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Professor Rowan Sutton

Professor of Climate Science and Research Dean (Environment)

Responsibilities:

I am Research Dean (Environment) for the University of Reading and a Senior Scientist in the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)

Research Interests:

  • Climate variability, change, predictability and prediction, particularly in the Atlantic sector. Also climate risks.

Research Projects:

  • Climate Change in the Arctic - North Atlantic region and impacts on the UK (CANARI)
  • Explaining and Predicting the Ocean Conveyor (EPOC)
  • UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI)
  • Wider impacts of Subpolar North Atlantic decadal variability on the ocean and atmosphere (WISHBONE)
  • The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS; completed 2022)

Research Group:

Other interests

Centaur Publications

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Number of items: 134.

2023

Robson, Jon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-018X, Sutton, Rowan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Menary, Mathew B. and Lai, Michael W.K. (2023) Contrasting internally and externally generated Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and the role for AMOC in CMIP6 historical simulations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. ISSN 1471-2962 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0194 (In Press)

Lehner, Flavio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4632-9701, Hawkins, Ed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677, Sutton, Rowan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Pendergrass, Angeline G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2542-1461 and Moore, Frances C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3866-9642 (2023) New potential to reduce uncertainty in regional climate projections by combining physical and socio‐economic constraints. AGU Advances, 4 (4). e2023AV000887. ISSN 2576-604X doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000887

Hodson, Daniel L. R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-6700, Sutton, Rowan T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583 and Scaife, Adam A. (2023) Signal‐to‐noise and predictable modes of variability in winter seasonal forecasts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4522 (In Press)

Harvey, Ben ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6510-8181, Hawkins, Ed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677 and Sutton, Rowan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583 (2023) Storylines for future changes of the North Atlantic jet and associated impacts on the UK. International Journal of Climatology. ISSN 1097-0088 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8095

Dong, Buwen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0809-7911, Sutton, Rowan T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583 and Wilcox, Laura J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493 (2023) Decadal trends in surface solar radiation and cloud cover over the North Atlantic sector during the last four decades: drivers and physical processes. Climate Dynamics, 60. pp. 2533-2546. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06438-3

Wood, Richard A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3960-9513, Crucifix, Michel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3437-4911, Lenton, Timothy M., Mach, Katharine J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5591-8148, Moore, Crystal, New, Mark, Sharpe, Simon, Stocker, Thomas F. and Sutton, Rowan T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583 (2023) A climate science toolkit for high impact‐low likelihood climate risks. Earth's Future, 11 (4). e2022EF003369. ISSN 2328-4277 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022ef003369

Findell, Kirsten L., Sutton, Rowan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Caltabiano, Nico, Brookshaw, Anca, Heimbach, Patrick, Kimoto, Masahide, Osprey, Scott, Smith, Doug, Risbey, James S., Wang, Zhuo, Cheng, Lijing, Diaz, Leandro, Donat, Markus G., Ek, Michael, Lee, June-Yi, Minobe, Shoshiro, Rusticucci, Matilde, Vitart, Frederic and Wang, Lin (2023) Explaining and predicting Earth System Change: a world climate research programme call to action. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104 (1). E325-E339. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0280.1

2022

Robson, Jon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-018X, Menary, Matthew B., Sutton, Rowan T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Mecking, Jenny, Gregory, Jonathan M., Jones, Colin, Sinha, Bablu, Stevens, David P. and Wilcox, Laura J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-1493 (2022) The role of anthropogenic aerosol forcing in the 1850-1985 strengthening of the AMOC in CMIP6 historical simulations. Journal of Climate, 35 (20). pp. 3243-3263. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0124.1

Smith, Doug M., Gillett, Nathan P., Simpson, Isla R., Athanasiadis, Panos J., Baehr, Johanna, Bethke, Ingo, Bilge, Tarkan A., Bonnet, Rémy, Boucher, Olivier, Findell, Kirsten L., Gastineau, Guillaume, Gualdi, Silvio, Hermanson, Leon, Leung, L. Ruby, Mignot, Juliette, Müller, Wolfgang A., Osprey, Scott, Otterå, Odd Helge, Persad, Geeta G., Scaife, Adam A., Schmidt, Gavin A., Shiogama, Hideo, Sutton, Rowan T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Swingedouw, Didier, Yang, Shuting, Zhou, Tianjun and Ziehn, Tilo (2022) Attribution of multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system: The Large Ensemble Single Forcing Model Intercomparison Project (LESFMIP). Frontiers in Climate, 4. 955414. ISSN 2624-9553 doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.955414

Dimdore-Miles, Oscar, Gray, Lesley, Osprey, Scott, Robson, Jon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-018X, Sutton, Rowan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583 and Sinha, Bablu (2022) Interactions between the stratospheric polar vortex and Atlantic circulation on seasonal to multi-decadal timescales. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22 (7). pp. 4867-4893. ISSN 1680-7316 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4867-2022

Dong, Buwen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0809-7911, Sutton, Rowan T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Shaffrey, Len and Harvey, Ben ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6510-8181 (2022) Recent decadal weakening of the summer Eurasian westerly jet attributable to anthropogenic aerosol emissions. Nature Communications, 13. 1148. ISSN 2041-1723 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28816-5

