Dr Richard Cornes

Biography

Richard Cornes is a Senior Research Scientist in the Marine Physics and Ocean Climate group.

He is currently working on the development of global gridded datasets using ship-based observations as part of the CLASS and GloSAT projects.  

Professional Experience

  • 2018 - present: Senior Researcher, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
  • 2015-2018: Researcher, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Netherlands
  • 2010-2015: Senior Research Associate, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
  • 2006-2010: PhD student, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia

 

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Publications

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2026

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Article

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Chan, Duo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8573-5115; Chan, Steven C.; Siddons, Joseph T.; Cable, Archie; Faulkner, Agnieszka; Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Kent, Elizabeth C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-4247; Gebbie, Geoffrey; Huybers, Peter. 2026 DCENT ‐I: A Globally Infilled Extension of the Dynamically Consistent ENsemble of Temperature Dataset. Geoscience Data Journal, 13 (2). 10.1002/gdj3.70054

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2026

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2026

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Cornes, R.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Artioli, Y.; Hermanson, L.; Hunter, W.R.; Jacobs, Zoe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-0699; Kent, E.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-4247; Oltmanns, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8959-4938; Rabe, B.; Renshaw, R.; Tinker, J.; Wilson, R.J.. 2025 The Impacts of Climate Change on Sea Temperature around the UK and Ireland. MCCIP Science Review. 10.14465/2025.reu08.tem

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2025

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2025

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Article

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Kent, Elizabeth C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-4247; Chan, Duo; Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Nielsen-Englyst, Pia; Kajtar, Jules B.; Merchant, Christopher J.; Thorne, Peter W.; Wallis, Emily J.; Woolway, R. Iestyn. 2025 Global surface temperatures. In: Letcher, Trevor; Fthenakis, Vasilis M., (eds.) Energy and Climate Change: Our New Future. Elsevier.

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2025

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Book section

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Cornes, R. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Junod, R.. 2024 Global climate - Night marine air temperature [in: State of the Climate in 2023]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105 (8), supplement State of the climate in 2023. S35. 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0116.1

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2024

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2024

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2024

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Article

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Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Jones, Phil D.; Brandsma, Theo; Cendrier, Denis; Jourdain, Sylvie. 2023 The London, Paris and De Bilt sub‐daily pressure series. Geoscience Data Journal. 10.1002/gdj3.226

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2023

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2023

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Article

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Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3876-7736; Meredith, Michael P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-7756; Shuckburgh, Emily F.; Kent, Elizabeth C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-4247; Munday, David R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1920-708X; Firing, Yvonne L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3640-3974; King, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1338-3234; Smyth, Timothy J.; Leng, Melanie J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1115-5166; Nurser, A.J. George; Hewitt, Helene T.; Abrahamsen, E. Povl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5924-5350; Weiss, Alexandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6134-4229; Yang, Mingxi; Bell, Thomas G.; Brearley, J. Alexander ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-8017; Boland, Emma J.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2430-7763; Jones, Daniel C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8701-4506; Josey, Simon A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1683-8831; Owen, Robyn P.; Grist, Jeremy P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1068-9211; Blaker, Adam T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5454-0131; Biri, Stavroula ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5402-1072; Yelland, Margaret J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0936-4957; Pimm, Ciara; Zhou, Shenjie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9124-6270; Harle, James; Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485. 2023 Finale: Impact of the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE programmes on Southern Ocean heat and carbon understanding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 381 (2249), 20220070. 25, pp. 10.1098/rsta.2022.0070

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2023

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Article

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Cornes, R.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Tinker, J.; Hermanson, L.; Oltmanns, Marilena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8959-4938; Hunter, W.R.; Lloyd-Hartley, H.; Kent, E.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-4247; Rabe, B.; Renshaw, R.. 2023 The impacts of climate change on sea temperature around the UK and Ireland. MCCIP.

