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  1. Emerging signals of climate change over Europe

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  2. Evaluating Vegetation Modelling in Earth System Models with Machine Learning Approaches

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  3. Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?

    Article • Earth System Science Data, April 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan, Andrea K. Steiner

  4. Choice of Forecast Scenario Impacts the Carbon Allocation at the Same Global Warming Levels

    Article • January 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  5. Water remains the Achilles heel of climate models and climate change policies

    Article • PLOS Water, December 2022, PLOS

    Hervé Douville, Professor Richard P Allan

  6. On the Effect of Historical SST Patterns on Radiative Feedback

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  7. Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: Where does the energy go?

    Article • August 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  8. State of the Climate in 2021

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, August 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  9. Interruption of the Gulf Stream in 2014 caused the 2014-16 North Atlantic Cold Fresh Anomaly and reciprocal warming/ salinification of the North American coastal region

    Article • June 2022, Research Square

    Professor Richard P Allan

  10. Global changes in atmospheric moisture since 1979

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  11. Consistent Trends in Dry Spell Length in Recent Observations and Future Projections

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  12. Worsening drought of Nile basin under shift in atmospheric circulation, stronger ENSO and Indian Ocean dipole

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  13. Discrepancies in Simulated Ocean Net Surface Heat Fluxes over the North Atlantic

    Article • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  14. The Complex and Spatially Diverse Patterns of Hydrological Droughts Across Europe

    Article • Water Resources Research, April 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Ahmed El Kenawy, Professor Richard P Allan

  15. Observation of the direct effect of aerosols in the South-East Atlantic at high temporal resolution from MSG/SEVIRI

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  16. Global changes in water vapor 1979-2020

    Article • March 2022, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  17. The complex and spatially diverse patterns of hydrological droughts across Europe

    Article • January 2022, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  18. The Physical Climate at Global Warming Thresholds as Seen in the U.K. Earth System Model

    Article • Journal of Climate, January 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  19. Contrasting response of hydrological cycle over land and ocean to a changing CO2 pathway

    Article • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  20. The 1921 European drought: impacts, reconstruction and drivers

    Article • Climate of the Past, October 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  21. Emerging new climate extremes over Europe

    Article • Climate Dynamics, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Albert Ossó, Professor Richard P Allan

  22. Global Climate

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, August 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  23. The role of teleconnection patterns in the variability and trends of growing season indices across Europe

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  24. Future Changes in Wet and Dry Season Characteristics in CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, July 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  25. The 1921 European drought: Impacts, reconstruction and drivers

    Article • April 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  26. Aerosol-forced AMOC changes in CMIP6 historical simulations.

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  27. The Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation: A Comparison of State-of-the-Art IMERG Observations, CMIP6 Models and ERA5 Reanalysis

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  28. Global-scale changes in Earth’s energy budget and implications for the water cycle

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  29. Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  30. Cocoa plant productivity in West Africa under climate change: a modelling and experimental study

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, December 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Richard P Allan

  31. Advances in understanding large-scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

    Article • December 2020, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  32. Advances in understanding large-scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

    Article • November 2020, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  33. Observations of planetary heating since the 1980s from multiple independent datasets

    Article • Environmental Research Communications, October 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Richard P Allan

  34. Observed variability of intertropical convergence zone over 1998—2018

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, September 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Richard P Allan

  35. Variability in the global energy budget and transports 1985–2017

    Article • Climate Dynamics, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan, Prof. lijing Cheng

  36. Aerosol‐Forced AMOC Changes in CMIP6 Historical Simulations

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  37. Advances in understanding large‐scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, April 2020, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  38. Aerosol-forced AMOC changes in CMIP6 historical simulations.

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  39. Global surface energy and water cycle variability 2001-2011 from satellite data

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  40. The Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation: A Comparison of State-of-the-Art Observations and Models

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  41. New Generation of Climate Models Track Recent Unprecedented Changes in Earth's Radiation Budget Observed by CERES

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, March 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  42. Changes in atmospheric shortwave absorption as important driver of dimming and brightening

    Article • Nature Geoscience, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  43. Atmospheric precursors for intense summer rainfall over the United Kingdom

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, January 2020, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  44. 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

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, December 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  45. Evaluation of Five Satellite Top-of-Atmosphere Albedo Products over Land

    Article • Remote Sensing, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Richard P Allan

  46. The impact of air–sea coupling and ocean biases on the seasonal cycle of southern West African precipitation

    Article • Climate Dynamics, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  47. Rainfall decline over Eastern Africa linked to temporarily shorter wet seasons

    Article • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  48. Later Wet Seasons with More Intense Rainfall over Africa under Future Climate Change

