Claire E. Bulgin

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Claire E. Bulgin is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Claire E. Bulgin has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atmospheric Science, 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Claire E. Bulgin's work include Climate variability and models (15 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (9 papers). Claire E. Bulgin is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (15 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (9 papers). Claire E. Bulgin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Austria and Germany. Claire E. Bulgin's co-authors include Christopher J. Merchant, Darren Ghent, Owen Embury, Gary K. Corlett, J. J. Remedios, Craig Donlon, Elizabeth Good, David Ferreira, Nick A Rayner and Emma Fiedler and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Claire E. Bulgin

25 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications

2019 314 citations Christopher J. Merchant, Owen Embury et al. Scientific Data profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claire E. Bulgin United Kingdom	15	717	633	444	275	132	27	1.1k
Yesubabu Viswanadhapalli India	23	1.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.8×	387 0.9×	125 0.5×	50 0.4×	57	1.5k
Prasanjit Dash United States	16	616 0.9×	716 1.1×	380 0.9×	514 1.9×	141 1.1×	33	1.1k
Teddy Holt United States	22	1.2k 1.7×	1.3k 2.0×	320 0.7×	467 1.7×	65 0.5×	49	1.6k
Carl Fortelius Finland	15	480 0.7×	471 0.7×	212 0.5×	213 0.8×	27 0.2×	33	808
Sam F. Iacobellis United States	23	1.4k 1.9×	1.2k 1.8×	218 0.5×	149 0.5×	189 1.4×	46	1.7k
Jinlin Zha China	20	887 1.2×	668 1.1×	168 0.4×	231 0.8×	29 0.2×	44	1.1k
K. Lagouvardos Greece	18	972 1.4×	877 1.4×	113 0.3×	135 0.5×	54 0.4×	45	1.2k
Xiefei Zhi China	25	1.4k 1.9×	1.2k 1.9×	256 0.6×	198 0.7×	60 0.5×	134	1.7k
Jinzhong Min China	25	1.7k 2.3×	1.9k 3.0×	224 0.5×	178 0.6×	58 0.4×	114	2.1k
Peter B. Gibson New Zealand	18	984 1.4×	820 1.3×	114 0.3×	143 0.5×	45 0.3×	43	1.3k

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Hohensinn, Roland, Claire E. Bulgin, M G Cox, et al.. (2026). A Unified Framework for Trend Uncertainty Assessment in Climate Data Records: Demonstration on Global Mean Sea Level. Surveys in Geophysics.

Povey, Adam C., Claire E. Bulgin, & Alexander Gruber. (2025). A Practical Introduction to Utilising Uncertainty Information in the Analysis of Essential Climate Variables. Surveys in Geophysics.

Bulgin, Claire E., Paul Green, Alexander Gruber, et al.. (2025). The Importance of Scale in the Definition of Uncertainties: How do we Best Communicate this to Data Users?. Surveys in Geophysics. 1 indexed citations

Bulgin, Claire E., Ross Maidment, Darren Ghent, & Christopher J. Merchant. (2024). Stability of cloud detection methods for Land Surface Temperature (LST) Climate Data Records (CDRs). Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114440–114440. 3 indexed citations

Bulgin, Claire E., Jennifer Mecking, Ben Harvey, et al.. (2023). Dynamic sea-level changes and potential implications for storm surges in the UK: a storylines perspective. Environmental Research Letters. 18(4). 44033–44033. 4 indexed citations

Bulgin, Claire E., et al.. (2023). Improving the combined use of reflectance and thermal channels for ocean and coastal cloud detection for the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR). Remote Sensing of Environment. 290. 113531–113531. 3 indexed citations

Bulgin, Claire E., Owen Embury, Ross Maidment, & Christopher J. Merchant. (2022). Bayesian Cloud Detection over Land for Climate Data Records. Remote Sensing. 14(9). 2231–2231. 3 indexed citations

Bulgin, Claire E., et al.. (2021). Characterising industrial thermal plumes in coastal regions using 3-D numerical simulations. Environmental Research Communications. 3(4). 45003–45003. 1 indexed citations

Bulgin, Claire E., Christopher J. Merchant, & David Ferreira. (2020). Tendencies, variability and persistence of sea surface temperature anomalies. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 100 indexed citations

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Merchant, Christopher J., Owen Embury, Claire E. Bulgin, et al.. (2019). Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications. Scientific Data. 6(1). 223–223. 314 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bulgin, Claire E., et al.. (2019). Coastal Tidal Effects on Industrial Thermal Plumes in Satellite Imagery. Remote Sensing. 11(18). 2132–2132. 8 indexed citations

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Rasmussen, Till, Jacob L. Høyer, Darren Ghent, et al.. (2018). Impact of Assimilation of Sea‐Ice Surface Temperatures on a Coupled Ocean and Sea‐Ice Model. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(4). 2440–2460. 14 indexed citations

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Tagesson, Torbern, Stéphanie Horion, Héctor Nieto, et al.. (2018). Disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture over West Africa using the Temperature and Vegetation Dryness Index based on SEVIRI land surface parameters. Remote Sensing of Environment. 206. 424–441. 55 indexed citations

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Loew, Alexander, William Bell, Luca Brocca, et al.. (2017). Validation practices for satellite‐based Earth observation data across communities. Reviews of Geophysics. 55(3). 779–817. 146 indexed citations

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Good, Elizabeth, Darren Ghent, Claire E. Bulgin, & J. J. Remedios. (2017). A spatiotemporal analysis of the relationship between near‐surface air temperature and satellite land surface temperatures using 17 years of data from the ATSR series. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(17). 9185–9210. 133 indexed citations

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Bulgin, Claire E., Owen Embury, & Christopher J. Merchant. (2016). Sampling uncertainty in gridded sea surface temperature products and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Global Area Coverage (GAC) data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 177. 287–294. 31 indexed citations

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Merchant, Christopher J., Owen Embury, Jonah Roberts‐Jones, et al.. (2014). Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI). Geoscience Data Journal. 1(2). 179–191. 134 indexed citations

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Bulgin, Claire E., Harjinder Sembhi, Darren Ghent, J. J. Remedios, & Christopher J. Merchant. (2014). Cloud-clearing techniques over land for land-surface temperature retrieval from the Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 35(10). 3594–3615. 16 indexed citations

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Bulgin, Claire E., Steinar Eastwood, Owen Embury, Christopher J. Merchant, & Craig Donlon. (2014). The sea surface temperature climate change initiative: Alternative image classification algorithms for sea-ice affected oceans. Remote Sensing of Environment. 162. 396–407. 14 indexed citations

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Bulgin, Claire E., Paul I. Palmer, G. E. Thomas, et al.. (2008). Regional and seasonal variations of the Twomey indirect effect as observed by the ATSR‐2 satellite instrument. Geophysical Research Letters. 35(2). 26 indexed citations

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