Professor Richard Allan
Professor in Climate Science
Responsibilities:
- Convenor MTMG44 Hydrology and Global Environmental Change
- Website coordinator
- Prizes Committee
- Previously Head of Department for External Affairs and Public Engagement coordinator
Research Interests:
- Current and future changes in the global water cycle
- Earth's radiative energy balance and climate
- Testing simulation of Earth's climate with observations
Recent Research Projects:
- Libera - Understanding Earth's Energy Budget project
- Diagnosing Earth's Energy Pathways in the Climate system (DEEP-C)
- A new technique for measuring global rainfall (Rain from Space)
- INDECIS Climate Services
- Securing Multidisciplinary UndeRstanding and Prediction of Hiatus and Surge events (SMURPHS)
- Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA)
- Susceptibility of catchments to intense rainfall and flooding (SINATRA)
- Understanding past and future changes in the water cycle (PAGODA)
- Hydrological extremes and feedbacks in the changing water cycle (HydEF)
- Tropical Applications of Meteorology using SATellite data and ground-based observations (TAMSAT)
Recent Visiting Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers & Graduate Students
- Ranjini Swaminathan - National Centre for Earth Observation UK Earth System Model scientist
- Thea Stevens - PhD student working on Upper Tropospheric Humidity
- Professor Chunlei Liu - Currently Visiting Scientist from GuangDong Ocean University, previously worked at University of Reading on projects related to the changing water cycle, Earth's energy balance and climate (PAGODA, DEEP-C, SMURPHS)
- Professor Albert Osso - Visiting Scientist from University of Graz (EU INDECIS)
- Philip Craig: impact relevant metrics over Europe (EU INDECIS)
- Daniel Watters: diurnal cycle of precipitation (PhD project)
- Dr Peter Hill: radiation-cloud interactions over west Africa (DACCIWA project)
- Caroline Wainwright: rainfall seasonality with a focus on Africa and part of the TAMSAT group
- Zahra Mousavi Earth's radiation budget and rainfall (PhD project)
- Dr Ross Maidment: Africa rainfall in the TAMSAT group
- Dr Adrian Champion: atmospheric precursors for extrme summer rainfall in the UK as part of SINATRA
- Kerian Ferreira: Hadley Cell changes and water resources (PhD project)
Other interests
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Public Engagement including the Media and Schools
- Adult Education courses/lectures on Weather and Climate
- Associate Editor - Journal of Climate
- National Centre for Earth Observation
- Walker Institute for Climate Systems Resarch - Research Associate
- Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Satelite International Science Teams and Advisory Panel member
- NASA Libera project (Understanding Earth's Energy Budget - CERES follow-on)
- NASA Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System Science Team member
- Member of the Natural Environment Research Council peer review college
- EUMETSAT CMSAF review board chair
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author
- Buchan Prize from the RMetS
Centaur Publications
Number of items: 173.2024
Douville, H., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Arias, P. A. and Fisher, R. A. (2024) Call for caution regarding the efficacy of large-scale afforestation and its hydrological effects. Science of the Total Environment, 950. 175299. ISSN 1879-1026 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175299
John, V. O., Shi, L., Chung, E. -S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Buehler, S. A. and Soden, B. J. (2024) Upper tropospheric humidity [in “State of the Climate in 2023”]. In: Blunden, J. and Boyer, T. (eds.) State of the Climate in 2023. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105 (8). American Meteorological Society, S59-S60. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2024BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
Swaminathan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5853-2673, Quaife, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-4613 and Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2024) A machine learning framework to evaluate vegetation modeling in Earth system models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16 (7). e2023MS004097. ISSN 1942-2466 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS004097
Loeb, N. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2538-9644, Ham, S.-H., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Thorsen, T. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4405-3572, Meyssignac, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6325-9843, Kato, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7597-0886, Johnson, G. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8023-4020 and Lyman, J. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-4663 (2024) Observational assessment of changes in Earth's energy imbalance since 2000. Surveys in Geophysics. ISSN 1573-0956 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-024-09838-8
Chen, Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0319-4950, Haywood, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2143-6634, Wang, Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9480-3570, Malavelle, F., Jordan, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3129-4983, Peace, A., Partridge, D. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5970-901X, Cho, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6401-2391, Oreopoulos, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6061-6905, Grosvenor, D., Field, P., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Lohmann, U. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8885-3785 (2024) Substantial cooling effect from aerosol-induced increase in tropical marine cloud cover. Nature Geoscience. ISSN 1752-0908 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01427-z
Allan, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2069-0315 and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2024) Odden ice melt linked to Labrador Sea ice expansions and the Great Salinity Anomalies of 1970–1995. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129 (4). e2023JC019988. ISSN 2169-9291 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC019988
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2024) Droughts are blowing in the wind. Nature Water, 2 (3). pp. 223-224. ISSN 2731-6084 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00209-6
Trancoso, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-7005, Syktus, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1782-3073, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Croke, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1707-0377, Hoegh-Guldberg, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7510-6713 and Chadwick, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6767-5414 (2024) Significantly wetter or drier future conditions for one to two thirds of the world’s population. Nature Communications, 15 (1). 483. ISSN 2041-1723 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44513-3
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Douville, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6074-6467 (2024) An even drier future for the arid lands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (2). e2320840121. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2320840121
2023
de Mora, L., Swaminathan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5853-2673, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Blackford, J. C., Kelley, D. I., Harris, P., Jones, C. D., Jones, C. G., Liddicoat, S., Parker, R. J., Quaife, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-4613, Walton, J. and Yool, A. (2023) Scenario choice impacts carbon allocation projection at global warming levels. Earth System Dynamics, 14 (6). pp. 1295-1315. ISSN 2190-4987 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1295-2023
Arias, P. A., Rendón, M. L., Martínez, J. A. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2023) Changes in atmospheric moisture transport over tropical South America: an analysis under a climate change scenario. Climate Dynamics, 61 (11-12). pp. 4949-4969. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06833-4
Osso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5653-4886, Craig, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9213-4599 and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2023) An assessment of CMIP6 climate signals and biases in temperature, precipitation and soil moisture over Europe. International Journal of Climatology, 43 (12). pp. 5698-5719. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8169
