Ellen Dyer

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 619 citations indexed

About

Ellen Dyer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen Dyer has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 619 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Ellen Dyer's work include Climate variability and models (20 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (8 papers). Ellen Dyer is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (20 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (8 papers). Ellen Dyer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ethiopia. Ellen Dyer's co-authors include Meron Teferi Taye, Feyera A. Hirpa, Katrina Charles, Simon Dadson, Jian Peng, Richard Washington, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Chris Funk, Diego G. Miralles and Thomas Lees and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Ellen Dyer

26 papers receiving 598 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Warming accelerates global drought severity

2025 41 citations Solomon H. Gebrechorkos, Justin Sheffield et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ellen Dyer United Kingdom	14	429	210	189	82	74	27	619
Boubacar Ibrahim Burkina Faso	13	383 0.9×	241 1.1×	179 0.9×	47 0.6×	102 1.4×	27	652
Si Hong China	13	450 1.0×	261 1.2×	169 0.9×	51 0.6×	62 0.8×	20	620
Daniela Carneiro Rodrigues Brazil	5	438 1.0×	218 1.0×	193 1.0×	66 0.8×	68 0.9×	8	657
Hassan Anjileli United States	6	319 0.7×	204 1.0×	50 0.3×	97 1.2×	62 0.8×	6	499
Abel Afouda Benin	18	537 1.3×	412 2.0×	150 0.8×	78 1.0×	103 1.4×	56	783
Adán Silva Brazil	5	439 1.0×	242 1.2×	162 0.9×	69 0.8×	63 0.9×	6	677
Nobuyuki Utsumi Japan	12	668 1.6×	231 1.1×	529 2.8×	100 1.2×	59 0.8×	33	895
Amar Deep Tiwari India	11	606 1.4×	306 1.5×	234 1.2×	57 0.7×	109 1.5×	21	762
Marianne Milano Switzerland	11	226 0.5×	270 1.3×	60 0.3×	127 1.5×	41 0.6×	18	458
Yaning	12	287 0.7×	240 1.1×	161 0.9×	38 0.5×	28 0.4×	38	503

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ellen Dyer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ellen Dyer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ellen Dyer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ellen Dyer. Ellen Dyer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gebrechorkos, Solomon H., Justin Sheffield, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, et al.. (2025). Warming accelerates global drought severity. Nature. 642(8068). 628–635. 41 indexed citations breakdown →

Taye, Meron Teferi & Ellen Dyer. (2024). Hydrologic Extremes in a Changing Climate: a Review of Extremes in East Africa. 10(1). 1–11. 20 indexed citations

Gebrechorkos, Solomon H., Jian Peng, Ellen Dyer, et al.. (2023). Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–2022. Earth system science data. 15(12). 5449–5466. 45 indexed citations

Mutemi, Joseph, Ellen Dyer, Rachel James, et al.. (2023). Representation of land–atmosphere coupling processes over Africa in coupled model intercomparison project Phase 6. Climate Dynamics. 62(9). 8389–8401. 6 indexed citations

Annor, Thompson, Rachel James, Ellen Dyer, et al.. (2023). Heat band, rain band and heat low migration: process-based evaluation of some CMIP6 GCMs over West Africa. Climate Dynamics. 62(1). 791–806. 3 indexed citations

Pokam, Wilfried M., et al.. (2022). Low-level circulation over Central Equatorial Africa as simulated from CMIP5 to CMIP6 models. Climate Dynamics. 62(9). 8333–8351. 8 indexed citations

Dyer, Ellen, Linda Hirons, & Meron Teferi Taye. (2022). July–September rainfall in the Greater Horn of Africa: the combined influence of the Mascarene and South Atlantic highs. Climate Dynamics. 59(11-12). 3621–3641. 7 indexed citations

Bussi, Gianbattista, P. G. Whitehead, Li Jin, et al.. (2021). Impacts of Climate Change and Population Growth on River Nutrient Loads in a Data Scarce Region: The Upper Awash River (Ethiopia). Sustainability. 13(3). 1254–1254. 21 indexed citations

Calow, Roger, Katrina Charles, Sara de Wit, et al.. (2021). Engaging with the politics of climate resilience towards clean water and sanitation for all. npj Clean Water. 4(1). 20 indexed citations

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Hope, Rob, Johanna Koehler, Katrina Charles, et al.. (2021). Delivering safely-managed water to schools in Kenya. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 2 indexed citations

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Peng, Jian, Simon Dadson, Feyera A. Hirpa, et al.. (2020). A pan-African high-resolution drought index dataset. Earth system science data. 12(1). 753–769. 90 indexed citations

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Peng, Jian, Simon Dadson, Feyera A. Hirpa, et al.. (2020). A pan-African high-resolution drought index dataset. 1 indexed citations

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Taye, Meron Teferi, Ellen Dyer, Katrina Charles, & Linda Hirons. (2020). Potential predictability of the Ethiopian summer rains: Understanding local variations and their implications for water management decisions. The Science of The Total Environment. 755(Pt 1). 142604–142604. 29 indexed citations

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Dyer, Ellen & Richard Washington. (2020). Kenyan Long Rains: A Subseasonal Approach to Process-Based Diagnostics. Journal of Climate. 34(9). 3311–3326. 14 indexed citations

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Dyer, Ellen, Richard Washington, & Meron Teferi Taye. (2019). Evaluating the CMIP5 ensemble in Ethiopia: Creating a reduced ensemble for rainfall and temperature in Northwest Ethiopia and the Awash basin. International Journal of Climatology. 40(6). 2964–2985. 13 indexed citations

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King, James, Richard Washington, Ellen Dyer, & Sebastian Engelstaedter. (2018). Representation of East African Rainfall in CMIP5 Models. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 6659. 1 indexed citations

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Taye, Meron Teferi, Ellen Dyer, Feyera A. Hirpa, & Katrina Charles. (2018). Climate Change Impact on Water Resources in the Awash Basin, Ethiopia. Water. 10(11). 1560–1560. 112 indexed citations

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Hirpa, Feyera A., Ellen Dyer, Rob Hope, Daniel Olago, & Simon Dadson. (2018). Finding sustainable water futures in data-sparse regions under climate change: Insights from the Turkwel River basin, Kenya. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 19. 124–135. 22 indexed citations

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Hirpa, Feyera A., Simon Dadson, Ellen Dyer, et al.. (2017). Sustainable water use and management options in a water-stressed river basin in Kenya. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 19151. 1 indexed citations

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Dyer, Ellen, et al.. (2017). Sahel precipitation and regional teleconnections with the Indian Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(11). 5654–5676. 13 indexed citations

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