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D-Index
42
Citations
6063
World Ranking
7469
National Ranking
565

Overview

Sarah E. Metcalfe is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

The main areas of study include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Core topics within their work focus on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Vehicle emissions and performance, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Frequent publication venues for their work encompass Quaternary Science Reviews, The Holocene, Blue-Green Systems, Quaternary, and Regional Environmental Change.

  • Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia (2020, Blue-Green Systems)
  • Community perception, adaptation and resilience to extreme weather in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (2020, Regional Environmental Change)
  • Precipitation regionalization, anomalies and drought occurrence in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (2020, International Journal of Climatology)
  • Chemical constituents, driving factors, and source apportionment of oxidative potential of ambient fine particulate matter in a Port City in East China (2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co (2021, Quaternary Science Reviews)

Metcalfe has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Matthew D. Jones, Doreen S. Boyd, Suzanne McGowan, Betsabé de la Barreda-Bautista, and Ke Chen.

Best Publications

  • Climate change as the dominant control on glacial-interglacial variations in C3 and C4 plant abundance

    Y. Huang;F. A. Street-Perrott;S. E. Metcalfe;M. Brenner

  • Records of Late Pleistocene}Holocene climatic change in Mexico * a review

    Sarah E Metcalfe;Sarah L O'Hara;Margarita Caballero;Sarah J Davies

  • Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate over the late glacial and Holocene, reconstructed from the sediments of Nar lake, central Turkey, using stable isotopes and carbonate mineralogy

    Jonathan R. Dean;Jonathan R. Dean;Matthew D. Jones;Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng;Stephen R. Noble

  • The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon: 'known knowns' and 'known unknowns' in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity

    Sarah E. Metcalfe;John A. Barron;Sarah J. Davies

  • Climate variability over the last two millennia in the North American monsoon region, recorded in laminated lake sediments from Laguna de Juanacatlan, Mexico

    S. E. Metcalfe;Matthew D Jones;S. J. Davies;A. Noren

  • A 45kyr palaeoclimate record from the lowland interior of tropical South America

    Bronwen S. Whitney;Francis E. Mayle;Surangi W. Punyasena;Katharine A. Fitzpatrick

  • Wet conditions during the last glaciation in the Chihuahuan Desert, Alta Babicora basin, Mexico

    Sarah Metcalfe;Alison Say;Stuart Black;Robert McCulloch

  • Developing an inventory of N2O emissions from British soils

    M. Sozanska;U. Skiba;S. Metcalfe

  • LATE QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTS OF THE NORTHERN DESERTS AND CENTRAL TRANSVOLCANIC BELT OF MEXICO1

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  • Sta. Cruz Atizapan: a 22-ka lake level record and climatic implications for the late Holocene human occupation in the Upper Lerma Basin, Central Mexico

    Margarita Caballero;Beatriz Ortega;Francisco Valadez;Sarah Metcalfe

  • Lacustrine responses to tephra deposition: examples from Mexico

    Richard J. Telford;Philip A. Barker;Sarah E. Metcalfe;Anthony Newton

  • The Pretoria Saltpan: a 200,000 year Southern African lacustrine sequence

    T.C. Partridge;S.J. Kerr;S.E. Metcalfe;L. Scott

  • Response of the North American monsoon to regional changes in ocean surface temperature

    John A. Barron;Sarah E. Metcalfe;Jason A. Addison

  • Challenges and considerations of applying nature-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast and East Asia

    Alex M. Lechner;Alex M. Lechner;Rachel L. Gomes;Lucelia Rodrigues;Matthew J. Ashfold

  • Environmental changes in the Zirahuén Basin, Michoacán, Mexico, during the last 1000 years

    Sarah J. Davies;S. E. Metcalfe;S. E. Metcalfe;A. MacKenzie;A. Newton

  • Late holocene human impact on lake basins in central mexico

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  • Deciphering recent climate change in central Mexican lake records

    Sarah Metcalfe;Sarah J. Davies

  • Climate change at the monsoon/Westerly boundary in Northern Mexico

    S. E. Metcalfe;A. Bimpson;A. J. Courtice;S. L. O‘Hara

  • Long and short-term change in the Patzcuaro Basin, central Mexico

    Sarah E. Metcalfe;Sarah J. Davies;John D. Braisby;Melanie J. Leng

  • A tale of two lakes: a multi-proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey

    Neil Roberts;Samantha L. Allcock;Fabien Arnaud;Jonathan R. Dean;Jonathan R. Dean

  • Variations in Lake Levels during the Holocene in North America: An Indicator of Changes in Atmospheric Circulation Patterns

    S.P. Harrison;Sarah E. Metcalfe

  • Holocene Climate Patterns in the Americas Inferred from Paleolimnological Records

    Sherilyn C. Fritz;Sarah E. Metcalfe;Walter Dean

  • Acid deposition in the United Kingdom 1992-1994

    J.G. Irwin;G. Campbell;J.N. Cape;T.W. Choularton

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Warren J. Eastwood
Warren J. Eastwood University of Birmingham
Henry Hooghiemstra
Henry Hooghiemstra University of Amsterdam
Wim Z. Hoek
Wim Z. Hoek Utrecht University
Hans Middelkoop
Hans Middelkoop Utrecht University
David Simpson
David Simpson Chalmers University of Technology
David J. Nash
David J. Nash University of Brighton
Jessie Woodbridge
Jessie Woodbridge Plymouth University
Doreen S. Boyd
Doreen S. Boyd University of Nottingham

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