Robert W. Lee

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Robert W. Lee is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert W. Lee has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Robert W. Lee's work include Climate variability and models (16 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (6 papers). Robert W. Lee is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (16 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (6 papers). Robert W. Lee collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Robert W. Lee's co-authors include Kevin I. Hodges, C. McSweeney, Richard Jones, David P. Rowell, Lennart Bengtsson, David Roy Smith, Andrew Charlton‐Perez, Laura Ferranti, Eileen M. Denovan‐Wright and Steven J. Woolnough and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Climate and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Lee

29 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Selecting CMIP5 GCMs for downscaling over multiple regions

2014 411 citations C. McSweeney, Richard Jones et al. Climate Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert W. Lee United Kingdom	20	1.2k	996	261	246	152	30	1.7k
Charles R. Booth United States	24	647 0.5×	620 0.6×	1.0k 3.8×	106 0.4×	457 3.0×	54	2.0k
Marco Gaetani Italy	22	1.1k 0.9×	953 1.0×	166 0.6×	22 0.1×	92 0.6×	54	1.6k
Ke Wei China	22	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	236 0.9×	24 0.1×	67 0.4×	64	1.5k
Yan Xia China	20	918 0.8×	843 0.8×	74 0.3×	116 0.5×	79 0.5×	83	1.4k
Philippe Le Sager Netherlands	18	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	56 0.2×	127 0.5×	74 0.5×	50	1.9k
A. V. Tsvetkov Russia	6	1.0k 0.9×	782 0.8×	69 0.3×	20 0.1×	85 0.6×	9	1.3k
Xiaolei Niu China	18	602 0.5×	502 0.5×	29 0.1×	104 0.4×	85 0.6×	43	1.1k
Ron A. Heintz United States	30	1.4k 1.2×	381 0.4×	604 2.3×	77 0.3×	965 6.3×	83	2.9k
Weiyi Sun China	19	705 0.6×	641 0.6×	187 0.7×	25 0.1×	201 1.3×	60	1.4k
C. B. S. Dutt India	19	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	103 0.4×	201 0.8×	322 2.1×	58	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert W. Lee

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lee, Robert W., Andrew Charlton‐Perez, & Simon H. Lee. (2025). Stratospheric Impacts on Weather Regimes Following the 2018 and 2019 Sudden Stratospheric Warmings. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(15).

Lee, Robert W. & Andrew Charlton‐Perez. (2024). Diversity of Stratospheric Error Growth Across Subseasonal Prediction Systems. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(10). 1 indexed citations

Charlton‐Perez, Andrew, Helen Dacre, Simon Driscoll, et al.. (2024). Do AI models produce better weather forecasts than physics-based models? A quantitative evaluation case study of Storm Ciarán. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 32 indexed citations

Holm, René, Robert W. Lee, Quanying Bao, et al.. (2023). Long-Acting Injectable Aqueous Suspensions—Summary From an AAPS Workshop. The AAPS Journal. 25(3). 49–49. 24 indexed citations

Shepherd, Theodore G., Carolina Vera, Marisol Osman, et al.. (2020). Storyline description of Southern Hemisphere midlatitude circulation and precipitation response to greenhouse gas forcing. Climate Dynamics. 54(9-10). 4399–4421. 40 indexed citations

Priestley, Matthew D. K., Duncan Ackerley, Jennifer L. Catto, et al.. (2020). An Overview of the Extratropical Storm Tracks in CMIP6 Historical Simulations. Journal of Climate. 33(15). 6315–6343. 124 indexed citations

Wiel, Karin van der, Hannah Bloomfield, Robert W. Lee, et al.. (2019). The influence of weather regimes on European renewable energy production and demand. Environmental Research Letters. 14(9). 94010–94010. 124 indexed citations

Lee, Robert W., Tim Woollings, Brian J. Hoskins, et al.. (2018). Impact of Gulf Stream SST biases on the global atmospheric circulation. Climate Dynamics. 51(9-10). 3369–3387. 36 indexed citations

Charlton‐Perez, Andrew, Laura Ferranti, & Robert W. Lee. (2018). The influence of the stratospheric state on North Atlantic weather regimes. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 144(713). 1140–1151. 98 indexed citations

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Woollings, Tim, Elizabeth A. Barnes, Brian J. Hoskins, et al.. (2017). Daily to Decadal Modulation of Jet Variability. Journal of Climate. 31(4). 1297–1314. 59 indexed citations

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Masato, Giacomo, Tim Woollings, K. D. Williams, BJ HOSKINS, & Robert W. Lee. (2016). A regime analysis of Atlantic winter jet variability applied to evaluate HadGEM3‐GC2. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 142(701). 3162–3170. 7 indexed citations

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McSweeney, C., Richard Jones, Robert W. Lee, & David P. Rowell. (2014). Selecting CMIP5 GCMs for downscaling over multiple regions. Climate Dynamics. 44(11-12). 3237–3260. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smith, David Roy, Robert W. Lee, John C. Cushman, et al.. (2010). The Dunaliella salina organelle genomes: large sequences, inflated with intronic and intergenic DNA. BMC Plant Biology. 10(1). 83–83. 76 indexed citations

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Smith, David Roy & Robert W. Lee. (2009). The mitochondrial and plastid genomes of Volvox carteri: bloated molecules rich in repetitive DNA. BMC Genomics. 10(1). 132–132. 56 indexed citations

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Smith, David Roy & Robert W. Lee. (2009). Nucleotide diversity of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastid genome: addressing the mutational-hazard hypothesis. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(1). 120–120. 23 indexed citations

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Smith, David Roy & Robert W. Lee. (2008). Nucleotide diversity in the mitochondrial and nuclear compartments of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: investigating the origins of genome architecture. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8(1). 156–156. 35 indexed citations

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Denovan‐Wright, Eileen M. & Robert W. Lee. (1995). Evidence that the fragmented ribosomal RNAs of Chlamydomonas mitochondria are associated with ribosomes. FEBS Letters. 370(3). 222–226. 7 indexed citations

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Denovan‐Wright, Eileen M. & Robert W. Lee. (1994). Comparative Structure and Genomic Organization of the Discontinuous Mitochondrial Ribosomal RNA Genes of Chlamydomonas eugametos and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Journal of Molecular Biology. 241(2). 298–311. 38 indexed citations

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Vandermeulen, J. H. & Robert W. Lee. (1986). Lack of mutagenic activity of crude and refined oils in the unicellular algaChlamydomonas reinhardtii. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 36(1). 250–253. 7 indexed citations

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Lee, Robert W. & Raymond F. Jones. (1976). Lethal and mutagenic effects of nitrosoguanidine on synchronizedChlamydomonas. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 147(3). 283–289. 7 indexed citations

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