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

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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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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Financial markets value skillful forecasts of seasonal climate 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Derek Lemoine, Sarah Kapnick	8
2	When Will Humanity Notice Its Influence on Atmospheric Rivers? 2022 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Kai‐Chih Tseng, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Sarah Kapnick, William Cooke, Thomas L. Delworth, Liwei Jia, Feiyu Lu, Colleen McHugh, Hiroyuki Murakami, Anthony Rosati, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Xiaosong Yang, Fanrong Zeng, Liping Zhang	9
3	Dominant controls of cold-season precipitation variability over the high mountains of Asia 2022 ·npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·(unknown), Moetasim Ashfaq, Sarah Kapnick, (unknown), Muhammad Adnan Abid, Fred Kucharski, Fulden Batıbeniz, (unknown), Katherine J. Evans, Huang‐Hsiung Hsu	15
4	Skillful Seasonal Prediction of North American Summertime Heat Extremes 2022 ·Journal of Climate ·Liwei Jia, Thomas L. Delworth, Sarah Kapnick, Xiaosong Yang, Nathaniel C. Johnson, William Cooke, Feiyu Lu, Matthew Harrison, Anthony Rosati, Fanrong Zeng, Colleen McHugh, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Liping Zhang, Hiroyuki Murakami, Kai‐Chih Tseng	15
5	Development of a Rapid Response Capability to Evaluate Causes of Extreme Temperature and Drought Events in the United States 2022 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·J. J. Barsugli, David R. Easterling, Derek S. Arndt, (unknown), Thomas L. Delworth, Martin P. Hoerling, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Sarah Kapnick, Arun Kumar, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Carl J. Schreck, Russell S. Vose, Tao Zhang	5
6	Seasonal Prediction and Predictability of Regional Antarctic Sea Ice 2021 ·Journal of Climate ·Mitchell Bushuk, Michael Winton, F. Alexander Haumann, Thomas L. Delworth, Feiyu Lu, Yongfei Zhang, Liwei Jia, Liping Zhang, William Cooke, Matthew Harrison, (unknown), Nathaniel C. Johnson, Sarah Kapnick, Colleen McHugh, Hiroyuki Murakami, Anthony Rosati, Kai‐Chih Tseng, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Xiaosong Yang, Fanrong Zeng	35
7	Seasonal predictability of baroclinic wave activity 2021 ·npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·Gan Zhang, Hiroyuki Murakami, William Cooke, Zhuo Wang, Liwei Jia, Feiyu Lu, Xiaosong Yang, Thomas L. Delworth, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Matthew Harrison, Mitchell Bushuk, Colleen McHugh, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Sarah Kapnick, Kai‐Chih Tseng, Liping Zhang	12
8	Are Multiseasonal Forecasts of Atmospheric Rivers Possible? 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Kai‐Chih Tseng, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Sarah Kapnick, Thomas L. Delworth, Feiyu Lu, William Cooke, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Anthony Rosati, Liping Zhang, Colleen McHugh, Xiaosong Yang, Matthew Harrison, Fanrong Zeng, Gan Zhang, Hiroyuki Murakami, Mitchell Bushuk, Liwei Jia	21
9	Natural variability vs forced signal in the 2015–2019 Central American drought 2021 ·Climatic Change ·Salvatore Pascale, Sarah Kapnick, Thomas L. Delworth, Hugo G. Hidalgo, William Cooke	32
10	Mapping Large-Scale Climate Variability to Hydrological Extremes: An Application of the Linear Inverse Model to Subseasonal Prediction 2021 ·Journal of Climate ·Kai‐Chih Tseng, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Eric D. Maloney, Elizabeth A. Barnes, Sarah Kapnick	7
11	Changes in the future summer Mediterranean climate: contribution of teleconnections and local factors 2020 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Monika Barcikowska, Sarah Kapnick, (unknown), Simone Russo, Annalisa Cherchi, Chris K. Folland	46
12	Could increased summer rains save mountain ecosystems as snow disappears 2019 ·AGUFM ·Jessica D. Lundquist, Sarah Kapnick, Melissa L. Wrzesien, Kristen L. Rasmussen, Laura M. Hinkelman, Jeff Dozier, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Michael Durand	1
13	Potential for western US seasonal snowpack prediction 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sarah Kapnick, Xiaosong Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas L. Delworth, Rich Gudgel, Sergey Malyshev, P. C. D. Milly, Elena Shevliakova, Seth Underwood, S. A. Margulis	38
14	Analysis of aerosol deposition on snowpack over global high mountain ranges 2018 ·EGUGA ·Paul Ginoux, Sarah Kapnick, Sergey Malyshev, Veronica Chan, Huan Guo, (unknown), Vaishali Naïk, Salvatore Pascale, Bing Pu, Elena Shevliakova, Ming Zhao	1
15	On the seasonal prediction of the western United States El Niño precipitation pattern during the 2015/16 winter 2018 ·Climate Dynamics ·Xiaosong Yang, Liwei Jia, Sarah Kapnick, Thomas L. Delworth, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Rich Gudgel, Seth Underwood, Fanrong Zeng	18
16	NASA's High Mountain Asia Team (HiMAT): collaborative research to study changes of the High Asia region 2017 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·A. A. Arendt, Paul R. Houser, Sarah Kapnick, (unknown), Dalia Kirschbaum, S. Kumar, S. A. Margulis, Kyle McDonald, Batuhan Osmanoğlu, T. H. Painter, Bruce Raup, Summer Rupper, (unknown), I. Velicogna	1
17	Rapid attribution of the August 2016 flood-inducing extreme precipitation in south Louisiana to climate change 2017 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Karin van der Wiel, Sarah Kapnick, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Kirien Whan, Sjoukje Philip, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Roop Singh, Julie Arrighi, Heidi Cullen	150
18	Improved Seasonal Prediction of Temperature and Precipitation over Land in a High-Resolution GFDL Climate Model 2014 ·Journal of Climate ·Liwei Jia, Xiaosong Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, R. Gudgel, Thomas L. Delworth, Anthony Rosati, William F. Stern, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, Shaoqing Zhang, Rym Msadek, Sarah Kapnick, Seth Underwood, Fanrong Zeng, W. Anderson, V. Balaji, Keith W. Dixon	141
19	Causes of recent changes in western North American snowpack 2011 ·Climate Dynamics ·Sarah Kapnick, Alex Hall	140
20	Observed Climate–Snowpack Relationships in California and their Implications for the Future 2010 ·Journal of Climate ·Sarah Kapnick, Alex Hall	84

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