dixon, et al.. (2008). Characteristics of High-Resolution Versions of the Met Office Unified Model for Forecasting Convection over the United Kingdom. Monthly Weather Review. 136(9). 3408–3424. 343 indexed citations

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Cole, Steven J., R. J. Moore, & Nigel Roberts. (2007). Using high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction models to reduce and estimate uncertainty in flood forecasting. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Roberts, Nigel & Richard Forbes. (2002). An observational study of multiple cloud head structure in the FASTEX IOP 16 cyclone. Atmospheric Science Letters. 3(2-4). 59–70. 58 indexed citations

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