Song, S.-Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9447-1158, Yeh, S.-W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4549-1686, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Xie, S.-P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3676-1325, An, S.-I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0003-429X and Park, H.-S. (2023) Climate sensitivity controls global precipitation hysteresis in a changing CO2 pathway. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6. 156. ISSN 2397-3722 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00484-2
John, V. O., Shi, L., Chung, E. S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Buehler, S. A. and Soden, B. J., Blunden, J., Boyer, T. and Bartow-Gillies, E., eds. (2023) Upper tropospheric humidity. State of the Climate in 2022. 104 (9). Report. American Meteorological Society, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2023BAMSStateoftheClimate.1 (S55-S56)
von Schuckmann, K., Minière, A., Gues, F., Cuesta-Valero, F. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1577-671X, Kirchengast, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9187-937X, Adusumilli, S., Straneo, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1735-2366, Ablain, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1398-8498, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Barker, P. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6447-8538, Beltrami, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-8933, Blazquez, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7719-7468, Boyer, T., Cheng, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9854-0392, Church, J., Desbruyeres, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0405-421X, Dolman, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0099-0457, Domingues, C. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5100-4595, García-García, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1333-4774, Giglio, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3738-4293, Gilson, J. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0805-6570, Gorfer, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3236-2279, Haimberger, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0379-6353, Hakuba, M. Z., Hendricks, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1412-3146, Hosoda, S., Johnson, G. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8023-4020, Killick, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5335-4097, King, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1338-3234, Kolodziejczyk, N., Korosov, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3601-1161, Krinner, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2959-5920, Kuusela, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6875-945X, Landerer, F. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2678-095X, Langer, M., Lavergne, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9498-4551, Lawrence, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3919-6720, Li, Y., Lyman, J., Marti, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1656-6124, Marzeion, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6185-3539, Mayer, M., MacDougall, A. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7899-9940, McDougall, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4582-7741, Monselesan, D. P., Nitzbon, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7205-6298, Otosaka, I., Peng, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4071-0512, Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Sato, K., Sato, K., Savita, A., Schweiger, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8704-4123, Shepherd, A., Seneviratne, S. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9528-2917, Simons, L., Slater, D. A., Slater, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2541-7788, Steiner, A. K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1201-3303, Suga, T., Szekely, T., Thiery, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-6145, Timmermans, M.-L., Vanderkelen, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8673-1933, Wjiffels, S. E., Wu, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5084-3570 and Zemp, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2391-7877 (2023) Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go? Earth System Science Data, 15 (4). pp. 1675-1709. ISSN 1866-3516 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1675-2023
Palmer, P. I., Wainwright, C. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-7846, Dong, B., Maidment, R. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-3259, Wheeler, K. G., Gedney, N., Hickman, J. E., Madani, N., Folwell, S. S., Abdo, G., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Black, E. C. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186, Feng, L., Gudoshava, M., Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Huntingford, C., Kilavi, M., Lunt, M. F., Shaaban, A. and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2023) Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4. pp. 254-270. ISSN 2662-138X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00397-x
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2023) Amplified seasonal range in precipitation minus evaporation. Environmental Research Letters, 18 (9). 094004. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acea36
2022
Douville, H., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Arias, P. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1726-6000, Betts, R. A., Caretta, M. A., Cherchi, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0178-9264, Mukherji, A., Raghavan, K. and Renwick, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9141-2486 (2022) Water remains a blind spot in climate change policies. PLOS Water, 1 (12). e0000058. ISSN 2767-3219 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000058
Liu, C., Yang, Y., Liao, X., Cao, N., Liu, J., Ou, N., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Jin, L., Chen, N. and Zheng, R. (2022) Discrepancies in simulated ocean net surface heat fluxes over the North Atlantic. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 39 (11). pp. 1941-1955. ISSN 0256-1530 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-022-1360-7
John, V. O., Shi, L., Chung, E. S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Buehler, S. A. and Soden, B. J., Blunden, J. and Boyer, T., eds. (2022) Upper Tropospheric Humidity. State of the Climate in 2021. 103 (8). Report. American Meteorological Society, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2022BAMSStateoftheClimate.1 (S54-S55)
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Willett, K. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5151-0076, John, V. O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3280-978X and Trent, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9215-5808 (2022) Global changes in water vapor 1979‐2020. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127 (12). e2022JD036728. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036728
Wainwright, C. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-7846, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 (2022) Consistent trends in dry spell length in recent observations and future projections. Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (12). ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097231
Mahmoud, S. H., Gan, T. Y., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Li, J. and Funk, C. (2022) Worsening drought of Nile basin under shift in atmospheric circulation, stronger ENSO and Indian Ocean dipole. Scientific Reports, 12. 8049. ISSN 2045-2322 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12008-8
Craig, P. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9213-4599 and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2022) The role of teleconnection patterns in the variability and trends of growing season indices across Europe. International Journal of Climatology, 42 (2). pp. 1072-1091. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7290
Swaminathan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5853-2673, Parker, R. J., Jones, C. G., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Quaife, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-4613, Kelley, D. I., de Mora, L. and Walton, J. (2022) The physical climate at global warming thresholds as seen in the UK Earth system model. Journal of Climate, 35 (1). pp. 29-48. ISSN 0894-8755 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0234.1
Osso, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5653-4886, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Hawkins, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677, Shaffrey, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2696-752X and Maraun, D. (2022) Emerging new climate extremes over Europe. Climate Dynamics, 58. pp. 487-501. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05917-3
