Ruth Comer

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ruth Comer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Comer has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Ruth Comer's work include Climate variability and models (18 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (12 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (5 papers). Ruth Comer is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (18 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (12 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (5 papers). Ruth Comer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Ruth Comer's co-authors include Adam A. Scaife, Craig MacLachlan, David Fereday, K. Andrew Peterson, Joanne Camp, Margaret Gordon, Alberto Arribas, Anna Maidens, Michael Vellinga and Gurvan Madec and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters and Nature Geoscience.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Comer

20 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global Seasonal forecast system version 5 (GloSea5): a high‐resolution seasonal forecast system

2014 559 citations Craig MacLachlan, Alberto Arribas et al. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth Comer United Kingdom	15	1.3k	1.2k	416	67	48	21	1.4k
Anna Maidens United Kingdom	10	994 0.8×	918 0.8×	330 0.8×	49 0.7×	46 1.0×	19	1.1k
Ryo Oyama Japan	8	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	442 1.1×	62 0.9×	81 1.7×	14	1.6k
Leon Hermanson United Kingdom	24	2.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.5×	754 1.8×	74 1.1×	63 1.3×	58	2.1k
Gilles Bellon France	21	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	513 1.2×	63 0.9×	19 0.4×	57	1.8k
Ben Harvey United Kingdom	18	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	241 0.6×	69 1.0×	30 0.6×	38	1.3k
W. Wang United States	7	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	555 1.3×	67 1.0×	65 1.4×	10	1.5k
U. C. Mohanty India	21	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	413 1.0×	96 1.4×	30 0.6×	92	1.4k
Retish Senan United Kingdom	23	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	794 1.9×	44 0.7×	60 1.3×	41	1.8k
Dong Eun Lee United States	17	1.0k 0.8×	888 0.8×	470 1.1×	38 0.6×	41 0.9×	40	1.2k
V. Ya. Galin Russia	16	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	323 0.8×	34 0.5×	41 0.9×	30	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ruth Comer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruth Comer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Comer

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Scaife, Adam A., Leon Hermanson, Annelize van Niekerk, et al.. (2022). Long-range predictability of extratropical climate and the length of day. Nature Geoscience. 15(10). 789–793. 9 indexed citations

Hardiman, Steven C., Nick Dunstone, Adam A. Scaife, et al.. (2022). Missing eddy feedback may explain weak signal-to-noise ratios in climate predictions. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 5(1). 40 indexed citations

Thornton, Hazel, Adam A. Scaife, Philip E. Bett, et al.. (2022). Predictability of European winter 2020/2021: Influence of a mid‐winter sudden stratospheric warming. Atmospheric Science Letters. 23(12). 4 indexed citations

Scaife, Adam A., Leon Hermanson, Annelize van Niekerk, et al.. (2021). Long-Range Predictability of the Length of Day and Extratropical Climate.. 1 indexed citations

Lim, Eun‐Pa, Harry H. Hendon, Amy H. Butler, et al.. (2021). The 2019 Southern Hemisphere Stratospheric Polar Vortex Weakening and Its Impacts. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(6). E1150–E1171. 75 indexed citations

Wang, Lei, Steven C. Hardiman, Philip E. Bett, et al.. (2020). What chance of a sudden stratospheric warming in the southern hemisphere?. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 104038–104038. 22 indexed citations

Scaife, Adam A., Joanne Camp, Ruth Comer, et al.. (2019). Does increased atmospheric resolution improve seasonal climate predictions?. Atmospheric Science Letters. 20(8). 72 indexed citations

Martin, Gill, et al.. (2019). Predictability of South China Sea Summer Monsoon Onset. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 36(3). 253–260. 45 indexed citations

Nie, Yu, Adam A. Scaife, Hong‐Li Ren, et al.. (2019). Stratospheric initial conditions provide seasonal predictability of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations. Environmental Research Letters. 14(3). 34006–34006. 38 indexed citations

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Camp, Joanne, Malcolm Roberts, Ruth Comer, et al.. (2018). The western Pacific subtropical high and tropical cyclone landfall: Seasonal forecasts using the Met Office GloSea5 system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(718). 105–116. 43 indexed citations

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Scaife, Adam A., Ruth Comer, Nick Dunstone, et al.. (2017). Predictability of European winter 2015/2016. Atmospheric Science Letters. 18(2). 38–44. 40 indexed citations

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Neal, Robert A., et al.. (2016). A flexible approach to defining weather patterns and their application in weather forecasting over Europe. Meteorological Applications. 23(3). 389–400. 107 indexed citations

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Li, Chaofan, Adam A. Scaife, Riyu Lu, et al.. (2016). Skillful seasonal prediction of Yangtze river valley summer rainfall. Environmental Research Letters. 11(9). 94002–94002. 64 indexed citations

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Scaife, Adam A., Ruth Comer, Nick Dunstone, et al.. (2016). Tropical rainfall, Rossby waves and regional winter climate predictions. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 143(702). 1–11. 164 indexed citations

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Boone, Aaron, Yongkang Xue, Ruth Comer, et al.. (2016). The regional impact of Land-Use Land-cover Change (LULCC) over West Africa from an ensemble of global climate models under the auspices of the WAMME2 project. Climate Dynamics. 47(11). 3547–3573. 30 indexed citations

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MacLachlan, Craig, Alberto Arribas, K. Andrew Peterson, et al.. (2014). Global Seasonal forecast system version 5 (GloSea5): a high‐resolution seasonal forecast system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 141(689). 1072–1084. 559 indexed citations breakdown →

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Comer, Ruth & Martin Best. (2012). Revisiting GLACE: Understanding the Role of the Land Surface in Land–Atmosphere Coupling. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 13(6). 1704–1718. 11 indexed citations

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Woodage, Margaret J., A. Slingo, S. Woodward, & Ruth Comer. (2009). U.K. HiGEM: Simulations of Desert Dust and Biomass Burning Aerosols with a High-Resolution Atmospheric GCM. Journal of Climate. 23(7). 1636–1659. 15 indexed citations

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Comer, Ruth, A. Slingo, & Richard P. Allan. (2007). Observations of the diurnal cycle of outgoing longwave radiation from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget instrument. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(2). 22 indexed citations

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Comer, Ruth, A. Slingo, & Richard P. Allan. (2006). The diurnal cycle observed by Meteosat-8 and simulated by a climate model. CentAUR (University of Reading). 3 indexed citations

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