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2023

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Monograph

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Lundstad, Elin; Brugnara, Yuri; Pappert, Duncan; Kopp, Jérôme; Samakinwa, Eric; Hürzeler, André; Andersson, Axel; Chimani, Barbara; Cornes, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Demarée, Gaston; Filipiak, Janusz; Gates, Lydia; Ives, Gemma L.; Jones, Julie M.; Jourdain, Sylvie; Kiss, Andrea; Nicholson, Sharon E.; Przybylak, Rajmund; Jones, Philip; Rousseau, Daniel; Tinz, Birger; Rodrigo, Fernando S.; Grab, Stefan; Domínguez-Castro, Fernando; Slonosky, Victoria; Cooper, Jason; Brunet, Manola; Brönnimann, Stefan. 2023 The global historical climate database HCLIM. Scientific Data, 10 (1). 10.1038/s41597-022-01919-w

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2023

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Dunn, Robert J. H.; Aldred, Freya; Gobron, Nadine; Miller, John B.; Willett, Kate M.; Ades, Melanie; Adler, Robert; Allan, R. P.; Anderson, John; Anneville, Orlane; Aono, Yasuyuki; Argüez, Anthony; Arosio, Carlo; Augustine, John A.; Azorin-Molina, Cesar; Barichivich, Jonathan; Basu, Aman; Beck, Hylke E.; Bellouin, Nicolas; Benedetti, Angela; Blagrave, Kevin; Blenkinsop, Stephen; Bock, Olivier; Bodin, Xavier; Bosilovich, Michael G.; Boucher, Olivier; Bove, Gerald; Buechler, Dennis; Buehler, Stefan A.; Carrea, Laura; Chang, Kai-Lan; Christiansen, Hanne H.; Christy, John R.; Chung, Eui-Seok; Ciasto, Laura M.; Coldewey-Egbers, Melanie; Cooper, Owen R.; Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Covey, Curt; Cropper, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3696-7905; Crotwell, Molly; Cusicanqui, Diego; Davis, Sean M.; de Jeu, Richard A. M.; Degenstein, Doug; Delaloye, Reynald; Donat, Markus G.; Dorigo, Wouter A.; Durre, Imke; Dutton, Geoff S.; Duveiller, Gregory; Elkins, James W.; Estilow, Thomas W.; Fedaeff, Nava; Fereday, David; Fioletov, Vitali E.; Flemming, Johannes; Foster, Michael J.; Frith, Stacey M.; Froidevaux, Lucien; Füllekrug, Martin; Garforth, Judith; Garg, Jay; Gentry, Matthew; Goodman, Steven; Gou, Qiqi; Granin, Nikolay; Guglielmin, Mauro; Hahn, Sebastian; Haimberger, Leopold; Hall, Brad D.; Harris, Ian; Hemming, Debbie L.; Hirschi, Martin; Ho, Shu-pen (Ben); Holzworth, Robert; Hrbáček, Filip; Hubert, Daan; Hulsman, Petra; Hurst, Dale F.; Inness, Antje; Isaksen, Ketil; John, Viju O.; Jones, Philip D.; Junod, Robert; Kääb, Andreas; Kaiser, Johannes W.; Kaufmann, Viktor; Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Andreas; Kent, Elizabeth C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-4247; Kidd, Richard; Kim, Hyungiun; Kipling, Zak; Koppa, Akash; L’Abée-Lund, Jan Henning; Lan, Xin; Lantz, Kathleen O.; Lavers, David; Loeb, Norman G.; Loyola, Diego; Madelon, Remi; Malmquist, Hilmar J.; Marszelewski, Wlodzimierz; Mayer, Michael; McCabe, Matthew F.; McVicar, Tim R.; Mears, Carl A.; Menzel, Annette; Merchant, Christopher J.; Miralles, Diego G.; Montzka, Stephen A.; Morice, Colin; Mösinger, Leander; Mühle, Jens; Nicolas, Julien P.; Noetzli, Jeannette; Nõges, Tiina; Noll, Ben; O’Keefe, John; Osborn, Tim J.; Park, Taejin; Pellet, Cecile; Pelto, Maury S.; Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah E.; Phillips, Coda; Po-Chedley, Stephen; Polvani, Lorenzo; Preimesberger, Wolfgang; Price, Colin; Pulkkanen, Merja; Rains, Dominik G.; Randel, William J.; Rémy, Samuel; Ricciardulli, Lucrezia; Richardson, Andrew D.; Robinson, David A.; Rodell, Matthew; Rodríguez-Fernández, Nemesio J.; Rosenlof, Karen H.; Roth, Chris; Rozanov, Alexei; Rutishäuser, This; Sánchez-Lugo, Ahira; Sawaengphokhai, Parnchai; Schenzinger, Verena; Schlegel, Robert W.; Schneider, Udo; Sharma, Sapna; Shi, Lei; Simmons, Adrian J.; Siso, Carolina; Smith, Sharon L.; Soden, Brian J.; Sofieva, Viktoria; Sparks, Tim H.; Stackhouse, Paul W.; Stauffer, Ryan; Steinbrecht, Wolfgang; Steiner, Andrea K.; Stewart, Kenton; Stradiotti, Pietro; Streletskiy, Dimitri A.; Telg, Hagen; Thackeray, Stephen J.; Thibert, Emmanuel; Todt, Michael; Tokuda, Daisuke; Tourpali, Kleareti; Tye, Mari R.; van der A, Ronald; van der Schalie, Robin; van der Schrier, Gerard; van der Vliet, Mendy; van der Werf, Guido R.; van Vliet, Arnold.; Vernier, Jean-Paul; Vimont, Isaac J.; Virts, Katrina; Vivero, Sebastiàn; Vömel, Holger; Vose, Russell S.; Wang, Ray H. J.; Weber, Markus; Wiese, David; Wild, Jeanette D.; Williams, Earle; Wong, Takmeng; Woolway, R. I.; Yin, Xungang; Yuan, Ye; Zhao, Lin; Zhou, Xinjia; Ziemke, Jerry R.; Ziese, Markus; Zotta, Ruxandra M.. 2022 Global Climate. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103 (8). S11-S142. 10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0092.1

