William J. Merryfield

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

William J. Merryfield is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Merryfield has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 62 papers in Atmospheric Science and 32 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in William J. Merryfield's work include Climate variability and models (64 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (34 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (30 papers). William J. Merryfield is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (64 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (34 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (30 papers). William J. Merryfield collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. William J. Merryfield's co-authors include G. J. Boer, V. V. Kharin, Gregory M. Flato, John Scinocca, Vivek K. Arora, Warren G. Lee, James R. Christian, Kenneth L. Denman, Greg Holloway and Viatcheslav Kharin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Astrophysical Journal and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

William J. Merryfield

92 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Carbon emission limits required to satisfy future representative concentration pathways of greenhouse gases

2011 700 citations Vivek K. Arora, John Scinocca et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Impact of volcanic eruptions on CMIP6 decadal predictions: a multi-model analysis 2024 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Roberto Bilbao, Pablo Ortega, Didier Swingedouw, Leon Hermanson, Panos Athanasiadis, Rosie Eade, Marion Devilliers, Francisco J. Doblas‐Reyes, Nick Dunstone, (unknown), William J. Merryfield, Emmanuel Mignot, Dario Nicolì, Margarida Samsó, Reinel Sospedra‐Alfonso, Xian Wu, Stephen Yeager	3
2	World Meteorological Organization (WMO)-Accredited Infrastructure to Support Operational Climate Prediction 2024 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·(unknown), Adam A. Scaife, William J. Merryfield, Caio A. S. Coelho, Rupa Kumar Kolli, Kristina Fröhlich, Eunha Lim, (unknown), Yuki Honda, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
3	Estimating Probabilities of Extreme ENSO Events from Copernicus Seasonal Hindcasts 2023 ·Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences ·William J. Merryfield, Woosung Lee	4
4	Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Dynamics, Predictability and Ensemble Simulations 2023 ·Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences ·Christian L. E. Franzke, June‐Yi Lee, T. Okane, William J. Merryfield, Xuebin Zhang	4
5	Evaluation of Soil Moisture in the Canadian Seasonal to Interannual Prediction System, Version 2.1 (CanSIPSv2.1) 2023 ·Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology ·Reinel Sospedra‐Alfonso, William J. Merryfield, (unknown), Woosung Lee, Hai Lin, G. T. Diro, Ryan Muncaster	3
6	A Data Set for Intercomparing the Transient Behavior of Dynamical Model‐Based Subseasonal to Decadal Climate Predictions 2021 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Ramiro I. Saurral, William J. Merryfield, M. A. Tolstykh, Woosung Lee, Francisco J. Doblas‐Reyes, Javier García‐Serrano, François Massonnet, Gerald A. Meehl, Haiyan Teng	4
7	Decadal climate predictions with the Canadian Earth System Model version 5 (CanESM5) 2021 ·Geoscientific model development ·Reinel Sospedra‐Alfonso, William J. Merryfield, G. J. Boer, (unknown), Woosung Lee, Christian Seiler, James R. Christian	23
8	Author Correction: Robust skill of decadal climate predictions 2020 ·npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·Doug Smith, Rosie Eade, Adam A. Scaife, Louis‐Philippe Caron, Gökhan Danabasoglu, Timothy DelSole, Thomas L. Delworth, Francisco J. Doblas‐Reyes, Nick Dunstone, Leon Hermanson, V. V. Kharin, Masahide Kimoto, William J. Merryfield, Takashi Mochizuki, Wolfgang Müller, Holger Pohlmann, Stephen Yeager, Xiaosong Yang	2
9	Predictable Variations of the Carbon Sinks and Atmospheric CO₂ Growth in a Multi‐Model Framework 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Tatiana Ilyina, Hongmei Li, Aaron Spring, Wolfgang A. Müller, Laurent Bopp, M. O. Chikamoto, Gökhan Danabasoglu, Mikhail Dobrynin, John P. Dunne, Filippa Fransner, Pierre Friedlingstein, W.‐S. Lee, Nicole S. Lovenduski, William J. Merryfield, Emmanuel Mignot, (unknown), Roland Séférian, Reinel Sospedra‐Alfonso, Michio Watanabe, Stephen Yeager	16
10	Robust skill of decadal climate predictions 2019 ·npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·Doug Smith, Rosie Eade, Adam A. Scaife, Louis‐Philippe Caron, Gökhan Danabasoglu, Timothy DelSole, Thomas L. Delworth, Francisco J. Doblas‐Reyes, Nick Dunstone, Leon Hermanson, V. V. Kharin, Masahide Kimoto, William J. Merryfield, Takashi Mochizuki, Wolfgang A. Müller, Holger Pohlmann, Stephen Yeager, Xiaosong Yang	187
11	Impacts of Sea Ice Thickness Initialization on Seasonal Arctic Sea Ice Predictions 2016 ·Journal of Climate ·Arlan Dirkson, William J. Merryfield, Adam H. Monahan	47
12	Influence of snow and soil moisture initialization on sub-seasonal predictability and forecast skill in boreal spring 2015 ·Climate Dynamics ·(unknown), Aaron Berg, William J. Merryfield	28
13	Effect of Realistic Soil Moisture Initialization on the Canadian CanCM3 Seasonal Forecast Model 2012 ·ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN ·G. Drewitt, Aaron Berg, William J. Merryfield, Woosung Lee	11
14	Trends in upwelling and downwelling winds along the British Columbia shelf 2011 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Michael Foreman, (unknown), William J. Merryfield	44
15	Ongoing climate change following a complete cessation of carbon dioxide emissions 2011 ·Nature Geoscience ·Nathan P. Gillett, Vivek K. Arora, Kirsten Zickfeld, Shawn J. Marshall, William J. Merryfield	139
16	Total kinetic energy in four global eddying ocean circulation models and over 5000 current meter records 2010 ·Ocean Modelling ·Robert B. Scott, Brian K. Arbic, Eric P. Chassignet, Andrew C. Coward, Mathew Maltrud, William J. Merryfield, Ashwanth Srinivasan, (unknown)	44
17	The 20th century carbon budget simulated with the CCCma earth system model CanESM1 2008 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Vivek K. Arora, G. J. Boer, Charles L. Curry, (unknown), Konstantin Zahariev, Kenneth L. Denman, Gregory M. Flato, John Scinocca, William J. Merryfield, (unknown)	1
18	Variability of Upper Pacific Ocean Overturning in a Coupled Climate Model 2005 ·Journal of Climate ·William J. Merryfield, G. J. Boer	15
19	Fourier Analysis of Variable Line Profiles - Towards Stellar M-V Diagrams 1993 ·ASPC ·William J. Merryfield, E. J. Kennelly	1
20	Properties of Collocation Third-Derivative Operators 1993 ·Journal of Computational Physics ·William J. Merryfield, Bernie D. Shizgal	23

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