Martin, Maria A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1443-0891, Boakye, Emmanuel A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0993-4964, Boyd, Emily ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1643-9718, Broadgate, Wendy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4409-2800, Bustamante, Mercedes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1008-452X, Canadell, Josep G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8788-3218, Carr, Edward R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7784-471X, Chu, Eric K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5648-6615, Cleugh, Helen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4109-6884, Csevar, Szilvia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6376-0363, Daoudy, Marwa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2223-847X, de Bremond, Ariane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0924-6053, Dhimal, Meghnath ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7176-7821, Ebi, Kristie L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4746-8236, Edwards, Clea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4343-4904, Fuss, Sabine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8681-9839, Girardin, Martin P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0436-7486, Glavovic, Bruce ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5235-1425, Hebden, Sophie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1787-1649, Hirota, Marina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1958-3651, Hsu, Huang-Hsiung ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9919-4404, Huq, Saleemul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9398-973X, Ingold, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8166-1780, Johannessen, Ola M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0026-4885, Kameyama, Yasuko ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5143-2688, Kumarasinghe, Nilushi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1087-6001, Langendijk, Gaby S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0178-7832, Lissner, Tabea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6637-6084, Lwasa, Shuaib ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4312-2836, Machalaba, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9715-0985, Maltais, Aaron ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4557-0069, Mathai, Manu V. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6498-4411, Mbow, Cheikh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4620-4490, McNamara, Karen E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4511-8403, Mukherji, Aditi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8061-4349, Murray, Virginia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4746-4024, Mysiak, Jaroslav ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9341-7048, Okereke, Chukwumerije ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0132-8051, Ospina, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5115-0899, Otto, Friederike ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8166-5917, Prakash, Anjal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3749-0854, Pulhin, Juan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3271-7351, Raju, Emmanuel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2348-1850, Redman, Aaron ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8893-569X, Rigaud, Kanta K., Rockström, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8988-2983, Roy, Joyashree ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9270-8860, Schipper, E. Lisa F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6228-9178, Schlosser, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6514-4203, Schulz, Karsten A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7503-4817, Schumacher, Kim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6297-0964, Schwarz, Luana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1726-1509, Scown, Murray ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0663-7937, Šedová, Barbora ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7159-8260, Siddiqui, Tasneem A., Singh, Chandni ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6842-6735, Sioen, Giles B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5180-0663, Stammer, Detlef ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5777-5347, Steinert, Norman J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2154-5857, Suk, Sunhee, Sutton, Rowan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Thalheimer, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3737-3586, van Aalst, Maarten ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0319-5627, van der Geest, Kees ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5013-1004 and Zhao, Zhirong Jerry ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6758-5723 (2022) Ten new insights in climate science 2022. Global Sustainability, 5. e20. ISSN 2059-4798 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2022.17

2021

Dong, Buwen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0809-7911 and Sutton, Rowan T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583 (2021) Recent trends in summer atmospheric circulation in the North Atlantic/European region: is there a role for anthropogenic aerosols? Journal Of Climate, 34 (16). pp. 6777-6795. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0665.1

Ortega, Pablo, Robson, Jon I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-018X, Menary, Matthew, Sutton, Rowan T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583, Blaker, Adam, Germe, Agathe, Hirschi, Jöel J.-M., Sinha, Bablu, Hermanson, Leon and Yeager, Stephen (2021) Labrador Sea subsurface density as a precursor of multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic: a multi-model study. Earth System Dynamics, 12 (2). pp. 419-438. ISSN 2190-4987 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-419-2021

2020

Senior, Catherine A., Jones, Colin G., Wood, Richard A., Sellar, Alistair, Belcher, Stephen, Klein‐Tank, Albert, Sutton, Rowan, Walton, Jeremy, Lawrence, Bryan, Andrews, Timothy and Mulcahy, Jane P. (2020) UK community Earth system modelling for CMIP6. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12 (9). e2019MS002004. ISSN 1942-2466 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS002004

Robson, Jon, Aksenov, Yevgeny, Bracegirdle, Thomas J., Dimdore-Miles, Oscar, Griffiths, Paul T., Grosvenor, Daniel P., Hodson, Daniel L.R., Keeble, James, MacIntosh, Claire, Megann, Alex, Osprey, Scott, Povey, Adam C., Schröder, David, Yang, Mingxi, Archibald, Alexander T., Carslaw, Ken S., Gray, Lesley, Jones, Colin, Kerridge, Brian, Knappett, Diane, Kuhlbrodt, Till ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2328-6729, Russo, Maria, Sellar, Alistair, Siddans, Richard, Sinha, Bablu, Sutton, Rowan, Walton, Jeremy and Wilcox, Laura J. (2020) The evaluation of the North Atlantic climate system in UKESM1 historical simulations for CMIP6. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12 (9). e2020MS002126. ISSN 1942-2466 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002126

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan T., Shaffrey, Len and Wilcox, Laura J. (2020) Attribution of 2012 extreme climate events: does air-sea interaction matter? Climate Dynamics, 55 (5-6). pp. 1225-1245. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05321-3

Sutton, Rowan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583 and Hawkins, Ed ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677 (2020) ESD Ideas: global climate response scenarios for IPCC assessments. Earth System Dynamics, 11. pp. 751-754. ISSN 2190-4987 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-751-2020

Menary, Matthew B., Robson, Jon, Allan, Richard, Booth, Ben B. B., Cassou, Christophe, Gastineau, Guillaume, Gregory, Jonathan, Hodson, Daniel, Jones, Colin, Mignot, Juliette, Ringer, Mark, Sutton, Rowan, Wilcox, Laura and Zhang, Rong (2020) Aerosol-forced AMOC changes in CMIP6 historical simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. e2020GL088166. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088166

