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83
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29739
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825
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358

Sharon E. Nicholson 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 Sharon E. Nicholson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 206 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sharon E. Nicholson 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 Sharon E. Nicholson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

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

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

    Sharon E. Nicholson

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

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

  • Mutations in Dynein Link Motor Neuron Degeneration to Defects in Retrograde Transport

    Majid Hafezparast;Rainer Klocke;Christiana Ruhrberg;Andreas Marquardt

  • Climatic and environmental change in Africa during the last two centuries

    Sharon E. Nicholson

  • Climate and climatic variability of rainfall over eastern Africa

    Sharon E. Nicholson

  • A Review of Climate Dynamics and Climate Variability in Eastern Africa

    S.E. Nicholson

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

    Sharon E. Nicholson

  • THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION TO AFRICAN RAINFALL

    Sharon E. Nicholson;Jeeyoung Kim

  • 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

  • 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

  • On the question of the ''recovery'' of the rains in the West African Sahel

    S. Nicholson

  • 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

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

    M. L. Davenport;S. E. Nicholson

  • Land surface processes and Sahel climate

    Sharon Nicholson

  • The ITCZ and the Seasonal Cycle over Equatorial Africa

    Sharon E. Nicholson

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

    Jeremy P. Grist;Sharon E. Nicholson

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

    Sharon E. Nicholson

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

    Sharon E. Nicholson;Jeremy P. Grist

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

    Sharon E. Nicholson;Hermann Flohn

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Funk
Chris Funk University of California, Santa Barbara
David J. Nash
David J. Nash University of Brighton
Brian M. Chase
Brian M. Chase University of Montpellier
Asfawossen Asrat
Asfawossen Asrat Botswana International University of Science and Technology
Liming Zhou
Liming Zhou University at Albany, State University of New York
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Raphael Neukom
Raphael Neukom University of Bern
Anne-Marie Lézine
Anne-Marie Lézine Sorbonne University
Rob Allan
Rob Allan Met Office

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