    Article • Journal of Climate, December 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  49. Climatic effects of explosive volcanic eruptions between 1979 and 2015

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  50. Publisher Correction: Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  51. Characterizing the Radiative Effect of Rain Using a Global Ensemble of Cloud Resolving Simulations

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, October 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  52. Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  53. The INTENSE project: using observations and models to understand the past, present and future of sub-daily rainfall extremes

    Article • Advances in Science and Research, June 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  54. Unrealistic Increases in Wind Speed Explain Reduced Eastern Pacific Heat Flux in Reanalyses

    Article • Journal of Climate, April 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  55. Identification of deficiencies in seasonal rainfall simulated by CMIP5 climate models

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, October 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Richard P Allan

  56. State of the Climate in 2016

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, August 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  57. Evaluation of satellite and reanalysis-based global net surface energy flux and uncertainty estimates

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2017, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  58. Strong constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions

    Article • Nature, June 2017, Nature

    Professor Richard P Allan

  59. A new, long-term daily satellite-based rainfall dataset for operational monitoring in Africa

    Article • Scientific Data, May 2017, Nature

    Professor Richard P Allan

  60. Surface flux and ocean heat transport convergence contributions to seasonal and interannual variations of ocean heat content

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, January 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  61. A multisatellite climatology of clouds, radiation, and precipitation in southern West Africa and comparison to climate models

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  62. Interannual variability in the summertime hydrological cycle over European regions

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Igor I. Zveryaev, Professor Richard P Allan

  63. Contrasting fast precipitation responses to tropospheric and stratospheric ozone forcing

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2016, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  64. Revisiting trends in wetness and dryness in the presence of internal climate variability and water limitations over land

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  65. Diagnosing links between atmospheric moisture and extreme daily precipitation over the UK

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, November 2015, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  66. Recent observed and simulated changes in precipitation over Africa

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2015, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  67. Combining satellite observations and reanalysis energy transports to estimate global net surface energy fluxes 1985-2012

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  68. The DACCIWA Project: Dynamics–Aerosol–Chemistry–Cloud Interactions in West Africa

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan, Dr John Marsham

  69. Metrics for linking emissions of gases and aerosols to global precipitation changes

    Article • Earth System Dynamics, August 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  70. Observational constraints on atmospheric and oceanic cross-equatorial heat transports: revisiting the precipitation asymmetry problem in climate models

    Article • Climate Dynamics, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan, John Fasullo

  71. Atmospheric rivers do not explain UK summer extreme rainfall

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  72. Metrics for linking emissions of gases and aerosols to global precipitation changes

    Article • Earth System Dynamics Discussions, April 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Richard P Allan

  73. Changes in Earth's heating rate since 1960 in observations and simulations

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  74. Extension of the TAMSAT Satellite-Based Rainfall Monitoring over Africa and from 1983 to Present

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, December 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  75. The 30 year TAMSAT African Rainfall Climatology And Time series (TARCAT) data set

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  76. Current changes in Earth's heating rate

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Richard P Allan

  77. Salinity changes in the World Ocean since 1950 in relation to changing surface freshwater fluxes

    Article • Climate Dynamics, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  78. Comparing Tropical Precipitation Simulated by the Met Office NWP and Climate Models with Satellite Observations*

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, January 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  79. Quantifying present and projected future atmospheric moisture transports onto land

    Article • Water Resources Research, November 2013, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  80. Have greenhouse gases intensified the contrast between wet and dry regions?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2013, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  81. Future changes in atmospheric rivers and their implications for winter flooding in Britain

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, July 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Richard P Allan

  82. Observed and simulated precipitation responses in wet and dry regions 1850–2100

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, July 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Richard P Allan

  83. Assessment of intercalibration methods for satellite microwave humidity sounders

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  84. Modelling the diurnal cycle of tropical convection across the ‘grey zone’

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  85. Improving a convection-permitting model simulation of a cold air outbreak

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, April 2013, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  86. Physically Consistent Responses of the Global Atmospheric Hydrological Cycle in Models and Observations

    Article • Surveys in Geophysics, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  87. Climate Warming–Related Strengthening of the Tropical Hydrological Cycle

    Article • Journal of Climate, January 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  88. The detection of atmospheric rivers in atmospheric reanalyses and their links to British winter floods and the large-scale climatic circulation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  89. Diagnosing atmosphere–land feedbacks in CMIP5 climate models

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, October 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Richard P Allan

  90. Co-variation of temperature and precipitation in CMIP5 models and satellite observations

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  91. Multisatellite observed responses of precipitation and its extremes to interannual climate variability

