Sonja Folwell

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 861 citations indexed

About

Sonja Folwell is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Folwell has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 861 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Sonja Folwell's work include Climate variability and models (16 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers). Sonja Folwell is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (16 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers). Sonja Folwell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and United States. Sonja Folwell's co-authors include Christopher M. Taylor, Douglas B. Clark, Jens Heinke, Naota Hanasaki, Simon N. Gosling, A. Wiltshire, Fulco Ludwig, Stefan Hagemann, Ingjerd Haddeland and Phil Harris and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Folwell

20 papers receiving 836 citations

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Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

2023 165 citations Paul I. Palmer, Caroline M. Wainwright et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonja Folwell United Kingdom	11	672	382	343	105	79	23	861
Hermann Österle Germany	8	615 0.9×	346 0.9×	434 1.3×	91 0.9×	76 1.0×	14	911
Amar Deep Tiwari India	11	606 0.9×	234 0.6×	306 0.9×	116 1.1×	109 1.4×	21	762
A. Mirin United States	8	660 1.0×	411 1.1×	375 1.1×	87 0.8×	55 0.7×	17	878
Jianhui Wei Germany	22	734 1.1×	449 1.2×	408 1.2×	138 1.3×	39 0.5×	51	908
Marco Braun Canada	13	866 1.3×	511 1.3×	576 1.7×	110 1.0×	82 1.0×	22	1.1k
Torill Engen-Skaugen Norway	8	960 1.4×	579 1.5×	531 1.5×	106 1.0×	130 1.6×	9	1.2k
W. van Deursen Netherlands	5	491 0.7×	232 0.6×	311 0.9×	74 0.7×	50 0.6×	10	648
S. R. Bajracharya Nepal	15	524 0.8×	609 1.6×	368 1.1×	129 1.2×	71 0.9×	28	1.0k
Rashid Mahmood China	18	865 1.3×	457 1.2×	496 1.4×	244 2.3×	98 1.2×	43	1.2k
Hai He China	18	711 1.1×	421 1.1×	347 1.0×	269 2.6×	91 1.2×	49	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonja Folwell

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

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Zilli, Marcia, Neil Hart, Kate Halladay, et al.. (2025). Simulated Delay in the Onset of the Rainy Season in Central-East Brazil under Global Warming Influenced by Plant Physiological Response. Journal of Climate. 38(23). 6853–6872.

Crook, Julia, Cornelia Klein, Sonja Folwell, et al.. (2023). Effects on early monsoon rainfall in West Africa due to recent deforestation in a convection-permitting ensemble. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 4(1). 229–248. 5 indexed citations

Palmer, Paul I., Caroline M. Wainwright, Bo Dong, et al.. (2023). Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(4). 254–270. 165 indexed citations breakdown →

Oliver, Rebecca J., Lina M. Mercado, Douglas B. Clark, et al.. (2022). Improved representation of plant physiology in the JULES-vn5.6 land surface model: photosynthesis, stomatal conductance and thermal acclimation. Geoscientific model development. 15(14). 5567–5592. 20 indexed citations

Folwell, Sonja, Christopher M. Taylor, & R. A. Stratton. (2022). Contrasting contributions of surface hydrological pathways in convection permitting and parameterised climate simulations over Africa and their feedbacks on the atmosphere. Climate Dynamics. 59(1-2). 633–648. 8 indexed citations

Fletcher, Jennifer K., Cathryn E. Birch, Richard J. Keane, Christopher M. Taylor, & Sonja Folwell. (2021). The effect of Ganges river basin irrigation on pre‐monsoon rainfall. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 148(747). 3056–3070. 4 indexed citations

Crook, Julia, Cornelia Klein, Sonja Folwell, et al.. (2019). Assessment of the Representation of West African Storm Lifecycles in Convection‐Permitting Simulations. Earth and Space Science. 6(5). 818–835. 52 indexed citations

Stratton, R. A., C. A. Senior, Simon Vosper, et al.. (2018). A Pan-African Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Simulation with the Met Office Unified Model: CP4-Africa. Journal of Climate. 31(9). 3485–3508. 114 indexed citations

Harris, Phil, Sonja Folwell, Belén Gallego-Elvira, et al.. (2017). An Evaluation of Modeled Evaporation Regimes in Europe Using Observed Dry Spell Land Surface Temperature. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 18(5). 1453–1470. 13 indexed citations

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Folwell, Sonja, Phil Harris, & Christopher M. Taylor. (2015). Large-Scale Surface Responses during European Dry Spells Diagnosed from Land Surface Temperature. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 17(3). 975–993. 15 indexed citations

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Weedon, Graham P., Christel Prudhomme, Sue Crooks, et al.. (2014). Evaluating the Performance of Hydrological Models via Cross-Spectral Analysis: Case Study of the Thames Basin, United Kingdom. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 16(1). 214–231. 19 indexed citations

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Hagemann, Stefan, Douglas B. Clark, Sonja Folwell, et al.. (2013). Climate change impact on available water resources obtained using multiple global climate and hydrology models. Earth System Dynamics. 4(1). 129–144. 297 indexed citations

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Huijgevoort, M.H.J. van, P. Hazenberg, H.A.J. van Lanen, et al.. (2013). Global Multimodel Analysis of Drought in Runoff for the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 14(5). 1535–1552. 51 indexed citations

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Clark, Douglas B., Sonja Folwell, Simon N. Gosling, et al.. (2012). Climate change impact on available water resources obtained using multiple global climate and hydrology models. 10 indexed citations

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Hagemann, Stefan, Sonja Folwell, Simon N. Gosling, et al.. (2011). Projected hydrological changes in the 21st century and related uncertainties obtained from a multi-model ensemble. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 4815. 2 indexed citations

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Huijgevoort, M.H.J. van, P. Hazenberg, H.A.J. van Lanen, et al.. (2011). Drought at the global scale in the 2nd part of the 20th century (1963-2001). NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 2 indexed citations

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Jones, David, Cecilia Svensson, Elizabeth Stewart, Fai Fung, & Sonja Folwell. (2007). Interim report on data analysis. Report to Defra, project WS194/2/39 (Reservoir Safety - Long Return Period Rainfall).. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 144(1). 172–172. 1 indexed citations

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Folwell, Sonja, et al.. (2006). The impacts of climate change on water resources in the Okavango basin. IAHS-AISH publication. 382–388. 12 indexed citations

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Svensson, Cecilia, et al.. (2006). Reservoir safety - long return period rainfall. Report on data consolidation. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 1 indexed citations

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Meigh, Jeremy, Sonja Folwell, & Caroline A Sullivan. (2005). Linking water resources and global change in West Africa : options for assessment. ePublications@SCU (Southern Cross University). 295. 297–306. 4 indexed citations

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