Nigel Wood

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Nigel Wood is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nigel Wood has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Atmospheric Science, 22 papers in Computational Mechanics and 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nigel Wood's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (31 papers), Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (18 papers) and Climate variability and models (14 papers). Nigel Wood is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (31 papers), Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (18 papers) and Climate variability and models (14 papers). Nigel Wood collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Nigel Wood's co-authors include Andrew Staniforth, John Thuburn, M. Zerroukat, Paul Mason, Anton Beljaars, A. R. Brown, Chris Smith, Thomas Melvin, Michail Diamantakis and A. A. White and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Computational Physics and Monthly Weather Review.

In The Last Decade

Nigel Wood

56 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

An inherently mass‐conserving semi‐implicit semi‐Lagrangian discretization of the deep‐atmosphere global non‐hydrostatic equations

2013 348 citations Nigel Wood, Andrew Staniforth et al. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nigel Wood United Kingdom	23	1.4k	962	534	355	295	56	2.0k
Jon Reisner United States	20	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.7×	325 0.6×	219 0.6×	91 0.3×	64	2.2k
N. Wood United Kingdom	16	989 0.7×	822 0.9×	234 0.4×	194 0.5×	113 0.4×	29	1.4k
A. A. White United Kingdom	17	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	251 0.5×	157 0.4×	528 1.8×	58	2.5k
Mike Cullen United Kingdom	16	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	194 0.4×	181 0.5×	74 0.3×	59	1.8k
Erik Lindborg Sweden	24	1.4k 1.0×	927 1.0×	930 1.7×	366 1.0×	580 2.0×	45	2.3k
R. K. Scott United Kingdom	27	1.4k 1.0×	993 1.0×	402 0.8×	53 0.1×	421 1.4×	80	2.0k
William Blumen United States	22	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	665 1.2×	610 1.7×	293 1.0×	84	2.5k
Peter Bartello Canada	22	942 0.7×	827 0.9×	615 1.2×	177 0.5×	288 1.0×	44	1.8k
R. T. Williams United States	21	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	209 0.4×	116 0.3×	164 0.6×	59	1.9k
Thomas Dubos France	19	681 0.5×	525 0.5×	259 0.5×	108 0.3×	177 0.6×	66	1.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Melvin, Thomas, Ben Shipway, Nigel Wood, et al.. (2024). A mixed finite‐element, finite‐volume, semi‐implicit discretisation for atmospheric dynamics: Spherical geometry. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 150(764). 4252–4269. 3 indexed citations

Sergeev, Denis E., Nathan J. Mayne, Ian Boutle, et al.. (2023). Simulations of idealised 3D atmospheric flows on terrestrial planets using LFRic-Atmosphere. Geoscientific model development. 16(19). 5601–5626. 11 indexed citations

Wood, Nigel, et al.. (2022). A solution to the trilemma of the moist Charney–Phillips staggering. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 149(750). 262–276. 9 indexed citations

Mayne, Nathan J., Florian Debras, I. Baraffe, et al.. (2017). Results from a set of three-dimensional numerical experiments of a hot Jupiter atmosphere. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 48 indexed citations

Ford, Rupert, David A. Ham, M. P. Hobson, et al.. (2014). Towards Performance Portability with GungHo. EGUGA. 13243. 2 indexed citations

Aranami, Kohei, Terry Davies, & Nigel Wood. (2014). A mass restoration scheme for limited‐area models with semi‐Lagrangian advection. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 141(690). 1795–1803. 27 indexed citations

Mayne, Nathan J., I. Baraffe, David M. Acreman, et al.. (2013). The unified model, a fully-compressible, non-hydrostatic, deep atmosphere global circulation model, applied to hot Jupiters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 561. A1–A1. 119 indexed citations

Thuburn, John, James Kent, & Nigel Wood. (2013). Cascades, backscatter and conservation in numerical models of two‐dimensional turbulence. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 140(679). 626–638. 36 indexed citations

Kent, James, John Thuburn, & Nigel Wood. (2011). Assessing implicit large eddy simulation for two‐dimensional flow. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 138(663). 365–376. 9 indexed citations

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Melvin, Thomas, Mark R. Dubal, Nigel Wood, Andrew Staniforth, & M. Zerroukat. (2010). An inherently mass‐conserving iterative semi‐implicit semi‐Lagrangian discretization of the non‐hydrostatic vertical‐slice equations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 136(648). 799–814. 36 indexed citations

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Reich, Sebastian, Nigel Wood, & Andrew Staniforth. (2007). Semi‐implicit methods, nonlinear balance, and regularized equations. Atmospheric Science Letters. 8(1). 1–6. 4 indexed citations

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Dubal, Mark R., Andrew Staniforth, Nigel Wood, & Sebastian Reich. (2006). Analysis of a regularized, time‐staggered discretization applied to a vertical slice model. Atmospheric Science Letters. 7(4). 86–92. 3 indexed citations

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Wood, Nigel, Andrew Staniforth, & Sebastian Reich. (2006). An improved regularization for time‐staggered discretization and its link to the semi‐implicit method. Atmospheric Science Letters. 7(1). 21–25. 9 indexed citations

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Wood, Nigel & Andrew Staniforth. (2003). The deep‐atmosphere Euler equations with a mass‐based vertical coordinate. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 129(589). 1289–1300. 24 indexed citations

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Davies, Terry F., Andrew Staniforth, Nigel Wood, & John Thuburn. (2003). Validity of anelastic and other equation sets as inferred from normal-mode analysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 129(593). 2761–2775. 3 indexed citations

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Staniforth, Andrew, Nigel Wood, & Jean Côté. (2002). Analysis of the numerics of physics–dynamics coupling. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 128(586). 2779–2799. 23 indexed citations

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Wood, Nigel. (2000). Wind Flow Over Complex Terrain: A Historical Perspective and the Prospect for Large-Eddy Modelling. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 96(1-2). 11–32. 118 indexed citations

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Jack, Dominic, J. L. Bidwell, Malcolm Turner, & Nigel Wood. (1997). Simultaneous genotyping for all three known structural mutations in the human mannose-binding lectin gene. Human Mutation. 9(1). 41–46. 36 indexed citations

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Wood, Nigel & Paul Mason. (1993). The pressure force induced by neutral, turbulent flow over hills. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 119(514). 1233–1267. 10 indexed citations

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Wood, Nigel & Paul Mason. (1991). The influence of static stability on the effective roughness lengths for momentum and heat transfer. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 117(501). 1025–1056. 135 indexed citations

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