2026 Sharon E. Nicholson: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	83	825	787	358	333	206	29739

Overview

Sharon E. Nicholson is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Soil Science, and Ecology.

Their research covers main topics such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Tree-ring climate responses, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Soil erosion and sediment transport.

Recent publications by Sharon E. Nicholson include:

The global historical climate database HCLIM, 2023, Scientific Data
Meteorological causes of the catastrophic rains of October/November 2019 in equatorial Africa, 2021, Global and Planetary Change
Need for harmonized long-term multi-lake monitoring of African Great Lakes, 2022, Journal of Great Lakes Research
The Tropical Easterly Jet over Africa, its representation in six reanalysis products, and its association with Sahel rainfall, 2020, International Journal of Climatology
Assessing the Reliability of Satellite and Reanalysis Estimates of Rainfall in Equatorial Africa, 2021, Remote Sensing

Frequently co-authoring researchers with Nicholson include:

Douglas Klotter
Andrea Kiss
F. S. Rodrigo
Stefan Grab
Stefan Brönnimann

Their work has appeared in several notable publication venues, among which the most frequent are:

Geophysical Monograph
Journal of Hydrometeorology
Scientific Data
Journal of Great Lakes Research
Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF GLOBAL SOURCES OF ATMOSPHERIC SOIL DUST IDENTIFIED WITH THE NIMBUS 7 TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER (TOMS) ABSORBING AEROSOL PRODUCT

Joseph M. Prospero;Paul Ginoux;Omar Torres;Sharon E. Nicholson

3524
Citations
Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

1077
Citations
The nature of rainfall variability over Africa on time scales of decades to millenia

Sharon E. Nicholson

854
Citations
Desertification, Drought, and Surface Vegetation: An Example from the West African Sahel

S. E. Nicholson;C. J. Tucker;M. B. Ba

852
Citations
Mutations in Dynein Link Motor Neuron Degeneration to Defects in Retrograde Transport

Majid Hafezparast;Rainer Klocke;Christiana Ruhrberg;Andreas Marquardt

834
Citations
Climatic and environmental change in Africa during the last two centuries

Sharon E. Nicholson

790
Citations
Climate and climatic variability of rainfall over eastern Africa

Sharon E. Nicholson

783
Citations
A Review of Climate Dynamics and Climate Variability in Eastern Africa

S.E. Nicholson

773
Citations
The West African Sahel: A Review of Recent Studies on the Rainfall Regime and Its Interannual Variability

Sharon E. Nicholson

751
Citations
THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION TO AFRICAN RAINFALL

Sharon E. Nicholson;Jeeyoung Kim

740
Citations
A comparison of the vegetation response to rainfall in the Sahel and East Africa, using normalized difference vegetation index from NOAA AVHRR

Sharon E. Nicholson;Michael L. Davenport;Ada R. Malo

642
Citations
An Analysis of Recent Rainfall Conditions in West Africa, Including the Rainy Seasons of the 1997 El Nino and the 1998 La Nina Years

S. E. Nicholson;B. Some;B. Kone

516
Citations
On the question of the ''recovery'' of the rains in the West African Sahel

S. Nicholson

507
Citations
The influence of soil type on the relationships between NDVI, rainfall, and soil moisture in semiarid Botswana. I. NDVI response to rainfall

T.J. Farrar;S.E. Nicholson;A.R. Lare

473
Citations
On the relation between rainfall and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index for diverse vegetation types in East Africa

M. L. Davenport;S. E. Nicholson

460
Citations
Land surface processes and Sahel climate

Sharon Nicholson

455
Citations
The ITCZ and the Seasonal Cycle over Equatorial Africa

Sharon E. Nicholson

409
Citations
A Study of the Dynamic Factors Influencing the Rainfall Variability in the West African Sahel

Jeremy P. Grist;Sharon E. Nicholson

396
Citations
A revised picture of the structure of the “monsoon” and land ITCZ over West Africa

Sharon E. Nicholson

395
Citations
The Seasonal Evolution of the Atmospheric Circulation over West Africa and Equatorial Africa

Sharon E. Nicholson;Jeremy P. Grist

386
Citations
African environmental and climatic changes and the general atmospheric circulation in late pleistocene and holocene

Sharon E. Nicholson;Hermann Flohn

382
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Funk University of California, Santa Barbara

David J. Nash University of Brighton

Dara Entekhabi MIT

Brian M. Chase University of Montpellier

Asfawossen Asrat Botswana International University of Science and Technology

Liming Zhou University at Albany, State University of New York

Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen

Raphael Neukom University of Bern

Anne-Marie Lézine Sorbonne University

Rob Allan Met Office

External Links

Personal website of Sharon E. Nicholson

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