Richard Wood

11.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
74 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Richard Wood is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Wood has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 49 papers in Oceanography and 45 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Richard Wood's work include Climate variability and models (57 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (46 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers). Richard Wood is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (57 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (46 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers). Richard Wood collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Richard Wood's co-authors include Michael Vellinga, Jonathan M. Gregory, J. F. B. Mitchell, T. C. Johns, C. A. Senior, Helene T. Banks, C. Cooper, Chris Gordon, Laura Jackson and Peili Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Richard Wood

71 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

4 papers align trajectories

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.

The simulation of SST, sea ice extents and ocean heat transports in a version of the Hadley Centre coupled model without flux adjustments

2000 2.1k citations C. A. Senior, Helene T. Banks et al. Climate Dynamics profile →
Global Climatic Impacts of a Collapse of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

2002 702 citations Michael Vellinga, Richard Wood profile →
The second Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM: model description, spinup and validation

1997 592 citations Jonathan M. Gregory, C. A. Senior et al. Climate Dynamics profile →
UK Climate Projections Science Report: Climate Change Projections

2009 534 citations James M. Murphy, David M. H. Sexton et al. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Wood United Kingdom	33	4.8k	4.1k	2.5k	558	526	74	6.8k
Richard Neale United States	39	6.5k 1.4×	6.3k 1.6×	2.0k 0.8×	405 0.7×	396 0.8×	73	8.1k
Gregory M. Flato Canada	39	4.7k 1.0×	5.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.5×	588 1.1×	504 1.0×	71	7.4k
Keith W. Dixon United States	37	5.2k 1.1×	4.6k 1.1×	3.1k 1.2×	280 0.5×	605 1.2×	66	6.7k
Eduardo Zorita Germany	55	7.2k 1.5×	6.9k 1.7×	2.0k 0.8×	748 1.3×	738 1.4×	215	9.9k
T. C. Johns United Kingdom	20	6.0k 1.2×	4.8k 1.2×	1.4k 0.6×	649 1.2×	707 1.3×	29	8.2k
Ulrich Cubasch Germany	40	5.7k 1.2×	6.4k 1.6×	1.4k 0.6×	408 0.7×	760 1.4×	146	8.8k
Thierry Fichefet Belgium	40	4.7k 1.0×	6.7k 1.6×	2.3k 0.9×	272 0.5×	879 1.7×	125	8.9k
Naomi Naik United States	30	4.5k 0.9×	3.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	541 1.0×	786 1.5×	41	5.8k
Samuel Somot France	54	5.8k 1.2×	3.9k 0.9×	2.9k 1.2×	656 1.2×	1.1k 2.1×	145	7.9k
Helge Drange Norway	32	3.7k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	175 0.3×	414 0.8×	86	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Wood

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Wood

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Wood

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20 of 20 papers shown

Baker, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes. Nature. 638(8052). 987–994. 13 indexed citations

Loriani, Sina, Annett Bartsch, Elisa Calamita, et al.. (2025). Monitoring the Multiple Stages of Climate Tipping Systems from Space: Do the GCOS Essential Climate Variables Meet the Needs?. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(2). 327–374. 1 indexed citations

Wood, Richard, Michel Crucifix, Timothy M. Lenton, et al.. (2023). A Climate Science Toolkit for High Impact‐Low Likelihood Climate Risks. Earth s Future. 11(4). 10 indexed citations

Baker, Jonathan, Michael J. Bell, Laura Jackson, et al.. (2023). Overturning Pathways Control AMOC Weakening in CMIP6 Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(14). 11 indexed citations

MacGilchrist, Graeme A., H. L. Johnson, David P. Marshall, et al.. (2020). Locations and Mechanisms of Ocean Ventilation in the High-Latitude North Atlantic in an Eddy-Permitting Ocean Model. Journal of Climate. 33(23). 10113–10131. 19 indexed citations

Jackson, Laura, Malcolm Roberts, Helene T. Hewitt, et al.. (2020). Impact of ocean resolution and mean state on the rate of AMOC weakening. Climate Dynamics. 55(7-8). 1711–1732. 63 indexed citations

Senior, C. A., Colin Jones, Richard Wood, et al.. (2020). U.K. Community Earth System Modeling for CMIP6. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(9). e2019MS002004–e2019MS002004. 29 indexed citations

Tinker, Jonathan, et al.. (2018). What are the prospects for seasonal prediction of the marine environment of the North-west European Shelf?. Ocean science. 14(4). 887–909. 8 indexed citations

Jackson, Laura & Richard Wood. (2018). Hysteresis and Resilience of the AMOC in an Eddy‐Permitting GCM. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(16). 8547–8556. 54 indexed citations

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Menary, Matthew, Till Kuhlbrodt, Jeff Ridley, et al.. (2018). Preindustrial Control Simulations With HadGEM3‐GC3.1 for CMIP6. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(12). 3049–3075. 72 indexed citations

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Desportes, Charles, Marie Drévillon, Yann Drillet, et al.. (2017). GREP: Evaluation of the Copernicus Marine Service Global Reanalysis Ensemble Product: deriving uncertainty estimates for 3D T and S variability in the ocean.. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 16232. 1 indexed citations

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Ridley, Jeff, Richard Wood, Ann Keen, Ed Blockley, & Jason Lowe. (2016). Brief Communication: Does it matter exactly when the Arctic will become ice-free?. 3 indexed citations

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Cannaby, Heather, Matthew D. Palmer, Tom Howard, et al.. (2016). Projected sea level rise and changes in extreme storm surge and wave events during the 21st century in the region of Singapore. Ocean science. 12(3). 613–632. 34 indexed citations

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Holt, Jason, Pat Hyder, Mike Ashworth, et al.. (2016). Prospects for improving the representation of coastal and shelf seas inglobal ocean models. 1 indexed citations

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Jackson, Laura, K. Andrew Peterson, Christopher D. Roberts, & Richard Wood. (2016). Recent slowing of Atlantic overturning circulation as a recovery from earlier strengthening. Nature Geoscience. 9(7). 518–522. 130 indexed citations

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Ineson, Sarah, Amanda C. Maycock, Lesley J. Gray, et al.. (2015). Regional climate impacts of a possible future grand solar minimum. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7535–7535. 74 indexed citations

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Murphy, James M., David M. H. Sexton, Geoff Jenkins, et al.. (2009). UK Climate Projections Science Report: Climate Change Projections. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 534 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wood, Richard, Matthew Collins, Jonathan M. Gregory, Glen Harris, & Michael Vellinga. (2006). Towards a risk assessment for shutdown of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation. CentAUR (University of Reading). 20(9). 722–32. 10 indexed citations

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Banks, Helene T., et al.. (2000). Are observed decadal changes in intermediate water masses a signature of anthropogenic climate change?. Geophysical Research Letters. 27(18). 2961–2964. 53 indexed citations

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Shackley, Simon, Richard Wood, Mirko Hornung, et al.. (1998). Changing by degrees - the impacts of climate change in the North West of England: technical overview. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 3 indexed citations

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