Sarah Kapnick

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Sarah Kapnick is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Kapnick has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 47 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Sarah Kapnick's work include Climate variability and models (47 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (30 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers). Sarah Kapnick is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (47 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (30 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers). Sarah Kapnick collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Italy. Sarah Kapnick's co-authors include Thomas L. Delworth, Alex Hall, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Salvatore Pascale, Liwei Jia, P. C. D. Milly, Seth Underwood, Sergey Malyshev, Moetasim Ashfaq and Mimi Hughes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Kapnick

55 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity

2014 332 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas L. Delworth et al. Journal of Climate profile →

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Giuseppe Zappa United Kingdom

Philippe Lucas‐Picher Canada

Haijun Deng China

H. Kutiel Israel

Paulo Nobre Brazil

Simon C. Scherrer Switzerland

P. Maheras Greece

В. А. Семенов Russia

Jinlong Huang China

Danielle C. Verdon‐Kidd Australia

Giuseppe Zappa United Kingdom

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Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Kapnick

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Kapnick

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Kapnick

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Kapnick. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Kapnick 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 Sarah Kapnick. Sarah Kapnick 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

Lemoine, Derek & Sarah Kapnick. (2024). Financial markets value skillful forecasts of seasonal climate. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4059–4059. 8 indexed citations

Tseng, Kai‐Chih, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Sarah Kapnick, et al.. (2022). When Will Humanity Notice Its Influence on Atmospheric Rivers?. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(9). 9 indexed citations

Ashfaq, Moetasim, Sarah Kapnick, Muhammad Adnan Abid, et al.. (2022). Dominant controls of cold-season precipitation variability over the high mountains of Asia. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 5(1). 15 indexed citations

Jia, Liwei, Thomas L. Delworth, Sarah Kapnick, et al.. (2022). Skillful Seasonal Prediction of North American Summertime Heat Extremes. Journal of Climate. 35(13). 4331–4345. 15 indexed citations

Barsugli, J. J., David R. Easterling, Derek S. Arndt, et al.. (2022). Development of a Rapid Response Capability to Evaluate Causes of Extreme Temperature and Drought Events in the United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 103(3). S14–S20. 5 indexed citations

Bushuk, Mitchell, Michael Winton, F. Alexander Haumann, et al.. (2021). Seasonal Prediction and Predictability of Regional Antarctic Sea Ice. Journal of Climate. 34(15). 6207–6233. 35 indexed citations

Zhang, Gan, Hiroyuki Murakami, William Cooke, et al.. (2021). Seasonal predictability of baroclinic wave activity. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 4(1). 12 indexed citations

Tseng, Kai‐Chih, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Sarah Kapnick, et al.. (2021). Are Multiseasonal Forecasts of Atmospheric Rivers Possible?. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(17). 21 indexed citations

Pascale, Salvatore, Sarah Kapnick, Thomas L. Delworth, Hugo G. Hidalgo, & William Cooke. (2021). Natural variability vs forced signal in the 2015–2019 Central American drought. Climatic Change. 168(3-4). 32 indexed citations

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Tseng, Kai‐Chih, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Eric D. Maloney, Elizabeth A. Barnes, & Sarah Kapnick. (2021). Mapping Large-Scale Climate Variability to Hydrological Extremes: An Application of the Linear Inverse Model to Subseasonal Prediction. Journal of Climate. 34(11). 4207–4225. 7 indexed citations

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Barcikowska, Monika, et al.. (2020). Changes in the future summer Mediterranean climate: contribution of teleconnections and local factors. Earth System Dynamics. 11(1). 161–181. 46 indexed citations

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Lundquist, Jessica D., Sarah Kapnick, Melissa L. Wrzesien, et al.. (2019). Could increased summer rains save mountain ecosystems as snow disappears. AGUFM. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Kapnick, Sarah, Xiaosong Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, et al.. (2018). Potential for western US seasonal snowpack prediction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(6). 1180–1185. 38 indexed citations

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Ginoux, Paul, Sarah Kapnick, Sergey Malyshev, et al.. (2018). Analysis of aerosol deposition on snowpack over global high mountain ranges. EGUGA. 10062. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaosong, Liwei Jia, Sarah Kapnick, et al.. (2018). On the seasonal prediction of the western United States El Niño precipitation pattern during the 2015/16 winter. Climate Dynamics. 51(9-10). 3765–3783. 18 indexed citations

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Arendt, A. A., Paul R. Houser, Sarah Kapnick, et al.. (2017). NASA's High Mountain Asia Team (HiMAT): collaborative research to study changes of the High Asia region. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Wiel, Karin van der, Sarah Kapnick, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, et al.. (2017). Rapid attribution of the August 2016 flood-inducing extreme precipitation in south Louisiana to climate change. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(2). 897–921. 150 indexed citations

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Jia, Liwei, Xiaosong Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, et al.. (2014). Improved Seasonal Prediction of Temperature and Precipitation over Land in a High-Resolution GFDL Climate Model. Journal of Climate. 28(5). 2044–2062. 141 indexed citations

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Kapnick, Sarah & Alex Hall. (2011). Causes of recent changes in western North American snowpack. Climate Dynamics. 38(9-10). 1885–1899. 140 indexed citations

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Kapnick, Sarah & Alex Hall. (2010). Observed Climate–Snowpack Relationships in California and their Implications for the Future. Journal of Climate. 23(13). 3446–3456. 84 indexed citations

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