David P. Rowell

20.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
71 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

David P. Rowell is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, David P. Rowell has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 55 papers in Atmospheric Science and 19 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in David P. Rowell's work include Climate variability and models (69 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (47 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (18 papers). David P. Rowell is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (69 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (47 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (18 papers). David P. Rowell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. David P. Rowell's co-authors include D. E. Parker, Alexey Kaplan, C. K. Folland, E. B. Horton, Nick A Rayner, Elizabeth C. Kent, Lisa V. Alexander, Chris K. Folland, M. J. Rodwell and Richard Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

David P. Rowell

71 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century

2003 8.9k citations D. E. Parker, David P. Rowell et al. profile →
Oceanic forcing of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation and European climate

1999 792 citations David P. Rowell, Chris K. Folland et al. profile →
An intercomparison of regional climate simulations for Europe: assessing uncertainties in model projections

2007 595 citations David P. Rowell, Filippo Giorgi et al. Climatic Change profile →
Selecting CMIP5 GCMs for downscaling over multiple regions

2014 411 citations David P. Rowell et al. Climate Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David P. Rowell United Kingdom	41	14.3k	12.0k	5.7k	872	864	71	16.0k
Chris K. Folland United Kingdom	55	14.0k 1.0×	12.0k 1.0×	5.3k 0.9×	830 1.0×	669 0.8×	104	16.1k
Martin P. Hoerling United States	63	12.0k 0.8×	9.4k 0.8×	3.2k 0.6×	617 0.7×	843 1.0×	152	13.7k
Rowan Sutton United Kingdom	56	12.2k 0.9×	10.1k 0.8×	5.2k 0.9×	532 0.6×	597 0.7×	156	13.9k
Yochanan Kushnir United States	69	14.4k 1.0×	12.1k 1.0×	6.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.9×	687 0.8×	153	18.0k
E. Roeckner Germany	65	15.3k 1.1×	14.4k 1.2×	4.0k 0.7×	909 1.0×	538 0.6×	145	18.4k
Akio Kitoh Japan	57	12.0k 0.8×	11.3k 0.9×	3.0k 0.5×	938 1.1×	890 1.0×	195	15.0k
Benjamin D. Santer United States	56	10.3k 0.7×	8.6k 0.7×	2.4k 0.4×	880 1.0×	611 0.7×	117	13.1k
Andrew T. Wittenberg United States	53	12.1k 0.8×	9.8k 0.8×	7.1k 1.2×	830 1.0×	435 0.5×	131	13.9k
D. E. Parker United Kingdom	34	14.8k 1.0×	12.7k 1.1×	6.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	650 0.8×	67	17.6k
Mingfang Ting United States	55	9.2k 0.6×	7.7k 0.6×	2.4k 0.4×	833 1.0×	538 0.6×	158	10.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Miller, James D., Christopher M. Taylor, Françoise Guichard, et al.. (2022). High-impact weather and urban flooding in the West African Sahel – A multidisciplinary case study of the 2009 event in Ouagadougou. Weather and Climate Extremes. 36. 100462–100462. 8 indexed citations

Rowell, David P., et al.. (2020). Understanding Intermodel Variability in Future Projections of a Sahelian Storm Proxy and Southern Saharan Warming. Journal of Climate. 34(2). 509–525. 7 indexed citations

Kendon, Elizabeth, R. A. Stratton, Simon Tucker, et al.. (2019). Enhanced future changes in wet and dry extremes over Africa at convection-permitting scale. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1794–1794. 184 indexed citations

Berthou, Ségolène, Elizabeth Kendon, David P. Rowell, et al.. (2019). Larger Future Intensification of Rainfall in the West African Sahel in a Convection‐Permitting Model. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(22). 13299–13307. 33 indexed citations

Finney, D, John H. Marsham, Lawrence Jackson, et al.. (2019). Implications of Improved Representation of Convection for the East Africa Water Budget Using a Convection-Permitting Model. Journal of Climate. 32(7). 2109–2129. 48 indexed citations

Diédhiou, Arona, Adéline Bichet, Richard Wartenburger, et al.. (2018). Changes in climate extremes over West and Central Africa at 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming. Environmental Research Letters. 13(6). 65020–65020. 90 indexed citations

Sheen, Katy, Doug Smith, Nick Dunstone, et al.. (2017). Skilful prediction of Sahel summer rainfall on inter-annual and multi-year timescales. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14966–14966. 75 indexed citations

Degefu, Mekonnen Adnew, David P. Rowell, & Woldeamlak Bewket. (2016). Teleconnections between Ethiopian rainfall variability and global SSTs: observations and methods for model evaluation. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 129(2). 173–186. 87 indexed citations

Chadwick, Robin, Peter Good, Gill Martin, & David P. Rowell. (2015). Large rainfall changes consistently projected over substantial areas of tropical land. Nature Climate Change. 6(2). 177–181. 193 indexed citations

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Rowell, David P., C. A. Senior, Michael Vellinga, & Richard Graham. (2015). Can climate projection uncertainty be constrained over Africa using metrics of contemporary performance?. Climatic Change. 134(4). 621–633. 55 indexed citations

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James, Rachel, Richard Washington, & David P. Rowell. (2014). African Climate Change Uncertainty in Perturbed Physics Ensembles: Implications of Global Warming to 4°C and Beyond*. Journal of Climate. 27(12). 4677–4692. 22 indexed citations

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Paeth, Heiko, Nicholas M. J. Hall, Μiguel Angel Gaertner, et al.. (2011). Progress in regional downscaling of west African precipitation. Atmospheric Science Letters. 12(1). 75–82. 145 indexed citations

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Druyan, Leonard M., Jinming Feng, Kerry H. Cook, et al.. (2009). The WAMME regional model intercomparison study. Climate Dynamics. 35(1). 175–192. 80 indexed citations

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Rowell, David P.. (2006). A Demonstration of the Uncertainty in Projections of UK Climate Change Resulting from Regional Model Formulation. Climatic Change. 79(3-4). 243–257. 69 indexed citations

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Rowell, David P.. (2001). Teleconnections between the tropical Pacific and the Sahel. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 127(575). 1683–1706. 139 indexed citations

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Sutton, Rowan, Stephen Jewson, & David P. Rowell. (2000). The Elements of Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic Region. Journal of Climate. 13(18). 3261–3284. 141 indexed citations

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Folland, Chris K., David M. H. Sexton, David J. Karoly, et al.. (1998). Influences of anthropogenic and oceanic forcing on recent climate change. Geophysical Research Letters. 25(3). 353–356. 50 indexed citations

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Rowell, David P., et al.. (1997). North Atlantic and European seasonal predictability using an ensemble of multidecadal atmospheric GCM simulations. International Journal of Climatology. 17(12). 1263–1284. 62 indexed citations

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Rowell, David P., et al.. (1993). On the Generation of African Squall Lines. Journal of Climate. 6(6). 1181–1193. 103 indexed citations

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Ward, M. Neil, et al.. (1990). FORECASTING SAHEL RAINFALL — AN UPDATE. Weather. 45(4). 122–125. 3 indexed citations

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