Philip Brohan

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
26 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Philip Brohan is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Philip Brohan has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Atmospheric Science, 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Philip Brohan's work include Climate variability and models (19 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (10 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers). Philip Brohan is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (19 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (10 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers). Philip Brohan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Philip Brohan's co-authors include Simon F. B. Tett, John Kennedy, P. D. Jones, Ian Harris, D. E. Parker, T. J. Ansell, Chris K. Folland, Eric Freeman, Scott D. Woodruff and Sandra J. Lubker and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Philip Brohan

26 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature changes: A new data set from 1850

2006 1.6k citations Philip Brohan, John Kennedy et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Improved Analyses of Changes and Uncertainties in Sea Surface Temperature Measured In Situ since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The HadSST2 Dataset

2006 679 citations Philip Brohan, D. E. Parker et al. Journal of Climate profile →
ICOADS Release 3.0: a major update to the historical marine climate record

2016 295 citations Eric Freeman, Scott D. Woodruff et al. International Journal of Climatology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philip Brohan United Kingdom	17	3.2k	2.8k	1.1k	293	167	26	4.1k
M. Esch Germany	22	3.4k 1.1×	3.1k 1.1×	982 0.9×	339 1.2×	96 0.6×	27	4.1k
Hiroaki Tatebe Japan	24	2.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	198 0.7×	93 0.6×	68	3.1k
Gill Martin United Kingdom	26	4.5k 1.4×	4.0k 1.4×	734 0.6×	207 0.7×	229 1.4×	71	5.0k
Jenni L. Evans United States	27	3.8k 1.2×	3.4k 1.2×	928 0.8×	318 1.1×	196 1.2×	73	4.6k
Gareth S. Jones United Kingdom	28	4.1k 1.3×	3.4k 1.2×	605 0.5×	209 0.7×	267 1.6×	50	5.3k
Thomas Reichler United States	21	4.4k 1.4×	3.9k 1.4×	991 0.9×	187 0.6×	141 0.8×	50	5.1k
Gary Strand United States	20	2.3k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	647 0.6×	224 0.8×	158 0.9×	39	3.3k
J. C. Hargreaves Japan	35	2.1k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	838 0.7×	326 1.1×	157 0.9×	80	3.8k
Dennis Wheeler United Kingdom	23	2.2k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	627 0.5×	266 0.9×	98 0.6×	86	3.2k
Stefan Brönnimann Switzerland	41	5.3k 1.7×	5.6k 2.0×	732 0.6×	307 1.0×	355 2.1×	262	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Philip Brohan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Philip Brohan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philip Brohan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hawkins, Ed, Philip Brohan, Samantha Burgess, et al.. (2023). Rescuing historical weather observations improves quantification of severe windstorm risks. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(4). 1465–1482. 11 indexed citations

Freeman, Eric, Clive Wilkinson, Axel Andersson, et al.. (2021). Learning from the past to understand the future: historical records of change in the ocean. 70(1). 36–42. 3 indexed citations

Hawkins, Ed, et al.. (2019). Hourly weather observations from the Scottish Highlands (1883–1904) rescued by volunteer citizen scientists. Geoscience Data Journal. 6(2). 160–173. 40 indexed citations

Freeman, Eric, Elizabeth C. Kent, Philip Brohan, et al.. (2019). The International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set – Meeting Users Needs and Future Priorities. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. 18 indexed citations

Brohan, Philip, Gilbert P. Compo, Stefan Brönnimann, et al.. (2016). The 1816 ‘year without a summer’ in an atmospheric reanalysis. 8 indexed citations

Freeman, Eric, Scott D. Woodruff, Steven J. Worley, et al.. (2016). ICOADS Release 3.0: a major update to the historical marine climate record. International Journal of Climatology. 37(5). 2211–2232. 295 indexed citations breakdown →

Brohan, Philip. (2014). Citizen Science for Data Rescue: Recovering Historical Climate Records with a Network of 20,000 Volunteers.. AGUFM. 2014. 2 indexed citations

Compo, Gilbert P., Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Jeffrey S. Whitaker, et al.. (2013). Independent confirmation of global land warming without the use of station temperatures. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(12). 3170–3174. 41 indexed citations

Brohan, Philip. (2012). oldWeather.org: Citizen Science for Climate Reconstruction. AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Brohan, Philip, Rob Allan, Eric Freeman, et al.. (2012). Constraining the temperature history of the past millennium using early instrumental observations. 6 indexed citations

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Brohan, Philip, Rob Allan, Eric Freeman, et al.. (2012). Constraining the temperature history of the past millennium using early instrumental observations. Climate of the past. 8(5). 1551–1563. 43 indexed citations

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Allan, Rob, Philip Brohan, Gilbert P. Compo, et al.. (2011). The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 92(11). 1421–1425. 133 indexed citations

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Thorne, Peter, Philip Brohan, Holly Titchner, et al.. (2011). A quantification of uncertainties in historical tropical tropospheric temperature trends from radiosondes. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(D12). 89 indexed citations

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Brohan, Philip, et al.. (2010). Arctic marine climate of the early nineteenth century. Climate of the past. 6(3). 315–324. 15 indexed citations

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Wilkinson, Clive, Scott D. Woodruff, Philip Brohan, et al.. (2010). Recovery of logbooks and international marine data: the RECLAIM project. International Journal of Climatology. 31(7). 968–979. 43 indexed citations

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Brohan, Philip, Rob Allan, Eric Freeman, et al.. (2008). Marine Observations of Old Weather. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 90(2). 219–230. 42 indexed citations

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Kennedy, John, Philip Brohan, & Simon F. B. Tett. (2007). A global climatology of the diurnal variations in sea‐surface temperature and implications for MSU temperature trends. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(5). 74 indexed citations

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Brohan, Philip, D. E. Parker, Chris K. Folland, et al.. (2006). Improved Analyses of Changes and Uncertainties in Sea Surface Temperature Measured In Situ since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The HadSST2 Dataset. Journal of Climate. 19(3). 446–469. 679 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brohan, Philip, John Kennedy, Ian Harris, Simon F. B. Tett, & P. D. Jones. (2006). Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature changes: A new data set from 1850. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 111(D12). 1586 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thorne, Peter, D. E. Parker, Simon F. B. Tett, et al.. (2005). Revisiting radiosonde upper air temperatures from 1958 to 2002. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 110(D18). 182 indexed citations

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