Andrews, T., Bodas-Salcedo, A., Gregory, J. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1296-8644, Dong, Y., Armour, K. C., Paynter, D., Lin, P., Modak, A., Mauritsen, T., Cole, J. N. S., Medeiros, B., Benedict, J. J., Douville, H., Roehrig, R., Koshiro, T., Kawai, H., Ogura, T., Dufresne, J.-L., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Liu, C. (2022) On the effect of historical SST patterns on radiative feedback. Journal of Geophysical Research, 127 (18). e2022JD036675. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036675
Peña‐Angulo, D., Vicente‐Serrano, S. M., Domínguez‐Castro, F., Lorenzo‐Lacruz, J., Murphy, C., Hannaford, J., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Tramblay, Y., Reig‐Gracia, F. and El Kenawy, A. (2022) The complex and spatially diverse patterns of hydrological droughts across Europe. Water Resources Research, 58 (4). e2022WR031976. ISSN 0043-1397 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR031976
2021
Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2021) How and why Earth's climate is changing. In: Weather - A force of nature: Spectacular images from weather photographer of the year. Natural History Museum, London, England, pp. 6-7, pp. 192. ISBN 9780565095253
Yeh, S.-W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4549-1686, Song, S.-Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9447-1158, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, An, S.-I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0003-429X and Shin, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-7646 (2021) Contrasting response of hydrological cycle over land and ocean to a changing CO2 pathway. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4 (1). 53. ISSN 2397-3722 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00206-6
van der Schrier, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7395-8023, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Osso, A., Sousa, P. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0296-4204, Van de Vyver, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7142-4693, Van Schaeybroeck, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9507-7929, Coscarelli, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2779-1100, Pasqua, A. A., Petrucci, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6918-1135, Curley, M., Mietus, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9488-071X, Filipiak, J., Štěpánek, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8956-5590, Zahradníček, P., Brázdil, R., Řezníčková, L., van den Besselaar, E. J. M., Trigo, R. and Aguilar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8384-377X (2021) The 1921 European drought: impacts, reconstruction and drivers. Climate of the Past, 17 (5). pp. 2201-2221. ISSN 1814-9332 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2201-2021
Wainwright, C. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-7846, Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2021) Future changes in wet and dry season characteristics in CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22 (9). pp. 2339-2357. ISSN 1525-7541 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-21-0017.1
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Hawkins, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677, Bellouin, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-9559 and Collins, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7419-0850 (2021) IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Masson-Delmotte, V., Zhai, P., Pirani, A., Connors, S. L., Péan, C., Berger, S., Caud, N., Chen, Y., Goldfarb, L., Gomis, M. I., Huang, M., Leitzell, K., Lonnoy, E., Matthews, J. B. R., Maycock, T. K., Waterfield, T., Yelekçi, O., Yu, R. and Zhou, B. (eds.) Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009157896.001
John, V. O., Shi, L., Chung, E.-S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Buehler, S. A. and Soden, B. J. (2021) Upper tropospheric humidity [in "State of the Climate in 2020"]. In: State of the climate in 2020. American Meteorological Society, S55-S56. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0098.1
Watters, D., Battaglia, A. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2021) The diurnal cycle of precipitation according to multiple decades of global satellite observations, three CMIP6 models, and the ECMWF reanalysis. Journal of Climate, 34 (12). pp. 5063-5080. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0966.1
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2020
Liu, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6663-452X, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Mayer, M., Hyder, P., Desbruyères, D., Cheng, L., Xu, J., Xu, F. and Zhang, Y. (2020) Variability in the global energy budget and transports 1985–2017. Climate Dynamics, 55. pp. 3381-3396. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05451-8
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Liu, C., Liao, X., Qiu, J., Yang, Y., Feng, X., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Cao, N., Long, J. and Xu, J. (2020) Observed variability of intertropical convergence zone over 1998-2018. Environmental Research Letters, 15 (10). 104011. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba033
John, V. O., Shi, L., Chung, E.-S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Buehler, S. A. and Soden, B. J. (2020) Upper tropospheric humidity. In: Blunden, J. and Arndt, D. S. (eds.) State of the Climate in 2019. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101 (8). American Meteorological Society, S45-S46. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2020BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
Menary, M. B., Robson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-018X, Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Booth, B. B. B., Cassou, C., Gastineau, G., Gregory, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1296-8644, Hodson, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-6700, Jones, C., Mignot, J., Ringer, M., Sutton, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Wilcox, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493 and Zhang, R. (2020) Aerosol-forced AMOC changes in CMIP6 historical simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. e2020GL088166. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088166
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Barlow, M., Byrne, M. P., Cherchi, A., Douville, H., Fowler, H. J., Gan, T. Y., Pendergrass, A. G., Rosenfeld, D., Swann, A. L. S., Wilcox, L. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493 and Zolina, O. (2020) Advances in understanding large-scale responses of the water cycle to climate change. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1472 (1). pp. 49-75. ISSN 1749-6632 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14337
Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Blenkinsop, S., Fowler, H. J. and Champion, A. J. (2020) Atmospheric precursors for intense summer rainfall over the UK. International Journal of Climatology, 40 (8). pp. 3849-3867. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6431
Loeb, N. G., Wang, H., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Andrews, T., Armour, K., Cole, J. N.S., Dufresne, J.‐L., Forster, P., Gettelman, A., Guo, H., Mauritsen, T., Ming, Y., Paynter, D., Proistosescu, C., Stuecker, M. F., Willén, U. and Wyser, K. (2020) New generation of climate models track recent unprecedented changes in Earth's radiation budget observed by CERES. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (5). e2019GL086705. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086705
Schwarz, M., Folini, D., Yang, S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Wild, M. (2020) Changes in atmospheric shortwave absorption as important driver of dimming and brightening. Nature Geoscience, 13 (2). pp. 110-115. ISSN 1752-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0528-y
Allan, D. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2020) Seasonal changes in the North Atlantic cold anomaly: the influence of cold surface waters from coastal Greenland and warming trends associated with variations in subarctic sea ice cover. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124 (12). pp. 9040-9052. ISSN 2169-9275 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015379
2019
Zhan, C., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Liang, S., Wang, D. and Song, Z. (2019) Evaluation of five satellite top-of-atmosphere albedo products over land. Remote Sensing, 11 (24). 2919. ISSN 2072-4292 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11242919