Ossó, Albert, Sutton, Rowan, Shaffrey, Len and Dong, Buwen (2020) Development, amplification, and decay of Atlantic/European summer weather patterns linked to spring North Atlantic sea surface temperatures. Journal of Climate, 33 (14). pp. 5939-5951. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-19-0613.1

Dittus, Andrea J., Hawkins, Ed, Wilcox, Laura J., Sutton, Rowan, Smith, Christopher J., Andrews, Martin B. and Forster, Piers M. (2020) Sensitivity of historical climate simulations to uncertain aerosol forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (13). e2019GL085806. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085806

Andrews, Martin B., Ridley, Jeff K., Wood, Richard A., Andrews, Timothy, Blockley, Edward W., Booth, Ben, Burke, Eleanor, Dittus, Andrea J., Florek, Piotr, Gray, Lesley J., Haddad, Stephen, Hardiman, Steven C., Hermanson, Leon, Hodson, Dan, Hogan, Emma, Jones, Gareth S., Knight, Jeff R., Kuhlbrodt, Till, Misios, Stergios, Mizielinski, Matthew S., Ringer, Mark A., Robson, Jon and Sutton, Rowan T. (2020) Historical simulations with HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12 (6). e2019MS001995. ISSN 1942-2466 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001995

Tian, Fangxing, Dong, Buwen, Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan and Wilcox, Laura (2020) Processes shaping the spatial pattern and seasonality of the surface air temperature response to anthropogenic forcing. Climate Dynamics, 54 (9-10). pp. 3959-3975. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05211-8

Hawkins, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3677, Frame, D., Harrington, L., Joshi, M., King, A., Rojas, M. and Sutton, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-8583 (2020) Observed emergence of the climate change signal: from the familiar to the unknown. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (6). e2019GL086259. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086259

2019

Ossó, Albert, Shaffrey, Len, Dong, Buwen and Sutton, Rowan (2019) Impact of air-sea coupling on northern hemisphere summer climate and the monsoon-desert teleconnection. Climate Dynamics, 53 (7-8). pp. 5063-5078. ISSN 1432-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04846-6

Tian, Fangxing, Dong, Buwen, Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan and Tett, Simon (2019) Projected near term changes in the East Asian summer monsoon and its uncertainty. Environmental Research Letters, 14 (8). 084038. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab28a6

Zhang, Rong, Sutton, Rowan, Danabasoglu, Gokhan, Kwon, Young‐Oh, Marsh, Robert, Yeager, Stephen G., Amrhein, Danial E. and Little, Christopher M. (2019) A review of the role of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in Atlantic multidecadal variability and associated climate impacts. Reviews of Geophysics, 57 (2). pp. 316-375. ISSN 8755-1209 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000644

Sutton, Rowan (2019) Climate science needs to take risk assessment much more seriously. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (9). pp. 1637-1642. ISSN 0003-0007 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0280.1

Dong, Buwen, Wilcox, Laura J., Highwood, Eleanor J. and Sutton, Rowan T. (2019) Impacts of recent decadal changes in Asian aerosols on the East Asian summer monsoon: roles of aerosol–radiation and aerosol–cloud interactions. Climate Dynamics, 53 (5-6). pp. 3235-3256. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04698-0 (Dong, B., Wilcox, L.J., Highwood, E.J. et al. Clim Dyn (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04698-0)

2018

Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan T., Archibald, Alex, Cooper, Fenwick, Christensen, Matthew, Gray, Lesley J., Holliday, N. Penny, Macintosh, Claire, McMillan, Malcolm, Moat, Ben, Russo, Maria, Tilling, Rachel, Carslaw, Ken, Desbruyères, Damien, Embury, Owen, Feltham, Daniel L., Grosvenor, Daniel P., Josey, Simon, King, Brian, Lewis, Alastair, McCarthy, Gerard D., Merchant, Chris, New, Adrian L., O'Reilly, Christopher H., Osprey, Scott M., Read, Katie, Scaife, Adam, Shepherd, Andrew, Sinha, Bablu, Smeed, David, Smith, Doug, Ridout, Andrew, Woollings, Tim and Yang, Mingxi (2018) Recent multivariate changes in the North Atlantic climate system, with a focus on 2005-2016. International Journal of Climatology, 38 (12). pp. 5050-5076. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5815

Tian, Fangxing, Dong, Buwen, Robson, Jon and Sutton, Rowan (2018) Forced decadal changes in the East Asian summer monsoon: the roles of greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols. Climate Dynamics, 51 (9-10). pp. 3699-3715. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4105-7

Arnell, Nigel, Qingchen, C., Ying, X., Junfeng, L., Tong, J., Guangsheng, Z., Kexiu, L., Brown, Sally, Challinor, Andrew, Hawkins, Ed, Koehler, Ann-Kristin, Nicholls, Robert, Sutton, Rowan, Rensheng, C., Xiaomin, L. and Wentao, W. (2018) Direct risks of climate change. In: UK-China Co-operation on Climate Change Risk Assessment: Developing Indicators of Climate Risk. Committee on Climate Change, London, pp. 58-97.

