Rowan Sutton

20.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
156 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

About

Rowan Sutton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Rowan Sutton has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 114 papers in Atmospheric Science and 80 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Rowan Sutton's work include Climate variability and models (136 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (78 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (62 papers). Rowan Sutton is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (136 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (78 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (62 papers). Rowan Sutton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Rowan Sutton's co-authors include Ed Hawkins, Buwen Dong, Dan Hodson, Jon Robson, Len Shaffrey, Jonathan M. Gregory, Myles Allen, Doug Smith, Yochanan Kushnir and Adam A. Scaife and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rowan Sutton

153 papers receiving 13.6k 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.

The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions

2009 1.9k citations Ed Hawkins, Rowan Sutton profile →
Atlantic Ocean Forcing of North American and European Summer Climate

2005 1.1k citations Rowan Sutton, Dan Hodson profile →
The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change

2010 822 citations Ed Hawkins, Rowan Sutton Climate Dynamics profile →
Atmospheric GCM Response to Extratropical SST Anomalies: Synthesis and Evaluation*

2002 565 citations Rowan Sutton et al. profile →
Time of emergence of climate signals

2011 423 citations Ed Hawkins, Rowan Sutton Geophysical Research Letters profile →
A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts

2019 374 citations Rong Zhang, Rowan Sutton et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Rowan Sutton	12.2k	10.1k	5.2k	896	597	156	13.9k
Chris K. Folland	14.0k 1.2×	12.0k 1.2×	5.3k 1.0×	793 0.9×	669 1.1×	104	16.1k
Brian J. Soden	17.5k 1.4×	15.8k 1.6×	5.0k 1.0×	796 0.9×	507 0.8×	157	19.9k
John Fasullo	11.8k 1.0×	9.8k 1.0×	4.9k 0.9×	796 0.9×	352 0.6×	156	15.4k
Martin P. Hoerling	12.0k 1.0×	9.4k 0.9×	3.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	843 1.4×	152	13.7k
Benjamin D. Santer	10.3k 0.8×	8.6k 0.9×	2.4k 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	611 1.0×	117	13.1k
E. Roeckner	15.3k 1.3×	14.4k 1.4×	4.0k 0.8×	861 1.0×	538 0.9×	145	18.4k
Akio Kitoh	12.0k 1.0×	11.3k 1.1×	3.0k 0.6×	1.5k 1.6×	890 1.5×	195	15.0k
G. J. Boer	10.2k 0.8×	8.2k 0.8×	2.4k 0.5×	989 1.1×	482 0.8×	131	12.3k
J. H. Lawrimore	9.3k 0.8×	7.7k 0.8×	3.9k 0.7×	722 0.8×	345 0.6×	66	11.2k
Masahide Kimoto	9.7k 0.8×	8.6k 0.8×	4.0k 0.8×	601 0.7×	426 0.7×	161	11.1k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dittus, Andrea J., Matthew Collins, Rowan Sutton, & Ed Hawkins. (2024). Reversal of Projected European Summer Precipitation Decline in a Stabilizing Climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(6). 9 indexed citations

Zhao, Alcide, Jon Robson, Rowan Sutton, et al.. (2024). Large diversity in AMOC internal variability across NEMO-based climate models. Climate Dynamics. 62(5). 3355–3374. 3 indexed citations

Wood, Richard, Michel Crucifix, Timothy M. Lenton, et al.. (2023). A Climate Science Toolkit for High Impact‐Low Likelihood Climate Risks. Earth s Future. 11(4). 10 indexed citations

Gray, Lesley J., et al.. (2022). Interactions between the stratospheric polar vortex and Atlantic circulation on seasonal to multi-decadal timescales. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(7). 4867–4893. 2 indexed citations

Ortega, Pablo, Jon Robson, Matthew Menary, et al.. (2021). Labrador Sea subsurface density as a precursor of multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic: a multi-model study. Earth System Dynamics. 12(2). 419–438. 22 indexed citations

Hawkins, Ed, David J. Frame, Luke J. Harrington, et al.. (2020). Observed Emergence of the Climate Change Signal: From the Familiar to the Unknown. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(6). 108 indexed citations

Senior, C. A., Colin Jones, Richard Wood, et al.. (2020). U.K. Community Earth System Modeling for CMIP6. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(9). e2019MS002004–e2019MS002004. 29 indexed citations

Menary, Matthew, Jon Robson, Richard P. Allan, et al.. (2020). Aerosol-forced AMOC changes in CMIP6 historical simulations..

Menary, Matthew, Jon Robson, Richard P. Allan, et al.. (2020). Aerosol‐Forced AMOC Changes in CMIP6 Historical Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(14). 119 indexed citations

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Sutton, Rowan & Ed Hawkins. (2020). ESD Ideas: Global climate response scenarios for IPCC assessments. Earth System Dynamics. 11(3). 751–754. 6 indexed citations

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Tian, Fangxing, Buwen Dong, Jon Robson, Rowan Sutton, & Simon F. B. Tett. (2019). Projected near term changes in the East Asian summer monsoon and its uncertainty. Environmental Research Letters. 14(8). 84038–84038. 10 indexed citations

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Baker, Laura, Len Shaffrey, Rowan Sutton, Antje Weisheimer, & Adam A. Scaife. (2018). An Intercomparison of Skill and Overconfidence/Underconfidence of the Wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation in Multimodel Seasonal Forecasts. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(15). 7808–7817. 89 indexed citations

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Sutton, Rowan. (2018). ESD Ideas: a simple proposal to improve the contribution of IPCC WGI to the assessment and communication of climate change risks. Earth System Dynamics. 9(4). 1155–1158. 29 indexed citations

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Robson, Jon, Pablo Ortega, & Rowan Sutton. (2016). A reversal of climatic trends in the North Atlantic since 2005. Nature Geoscience. 9(7). 513–517. 171 indexed citations

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Dong, Buwen, Rowan Sutton, & Len Shaffrey. (2014). The 2013 hot, dry summer in Western Europe. CentAUR (University of Reading). 1 indexed citations

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Robson, Jon, Dan Hodson, Ed Hawkins, & Rowan Sutton. (2013). Atlantic overturning in decline?. Nature Geoscience. 7(1). 2–3. 117 indexed citations

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Hurrell, James W., Thomas L. Delworth, Gökhan Danabasoglu, et al.. (2009). Decadal Climate Prediction: Opportunities and Challenges. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 2011. 10 indexed citations

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Sutton, Rowan & Dan Hodson. (2005). Atlantic Ocean Forcing of Multidecadal Variations in North American and European Summer Climate. AGUFM. 2005. 8 indexed citations

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Sutton, Rowan & Dan Hodson. (2003). Influence of the Oceans on North Atlantic Climate Variability 1871-1999. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 1559. 1 indexed citations

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Sutton, Rowan, et al.. (1953). Rhodes-Livingstone Institute. Africa. 23(3). 251–251. 1 indexed citations

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