John, V. O., Shi, L., Chung, E.-S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Buehler, S. A. and Soden, B. J. (2019) Upper tropospheric humidity [in "State of the Climate 2018"]. In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (9). American Meteorological Society, pp. 1625-1636. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
Wainwright, C. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-7846, Marsham, J. H., Keane, R. J., Rowell, D. P., Finney, D. L., Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2019) ‘Eastern African paradox’ rainfall decline due to shorter not less intense long rains. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2. 34. ISSN 2397-3722 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-019-0091-7
Finney, D., Marsham, J., Rowell, D., Way, C., Evans, B., Cornforth, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4379-9556, Houghton-Carr, H., Mittal, N., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Anande, D., Anyah, R., Ascott, M., Black, E., Boorman, P., Booth, B., Bornemann, J., Burgin, L., Evans, J., Gudoshava, M., Kendon, E., Kisembe, J., Kondowe, A., Lapworth, D., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Lwiza, K., Macdonald, D., Maidment, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-3259, Misiani, H., Nakabugo, R., Sabiiti, G., Sangalugembe, C., Scanell, C., Segele, Z., Semazzi, F., Smith, K. R., Tadege, A., Tesfaye, K., Waniha, P., Wainwright, C., Wilby, R., Winterbourn, B. and Xia, S., (2019) Scientific understanding of East African climate change from the HyCRISTAL project. Technical Report. White Rose Research Online doi: https://doi.org/10.5518/100/19
Wainwright, C. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-7846, Hirons, L. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1189-7576, Klingaman, N. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 and Turner, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2019) The impact of air-sea coupling and ocean biases on the seasonal cycle of southern West African precipitation. Climate Dynamics, 53 (11). pp. 7027-7044. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04973-0
2018
Dunning, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-7846, Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 and Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2018) Later wet seasons with more intense rainfall over Africa under future climate change. Journal of Climate, 31. pp. 9719-9738. ISSN 0894-8755 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0102.1
Schmidt, A., Mills, M. J., Ghan, S., Gregory, J. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1296-8644, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Andrews, T., Bardeen, C. G., Conley, A., Forster, P. M., Gettelman, A., Portmann, R. W., Solomon, S. and Toon, O. B. (2018) Volcanic radiative forcing from 1979 to 2015. Journal of Geophysical Research, 123 (22). pp. 12491-12508. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028776
Hill, P. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9745-2120, Chiu, J. C., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Chern, J.-D. (2018) Characterizing the radiative effect of rain using a global ensemble of cloud resolving simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10 (10). pp. 2453-2470. ISSN 19422466 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001415
Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Liu, C. (2018) Overview of climate models and tropical extremes. In: Vuruputur, V., Sukhatme, J., Murtugudde, R. and Roca, R. (eds.) Tropical Extremes: Natural Variability and Trends. Elsevier, pp. 139-164. ISBN 9780128092484
Hyder, P., Edwards, J. M., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Hewitt, H. T., Bracegirdle, T. J., Gregory, J. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1296-8644, Wood, R. A., Meijers, A. J. S., Mulcahy, J., Field, P., Furtado, K., Bodas-Salcedo, A., Williams, K. D., Copsey, D., Josey, S. A., Liu, C., Roberts, C. D., Sanchez, C., Ridley, J., Thorpe, L., Hardiman, S. C., Mayer, M., Berry, D. I. and Belcher, S. E. (2018) Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors. Nature Communications, 9 (1). 3625. ISSN 2041-1723 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05634-2
John, V. O., Shi, L., Chung, E.-S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Buehler, S. A. and Soden, B. J. (2018) Upper tropospheric humidity [in "State of the Climate in 2017"]. In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99 (8). American Meteorological Society, S27-S28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2018bamsstateoftheclimate.1
Hill, P. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9745-2120, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Chiu, J. C., Bodas-Salcedo, A. and Knippertz, P. (2018) Quantifying the contribution of different cloud types to the radiation budget in southern West Africa. Journal of Climate, 31. pp. 5273-5291. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0586.1
Blenkinsop, S., Fowler, H. J., Barbero, R., Chan, S. C., Guerreiro, S. B., Kendon, E., Lenderink, G., Lewis, E., Li, X.-F., Westra, S., Alexander, L., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Berg, P., Dunn, R. J. H., Ekström, M., Evans, J. P., Holland, G., Jones, R., Kjellström, E., Klein-Tank, A., Lettenmaier, D., Mishra, V., Prein, A. F., Sheffield, J. and Tye, M. R. (2018) The INTENSE project: using observations and models to understand the past, present and future of sub-daily rainfall extremes. Advances in Science and Research, 15. pp. 117-126. ISSN 1992-0636 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-15-117-2018
Liu, C. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2018) Unrealistic increases in wind speed explain reduced eastern Pacific heat flux in reanalyses. Journal of Climate, 31 (8). pp. 2981-2993. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0642.1
2017
Dunning, C. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-7846, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 (2017) Identification of deficiencies in seasonal rainfall simulated by CMIP5 climate models. Environmental Research Letters, 12 (11). 114001. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa869e
John, V. O., Shi, L., Chung, E. -S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Buehler, S. A. and Soden, B. J. (2017) Upper tropospheric humidity [in “State of the Climate in 2016”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98 (8). S25-S26. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
Liu, C., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Mayer, M., Hyder, P., Loeb, N. G., Roberts, C. D., Valdivieso, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1738-7016, Edwards, J. M. and Vidale, P. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460 (2017) Evaluation of satellite and reanalysis-based global net surface energy flux and uncertainty estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122 (12). pp. 6250-6272. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026616
Malavelle, F. F., Haywood, J. M., Jones, A., Gettelman, A., Clarisse, L., Bauduin, S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Karset, I. H. H., Kristjánsson, J. E., Oreopoulos, L., Cho, N., Lee, D., Bellouin, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-9559, Boucher, O., Grosvenor, D. P., Carslaw, K. S., Dhomse, S., Mann, G. W., Schmidt, A., Coe, H., Hartley, M. E., Dalvi, M., Hill, A. A., Johnson, B. T., Johnson, C. E., Knight, J. R., O’Connor, F. M., Partridge, D. G., Stier, P., Myhre, G., Platnick, S., Stephens, G. L., Takahashi, H. and Thordarson, T. (2017) Strong constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions. Nature, 546 (7659). pp. 485-491. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22974
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2017) Decadal climate variability and the global energy balance. Past Global Changes, 25 (1). pp. 20-24. ISSN 2411-605X doi: https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.25.1.20
Roberts, C. D., Palmer, M. D., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Desbruyeres, D. G. D., Hyder, P., Liu, C. and Smith, D. (2017) Surface flux and ocean heat transport convergence contributions to seasonal and interannual variations of ocean heat content. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122 (1). pp. 726-744. ISSN 2169-9291 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012278
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2017) Global energy budget: elusive origin of warming slowdown. Nature Climate Change, 7 (5). pp. 316-317. ISSN 1758-678X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3282
