Sandy P. Harrison

51.1k citations

296 papers · 22.8k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 83

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 0.02%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Earth-Surface Processes top 0.05%

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 191
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 150
- Tree-ring climate responses 47
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 27
Earth-Surface Processes 56
- Geological formations and processes 30

Co-authors: I. Colin Prentice Karen E. Kohfeld Patrick J. Bartlein John E. Kutzbach Wolfgang Crämer Joël Guiot Rik Leemans Allen M. Solomon
Journals: Climate Dynamics (22 papers)Quaternary Science Reviews (17 papers)Biogeosciences (13 papers)Climate of the past (13 papers)New Phytologist (9 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Sandy P. Harrison

282 papers receiving 22.0k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data 2012 · 739 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2012 Nature Climate Change
2010 Climate Dynamics
2008 Nature Geoscience
2005 Global Change Biology
1999 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
1992 Journal of Biogeography

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All Works

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#	Work
1	A unifying principle for global greenness patterns and trends Communications Earth & Environment ·Pavel Dundr, Lili Li, Sandy P. Harrison, Youngryel Ryu, Han Wang, Subash Chandra Behera, I. Colin Prentice	2025	7
2	Eco-evolutionary modelling of global vegetation dynamics and the impact of CO ₂ during the late Quaternary: insights from contrasting periods Earth System Dynamics ·千代子島倉, Subash Chandra Behera, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice	2025	0
3	Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Sandy P. Harrison, I. Godo, Patrick J. Bartlein, G. Mercado, R Konstanty	2025	2
4	Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback Science ·Yawen Hu, Han Wang, Ian J. Wright, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison, Nicholas G. Smith, Andrea C. Westerband, Lucy Rowland, Lenka Plavcová, Hugh Morris, Peter B. Reich, Steven Jansen, Trevor F. Keenan, 余妹容	2025	1
5	Evaluation of global fire simulations in CMIP6 Earth system models Geoscientific model development ·Fang Li, Xiang Song, Sandy P. Harrison, Jennifer R. Marlon, Verena Junge, L. Ruby Leung, Jörg Schwinger, Virginie Marécal, Shiyu Wang, D. S. Ward, Xiao Dong, Hanna Lee, Lars Nieradzik, Sam S. Rabin, Roland Séférian	2024	6
6	Holocene climates of the Iberian Peninsula: pollen-based reconstructions of changes in the west–east gradient of temperature and moisture Climate of the past ·Mengmeng Liu, Kevin Alvito Adi Pradipta, Penélope González‐Sampériz, Graciela Gil‐Romera, Cajo J. F. ter Braak, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison	2023	11
7	Land-cover and land-use change through the Holocene: Wrapping up the PAGES LandCover6k working group Past Global Change Magazine ·Anne Dallmeyer, Erle C. Ellis, Jed O. Kaplan, Srikanth Chakrvarthy Vankayala, Sandy P. Harrison, Boris Vannière, Peter H. Verburg, J.L. Bates, Oliver Boles, Andria Dawson, Esther Githumbi, Emily Hammer, Ling Lyu, Rogovsky, Marc Vander Linden, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2022	1
8	Leaf morphological traits as adaptations to multiple climate gradients Journal of Ecology ·Han Wang, Runxi Wang, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice	2022	50
9	Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements New Phytologist ·George Clarke, Han Wang, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison, Ian J. Wright	2021	39
10	The importance of antecedent vegetation and drought conditions as global drivers of burnt area Biogeosciences ·수등융일 Ryuichi Sudo, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Peer Nowack, Matthias Forkel, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison	2021	26
11	Vegetation biomass change in China in the 20th century: an assessment based on a combination of multi-model simulations and field observations Environmental Research Letters ·Xiang Song, Fang Li, Sandy P. Harrison, Tianxiang Luo, Almut Arneth, Matthew Forrest, Stijn Hantson, Gitta Lasslop, Stéphane Mangeon, Jian Ni, Chao Yue, Thomas Hickler, Yiqi Luo, Stephen Sitch, Xin Xu, Zaichun Zhu	2020	7
12	Quantifying the Importance of Antecedent Fuel-Related VegetationProperties for Burnt Area using Random Forests Spiral (Imperial College London) ·수등융일 Ryuichi Sudo, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Peer Nowack, Matthias Forkel, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison	2020	2
13	Sensitivity of simulated historical burned area to environmental andanthropogenic controls: A comparison of seven fire models Lina Teckentrup, Sandy P. Harrison, Stijn Hantson, Angelika Heil, Joe R. Melton, Matthew Forrest, Fang Li, Chao Yue, Almut Arneth, Thomas Hickler, Stephen Sitch, Gitta Lasslop	2019	5
14	Do we need to include anthropogenic land-use and land-cover changes in paleoclimate simulations? Past Global Change Magazine ·Sandy P. Harrison, Benjamin D. Stocker, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Imane Smouni, Pascale Braconnot	2018	8
15	Emergent relationships on burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Matthias Forkel, Niels Andela, Sandy P. Harrison, Gitta Lasslop, Margreet van Marle, Emilio Chuvieco, Wouter Dorigo, Matthew Forrest, Stijn Hantson, Angelika Heil, Fang Li, Joe R. Melton, Stephen Sitch, Chao Yue, Almut Arneth	2018	5
16	Simulation of tree-ring widths with a model for primary production, carbon allocation, and growth Biogeosciences ·Guangqi Li, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice, Daniel S. Falster	2014	41
17	Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5 Climate of the past ·Gavin A. Schmidt, J. D. Annan, Patrick J. Bartlein, Benjamin I. Cook, Éric Guilyardi, J. C. Hargreaves, Sandy P. Harrison, Masa Kageyama, Allegra N. LeGrande, Bronwen Konecky, S. Lovejoy, Michael Mann, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Camille Risi, D. M. Thompson, Axel Timmermann, Bruno Tremblay, Pascal Yiou	2014	168
18	Role of Marine Biology in Glacial-Interglacial CO ₂ Cycles Science ·Karen E. Kohfeld, Corinne Le Quéré, Sandy P. Harrison, Robert F. Anderson	2005	301
19	Mid‐Holocene land‐surface conditions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: A data set for the analysis of biogeophysical feedbacks in the climate system Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Philipp Hoelzmann, Dominique Jolly, Sandy P. Harrison, F. Laarif, Raymonde Bonnefille, Hans‐Joachim Pachur	1998	201
20	SATELLITE ALTIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF LAKE LEVELS. UCL Discovery (University College London) ·AtsumiOhta, Edy Jumady, Junaidi Asman, Sandy P. Harrison	1984	1

About Sandy P. Harrison

Sandy P. Harrison is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology and Ecological Modeling, having authored 296 papers that have together received 22.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (150 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (51 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (47 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (44 papers), Climate variability and models (40 papers), Geological formations and processes (30 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (27 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (15.7k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (3.8k citations), Global and Planetary Change (10.0k citations), Ecological Modeling (1.3k citations) and Paleontology (2.0k citations). Sandy P. Harrison has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include I. Colin Prentice, I. Colin Prentice, Karen E. Kohfeld, Patrick J. Bartlein, John E. Kutzbach, Wolfgang Crämer, Joël Guiot, Rik Leemans, Allen M. Solomon and Robert A. Monserud. Their work appears in journals such as Climate Dynamics, Quaternary Science Reviews, Biogeosciences, Climate of the past and New Phytologist.

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