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2012, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  92. Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent within uncertainty

    Article • Nature Geoscience, January 2012, Nature

    Professor Richard P Allan

  93. Evaluation of satellite-based and model re-analysis rainfall estimates for Uganda

    Article • Meteorological Applications, January 2012, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  94. Winter floods in Britain are connected to atmospheric rivers

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2011, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  95. The Role of Water Vapour in Earth’s Energy Flows

    Article • Surveys in Geophysics, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  96. Energetic Constraints on Precipitation Under Climate Change

    Article • Surveys in Geophysics, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  97. Changes in water vapor transports of the ascending branch of the tropical circulation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  98. Combining satellite data and models to estimate cloud radiative effect at the surface and in the atmosphere

    Article • Meteorological Applications, August 2011, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  99. Clear-sky biases in satellite infrared estimates of upper tropospheric humidity and its trends

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  100. Regime dependent changes in global precipitation

    Article • Climate Dynamics, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard P Allan

  101. Motivation, rationale and key results from the GERBILS Saharan dust measurement campaign

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, June 2011, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  102. Variability in the summer season hydrological cycle over the Atlantic-Europe region 1979-2007

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, February 2011, Wiley

    Dr Igor I. Zveryaev, Professor Richard P Allan

  103. Examination of long-wave radiative bias in general circulation models over North Africa during May-July

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, December 2010, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  104. Evaluation of the model representation of the evolution of convective systems using satellite observations of outgoing longwave radiation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2010, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  105. Summertime precipitation variability over Europe and its links to atmospheric dynamics and evaporation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Igor I. Zveryaev, Professor Richard P Allan

  106. Anticipated changes in the global atmospheric water cycle

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, April 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Richard P Allan

  107. Current changes in tropical precipitation

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, April 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Richard P Allan

  108. A case study of the radiative forcing of persistent contrails evolving into contrail-induced cirrus

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2009, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  109. How robust are observed and simulated precipitation responses to tropical ocean warming?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2009, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  110. Examination of Relationships between Clear-Sky Longwave Radiation and Aspects of the Atmospheric Hydrological Cycle in Climate Models, Reanalyses, and Observations

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  111. Overview of observations from the RADAGAST experiment in Niamey, Niger: Meteorology and thermodynamic variables

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2008, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  112. Atmospheric Warming and the Amplification of Precipitation Extremes

    Article • Science, September 2008, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Richard P Allan

  113. Modeled and observed atmospheric radiation balance during the West African dry season: Role of mineral dust, biomass burning aerosol, and surface albedo

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  114. Contrasting interannual variability of atmospheric moisture over Europe during cold and warm seasons

    Article • Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, November 2007, Co-Action Publishing

    Dr Igor I. Zveryaev, Professor Richard P Allan

  115. Evaluation of the Met Office global forecast model using Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) data

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2007, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  116. Large discrepancy between observed and simulated precipitation trends in the ascending and descending branches of the tropical circulation

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2007, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  117. Observations of the diurnal cycle of outgoing longwave radiation from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget instrument

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  118. Improved simulation of water vapour and clear-sky radiation using 24-hour forecasts from ERA40

    Article • Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Richard P Allan

  119. Observations of the impact of a major Saharan dust storm on the atmospheric radiation balance

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2006, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  120. Variability in clear-sky longwave radiative cooling of the atmosphere

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2006, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  121. The ERA-40 re-analysis

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2005, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan, Dr Kevin Trenberth

  122. Exploitation of Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget data using simulations from a numerical weather prediction model: Methodology and data validation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2005, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  123. The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Project

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July 2005, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Richard P Allan

  124. Water vapor variability in the tropics and its links to dynamics and precipitation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2005, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Igor I. Zveryaev, Professor Richard P Allan

  125. Can desert dust explain the outgoing longwave radiation anomaly over the Sahara during July 2003?

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2005, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  126. Simulation of the Earth's radiation budget by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 40-year reanalysis (ERA40)

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  127. Evaluation of moisture in the Hadley Centre climate model using simulations of HIRS water-vapour channel radiances

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2003, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  128. Simulations of the effects of interannual and decadal variability on the clear-sky outgoing long-wave radiation spectrum

    Article • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, October 2003, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  129. Inconsistencies between satellite estimates of longwave cloud forcing and dynamical fields from reanalyses

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  130. Diagnostic analysis of atmospheric moisture and clear-sky radiative feedback in the Hadley Centre and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) climate models

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  131. Analysis of moisture variability in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 15-year reanalysis over the tropical oceans

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan

  132. Can current climate model forcings explain the spatial and temporal signatures of decadal OLR variations?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor Richard P Allan