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2022

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2022

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2021

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2021

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Slivinski, L. C.; Compo, G. P.; Sardeshmukh, P. D.; Whitaker, J. S.; McColl, C.; Allan, R. J.; Brohan, P.; Yin, X.; Smith, C. A.; Spencer, L. J.; Vose, R. S.; Rohrer, M.; Conroy, R. P.; Schuster, D. C.; Kennedy, J. J.; Ashcroft, L.; Brönnimann, S.; Brunet, M.; Camuffo, D.; Cornes, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Cram, T. A.; Domínguez-Castro, F.; Freeman, J. E.; Gergis, J.; Hawkins, E.; Jones, P. D.; Kubota, H.; Lee, T. C.; Lorrey, A. M.; Luterbacher, J.; Mock, C. J.; Przybylak, R. K.; Pudmenzky, C.; Slonosky, V. C.; Tinz, B.; Trewin, B.; Wang, X. L.; Wilkinson, C.; Wood, K.; Wyszyński, P.. 2021 An evaluation of the performance of the 20th Century Reanalysis version 3. Journal of Climate, 34 (4). 1417-1438. 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0505.1

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2021

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Article

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Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Kent, Elizabeth.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-4247; Berry, David.I.; Kennedy, John J.. 2020 CLASSnmat: A global night marine air temperature data set, 1880–2019. Geoscience Data Journal, 7 (2). 10.1002/gdj3.100

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2020

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2020

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2020

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Article

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2020

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Article

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Squintu, Antonello A.; van der Schrier, Gerard; van den Besselaar, Else J.M.; Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Klein Tank, Albert M. G.. 2020 Building long homogeneous temperature series across Europe: a new approach for the blending of neighboring series. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 59 (1). 175-189. 10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0033.1

