Sloan Coats

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Sloan Coats is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Sloan Coats has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Sloan Coats's work include Climate variability and models (42 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (19 papers). Sloan Coats is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (42 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (19 papers). Sloan Coats collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Australia. Sloan Coats's co-authors include Jason E. Smerdon, Richard Seager, Benjamin I. Cook, Flavio Lehner, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Samantha Stevenson, Justin Mankin, Danielle Touma, Angeline G. Pendergrass and Benjamin M. Sanderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sloan Coats

54 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.

Global warming and 21st century drying

2014 858 citations Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon et al. profile →

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Hiroaki Kawase Japan

Jennifer Nakamura United States

Pandora Hope Australia

F. S. Rodrigo Spain

María Jesús Esteban‐Parra Spain

R. A. Stratton United Kingdom

Monica Ioniță Germany

Yolanda Castro‐Díez Spain

C. Cooper United Kingdom

Maisa Rojas Chile

Hiroaki Kawase Japan

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Countries citing papers authored by Sloan Coats

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sloan Coats

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sloan Coats

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

Sullivan, Richard M., Peter J. van Hengstum, Elizabeth Wallace, et al.. (2025). Yucatan Hurricane Activity Highlights Common Era Tropical Cyclone Dipole. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(18).

Huss, Matthias, et al.. (2025). Inter-model differences in 21st century glacier runoff for the world's major river basins. The cryosphere. 19(4). 1491–1511. 2 indexed citations

Karnauskas, Kristopher B., R. S. Nerem, John Fasullo, et al.. (2025). Diagnosing Regional Sea Level Change Over the Altimeter Era. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 130(6).

Falster, Georgina, Sloan Coats, & Nerilie J. Abram. (2024). How unusual was Australia's 2017–2019 Tinderbox Drought?. Weather and Climate Extremes. 46. 100734–100734. 1 indexed citations

Piecuch, Christopher G., et al.. (2024). Influence of Deep‐Ocean Warming on Coastal Sea‐Level Decadal Trends in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(1). 9 indexed citations

Bhattacharya, Tripti, et al.. (2023). California margin temperatures modulate regional circulation and extreme summer precipitation in the desert Southwest. Environmental Research Letters. 18(10). 104048–104048. 4 indexed citations

Falster, Georgina, Bronwen Konecky, Sloan Coats, & Samantha Stevenson. (2023). Forced changes in the Pacific Walker circulation over the past millennium. Nature. 622(7981). 93–100. 19 indexed citations

Stevenson, Samantha, Sloan Coats, Danielle Touma, et al.. (2022). Twenty-first century hydroclimate: A continually changing baseline, with more frequent extremes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(12). e2108124119–e2108124119. 88 indexed citations

Piecuch, Christopher G., Sloan Coats, Sönke Dangendorf, et al.. (2022). High‐Tide Floods and Storm Surges During Atmospheric Rivers on the US West Coast. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(2). e2021GL096820–e2021GL096820. 15 indexed citations

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Coats, Sloan, et al.. (2022). Intrinsic Century‐Scale Variability in Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures and Their Influence on Western US Hydroclimate. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(23). 5 indexed citations

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Coats, Sloan, et al.. (2022). Glacial runoff buffers droughts through the 21st century. Earth System Dynamics. 13(2). 935–959. 17 indexed citations

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Scheff, Jacob, Justin Mankin, Sloan Coats, & Haibo Liu. (2021). CO ₂ -plant effects do not account for the gap between dryness indices and projected dryness impacts in CMIP6 or CMIP5. Environmental Research Letters. 16(3). 34018–34018. 34 indexed citations

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Osman, Matthew, Sloan Coats, Sarah B. Das, Joseph R. McConnell, & Nathan Chellman. (2021). North Atlantic jet stream projections in the context of the past 1,250 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 25 indexed citations

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Touma, Danielle, Samantha Stevenson, Flavio Lehner, & Sloan Coats. (2021). Human-driven greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions cause distinct regional impacts on extreme fire weather. Nature Communications. 12(1). 212–212. 102 indexed citations

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Wallace, Elizabeth, Sloan Coats, Kerry Emanuel, & Jeffrey P. Donnelly. (2020). Centennial‐Scale Shifts in Storm Frequency Captured in Paleohurricane Records From The Bahamas Arise Predominantly From Random Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(1). 28 indexed citations

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Cook, Benjamin I., Park Williams, Jason E. Smerdon, et al.. (2018). Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth‐Century North American Megadrought. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(20). 16 indexed citations

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Herrera, Dimitris A., Toby R. Ault, John Fasullo, et al.. (2018). Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan‐Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(19). 10619–10626. 47 indexed citations

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Samanta, Dhrubajyoti, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Nathalie F. Goodkin, et al.. (2018). Coupled Model Biases Breed Spurious Low‐Frequency Variability in the Tropical Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(19). 15 indexed citations

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Coats, Sloan & Kristopher B. Karnauskas. (2017). Are Simulated and Observed Twentieth Century Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Trends Significant Relative to Internal Variability?. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(19). 9928–9937. 126 indexed citations

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Lehner, Flavio, Sloan Coats, Thomas F. Stocker, et al.. (2017). Projected drought risk in 1.5°C and 2°C warmer climates. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(14). 7419–7428. 244 indexed citations

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