Sarah Sparrow

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah Sparrow is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Sparrow has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 48 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Sarah Sparrow's work include Climate variability and models (56 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (35 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). Sarah Sparrow is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (56 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (35 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). Sarah Sparrow collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Sarah Sparrow's co-authors include David Wallom, Sihan Li, Myles Allen, Lesley J. Gray, Fraser C. Lott, Friederike E. L. Otto, Dann Mitchell, Karsten Haustein, Neil Massey and Benoît P. Guillod and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Sparrow

83 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

2021 242 citations Karsten Haustein, Sihan Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Sparrow United Kingdom	25	1.5k	995	194	186	148	88	2.1k
Karsten Haustein United Kingdom	30	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	248 1.3×	187 1.0×	187 1.3×	56	2.6k
Paola Mercogliano Italy	28	1.2k 0.8×	896 0.9×	168 0.9×	264 1.4×	350 2.4×	146	2.0k
Sebastian Sippel Switzerland	27	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	270 1.4×	169 0.9×	228 1.5×	63	2.7k
Elisa Ragno Netherlands	14	1.4k 0.9×	636 0.6×	226 1.2×	335 1.8×	206 1.4×	23	1.9k
Nina Ridder Australia	15	1.4k 1.0×	788 0.8×	130 0.7×	212 1.1×	90 0.6×	20	1.8k
K. Lagouvardos Greece	29	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	127 0.7×	114 0.6×	314 2.1×	72	2.1k
Omid Alizadeh Iran	24	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	250 1.3×	95 0.5×	196 1.3×	59	1.9k
Emanuele Bevacqua Germany	19	2.3k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	137 0.7×	399 2.1×	175 1.2×	47	2.9k
Nathalie Schaller United Kingdom	21	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	125 0.6×	232 1.2×	174 1.2×	31	2.0k
Duoying Ji China	27	2.3k 1.5×	1.7k 1.7×	282 1.5×	185 1.0×	267 1.8×	66	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Sparrow

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Sparrow

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Sparrow

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Sparrow. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Sparrow 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 Sparrow. Sarah Sparrow is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sparrow, Sarah, et al.. (2026). Global gridded dataset of heating and cooling degree days under climate change scenarios. Nature Sustainability. 9(3). 470–480.

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.

Dasgupta, Abhishek, Rowan C. Nicholls, Marc Choisy, et al.. (2025). Scalable, open-access and multidisciplinary data integration pipeline for climate-sensitive diseases. 10. 467–467.

Lawal, Kamoru A., et al.. (2025). Performance Evaluation of Weather@home2 Simulations over West African Region. Atmosphere. 16(4). 392–392.

Subramanian, Aneesh C., et al.. (2025). Changes to Atmospheric River Related Extremes Over the United States West Coast Under Anthropogenic Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(5). 1 indexed citations

Sparrow, Sarah, et al.. (2025). Assessing the long-term effects of climate change on offshore wind operations in the UK. Energy. 332. 137062–137062. 1 indexed citations

Ye, Kunhui, Tim Woollings, Sarah Sparrow, P.A. Watson, & James A. Screen. (2024). Response of winter climate and extreme weather to projected Arctic sea-ice loss in very large-ensemble climate model simulations. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 16 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

Miranda, Nicole D., Jesús Lizana, Sarah Sparrow, et al.. (2023). Author Correction: Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C. Nature Sustainability. 6(12). 1716–1716. 2 indexed citations

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Lee, Donghyun, Sarah Sparrow, Seung‐Ki Min, Sang‐Wook Yeh, & Myles Allen. (2023). Physically based equation representing the forcing-driven precipitation in climate models. Environmental Research Letters. 18(9). 94063–94063. 5 indexed citations

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Sparrow, Sarah, et al.. (2023). The Long-Term Impact of Climate Change on Future UK Offshore Wind Operations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Calafat, Francisco M., Thomas Wahl, Michael Getachew Tadesse, & Sarah Sparrow. (2022). Trends in Europe storm surge extremes match the rate of sea-level rise. Nature. 603(7903). 841–845. 87 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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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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Lo, Y. T. Eunice, Dann Mitchell, Antonio Gasparrini, et al.. (2019). Increasing mitigation ambition to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal avoids substantial heat-related mortality in U.S. cities. Science Advances. 5(6). eaau4373–eaau4373. 48 indexed citations

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Millar, Richard, David J. Karoly, Urs Beyerle, et al.. (2018). Higher CO2 concentrations increase extreme event risk in a 1.5 degrees C world. Nature Climate Change. 8(7). 1 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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Guillod, Benoît P., Richard Jones, Simon Dadson, et al.. (2018). A large set of potential past, present and future hydro-meteorological time series for the UK. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(1). 611–634. 59 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Dann, Krishna AchutaRao, Myles Allen, et al.. (2016). Half a degree Additional warming, Projections, Prognosis and Impacts (HAPPI): Background and Experimental Design. 12 indexed citations

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Schaller, Nathalie, et al.. (2014). THE HEAVY PRECIPITATION EVENT OF MAY-JUNE 2013 IN THE UPPER DANUBE AND ELBE BASINS. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 95(9). 23 indexed citations

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