Scott Osprey

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Scott Osprey is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Osprey has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Atmospheric Science, 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Scott Osprey's work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (47 papers), Climate variability and models (46 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (28 papers). Scott Osprey is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (47 papers), Climate variability and models (46 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (28 papers). Scott Osprey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Scott Osprey's co-authors include Lesley J. Gray, Neal Butchart, James Anstey, Steven C. Hardiman, Yoshio Kawatani, Verena Schenzinger, Corwin J. Wright, Dim Coumou, Kai Kornhuber and Adam A. Scaife and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Scott Osprey

66 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern

2019 272 citations Kai Kornhuber, Scott Osprey et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Surface-to-space atmospheric waves from Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai eruption

2022 151 citations Corwin J. Wright, Neil P. Hindley et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott Osprey United Kingdom	27	2.1k	2.0k	539	321	105	70	2.6k
Daniela I. V. Domeisen Switzerland	29	2.6k 1.3×	2.7k 1.3×	327 0.6×	460 1.4×	45 0.4×	104	3.2k
Jadwiga H. Richter United States	36	4.4k 2.2×	4.2k 2.1×	1.4k 2.6×	680 2.1×	65 0.6×	111	5.2k
Aiko Voigt Germany	29	2.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	228 0.4×	419 1.3×	130 1.2×	79	2.9k
Todd P. Lane Australia	33	2.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	668 1.2×	477 1.5×	44 0.4×	116	3.1k
Katja Matthes Germany	30	3.7k 1.8×	3.0k 1.5×	1.3k 2.3×	614 1.9×	69 0.7×	93	4.5k
Francis Vitt United States	28	3.3k 1.6×	2.6k 1.3×	1.2k 2.1×	161 0.5×	99 0.9×	57	4.0k
François Lott France	27	2.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.9×	737 2.3×	44 0.4×	97	3.2k
Michael Sigmond Canada	27	3.3k 1.6×	3.0k 1.5×	507 0.9×	501 1.6×	38 0.4×	67	3.6k
Peter Thejll Denmark	26	997 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	866 1.6×	228 0.7×	53 0.5×	79	2.1k
Tiffany A. Shaw United States	29	2.9k 1.4×	2.8k 1.4×	526 1.0×	648 2.0×	45 0.4×	79	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Scott Osprey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Osprey

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Osprey

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Scott Osprey. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Scott Osprey 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 Scott Osprey. Scott Osprey 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

Garfinkel, Chaim I., et al.. (2025). The Response of the QBO to External Forcings: Implications for Disruption Events. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(22).

Añel, Juan Antonio, Ingrid Cnossen, Juan Carlos Antuña, et al.. (2025). The Need for Better Monitoring of Climate Change in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere. AGU Advances. 6(2).

Dong, Buwen, Yevgeny Aksenov, Ioana Colfescu, et al.. (2025). Key drivers of large scale changes in North Atlantic atmospheric and oceanic circulations and their predictability. Climate Dynamics. 63(2). 113–113.

Wright, Corwin J., Scott Osprey, Neil P. Hindley, et al.. (2024). Aeolus wind lidar observations of the 2019/2020 quasi-biennial oscillation disruption with comparison to radiosondes and reanalysis. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(4). 2465–2490. 3 indexed citations

Gray, Lesley J., et al.. (2024). A momentum budget study of the semi‐annual oscillation in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 150(763). 3544–3565. 2 indexed citations

Gray, Lesley J., et al.. (2024). Role of the quasi-biennial oscillation in alleviating biases in the semi-annual oscillation. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 5(4). 1489–1504. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Anne K., Jorge L. Chau, Xinzhao Chu, et al.. (2023). Measurements of the mean structure, temperature, and circulation of the MLT.

Gray, Lesley J., et al.. (2023). Understanding the Mechanisms for Tropical Surface Impacts of the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation (QBO). Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(15). 6 indexed citations

Gray, Lesley J., et al.. (2022). Interactions between the stratospheric polar vortex and Atlantic circulation on seasonal to multi-decadal timescales. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(7). 4867–4893. 2 indexed citations

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Gray, Lesley J., et al.. (2022). The tropical route of quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) teleconnections in a climate model. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 3(3). 825–844. 9 indexed citations

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Anstey, James, Neal Butchart, Lawrence Coy, et al.. (2021). Prospect of Increased Disruption to the QBO in a Changing Climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(15). 40 indexed citations

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Wright, Corwin J., et al.. (2021). The 2019/2020 QBO Disruption in ADM-Aeolus Wind Lidar Observations. 2 indexed citations

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Gray, Lesley J., et al.. (2021). Origins of multi-decadal variability in sudden stratospheric warmings. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 2(1). 205–231. 12 indexed citations

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Ayarzagüena, Blanca, Andrew Charlton‐Perez, Amy H. Butler, et al.. (2020). Uncertainty in the response of sudden stratospheric warmings and stratosphere- troposphere coupling to quadrupled CO2 concentrations in CMIP6 models. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 11 indexed citations

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Gray, Lesley J., et al.. (2020). The American monsoon system in HadGEM3 and UKESM1. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 1(2). 349–371. 16 indexed citations

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Kornhuber, Kai, Scott Osprey, Dim Coumou, et al.. (2019). Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern. Environmental Research Letters. 14(5). 54002–54002. 272 indexed citations breakdown →

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Samset, B. H., Maria Sand, Chris Smith, et al.. (2018). Climate Impacts From a Removal of Anthropogenic Aerosol Emissions. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(2). 1020–1029. 144 indexed citations

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Gray, Lesley J., James Anstey, Yoshio Kawatani, et al.. (2018). Surface impacts of the Quasi Biennial Oscillation. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(11). 8227–8247. 129 indexed citations

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Schenzinger, Verena, Scott Osprey, Lesley J. Gray, & Neal Butchart. (2017). Defining metrics of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in global climate models. Geoscientific model development. 10(6). 2157–2168. 47 indexed citations

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Wright, Corwin J., Scott Osprey, & J. C. Gille. (2015). Global distributions of overlapping gravity waves in HIRDLS data. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(14). 8459–8477. 17 indexed citations

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