Maidment, R. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-3259, Grimes, D., Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186, Tarnavsky, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3403-0411, Young, M., Greatrex, H., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Stein, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397, Nkonde, E., Senkunda, S. and Alcántara, E. M. U. (2017) A new, long-term daily satellite-based rainfall dataset for operational monitoring in Africa. Scientific Data, 4. 170063. ISSN 2052-4463 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.63
2016
Dunning, C. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-7846, Black, E. C. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2016) The onset and cessation of seasonal rainfall over Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121 (19). pp. 11405-11424. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025428
Hill, P. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9745-2120, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Chiu, J. C. and Stein, T. H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397 (2016) A multi-satellite climatology of clouds, radiation and precipitation in southern West Africa and comparison to climate models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121 (18). 10,857-10,879. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025246
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Lavers, D. A. and Champion, A. J. (2016) Diagnosing links between atmospheric moisture and extreme daily precipitation over the UK. International Journal of Climatology, 36 (9). pp. 3191-3206. ISSN 1097-0088 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4547
Zveryaev, I. I., Zahn, M. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2016) Interannual variability in the summertime hydrological cycle over European regions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121 (10). pp. 5381-5394. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD024425
Loeb, N. G., Wang, H., Cheng, A., Kato, S., Fasullo, J. T., Xu, K.-M. and Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2016) Observational constraints on atmospheric and oceanic cross-equatorial heat transports: revisiting the precipitation asymmetry problem in climate models. Climate Dynamics, 46 (9-10). pp. 3239-3257. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2766-z
MacIntosh, C. R., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Baker, L. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0738-9488, Bellouin, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-9559, Collins, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7419-0850, Mousavi, Z. and Shine, K. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2672-9978 (2016) Contrasting fast precipitation responses to tropospheric and stratospheric ozone forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (3). pp. 1263-1271. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL067231
Kumar, S., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Zwiers, F., Lawrence, D. M. and Dirmeyer, P. A. (2016) Revisiting trends in wetness and dryness in the presence of internal climate variability and water limitations over land. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (24). 10,867-10,875. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066858
Wood, E., Lamb, R., Warren, S., Hunter, N., Tawn, J., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Laeger, S. (2016) Development of large scale inland flood scenarios for disaster response planning based on spatial/temporal conditional probability analysis. E3S Web of Conferences, 7. 01003. ISSN 2267-1242 doi: https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160701003 (Issue name: 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FLOODrisk 2016))
2015
Liu, C., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Berrisford, P., Mayer, M., Hyder, P., Loeb, N., Smith, D., Vidale, P.-L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460 and Edwards, J. M. (2015) Combining satellite observations and reanalysis energy transports to estimate global net surface energy fluxes 1985-2012. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120 (18). pp. 9374-9389. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD023264
Knippertz, P., Coe, H., Chiu, J. C., Evans, M. J., Fink, A. H., Kalthoff, N., Liousse, C., Mari, C., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Brooks, B., Danour, S., Flamant, C., Jegede, O. O., Lohou, F. and Marsham, J. H. (2015) The DACCIWA project: dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96 (9). pp. 1451-1460. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00108.1
Champion, A. J., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Lavers, D. A. (2015) Atmospheric rivers do not explain UK summer extreme rainfall. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 120 (14). pp. 6731-6741. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JD022863
Hegerl, G. C., Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Ingram, W. J., Polson, D., Trenberth, K. E., Chadwick, R. S., Arkin, P. A., Sarojini, B. B., Becker, A., Dai, A., Durack, P. J., Easterling, D., Fowler, H. J., Kendon, E. J., Huffman, G. J., Liu, C., Marsh, R., New, M., Osborn, T. J., Skliris, N., Stott, P. A., Vidale, P.-L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460, Wijffels, S. E., Wilcox, L. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493, Willett, K. M. and Zhang, X. (2015) Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96 (7). pp. 1097-1115. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00212.1
Shine, K. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2672-9978, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Collins, W. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7419-0850 and Fuglestvedt, J. S. (2015) Metrics for linking emissions of gases and aerosols to global precipitation changes. Earth System Dynamics, 6 (2). pp. 525-540. ISSN 2190-4987 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-525-2015
Smith, D. M., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Coward, A. C., Eade, R., Hyder, P., Liu, C., Loeb, N. G., Palmer, M. D., Roberts, C. D. and Scaife, A. A. (2015) Earth's energy imbalance since 1960 in observations and CMIP5 models. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (4). pp. 1205-1213. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062669
Maidment, R. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-3259, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 (2015) Recent observed and simulated changes in precipitation over Africa. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (19). pp. 8155-8164. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL065765
2014
Tarnavsky, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3403-0411, Grimes, D., Maidment, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-3259, Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186, Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Stringer, M., Chadwick, R. and Kayitakire, F. (2014) Extension of the TAMSAT satellite-based rainfall monitoring over Africa and from 1983 to present. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 53 (12). pp. 2805-2822. ISSN 1558-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0016.1
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2014) Climate change: dichotomy of drought and deluge. Nature Geoscience, 7 (10). pp. 700-701. ISSN 1752-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2243
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Liu, C., Loeb, N. G., Palmer, M. D., Roberts, M., Smith, D. and Vidale, P.-L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460 (2014) Changes in global net radiative imbalance 1985-2012. Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (15). pp. 5588-5597. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL060962
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Liu, C., Zahn, M., Lavers, D. A., Koukouvagias, E. and Bodas-Salcedo, A. (2014) Physically consistent responses of the global atmospheric hydrological cycle in models and observations. Surveys in Geophysics, 35 (3). pp. 533-552. ISSN 1573-0956 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-012-9213-z
Skliris, N., Marsh, R., Josey, S. A., Good, S. A., Liu, C. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2014) Salinity changes in the world ocean since 1950 in relation to changing surface freshwater fluxes. Climate Dynamics, 43 (3-4). pp. 709-736. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2131-7
Field, P. R., Cotton, R. J., McBeath, K., Lock, A. P., Webster, S. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2014) Improving a convection-permitting model simulation of a cold air outbreak. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 140 (678). pp. 124-138. ISSN 00359009 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2116
Liu, C., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Brooks, M. and Milton, S. (2014) Comparing tropical precipitation simulated by the Met Office NWP and climate models with satellite observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 53 (1). pp. 200-214. ISSN 1558-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-082.1
