Phil Harris

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
35 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Phil Harris is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Phil Harris has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Phil Harris's work include Climate variability and models (25 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Phil Harris is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (25 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Phil Harris collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Brazil. Phil Harris's co-authors include Christopher M. Taylor, Peter M. Cox, Chris Huntingford, Richard Betts, Matthew Collins, Chris Jones, Françoise Guichard, Douglas J. Parker, Richard de Jeu and Wouter Dorigo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Phil Harris

33 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Amazonian forest dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century

2004 576 citations Peter M. Cox, Richard Betts et al. Theoretical and Applied Climatology profile →
Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils

2012 495 citations Christopher M. Taylor, Richard de Jeu et al. Nature profile →
Frequency of extreme Sahelian storms tripled since 1982 in satellite observations

2017 305 citations Christopher M. Taylor, Danijel Belušić et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Phil Harris United Kingdom	22	2.6k	1.7k	645	347	339	35	3.3k
M. K. van der Molen Netherlands	27	2.3k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	394 0.6×	677 2.0×	267 0.8×	61	3.0k
A. O. Manzi Brazil	29	2.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	323 0.5×	580 1.7×	458 1.4×	75	3.0k
Christine Delire France	37	4.0k 1.5×	1.9k 1.1×	689 1.1×	909 2.6×	524 1.5×	70	5.0k
Serge Planton France	29	2.9k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	794 1.2×	268 0.8×	572 1.7×	57	4.0k
Ramdane Alkama France	28	2.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	469 0.7×	624 1.8×	560 1.7×	45	3.1k
S. D. Miller United States	36	3.2k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	454 0.7×	873 2.5×	378 1.1×	66	4.7k
Thomas J. Phillips United States	27	3.4k 1.3×	2.3k 1.3×	417 0.6×	319 0.9×	465 1.4×	46	4.2k
Kirsten L. Findell United States	29	3.9k 1.5×	2.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.7×	356 1.0×	621 1.8×	50	4.7k
Anna Ukkola Australia	24	2.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	255 0.4×	373 1.1×	619 1.8×	52	3.1k
Abigail L. S. Swann United States	27	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	239 0.4×	383 1.1×	458 1.4×	53	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Phil Harris

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Fields of papers citing papers by Phil Harris

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Phil Harris. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Phil Harris. The network helps show where Phil Harris may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phil Harris

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Phil Harris. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Phil Harris 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 Phil Harris. Phil Harris is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mora, L. de, Ranjini Swaminathan, Richard P. Allan, et al.. (2023). Scenario choice impacts carbon allocation projection at global warming levels. Earth System Dynamics. 14(6). 1295–1315.

Mulcahy, Jane P., Colin Jones, Steven T. Rumbold, et al.. (2023). UKESM1.1: development and evaluation of an updated configuration of the UK Earth System Model. Geoscientific model development. 16(6). 1569–1600. 18 indexed citations

Peng, Jian, Tristan Quaife, Ewan Pinnington, et al.. (2020). High resolution soil moisture estimation and evaluation from Earth observation. 1 indexed citations

Barton, Emma J., Christopher M. Taylor, Cornelia Klein, Phil Harris, & Xianhong Meng. (2020). Observed Soil Moisture Impact on Strong Convection over Mountainous Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 22(3). 561–572. 22 indexed citations

Barton, Emma J., Christopher M. Taylor, Douglas J. Parker, et al.. (2019). A case‐study of land–atmosphere coupling during monsoon onset in northern India. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 146(731). 2891–2905. 15 indexed citations

Taylor, Christopher M., Andreas H. Fink, Cornelia Klein, et al.. (2018). Earlier Seasonal Onset of Intense Mesoscale Convective Systems in the Congo Basin Since 1999. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(24). 31 indexed citations

Taylor, Christopher M., Danijel Belušić, Françoise Guichard, et al.. (2017). Frequency of extreme Sahelian storms tripled since 1982 in satellite observations. Nature. 544(7651). 475–478. 305 indexed citations breakdown →

Taylor, Christopher M., et al.. (2016). Relating trends in land surface-air temperature difference to soil moisture and evapotranspiration. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

Kauwe, Martin G. De, Christopher M. Taylor, Phil Harris, Graham P. Weedon, & Richard J. Ellis. (2013). Quantifying Land Surface Temperature Variability for Two Sahelian Mesoscale Regions during the Wet Season. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 14(5). 1605–1619. 21 indexed citations

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Taylor, Christopher M., Richard de Jeu, Françoise Guichard, Phil Harris, & Wouter Dorigo. (2012). Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils. Nature. 489(7416). 423–426. 495 indexed citations breakdown →

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Birch, Cathryn E., Douglas J. Parker, John H. Marsham, et al.. (2012). Impact of soil moisture and convectively generated waves on the initiation of a West African mesoscale convective system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 139(676). 1712–1730. 35 indexed citations

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Taylor, Christopher M., Douglas J. Parker, Norbert Kalthoff, et al.. (2011). New perspectives on land–atmosphere feedbacks from the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis. Atmospheric Science Letters. 12(1). 38–44. 46 indexed citations

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Rosnay, Patricia de, Matthias Drusch, Aaron Boone, et al.. (2009). AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Experiment coupled to the Community Microwave Emission Model: ALMIP‐MEM. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(D5). 97 indexed citations

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Cox, Peter M., Phil Harris, Chris Huntingford, et al.. (2008). Increasing risk of Amazonian drought due to decreasing aerosol pollution. Nature. 453(7192). 212–215. 293 indexed citations

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Harris, Phil, Chris Huntingford, & Peter M. Cox. (2008). Amazon Basin climate under global warming: the role of the sea surface temperature. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1498). 1753–1759. 76 indexed citations

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Taylor, Christopher M., Douglas J. Parker, & Phil Harris. (2007). An observational case study of mesoscale atmospheric circulations induced by soil moisture. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(15). 159 indexed citations

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Harris, Phil, Chris Huntingford, J. H. C. Gash, et al.. (2004). Calibration of a land-surface model using data from primary forest sites in Amazonia. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 78(1-3). 19 indexed citations

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Cox, Peter M., Richard Betts, Matthew Collins, et al.. (2004). Amazonian forest dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 78(1-3). 576 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harris, Phil, Chris Huntingford, Peter M. Cox, J. H. C. Gash, & Yadvinder Malhi. (2003). Effect of soil moisture on canopy conductance of Amazonian rainforest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 122(3-4). 215–227. 100 indexed citations

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Leighton, T.G., et al.. (1998). Acoustic detection of gas bubbles in a pipe. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 40 indexed citations

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