William H. G. Roberts

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 806 citations indexed

About

William H. G. Roberts is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, William H. G. Roberts has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 806 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atmospheric Science, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 5 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in William H. G. Roberts's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (6 papers). William H. G. Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (6 papers). William H. G. Roberts collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. William H. G. Roberts's co-authors include Paul J. Valdes, Joy Singarayer, A. J. Payne, Daniel J. Lunt, Richard D. Pancost, Fran Bragg, Stuart A. Robinson, Alex Farnsworth, Peter D. Clift and Paul Markwick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

William H. G. Roberts

33 papers receiving 794 citations

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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.

Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO ₂

2019 261 citations Alex Farnsworth, Daniel J. Lunt et al. Science Advances profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William H. G. Roberts United Kingdom	16	588	223	139	125	118	34	806
A. Goldner United States	9	715 1.2×	151 0.7×	352 2.5×	142 1.1×	169 1.4×	11	858
J. L. Mélice Belgium	11	434 0.7×	222 1.0×	69 0.5×	119 1.0×	141 1.2×	16	644
А. В. Ложкин United States	8	984 1.7×	146 0.7×	173 1.2×	198 1.6×	64 0.5×	15	1.1k
Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall United States	13	707 1.2×	152 0.7×	162 1.2×	369 3.0×	55 0.5×	16	972
C. M. Brierley United Kingdom	12	740 1.3×	337 1.5×	187 1.3×	231 1.8×	284 2.4×	21	925
Marc C. Monaghan United States	17	509 0.9×	252 1.1×	313 2.3×	294 2.4×	108 0.9×	20	998
F. Laarif Sweden	5	813 1.4×	294 1.3×	114 0.8×	221 1.8×	78 0.7×	5	943
P. Behling United States	11	934 1.6×	266 1.2×	423 3.0×	225 1.8×	96 0.8×	12	1.3k
Clay Tabor United States	19	855 1.5×	318 1.4×	265 1.9×	282 2.3×	211 1.8×	41	1.1k
A. Berger Belgium	12	894 1.5×	166 0.7×	340 2.4×	180 1.4×	112 0.9×	15	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William H. G. Roberts

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Carolin, Stacy, J. W. Partin, Jess F. Adkins, et al.. (2022). Termination 1 Millennial‐Scale Rainfall Events Over the Sunda Shelf. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(5). 15 indexed citations

Chiang, John C. H., Alyssa R. Atwood, Daniel J. Vimont, et al.. (2022). Two annual cycles of the Pacific cold tongue under orbital precession. Nature. 611(7935). 295–300. 7 indexed citations

Williams, Charles J. R., Alistair Sellar, Alan M. Haywood, et al.. (2021). Simulation of the mid-Pliocene Warm Period using HadGEM3: experimental design and results from model–model and model–data comparison. Climate of the past. 17(5). 2139–2163. 23 indexed citations

Gray, William R., Robert C. J. Wills, James Rae, et al.. (2020). Wind‐Driven Evolution of the North Pacific Subpolar Gyre Over the Last Deglaciation. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(6). 43 indexed citations

Roberts, William H. G., et al.. (2020). Rainwater isotopes in central Vietnam controlled by two oceanic moisture sources and rainout effects. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 16482–16482. 40 indexed citations

Lo, Y. T. Eunice, Dann Mitchell, Antonio Gasparrini, et al.. (2019). Increasing mitigation ambition to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal avoids substantial heat-related mortality in U.S. cities. Science Advances. 5(6). eaau4373–eaau4373. 48 indexed citations

Roberts, William H. G., Camille Li, & Paul J. Valdes. (2019). The Mechanisms that Determine the Response of the Northern Hemisphere’s Stationary Waves to North American Ice Sheets. Journal of Climate. 32(13). 3917–3940. 16 indexed citations

Farnsworth, Alex, Daniel J. Lunt, Stuart A. Robinson, et al.. (2019). Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO ₂. Science Advances. 5(10). eaax1697–eaax1697. 261 indexed citations breakdown →

Jensen, Mari F., Aleksi Nummelin, Henrik Sadatzki, et al.. (2018). A spatiotemporal reconstruction of sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic during Dansgaard–Oeschger events 5–8. Climate of the past. 14(6). 901–922. 14 indexed citations

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McLeod, Robin S., et al.. (2018). Scanning laser Doppler vibrometry of the cranium when stimulated by a B71 bone transducer. Applied Acoustics. 142. 53–58. 6 indexed citations

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Roberts, William H. G., Paul J. Valdes, & Joy Singarayer. (2017). Can energy fluxes be used to interpret glacial/interglacial precipitation changes in the tropics?. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(12). 6373–6382. 32 indexed citations

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Singarayer, Joy, Paul J. Valdes, & William H. G. Roberts. (2017). Ocean dominated expansion and contraction of the late Quaternary tropical rainbelt. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9382–9382. 52 indexed citations

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Roberts, William H. G. & Paul J. Valdes. (2017). Green Mountains and White Plains: The Effect of Northern Hemisphere Ice Sheets on the Global Energy Budget. Journal of Climate. 30(10). 3887–3905. 12 indexed citations

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Roberts, William H. G., A. J. Payne, & Paul J. Valdes. (2016). The role of basal hydrology in the surging of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Climate of the past. 12(8). 1601–1617. 9 indexed citations

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Atwood, Alyssa R., David S. Battisti, Andrew T. Wittenberg, William H. G. Roberts, & Daniel J. Vimont. (2016). Characterizing unforced multi-decadal variability of ENSO: a case study with the GFDL CM2.1 coupled GCM. Climate Dynamics. 49(7-8). 2845–2862. 23 indexed citations

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Roberts, William H. G., Paul J. Valdes, & A. J. Payne. (2013). A new constraint on the size of Heinrich Events from an iceberg/sediment model. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 386. 1–9. 32 indexed citations

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Roberts, William H. G. & David S. Battisti. (2010). A new tool for evaluating the physics of coupled atmosphere–ocean variability in nature and in general circulation models. Climate Dynamics. 36(5-6). 907–923. 7 indexed citations

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Roberts, William H. G.. (2006). Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920. Civil War Book Review. 8(3). 1 indexed citations

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Young, P., et al.. (1997). CICADA, CCD and Instrument Control Software. ASPC. 125. 385. 1 indexed citations

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Roberts, William H. G., et al.. (1974). Low speed wind tunnel flow field results for JT8D refan engines on the Boeing 727-200. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

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