Pearson, K. J., Lister, G. M. S., Birch, C. E., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Hogan, R. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-5157 and Woolnough, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-8514 (2014) Modelling the diurnal cycle of tropical convection across the "Grey Zone". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 140 (679). pp. 491-499. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2145
Maidment, R. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-3259, Grimes, D., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Tarnavsky, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3403-0411, Stringer, M., Hewison, T., Roebeling, R. and Black, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6186 (2014) The 30-year TAMSAT African rainfall climatology and time-series (TARCAT) dataset. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 119 (18). pp. 10619-10644. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JD021927
2013
Maidment, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-3259, Grimes, D. I. F., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Greatrex, H., Rojas, O. and Leo, O. (2013) Evaluation of satellite-based and model re-analysis rainfall estimates for Uganda. Meteorological Applications, 20 (3). pp. 308-317. ISSN 1469-8080 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1283
Zahn, M. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2013) Climate warming–related strengthening of the tropical hydrological cycle. Journal of Climate, 26 (2). pp. 562-574. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00222.1
John, V. O., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Bell, W., Buehler, S. A. and Kottayil, A. (2013) Assessment of intercalibration methods for satellite microwave humidity sounders. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118 (10). pp. 4906-4918. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50358
Lavers, D. A., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Villarini, G., Lloyd-Hughes, B., Brayshaw, D. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-4362 and Wade, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5296-8350 (2013) Future changes in atmospheric rivers and their implications for winter flooding in Britain. Environmental Research Letters, 8 (3). 034010. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034010
Polson, D., Hegerl, G. C., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Balan Sarojini, B. (2013) Have greenhouse gases intensified the contrast between wet and dry regions? Geophysical Research Letters, 40 (17). pp. 4783-4787. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50923
Liu, C. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2013) Observed and simulated precipitation responses in wet and dry regions 1850–2100. Environmental Research Letters, 8 (3). 034002. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034002
2012
Williams, C.J.R., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Kniveton, D.R. (2012) Diagnosing atmosphere–land feedbacks in CMIP5 climate models. Environmental Research Letters, 7 (4). 044003. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044003
Lavers, D. A., Villarini, G., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Wood, E. F. and Wade, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5296-8350 (2012) The detection of atmospheric rivers in atmospheric reanalyses and their links to British winter floods and the large-scale climatic circulation. Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheres, 117 (D20). ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JD018027
Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2012) Regime dependent changes in global precipitation. Climate Dynamics, 39 (3-4). pp. 827-840. ISSN 1432-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1134-x
Liu, C., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Huffman, G. J. (2012) Co-variation of temperature and precipitation in CMIP5 models and satellite observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 39. L13803. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL052093
O’Gorman, P. A., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Byrne, M. P. and Previdi, M. (2012) Energetic constraints on precipitation under climate change. Surveys in Geophysics, 33 (3-4). pp. 585-608. ISSN 1573-0956 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-011-9159-6
Liu, C. and Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2012) Multi-satellite observed responses of precipitation and its extremes to interannual climate variability. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117. D03101. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016568
Loeb, N. G., Lyman, J. M., Johnson, G. C., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Doelling, D. R., Wong, T., Soden, B. J. and Stephens, G. L. (2012) Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent within uncertainty. Nature Geoscience, 15. pp. 110-113. ISSN 1752-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1375
Bengtsson, L., Koumoutsaris, S., Bonnet, R. -M., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Fröhlich, C., Heintzenberg, J., Ingmann, P., Kandel, R., Loeb, N. G., Soden, B. and Trenberth, K. E. (2012) Observing and Modeling Earth's Energy Flows. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, 41. Springer. ISBN 9789400743267
Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2012) The role of water vapour in Earth’s energy flows. Surveys in Geophysics, 33 (3-4). pp. 557-564. ISSN 1573-0956 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-011-9157-8 (special issue: Observing and Modeling Earth's Energy Flows)
2011
Zahn, M. and Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2011) Changes in water vapor transports of the ascending branch of the tropical circulation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116. D18111. ISSN 2156–2202 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016206
Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2011) Combining satellite data and models to estimate cloud radiative effect at the surface and in the atmosphere. Meteorological Applications, 18 (3). pp. 324-333. ISSN 1469-8080 (special issue: 'Sensing the weather')
John, V.O., Holl, G., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Buehler, S.A., Parker, D.E. and Soden, B.J. (2011) Clear-sky biases in satellite infrared estimates of upper tropospheric humidity and its trends. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116. D14108. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JD015355
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Woodage, M. J., Milton, S. F., Brooks, M. E. and Haywood, J. M. (2011) Examination of long-wave radiative bias in general circulation models over North Africa during May–July. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 137 (658). pp. 1179-1192. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.717
Haywood, J. M., Johnson, B. T., Osborne, S. R., Baran, A. J., Brooks, M., Milton, S. F., Mulcahy, J., Walters, D., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Klaver, A., Formenti, P., Brindley, H. E., Christopher, S. and Gupta, P. (2011) Motivation, rationale and key results from the GERBILS Saharan dust measurement campaign. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 137 (658). pp. 1106-1116. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.797
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Zveryaev, I.I. (2011) Variability in the summer season hydrological cycle over the Atlantic-Europe region 1979-2007. International Journal of Climatology, 31 (3). pp. 337-348. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.2070
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2011) Human influence on rainfall. Nature, 470 (7334). pp. 344-345. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/470344a
Lavers, D., Allan, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Wood, E. F., Villarini, G., Brayshaw, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-4362 and Wade, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5296-8350 (2011) Winter floods in Britain are connected to atmospheric rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 38 (23). L23803. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL049783
2010
Pearson, K. J., Hogan, R. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-5157, Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Lister, G. M. S. and Holloway, C.E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989 (2010) Evaluation of the model representation of the evolution of convective systems using satellite observations of outgoing longwave radiation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115. A20206. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JD014265
