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D-Index
66
Citations
16464
World Ranking
2085
National Ranking
855

Sara C. Pryor publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara C. Pryor sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 313 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Sara C. Pryor D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara C. Pryor sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sara C. Pryor is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans several interconnected fields focused on environmental and engineering sciences.

The main fields of study in which Pryor has contributed include:

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broad fields, their work further specializes in subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Pryor's research topics cover a range of studies, notably:

  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Icing and De-icing Technologies
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

They have co-authored extensively with several researchers including:

  • R. J. Barthelmie
  • Jacob Coburn
  • Tristan J. Shepherd
  • Frederick Letson
  • Jeanie A. Aird

Pryor's publications frequently appear in a variety of scientific venues where their expertise is represented, including:

  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Energies
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Earth and Space Science

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Pryor include:

  • Climate change impacts on wind power generation, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The Ongoing Need for High-Resolution Regional Climate Models: Process Understanding and Stakeholder Information, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • A global assessment of extreme wind speeds for wind energy applications, 2021, Nature Energy
  • Wind power production from very large offshore wind farms, 2021, Joule
  • Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Wind Energy, 2021, Climate

Best Publications

  • Analytical modelling of wind speed deficit in large offshore wind farms

    Sten Tronæs Frandsen;Rebecca Jane Barthelmie;S.C. Pryor;Ole Rathmann

  • Atmospheric composition change: Ecosystems–Atmosphere interactions

    D. Fowler;Kim Pilegaard;M.A. Sutton;Per Ambus

  • Climate change impacts on wind energy: A review

    S.C. Pryor;R.J. Barthelmie

  • Quantifying the Impact of Wind Turbine Wakes on Power Output at Offshore Wind Farms

    Rebecca Jane Barthelmie;Sara Pryor;Sten Tronæs Frandsen;Kurt Schaldemose Hansen

  • Comparison of Wake Model Simulations with Offshore Wind Turbine Wake Profiles Measured by Sodar

    R. J. Barthelmie;G. C. Larsen;S. T. Frandsen;L. Folkerts

  • Wind speed trends over the contiguous United States

    S. C. Pryor;R. J. Barthelmie;D. T. Young;Eugene S. Takle

  • Modelling and measurements of power losses and turbulence intensity in wind turbine wakes at Middelgrunden offshore wind farm

    R. J. Barthelmie;S. T. Frandsen;M. N. Nielsen;S. C. Pryor

  • Downscaling temperature and precipitation: a comparison of regression‐based methods and artificial neural networks

    Justin T Schoof;S C Pryor

  • General overview: European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality interactions (EUCAARI) - integrating aerosol research from nano to global scales

    M. Kulmala;A. Asmi;H. K. Lappalainen;H. K. Lappalainen;U. Baltensperger

  • Warming-induced increase in aerosol number concentration likely to moderate climate change

    Pauli Paasonen;Pauli Paasonen;Ari Asmi;Tuukka Petäjä;Maija K. Kajos

  • Climate change impacts on wind power generation

    Sara C. Pryor;Rebecca J. Barthelmie;Melissa S. Bukovsky;L. Ruby Leung

  • Potential climate change impact on wind energy resources in northern Europe: analyses using a regional climate model

    S C Pryor;R J Barthelmie;Erik Kjellström

  • A review of measurement and modelling results of particle atmosphere–surface exchange

    Sara Pryor;M. Gallagher;H. Sievering;Søren Ejling Larsen

  • The Ongoing Need for High-Resolution Regional Climate Models: Process Understanding and Stakeholder Information

    W. J. Gutowski;P. A. Ullrich;A. Hall;L. R. Leung

  • How spatially coherent and statistically robust are temporal changes in extreme precipitation in the contiguous USA

    S. C. Pryor;J. A. Howe;Kenneth E. Kunkel

  • Empirical downscaling of wind speed probability distributions

    S C. Pryor;Justin T. Schoof;Justin T. Schoof;R J. Barthelmie

  • Assessing climate change impacts on the near-term stability of the wind energy resource over the United States

    S. C. Pryor;R. J. Barthelmie

  • The Perdigão: Peering into Microscale Details of Mountain Winds

    H. J. S. Fernando;J. Mann;J. M. L. M. Palma;Julie K. Lundquist

  • Analyses of possible changes in intense and extreme wind speeds over northern Europe under climate change scenarios

    Sara Pryor;Rebecca Jane Barthelmie;Niels-Erik Clausen;Martin Drews

  • Review of Methodologies for Offshore Wind Resource Assessment in European Seas

    Anna Maria Sempreviva;Rebecca Jane Barthelmie;Rebecca Jane Barthelmie;Sara Pryor

  • Can Satellite Sampling of Offshore Wind Speeds Realistically Represent Wind Speed Distributions

    R. J. Barthelmie;S. C. Pryor

  • Long-term trends in near-surface flow over the Baltic

    S. C. Pryor;R. J. Barthelmie

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca Jane Barthelmie
Rebecca Jane Barthelmie Cornell University
Søren Ejling Larsen
Søren Ejling Larsen Technical University of Denmark
Ryan C. Sullivan
Ryan C. Sullivan Carnegie Mellon University
Charlotte Bay Hasager
Charlotte Bay Hasager Technical University of Denmark
Philip K. Hopke
Philip K. Hopke Clarkson University
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
David Simpson
David Simpson Chalmers University of Technology
Gunner Chr. Larsen
Gunner Chr. Larsen Technical University of Denmark
Eiko Nemitz
Eiko Nemitz UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki

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