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2020

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Article

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Brönnimann, Stefan; Allan, Rob; Ashcroft, Linden; Baer, Saba; Barriendos, Mariano; Brázdil, Rudolf; Brugnara, Yuri; Brunet, Manola; Brunetti, Michele; Chimani, Barbara; Cornes, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Domínguez-Castro, Fernando; Filipiak, Janusz; Founda, Dimitra; Herrera, Ricardo García; Gergis, Joelle; Grab, Stefan; Hannak, Lisa; Huhtamaa, Heli; Jacobsen, Kim S.; Jones, Phil; Jourdain, Sylvie; Kiss, Andrea; Lin, Kuanhui Elaine; Lorrey, Andrew; Lundstad, Elin; Luterbacher, Jürg; Mauelshagen, Franz; Maugeri, Maurizio; Maughan, Nicolas; Moberg, Anders; Neukom, Raphael; Nicholson, Sharon; Noone, Simon; Nordli, Øyvind; Ólafsdóttir, Kristín Björg; Pearce, Petra R.; Pfister, Lucas; Pribyl, Kathleen; Przybylak, Rajmund; Pudmenzky, Christa; Rasol, Dubravka; Reichenbach, Delia; Řezníčková, Ladislava; Rodrigo, Fernando S.; Rohr, Christian; Skrynyk, Oleg; Slonosky, Victoria; Thorne, Peter; Valente, Maria Antónia; Vaquero, José M.; Westcottt, Nancy E.; Williamson, Fiona; Wyszyński, Przemysław. 2019 Unlocking pre-1850 instrumental meteorological records: A global inventory. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (12). 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0040.1

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2019

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Article

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Slivinski, Laura C.; Compo, Gilbert P.; Whitaker, Jeffrey S.; Sardeshmukh, Prashant D.; Giese, Benjamin S.; McColl, Chesley; Allan, Rob; Yin, Xungang; Vose, Russell; Titchner, Holly; Kennedy, John; Spencer, Lawrence J.; Ashcroft, Linden; Brönnimann, Stefan; Brunet, Manola; Camuffo, Dario; Cornes, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Cram, Thomas A.; Crouthamel, Richard; Domínguez‐Castro, Fernando; Freeman, J. Eric; Gergis, Joëlle; Hawkins, Ed; Jones, Philip D.; Jourdain, Sylvie; Kaplan, Alexey; Kubota, Hisayuki; Blancq, Frank Le; Lee, Tsz‐Cheung; Lorrey, Andrew; Luterbacher, Jürg; Maugeri, Maurizio; Mock, Cary J.; Moore, G.W. Kent; Przybylak, Rajmund; Pudmenzky, Christa; Reason, Chris; Slonosky, Victoria C.; Smith, Catherine A.; Tinz, Birger; Trewin, Blair; Valente, Maria Antónia; Wang, Xiaolan L.; Wilkinson, Clive; Wood, Kevin; Wyszyński, Przemysław. 2019 Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 145 (724). 2876-2908. 10.1002/qj.3598

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2019

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Article

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2019

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Article

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Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; van der Schrier, Gerard; Squintu, Antonello A.. 2018 A reappraisal of the thermal growing season length across Europe. International Journal of Climatology, 39 (3). 1787-1795. 10.1002/joc.5913

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2018

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Article

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Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Jones, Philip D.; Qian, Cheng. 2017 Twentieth-Century trends in the annual cycle of temperature across the Northern Hemisphere. Journal of Climate, 30 (15). 5755-5773. 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0315.1

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2017

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Article

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Cornes, Richard C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-4485; Jones, Philip D.; Briffa, Keith R.; Osborn, Timothy J.. 2012 Estimates of the North Atlantic Oscillation back to 1692 using a Paris-London westerly index. International Journal of Climatology, 33 (1). 228-248. 10.1002/joc.3416

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2012

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Article