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Liepert, B. G. (2010) Anticipated changes in the global atmospheric water cycle. Environmental Research Letters, 5 (2). 025201. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/5/2/025201
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Soden, B. J., John, V. O., Ingram, W. and Good, P. (2010) Current changes in tropical precipitation. Environmental Research Letters, 5 (2). 025205. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/5/2/025205
Zveryaev, I. I. and Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2010) Summertime precipitation variability over europe and its links to atmospheric dynamics and evaporation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115. D12102. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD011213
2009
Haywood, J. M., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Bornemann, J., Forster, P. M., Francis, P. N., Milton, S., Radel, G., Rap, A., Shine, K. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2672-9978 and Thorpe, R. (2009) A case study of the radiative forcing of persistent contrails evolving into contrail-induced cirrus. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114 (D24). D24201. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012650
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2009) Examination of Relationships between Clear-Sky Longwave Radiation and Aspects of the Atmospheric Hydrological Cycle in Climate Models, Reanalyses, and Observations. Journal of Climate, 22 (11). 3127 -3145 . ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2616.1
John, V.O., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Soden, B.J. (2009) How robust are observed and simulated precipitation responses to tropical ocean warming? Geophysical Research Letters, 36. L14702 . ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL038276
Pearson, K. J., Hogan, R.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3180-5157, Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Lister, G. M. S. (2009) How well do high resolution models reproduce tropical convection? Proceedings of the 2009 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, P.55. S8, 44. ISSN 1011-3932
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and John, V.O. (2009) Monitoring changes in precipitation and radiative energy using satellite data and climate models. Proceedings of the 2009 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, P.55. S6, 37. ISSN 1011-3932
Barber, C.R., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Ringer, M. (2009) Observations of changes in marine boundary layer clouds. Proceedings of the 2009 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, P.55. S6, 25. ISSN 1011-3932
Haywood, J. M., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Bornemann, J., Forster, P. M., Francis, P. N., Milton, S., Radel, G., Rap, A., Shine, K. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2672-9978 and Thorpe, R. (2009) A case study of the radiative forcing of persistent contrails evolving into contrail-induced cirrus. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114 (D24). D24201. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012650
2008
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Soden, B.J. (2008) Atmospheric warming and the amplification of precipitation extremes. Science, 321 (5895). pp. 1481-1484. ISSN 1095-9203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1160787
Zveryaev, I.I., Wibig, J. and Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2008) Contrasting interannual variability of atmospheric moisture over Europe during cold and warm seasons. Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 60 (1). pp. 32-41. ISSN 0280-6495 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00283.x
Milton, S. F., Greed, G., Brooks, M. E., Haywood, J., Johnson, B., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Slingo, A. and Grey, W. M. F. (2008) Modeled and observed atmospheric radiation balance during the West African dry season: role of mineral dust, biomass burning aerosol, and surface albedo. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113 (D20). D00C02. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JD009741
Slingo, A., Bharmal, N.A., Robinson, G.J., Settle, J.J., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, White, H.E., Lamb, P.J., Lele, M. I., Turner, D.D., MacFarlane, S., Kassianov, E., Barnard, J., Flynn, C. and Miller, M. (2008) Overview of observations from the RADAGAST experiment in Niamey, Niger: Meteorology and thermodynamic variables. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113 (D20). D00E01. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD009909
2007
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Soden, B. J. (2007) Large discrepancy between observed and simulated precipitation trends in the ascending and descending branches of the tropical circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 34. L18705. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031460
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2007) Monitoring present day changes in water vapour and the radiative energy balance using satellite data, reanalyses and models. Joint 2007 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference and the 15th Satellite Meteorology & Oceanography Conference of the American Meteorological Society, P.50. ISSN 1011-3932
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2007) Improved simulation of water vapour and clear-sky radiation using 24 hour forecasts from ERA40. Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 59A (3). pp. 336-343. ISSN 0280-6495 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00229.x
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Slingo, A., Milton, S. F. and Brooks, M. E. (2007) Evaluation of the Met Office global forecast model using Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) data. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 133 (629). pp. 1993-2010. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.166
Comer, R. E., Slingo, A. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2007) Observations of the diurnal cycle of outgoing longwave radiation from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget instrument. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (2). L02823. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028229
2006
Bony, S., Colman, R., Kattsov, V.M., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Bretherton, C.S., Hall, A., Hallegatte, S., Holland, M.M., Ingram, W., Randall, D.A., Soden, B.J., Tselioudis, G. and Webb, M.J. (2006) How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback processes? Journal of Climate, 19 (15). pp. 3445-3482. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3819.1
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Slingo, A. , Milton, S.F. and Brooks, M.E. (2006) Exploitation of Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) data from 2003-2006 in the evaluation of the Met Office global NWP model. In: Proceedings of the EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellites Conference, Helsinki, Finland, p48.
Slingo, A., Ackerman, T.P., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Kassianov, E.I., McFarlane, S.A., Robinson, G.J., Barnard, J.C., Miller, M.A., Harries, J.E., Russell, J.E. and Dewitte, S. (2006) Observations of the impact of a major Saharan dust storm on the Earth's radiation balance. Geophysical Research Letters, 33. L24817. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027869
Harries, J.E., Slingo, A. , Russell, J.E. , Brindley, H.E. , Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Comer, R. E., (2006) Performance of and early scientific results from GERB. Paper submitted to the EUMETSAT Scientific and Technical Group - Science Working Group. UNSPECIFIED, Darmstadt.
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2006) Using satellite observations and reanalyses to evaluate climate and weather forecast models. In: Current problems in atmospheric radiation, Proceedings of the International Radiation Symposium, Busan, South Korea, pp. 451-454.
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2006) Variability in clear-sky longwave radiative cooling of the atmosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111. D22105. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JD007304
Comer, R. E., Slingo, A. and Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2006) The diurnal cycle observed by Meteosat-8 and simulated by a climate model. In: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellites Conference, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 48-53.
