Fraser C. Lott

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Fraser C. Lott is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Fraser C. Lott has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 37 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Fraser C. Lott's work include Climate variability and models (39 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (9 papers). Fraser C. Lott is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (39 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (9 papers). Fraser C. Lott collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Netherlands. Fraser C. Lott's co-authors include Peter A. Stott, Nikolaos Christidis, Simon F. B. Tett, Buwen Dong, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Sarah Sparrow, Robert Vautard, Friederike E. L. Otto, Julie Arrighi and Sarah Kew and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Fraser C. Lott

55 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution

2021 147 citations Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Robert Vautard et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fraser C. Lott United Kingdom	21	1.1k	787	119	119	108	57	1.4k
H. Athar Pakistan	19	904 0.8×	695 0.9×	130 1.1×	63 0.5×	116 1.1×	53	1.6k
David A. Plummer Canada	29	2.1k 1.9×	2.2k 2.8×	35 0.3×	169 1.4×	106 1.0×	86	3.0k
Zbigniew Ustrnul Poland	18	1.1k 1.0×	936 1.2×	74 0.6×	206 1.7×	144 1.3×	57	1.7k
Xiaosong Yang United States	29	2.5k 2.2×	2.4k 3.0×	71 0.6×	35 0.3×	91 0.8×	85	3.0k
Jinbo Xie China	18	293 0.3×	327 0.4×	17 0.1×	33 0.3×	179 1.7×	59	850
Cathrine Fox Maule Denmark	15	696 0.6×	666 0.8×	104 0.9×	36 0.3×	182 1.7×	21	1.2k
E. L. Robinson United Kingdom	15	729 0.7×	209 0.3×	75 0.6×	17 0.1×	554 5.1×	40	1.3k
Ge Yi China	15	385 0.3×	101 0.1×	84 0.7×	55 0.5×	176 1.6×	36	800
Andreas M. Fischer Switzerland	23	1.0k 0.9×	891 1.1×	96 0.8×	86 0.7×	143 1.3×	43	1.4k

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Barbosa, Maria Lucia Ferreira, Rafael Veiga, Renata Pacheco Quevedo, et al.. (2025). Attributing a deadly landslide disaster in Southeastern Brazil to human-induced climate change. Weather and Climate Extremes. 50. 100811–100811.

Liang, Wenjun, et al.. (2025). Attribution of the 2023 extreme spring hot drought event in Southwest China: meteorological and agricultural perspectives. Environmental Research Letters. 20(7). 74019–74019.

Jones, Gareth S., Martin B. Andrews, Timothy Andrews, et al.. (2024). The HadGEM3‐GC3.1 Contribution to the CMIP6 Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(8). 1 indexed citations

Crespo, Natália Machado, Cassiano Antônio Bortolozo, Andrew James Hartley, et al.. (2024). Extreme rainfall and landslides as a response to human-induced climate change: a case study at Baixada Santista, Brazil, 2020. Natural Hazards. 120(12). 10835–10860. 11 indexed citations

Dong, Buwen, et al.. (2024). Anthropogenic Influences on Extremely Persistent Seasonal Precipitation in Southern China during May–June 2022. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(2). E425–E431. 3 indexed citations

Neto, Germano Ribeiro, Liana O. Anderson, Lincoln Muniz Alves, et al.. (2021). Attributing the 2015/2016 Amazon basin drought to anthropogenic influence. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 1(1). 15 indexed citations

Zhou, Baiquan, Panmao Zhai, Simon F. B. Tett, & Fraser C. Lott. (2021). Detectable anthropogenic changes in daily-scale circulations driving summer rainfall shifts over eastern China. Environmental Research Letters. 16(7). 74044–74044. 8 indexed citations

Lott, Fraser C., Andrew Ciavarella, John Kennedy, et al.. (2021). Quantifying the contribution of an individual to making extreme weather events more likely. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104040–104040. 10 indexed citations

Dalagnol, Ricardo, Carolina Barnez Gramcianinov, Natália Machado Crespo, et al.. (2021). Extreme rainfall and its impacts in the Brazilian Minas Gerais state in January 2020: Can we blame climate change?. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 1(1). 58 indexed citations

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Li, Delei, Nergui Nanding, Xuan Wang, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic Influences on Heavy Precipitation during the 2019 Extremely Wet Rainy Season in Southern China. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(1). S103–S109. 17 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenxia, Wei Li, Yuanyuan Ma, et al.. (2020). Anthropogenic Influence on 2018 Summer Persistent Heavy Rainfall in Central Western China. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(1). S65–S70. 44 indexed citations

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Undorf, Sabine, Kathryn Allen, Sihan Li, et al.. (2020). Learning from the 2018 heatwave in the context of climate change: are high-temperature extremes important for adaptation in Scotland?. Environmental Research Letters. 15(3). 34051–34051. 11 indexed citations

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Ren, Liwen, Dongqian Wang, Ning An, et al.. (2020). Anthropogenic Influences on the Persistent Night-Time Heat Wave in Summer 2018 over Northeast China. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(1). S83–S88. 46 indexed citations

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Chen, Yang, Wei Chen, Feifei Luo, et al.. (2019). Anthropogenic Warming has Substantially Increased the Likelihood of July 2017–Like Heat Waves over Central Eastern China. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 100(1). S91–S95. 41 indexed citations

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Sparrow, Sarah, Fangxing Tian, Sihan Li, et al.. (2018). Attributing human influence on the July 2017 Chinese heatwave: the influence of sea-surface temperatures. Environmental Research Letters. 13(11). 114004–114004. 33 indexed citations

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Christiansen, Bo, M. Carmen Álvarez-Castro, Nikolaos Christidis, et al.. (2018). Was the Cold European Winter of 2009/10 Modified by Anthropogenic Climate Change? An Attribution Study. Journal of Climate. 31(9). 3387–3410. 17 indexed citations

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Lo, Y. T. Eunice, Andrew Charlton‐Perez, E. J. Highwood, & Fraser C. Lott. (2018). Best Scale for Detecting the Effects of Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Geoengineering on Surface Temperature. Earth s Future. 6(12). 1660–1671. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Chunxiang, Qinhua Tian, Rong Yu, et al.. (2017). Attribution of extreme precipitation in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River during May 2016. Environmental Research Letters. 13(1). 14015–14015. 41 indexed citations

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Lo, Y. T. Eunice, Andrew Charlton‐Perez, Fraser C. Lott, & E. J. Highwood. (2016). Detecting sulphate aerosol geoengineering with different methods. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 39169–39169. 12 indexed citations

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Jones, Chris, John P. Hughes, Gareth S. Jones, et al.. (2011). HadGEM2-ES model output prepared for CMIP5 piControl, served by ESGF. 1 indexed citations

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