Baker, L. H., Shaffrey, L. C., Sutton, R. T., Weisheimer, A. and Scaife, A. A. (2018) An intercomparison of skill and overconfidence/underconfidence of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation in multimodel seasonal forecasts. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (15). pp. 7808-7817. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078838

Wilcox, Laura J., Yiou, Pascal, Hauser, Mathias, Lott, Fraser C., van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan, Colfescu, Ioana, Dong, Buwen, Hegerl, Gabi, Shaffrey, Len and Sutton, Rowan (2018) Multiple perspectives on the attribution of the extreme European summer of 2012 to climate change. Climate Dynamics, 50 (9-10). pp. 3537-3555. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-3822-7

Sutton, R. T., McCarthy, G. D., Robson, J., Sinha, B., Archibald, A. T. and Gray, L. J. (2018) Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and the U.K. ACSIS program. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99 (2). pp. 415-425. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1

Osso, Albert, Sutton, Rowan, Shaffrey, Len and Dong, Buwen (2018) Observational evidence of European summer weather patterns predictable from spring. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115 (1). pp. 59-63. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713146114

Collins, Matthew, Minobe, Shoshiro, Barreiro, Marcelo, Bordoni, Simona, Kaspi, Yohai, Kuwano-Yoshida, Akira, Keenlyside, Noel, Manzini, Elisa, O'Reilly, Christopher H., Sutton, Rowan, Xie, Shang-Ping and Zolina, Olga (2018) Challenges and opportunities for improved understanding of regional climate dynamics. Nature Climate Change, 8. pp. 101-108. ISSN 1758-678X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-017-0059-8

Sutton, Rowan T. (2018) ESD ideas: a simple proposal to improve the contribution of IPCC WGI to the assessment and communication of climate change risks. Earth System Dynamics, 9 (4). pp. 1155-1158. ISSN 2190-4987 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-1155-2018

2017

Wolf, Eric, Arnell, Nigel, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Gregory, Jonathan, Haigh, Joanna, Haines, Andy, Hawkins, Ed, Hegerl, Gabriele, Hoskins, Brian, Mace, Georgina, Prentice, Iain Colin, Shine, Keith, Smith, Peter, Sutton, Rowan and Turley, Carol, (2017) Climate updates: what have we learnt since the IPCC 5th Assessment Report? Report. The Royal Society, London, UK. pp36. ISBN 9781782523062

Ortega, Pablo, Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan T. and Andrews, Martin B. (2017) Mechanisms of decadal variability in the Labrador Sea and the wider North Atlantic in a high-resolution climate model. Climate Dynamics, 49 (7-8). pp. 2625-2647. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3467-y

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan T., Shaffrey, Len and Klingaman, Nicholas P. (2017) Attribution of forced decadal climate change in coupled and uncoupled ocean-atmosphere model experiments. Journal of Climate, 30 (16). pp. 6203-6223. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0578.1

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan T. and Shaffrey, Len (2017) Understanding the rapid summer warming and changes in temperature extremes since the mid-1990s over Western Europe. Climate Dynamics, 48 (5). pp. 1537-1554. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3158-8

Shaffrey, Len C., Hodson, Daniel, Robson, Jon, Stevens, D. P., Hawkins, Ed, Polo, Irene, Stevens, I., Sutton, Rowan T., Lister, Grenville, Iwi, A., Smith, D. and Stephens, A. (2017) Decadal predictions with the HiGEM high resolution global coupled climate model: description and basic evaluation. Climate Dynamics, 48 (1). pp. 297-311. ISSN 1432-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3075-x

2016

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan, Shaffrey, Len and Wilcox, Laura (2016) The 2015 European heat wave. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97. S57-S62. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0140.1

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan T., Chen, Wei, Liu, Xiaodong, Lu, Riyu and Sun, Ying (2016) Abrupt summer warming and changes in temperature extremes over Northeast Asia since the mid-1990s: drivers and physical processes. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 33 (9). pp. 1005-1023. ISSN 1861-9533 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-016-5247-3

Hawkins, Ed and Sutton, Rowan (2016) Connecting climate model projections of global temperature change with the real world. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97 (6). pp. 963-980. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00154.1

Zhang, Rong, Sutton, Rowan, Danabasoglu, Gokhan, Delworth, Thomas L., Kim, Who M., Robson, Jon and Yeager, Stephen G. (2016) Comment on “The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation without a role for ocean circulation”. Science, 352 (6293). p. 1527. ISSN 1095-9203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf1660

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan T., Highwood, Ellie J. and Wilcox, Laura J. (2016) Preferred response of the East Asian summer monsoon to local and non-local anthropogenic sulphur dioxide emissions. Climate Dynamics, 46 (5). pp. 1733-1751. ISSN 1432-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2671-5

Robson, Jon, Ortega, Pablo and Sutton, Rowan (2016) A reversal of climatic trends in the North Atlantic since 2005. Nature Geoscience, 9 (7). pp. 513-517. ISSN 1752-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2727

2015

Wilcox, Laura, Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan and Highwood, Ellie (2015) The 2014 hot, dry summer in Northeast Asia. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96 (12). S105-S110. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00123.1

Petrie, Ruth E., Shaffrey, Len C. and Sutton, Rowan T. (2015) Atmospheric impact of Arctic Sea ice loss in a coupled ocean–atmosphere simulation. Journal of Climate, 28 (24). pp. 9606-9622. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0316.1

Sutton, Rowan, Suckling, Emma and Hawkins, Ed (2015) What does global mean temperature tell us about local climate? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 373. 20140426. ISSN 1364-503X doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0426