2005
Zveryaev, I.I. and Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2005) Water vapor variability in the tropics and its links to dynamics and precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110 (D21). D21112. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JD006033
Uppala, S.M., KÅllberg, P. W., Simmons, A. J., Andrae, U., Bechtold, V. D. C., Fiorino, M., Gibson, J. K., Haseler, J., Hernandez, A., Kelly, G. A., Li, X., Onogi, K., Saarinen, S., Sokka, N., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Andersson, E., Arpe, K., Balmaseda, M. A., Beljaars, A. C. M., Berg, L. V. D., Bidlot, J., Bormann, N., Caires, S., Chevallier, F., Dethof, A., Dragosavac, M., Fisher, M., Fuentes, M., Hagemann, S., Hólm, E., Hoskins, B. J., Isaksen, L., Janssen, P. A. E. M., Jenne, R., Mcnally, A. P., Mahfouf, J.-F., Morcrette, J.-J., Rayner, N. A., Saunders, R. W., Simon, P., Sterl, A., Trenberth, K. E., Untch, A., Vasiljevic, D., Viterbo, P. and Woollen, J. (2005) The ERA-40 re-analysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 131 (612). pp. 2961-3012. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1256/qj.04.176
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Slingo, A., Milton, S.F. and Culverwell, I. (2005) Exploitation of Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget data using simulations from a numerical weather prediction model: Methodology and data validation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110 (D14). D14111. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JD005698
Harries, J. E., Russell, J. E., Hanafin, J. A., Brindley, H., Futyan, J., Rufus, J., Kellock, S., Matthews, G., Wrigley, R., Last, A., Mueller, J., Mossavati, R., Ashmall, J., Sawyer, E., Parker, D., Caldwell, M., Allan, P. M., Smith, A., Bates, M. J., Coan, B., Stewart, B. C., Lepine, D. R., Cornwall, L. A., Corney, D. R., Ricketts, M. J., Drummond, D., Smart, D., Cutler, R., Dewitte, S., Clerbaux, N., Gonzalez, L., Ipe, A., Bertrand, C., Joukoff, A., Crommelynck, D., Nelms, N., Llewellyn-Jones, D. T., Butcher, G., Smith, G. L., Szewczyk, Z. P., Mlynczak, P. E., Slingo, A., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Ringer, M. A. (2005) The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86 (7). pp. 945-960. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-86-7-945
Haywood, J.M., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Culverwell, I., Slingo, A., Milton, S.F., Edwards, J.M. and Clerbaux, N. (2005) Can desert dust explain the outgoing longwave radiation anomaly over the Sahara during July 2003? Journal of Geophysical Research, 110 (D5). D05105. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JD005232
2004
Haywood, J.M., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Culverwell, I., Slingo, A., Milton, S. and Edwards, J., (2004) Can desert dust explain the anomalous greenhouse effect observed over the Sahara during July 2003 revealed by GERB/UM intercomparisons. MRF Technical Note. UNSPECIFIED
Ringer, M.A. and Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2004) Evaluating climate model simulations of tropical cloud. Tellus, 56A. pp. 308-327.
Russell, J.E., Harries, J.E., Hanafin, J., Brindley, H., Futyan, J.M., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Slingo, A. and Ringer, M.A. (2004) The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Experiment: Science and Applications. In: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, Weimar, Germany.
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Slingo, A., Milton, S. and Culverwell, I. (2004) SINERGEE: simulation and exploitation of data from Meteosat-8 using an NWP model. In: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Ringer, M.A., Pamment, J.A. and Slingo, A. (2004) Simulation of the Earth's radiation budget by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 40-year reanalysis (ERA40). Journal of Geophysical Research, 109 (D18). D18107. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JD004816
Russell, J.E., Futyan, J.M., Harries, J.E., Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Slingo, A. (2004) Strategies for determining clear-sky fluxes from GERB data. In: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2004) Water vapour feedback observations and climate sensitivity. In: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 Workshop on Climate Sensitivity., Paris, France.
2003
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Ringer, M.A. and Slingo, A. (2003) Evaluation of moisture in the Hadley Centre Climate Model using simulations of HIRS water vapour channel radiances,. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 129. p. 595. ISSN 1477-870X
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Ringer, M.A. (2003) Inconsistencies between satellite estimates of longwave cloud forcing and dynamical fields from reanalyses. Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (9). 1491. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2003GL017019
Brindley, H. and Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2003) Simulations of the effects of inter-annual and decadal variability on the clear-sky outgoing longwave radiation spectrum. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 129. pp. 2971-2988. ISSN 1477-870X
2002
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Ramaswamy, V. and Slingo, A. (2002) Diagnostic analysis of atmospheric moisture and clear-sky radiative feedback in the Hadley Centre and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) climate models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (D17). 4329. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JD001131
Allan, R.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Slingo, A. and Ramaswamy, V. (2002) Analysis of moisture variability in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 15-year reanalysis over the tropical oceans. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (D15). 4230. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JD001132
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Slingo, A. (2002) Can current climate model forcings explain the spatial and temporal signatures of decadal OLR variations? Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (7). 1141. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2001GL014620
Trenberth, K. E., Wielicki, B. A., Del Genio, A. D., Wong, T., Chen, J., Carlson, B. E., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Robertson, F., Jacobowitz, H., Slingo, A., Randall, D. A., Kiehl, J. T., Soden, B. J., Gordon, C. T., Miller, A. J., Yang, S.-K. and Susskind, J. (2002) Changes in tropical clouds and radiation. Science, 296 (5576). 2095a. ISSN 1095-9203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.296.5576.2095a
Wielicki, B. A., Wong, T., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Slingo, A., Kiehl, J. T., Soden, B. J., Gordon, C. T., Miller, A. J., Yang, S.-K., Randall, D. A., Robertson, F., Susskind, J. and Jacobowitz, H. (2002) Evidence for large decadal variability in the tropical mean radiative energy budget. Science, 295 (5556). pp. 841-844. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1065837
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Slingo, A. and Ringer, M. A. (2002) Influence of dynamics on the changes in tropical cloud radiative forcing during the 1998 El Niño. Journal of Climate, 15 (14). pp. 1979-1986. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<1979:IODOTC>2.0.CO;2
2000
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 (2000) Evaluation of simulated clear-sky longwave radiation using ground-based observations. Journal of Climate, 13. pp. 1951-1964. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1951:EOSCSL>2.0.CO;2
Slingo, A., Pamment, J. A., Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Wilson, P. S. (2000) Water vapor feedbacks in the ECMWF reanalyses and Hadley Centre climate model. Journal of Climate, 13 (17). pp. 3080-3098. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<3080:WVFITE>2.0.CO;2
1999
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447, Shine, K. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2672-9978, Slingo, A. and Pamment, J. A. (1999) The dependence of clear-sky outgoing longwave radiation on surface temperature and relative humidity. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 125 Part B. pp. 2103-2126. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.49712555809
1998
Allan, R. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-9447 and Slingo, A. (1998) Simulated long-wave clear-sky irradiance over the ocean: spatial and temporal variability 1979-1993. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 23 (5-6). pp. 599-604. ISSN 1474-7065 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-1946(98)00080-9
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