Menary, Matthew B., Hodson, Daniel L. R., Robson, Jon I., Sutton, Rowan T. and Wood, Richard A. (2015) A mechanism of internal decadal atlantic ocean variability in a high-resolution coupled climate model. Journal of Climate, 28 (19). pp. 7764-7785. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0106.1

Menary, Matthew B., Hodson, Daniel L. R., Robson, Jon I., Sutton, Rowan T., Wood, Richard A. and Hunt, Jonathan A. (2015) Exploring the impact of CMIP5 model biases on the simulation of North Atlantic decadal variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (14). pp. 5926-5934. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064360

Dong, Buwen and Sutton, Rowan (2015) Dominant role of greenhouse-gas forcing in the recovery of Sahel rainfall. Nature Climate Change, 5 (8). pp. 757-760. ISSN 1758-678X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2664

Petrie, Ruth E., Shaffrey, Len C. and Sutton, Rowan T. (2015) Atmospheric response in summer linked to recent Arctic sea ice loss. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141 (691). pp. 2070-2076. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2502 (Part B)

2014

Smith, Robin S., Sutton, Rowan and Gregory, Jonathan M. (2014) The impact of salinity perturbations on the future uptake of heat by the Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (24). pp. 9072-9079. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062169

Hermanson, Leon, Dunstone, Nick, Haines, Keith, Robson, Jon, Smith, Doug and Sutton, Rowan (2014) A novel transport assimilation method for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26°N. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 140 (685). pp. 2563-2572. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2321

Hodson, Daniel L. R., Robson, Jon I. and Sutton, Rowan T. (2014) An anatomy of the cooling of the North Atlantic Ocean in the 1960s and 1970s. Journal of Climate, 27 (21). pp. 8229-8243. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00301.1

Polo, Irene, Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan and Balmaseda, Magdalena Alonso (2014) The importance of wind and buoyancy forcing for the boundary density variations and the geostrophic component of the AMOC at 26°N. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44 (9). pp. 2387-2408. ISSN 0022-3670 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0264.1

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan and Shaffrey, Len (2014) The 2013 hot, dry summer in Western Europe. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95 (9). S61-S66. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477-95.9.S1.1

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan T., Highwood, Ellie and Wilcox, Laura (2014) The impacts of European and Asian anthropogenic sulphur dioxide emissions on Sahel rainfall. Journal of Climate, 27 (18). pp. 7000-7017. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00769.1

Hawkins, Ed, Anderson, Bruce, Diffenbaugh, Noah, Mahlstein, Irina, Betts, Richard, Hegerl, Gabi, Joshi, Manoj, Knutti, Reto, McNeall, Doug, Solomon, Susan, Sutton, Rowan, Syktus, Jozef and Vecchi, Gabriel (2014) Uncertainties in the timing of unprecedented climates. Nature, 511 (7507). E3-E5. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13523

Kirtman, B, Power, S B, Adedoyin, J A, Boer, G J, Camilloni, I, Doblas-Reyes, F J, Fiore, A M, Kimoto, M, Meehl, G A, Prather, M, Sarr, A, Schar, C, Sutton, Rowan, van Oldenborgh, G J, Vecchi, G and Wang, H J (2014) Near-term climate change: projections and predictability. In: Stocker, Thomas F., Qin, Dah, Plattner, Gian-Kasper, Tignor, Melinda M.B., Allen, Simon K., Boschung, Judith, Nauels, Alexander, Xia, Yu, Bex, Vincent and Midgley, Pauline M. (eds.) Climate change 2013 : the physical science basis : contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107661820 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107415324.023

Hawkins, Ed, Dong, Buwen, Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan and Smith, Doug (2014) The interpretation and use of biases in decadal climate predictions. Journal of Climate, 27 (8). pp. 2931-2947. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00473.1

Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan and Smith, Doug (2014) Decadal predictions of the cooling and freshening of the North Atlantic in the 1960s and the role of ocean circulation. Climate Dynamics, 42 (9-10). pp. 2353-2365. ISSN 1432-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2115-7

Meehl, Gerald A, Goddard, Lisa, Boer, George, Burgman, Robert, Branstator, Grant, Cassou, Christophe, Corti, Susanna, Danabasoglu, Gokham, Doblas-Reyes, Francisco, Hawkins, Ed, Karspeck, Alicia, Kimoto, Masahide, Kumar, Arun, Matei, Daniela, Mignot, Juliette, Msadek, Rym, Pohlmann, Holger, Rienecker, Michele, Rosati, Tony, Schneider, Edwin, Smith, Doug, Sutton, Rowan, Teng, Haiyan, Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan, Vecchi, Gabriel and Yeager, Stephen (2014) Decadal climate prediction: an update from the trenches. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95 (2). pp. 243-267. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00241.1

Robson, Jon, Hodson, Dan, Hawkins, Ed and Sutton, Rowan (2014) Atlantic overturning in decline? Nature Geoscience, 7 (1). pp. 2-3. ISSN 1752-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2050

2013

Gray, Lesley J., Scaife, Adam A., Mitchell, Daniel M., Osprey, Scott, Ineson, Sarah, Hardiman, Steven, Butchart, Neal, Knight, Jeff, Sutton, Rowan and Kodera, Kunihiko (2013) A lagged response to the 11 year solar cycle in observed winter Atlantic/European weather patterns. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118 (24). 13,405-13,420. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD020062

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan T., Woollings, Tim and Hodges, Kevin (2013) Variability of the North Atlantic summer storm track: mechanisms and impacts on European climate. Environmental Research Letters, 8 (3). 034037. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034037

Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan and Smith, Doug (2013) Predictable climate impacts of the decadal changes in the ocean in the 1990s. Journal of Climate, 26 (17). pp. 6329-6339. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00827.1

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan and Woollings, Tim (2013) The extreme European summer 2012. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94 (9). s28-s32. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00085.1

Goddard, L., Kumar, A., Solomon, A., Smith, D., Boer, G., Gonzalez, P., Kharin, V., Merryfield, W., Deser, C., Mason, S. J., Kirtman, B. P., Msadek, R., Sutton, Rowan, Hawkins, Ed, Fricker, T., Hegerl, G., Ferro, C. A. T., Stephenson, D. B., Meehl, G. A., Stockdale, T., Burgman, R., Greene, A. M., Kushnir, Y., Newman, M., Carton, J., Fukumori, I. and Delworth, T. (2013) A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments. Climate Dynamics, 40 (1-2). pp. 245-272. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-012-1481-2

Polo, Irene, Dong, Buwen W. and Sutton, Rowan T. (2013) Changes in tropical Atlantic interannual variability from a substantial weakening of the meridional overturning circulation. Climate Dynamics, 41 (9-10). pp. 2765-2784. ISSN 1432-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1716-x

Zhang, Rong, Delworth, Thomas L., Sutton, Rowan, Hodson, Daniel L. R., Dixon, Keith W., Held, Isaac M., Kushnir, Yochanan, Marshall, John, Ming, Yi, Msadek, Rym, Robson, Jon, Rosati, Anthony J., Ting, MingFang and Vecchi, Gabriel A. (2013) Have aerosols caused the observed Atlantic multidecadal variability? Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70 (4). pp. 1135-1144. ISSN 1520-0469 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-0331.1

2012

Hodson, Daniel L. R. and Sutton, Rowan T. (2012) The impact of resolution on the adjustment and decadal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a coupled climate model. Climate Dynamics, 39 (12). pp. 3057-3073. ISSN 1432-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-012-1309-0

Mauritzen, C., Melsom, A. and Sutton, Rowan T. (2012) Importance of density-compensated temperature change for deep North Atlantic Ocean heat uptake. Nature Geoscience, 5 (12). pp. 905-910. ISSN 1752-0908 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1639

Srokosz, M, Baringer, M, Bryden, H, Cunningham, S, Delworth, T, Lozier, S, Marotzke, J and Sutton, Rowan (2012) Past, present and future change in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93 (11). pp. 1663-1676. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00151.1

Robson, J.I., Sutton, R.T. and Smith, D.M. (2012) Initialized decadal predictions of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic Ocean in the mid 1990s. Geophysical Research Letters, 39 (L19713). ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL053370

Sutton, Rowan and Dong, Buwen (2012) Atlantic Ocean influence on a shift in European climate in the 1990s. Nature Geoscience, 5. pp. 788-792. ISSN 1752-0908 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1595

Chalmers, Nicky, Highwood, Eleanor Jo, Hawkins, Ed, Sutton, Rowan T. and Wilcox, Laura Jenny (2012) Aerosol contribution to the rapid warming of near-term climate under RCP 2.6. Geophysical Research Letters, 39 (18). L18709. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL052848

Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan, Lohmann, Katja, Smith, Doug and Palmer, Matthew D. (2012) Causes of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic ocean in the mid-1990s. Journal of Climate, 25 (12). pp. 4116-4134. ISSN 0894-8755 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00443.1

Keeley, Sarah, Sutton, Rowan and Shaffrey, Len (2012) The impact of North Atlantic sea surface temperature errors on the simulation of North Atlantic European region climate. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 138 (668). pp. 1774-1783. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.1912

Hawkins, Ed and Sutton, Rowan (2012) Time of emergence of climate signals. Geophysical Research Letters, 39 (1). L01702. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL050087

Iwi, Alan M., Hermanson, Leon, Haines, Keith and Sutton, Rowan T. (2012) Mechanisms linking volcanic aerosols to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Journal of Climate, 25 (8). pp. 3039-3051. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2011JCLI4067.1

2011

Hawkins, Ed, Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan, Smith, Doug and Keenlyside, Noel (2011) Evaluating the potential for statistical decadal predictions of sea surface temperatures with a perfect model approach. Climate Dynamics, 37 (11-12). pp. 2495-2509. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1023-3

Joshi, Manoj, Hawkins, Ed, Sutton, Rowan, Lowe, Jason and Frame, Dave (2011) Projections of when temperature change will exceed 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Nature Climate Change, 1 (8). pp. 407-412. ISSN 1758-678X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE1261

Hawkins, Ed and Sutton, Rowan T. (2011) The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change. Climate Dynamics, 37 (1-2). pp. 407-418. ISSN 1432-0894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-010-0810-6

Hawkins, Edward and Sutton, Rowan (2011) Estimating climatically relevant singular vectors for decadal predictions of the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Climate, 24 (1). pp. 109-123. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3579.1

Dong, Buwen, Sutton, Rowan Timothy and Woollings, Tim (2011) Changes of interannual NAO variability in response to greenhouse gases forcing. Climate Dynamics, 37 (7-8). pp. 1621-1641. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-010-0936-6

Ortega, Pablo, Hawkins, Ed and Sutton, Rowan (2011) Processes governing the predictability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in a coupled GCM. Climate Dynamics, 37 (9-10). pp. 1771-1782. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1025-1

2010

Hodson, Daniel Louis Richard, Sutton, Rowan Timothy, Cassou, C., Keenlyside, N., Okumura, Y. and Zhou, T. (2010) Climate impacts of recent multidecadal changes in Atlantic Ocean Sea Surface Temperature: A multimodel comparison. Climate Dynamics, 34 (7-8). pp. 1041-1058. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-009-0571-2

Hermanson, Leon and Sutton, Rowan T. (2010) Case studies in interannual to decadal climate predictability. Climate Dynamics, 35 (7-8). pp. 1169-1189. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-009-0672-y

2009

Keeley, Sarah Patricia Emma, Sutton, Rowan Timothy and Shaffrey, Leonard Christopher (2009) Does the North Atlantic Oscillation show unusual persistence on intraseasonal timescales? Geophysical Research Letters, 36. L22706. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040367

Dong, Buwen, Dufresne, J.-L., Gualdi, S., Friedlingstein, P., Keenlyside, N., Maheras, P., Salas, D., Sutton, Rowan Timothy and Terray, L. (2009) Understanding the processes governing climate variability and change, climate predictability and the probability of extreme events. In: Summary of research and results from the ENSEMBLES project. Met Office Hadley Centre, Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK, pp. 79-93.

Hawkins, Edward and Sutton, Rowan Timothy (2009) The potential to narrow uncertainty in regional climate predictions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90 (8). pp. 1095-1107. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2009BAMS2607.1

Wilby, R.L, Troni, J, Biot, Y, Tedd, L, Hewitson, B.C., Smith, D.M. and Sutton, Rowan (2009) A review of climate risk information for adaptation and development planning. International Journal of Climatology, 29 (9). pp. 1193-1215. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1839

Hermanson, Leon and Sutton, Rowan Timothy (2009) Climate predictability in the second year. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Part A, 367 (1890). pp. 913-916. ISSN 1364-503X doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2008.0181

Haines, Keith, Hermanson, Karl Leon, Liu, Chun Lei, Putt, Deborah, Sutton, Rowan Timothy, Iwi, A. and Smith, D. (2009) Decadal climate prediction (project GCEP). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367 (1890). pp. 925-937. ISSN 1364-503X doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2008.0178

Hawkins, Edward and Sutton, Rowan Timothy (2009) Decadal predictability of the Atlantic Ocean in a coupled GCM: forecast skill and optimal perturbations using Linear Inverse Modelling. Journal of Climate, 22 (14). pp. 3960-3978. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI2720.1

Dong, Buwen, Gregory, Jonathan Michael and Sutton, Rowan Timothy (2009) Understanding land-sea warming contrast in response to increasing greenhouse gases. Part I: Transient adjustment. Journal of Climate, 22 (11). pp. 3079-3097. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI2652.1

2008

Stott, P.A., Sutton, R.T. and Smith, D.M. (2008) Detection and attribution of Atlantic salinity changes. Geophysical Research Letters, 35 (21). L21702. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL035874

Hawkins, Ed and Sutton, Rowan (2008) Potential predictability of rapid changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 35 (11). L11603. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL034059

Hodson, D.L.R and Sutton, R.T. (2008) Exploring Multi-model atmospheric GCM Ensembles with ANOVA. Climate Dynamcs, 31 (7-8). pp. 973-986. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-008-0372-z

2007

Hawkins, Ed and Sutton, Rowan (2007) Variability of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation described by three-dimensional empirical orthogonal functions. Climate Dynamics, 29 (7-8). pp. 745-762. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-007-0263-8

Dong, Buwen and Sutton, Rowan (2007) Enhancement of ENSO variability by a weakened Atlantic thermohaline circulation in a coupled GCM. Journal of Climate, 20 (19). pp. 4290-4239. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI4284.1

Timmermann, Axel, Okumura, Y., An, S. -I, Clement, A., Dong, B. -W., Guilyardi, E., Hu, A., Jungclaus, J., Krebs, U., Renold, M., Stocker, T. F., Stouffer, R. J., Sutton, R., Xie, S. -P. and Yin, J. (2007) The influence of a weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO. Journal of Climate, 20 (19). pp. 4899-4919. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI4283.1

Spencer, H., Sutton, R. and Slingo, J.M. (2007) El Nino in a Coupled Climate Model: Sensitivity to changes in mean state induced by heat flux and wind stress corrections. Journal of Climate, 20 (10). pp. 2273-2298. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI4111.1

Williams, Paul David, Guilyardi, Eric, Sutton, Rowan Timothy, Gregory, Jonathan Michael and Madec, Gurvan (2007) A new feedback on climate change from the hydrological cycle. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (8). L08706. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL029275

Sutton, Rowan, Dong, Buwen and Gregory, Jonathan (2007) Land/sea warming ratio in response to climate change: IPCC AR4 model results and comparison with observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 34. L02701. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028164

Sutton, R. and Hodson, D. (2007) Climate response to basin-scale warming and cooling of the North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Climate, 20 (5). pp. 891-907. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI4038.1

George, Steve E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0396-0299 and Sutton, R. T. (2007) Predictability and skill of boreal winter forecasts made with the ECMWF Seasonal Forecasting System II. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 132 (619). pp. 2031-2053. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1256/qj.04.180

2006

Williams, Paul David, Guilyardi, Eric, Sutton, Rowan Timothy, Gregory, Jonathan Michael and Madec, G (2006) On the climate response of the low-latitude Pacific Ocean to changes in the global freshwater cycle. Climate Dynamics, 27 (6). pp. 593-611. ISSN 0930-7575 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-006-0151-7

Shaffrey, Len and Sutton, R. (2006) Bjerknes compensation and the decadal variability of the energy transports in a coupled climate model. Journal Of Climate, 19 (7). pp. 1167-1181. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3652.1

Hurrell, J. W., Visbeck, M., Busalacchi, A., Clarke, R. A., Delworth, T. L., Dickson, R. R., Johns, W. E., Koltermann, K. P., Kushnir, Y., Marshall, D., Mauritzen, C., McCartney, M. S., Piola, A., Reason, C., Reverdin, G., Schott, F., Sutton, R., Wainer, I. and Wright, D. (2006) Atlantic climate variability and predictability: A CLIVAR perspective. Journal Of Climate, 19 (20). pp. 5100-5121. ISSN 1520-0442

Sutton, R. (2006) CLIVAR Workshop on Atlantic Climate Predictability - Preface to the special issue of the Journal of Climate. Journal Of Climate, 19 (23). p. 5947. ISSN 1520-0442

Snaith, H. and Sutton, R. (2006) Coupled ocean-atmosphere processes and European climate (COAPEC): Improved understanding of the coupled climate system - Preface. Journal Of Climate, 19 (7). p. 1065. ISSN 1520-0442

Collins, M., Botzet, A., Carril, A. F., Drange, H., Jouzeau, A., Latif, M., Masina, S., Otteraa, O. H., Pohlmann, H., Sorteberg, A., Sutton, R. and Terray, L. (2006) Interannual to decadal climate predictability in the North Atlantic: A multimodel-ensemble study. Journal Of Climate, 19 (7). pp. 1195-1203. ISSN 1520-0442

Dong, B. W., Sutton, R. T. and Scaife, A. A. (2006) Multidecadal modulation of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variance by Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures. Geophysical Research Letters, 33 (8). doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL025766

Copsey, D., Sutton, R. and Knight, J. R. (2006) Recent trends in sea level pressure in the Indian Ocean region. Geophysical Research Letters, 33 (19). ISSN 0094-8276 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027175

Black, E. and Sutton, R. T. (2006) The influence of oceanic conditions on the hot Europen summer of 2003. Climate Dynamics, 28. pp. 53-66.

Pezzulli, S., Frederic, P., Majithia, S., Sabbagh, S., Black, E., Sutton, R. and Stephenson, D. (2006) The seasonal forecast of electricity demand: A hierarchical Bayesian model with climatological weather generator. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 22 (2). pp. 113-125. ISSN 1524-1904

2005

Sutton, R. T. and Hodson, D. L. R. (2005) Atlantic Ocean forcing of North American and European summer climate. Science, 309 (5731). pp. 115-118.

Spencer, Hilary, Sutton, R. T., Slingo, J. M., Roberts, M. and Black, E. (2005) Indian Ocean climate and dipole variability in Hadley Centre coupled GCMs. Journal Of Climate, 18 (13). pp. 2286-2307. ISSN 1520-0442

Sutton, Rowan (2005) Informing adaptation: New challenges for the climate modelling community. Weather, 60. p. 186.

Dong, B. W. and Sutton, R. T. (2005) Mechanism of interdecadal thermohaline circulation variability in a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM. Journal Of Climate, 18 (8). pp. 1117-1135. ISSN 1520-0442

Sutton, R. T., Mathieu, P. P., Collins, M. and Dong, B. (2005) Response to comment by Geert van Oldenburgh on "Predictability of winter climate over the North Atlantic European region during ENSO events". Journal Of Climate, 18 (14). pp. 2773-2774. ISSN 1520-0442

2004

Shaffrey, Len and Sutton, R. (2004) The interannual variability of energy transports within and over the Atlantic Ocean in a coupled climate model. Journal Of Climate, 17 (7). pp. 1433-1448. ISSN 1520-0442

Rodwell, M. J., Drevillon, M., Frankignoul, C., Hurrell, J. W., Pohlmann, H., Stendel, M. and Sutton, R. T. (2004) North Atlantic forcing of climate and its uncertainty from a multi-model experiment. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 130 (601). pp. 2013-2032. ISSN 1477-870X

Mathieu, P. P., Sutton, R. T., Dong, B. and Collins, M. (2004) Predictability of winter climate over the North Atlantic European region during ENSO events. Journal Of Climate, 17 (10). pp. 1953-1974. ISSN 1520-0442

Frankignoul, C., Kestenare, E., Botzet, M., Carril, A. F., Drange, H., Pardaens, A., Terray, L. and Sutton, R. (2004) An intercomparison between the surface heat flux feedback in five coupled models, COADS and the NCEP reanalysis. Climate Dynamics, 22 (4). pp. 373-388.

2003

Sutton, R.T. and Hodson, D.L.R. (2003) Influence of the ocean on North Atlantic climate variability 1871-1999. Journal Of Climate, 16. pp. 3296-3313. ISSN 1520-0442

Dong, B.W. and Sutton, R.T. (2003) Variability of Atlantic Ocean heat transport and its effects on the atmosphere. Annales Geophysicae, 46. pp. 87-97.

Sutton, R.T., Hodson, D.L.R. and Mathieu, P.P. (2003) The role of the Atlantic Ocean in climate forecasting. Proceedings of the ECMWF workshop on the role of the upper ocean in medium and extended range forecasting. In: ECMWF.

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