Stephen Blenkinsop

8.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Stephen Blenkinsop is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Blenkinsop has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 44 papers in Atmospheric Science and 24 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Stephen Blenkinsop's work include Climate variability and models (64 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (46 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (37 papers). Stephen Blenkinsop is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (64 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (46 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (37 papers). Stephen Blenkinsop collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and France. Stephen Blenkinsop's co-authors include Hayley J. Fowler, Claudia Tebaldi, Elizabeth Kendon, Elizabeth Lewis, Selma B. Guerreiro, Xiaofeng Li, Geert Lenderink, Renaud Barbero, Steven Chan and Chris Kilsby and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Blenkinsop

85 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Linking climate change modelling to impacts studies: recent advances in downscaling techniques for hydrological modelling

2007 1.7k citations Hayley J. Fowler, Stephen Blenkinsop et al. International Journal of Climatology profile →
Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

2021 540 citations Hayley J. Fowler, Geert Lenderink et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers

Stephen Blenkinsop

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Stephen P. Charles Australia

Fredrik Wetterhall United Kingdom

Jianfeng Li China

T. A. Buishand Netherlands

Subimal Ghosh India

Elizabeth Kendon United Kingdom

Khaled H. Hamed Egypt

Venkataramana Sridhar United States

Liliang Ren China

Erika Coppola Italy

Stephen P. Charles Australia

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1.5k ×0.5

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320 ×0.8

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Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Blenkinsop

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Blenkinsop

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Blenkinsop

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

Blenkinsop, Stephen, et al.. (2025). Net zero in healthcare buildings: Lessons from assessing the strategies of 214 NHS trusts in England. Building and Environment. 278. 112966–112966. 1 indexed citations

Green, Adèle C., et al.. (2025). Quality control of the composite radar quantitative precipitation estimation product for Great Britain. Journal of Hydrology. 666. 134755–134755. 1 indexed citations

Fowler, Hayley J., Stephen Blenkinsop, Amy Green, & Paul Davies. (2024). Precipitation extremes in 2023. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(4). 250–252. 13 indexed citations

Blenkinsop, Stephen, et al.. (2024). Atmospheric patterns associated with summer sub-daily rainfall extremes in western Europe. Climate Dynamics. 62(11). 10131–10152.

Pritchard, David, et al.. (2023). An Observation-Based Dataset of Global Sub-Daily Precipitation Indices (GSDR-I). Scientific Data. 10(1). 393–393. 6 indexed citations

Blenkinsop, Stephen, Alistair Wardrope, Joseph Willis, & Sanjay M. Sisodiya. (2023). Climate change: Attitudes and concerns of, and learnings from, people with neurological conditions, carers, and health care professionals. Epilepsia. 65(1). 95–106. 2 indexed citations

Blenkinsop, Stephen, Aideen Foley, Natascha Schneider, et al.. (2021). Carbon emission savings and short‐term health care impacts from telemedicine: An evaluation in epilepsy. Epilepsia. 62(11). 2732–2740. 38 indexed citations

Fowler, Hayley J., Geert Lenderink, Andreas F. Prein, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2(2). 107–122. 540 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Yafei, Hayley J. Fowler, Daniel Argüeso, et al.. (2020). Strong Intensification of Hourly Rainfall Extremes by Urbanization. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(14). 105 indexed citations

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Tye, Mari R., Andreas F. Prein, Hayley J. Fowler, et al.. (2020). New hourly extreme precipitation regions and regional annual probability estimates for the UK. International Journal of Climatology. 41(1). 582–600. 18 indexed citations

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Skinner, Chris, Greg O’Donnell, Robert J. Thompson, et al.. (2019). Recommendations for Improving Integration in National End-to-End Flood Forecasting Systems: An Overview of the FFIR (Flooding From Intense Rainfall) Programme. Water. 11(4). 725–725. 31 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaofeng, Hayley J. Fowler, Jingjing Yu, et al.. (2019). Thermodynamic controls of the Western Tibetan Vortex on Tibetan air temperature. Climate Dynamics. 53(7-8). 4267–4290. 16 indexed citations

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Lewis, Elizabeth, Selma B. Guerreiro, Stephen Blenkinsop, & Hayley J. Fowler. (2019). Quality Control of a Global Sub-daily Precipitation Dataset and Derived Extreme Precipitation Indices. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 16634. 4 indexed citations

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Guerreiro, Selma B., Hayley J. Fowler, Renaud Barbero, et al.. (2018). Detection of continental-scale intensification of hourly rainfall extremes. Nature Climate Change. 8(9). 803–807. 229 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaofeng, Hayley J. Fowler, Nathan Forsythe, Stephen Blenkinsop, & David Pritchard. (2018). The Karakoram/Western Tibetan vortex: seasonal and year-to-year variability. Climate Dynamics. 51(9-10). 3883–3906. 35 indexed citations

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Lewis, Elizabeth, Stephen Blenkinsop, Niall Quinn, et al.. (2016). A gridded hourly rainfall dataset for the UK applied to a national physically-based modelling system. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Lewis, Elizabeth, Stephen Blenkinsop, & Hayley J. Fowler. (2016). Creating a global sub-daily precipitation dataset. EGUGA. 19153. 1 indexed citations

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Forsythe, Nathan, Stephen Blenkinsop, & Hayley J. Fowler. (2015). Exploring objective climate classification for the Himalayan arc and adjacent regions using gridded data sources. Earth System Dynamics. 6(1). 311–326. 14 indexed citations

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Corte‐Real, João, Madalena Moreira, Chris Kilsby, et al.. (2014). Evaluation of future climate change impacts on semi-arid Cobres basin in southern Portugal. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 13711. 1 indexed citations

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Centofanti, Tiziana, John Hollis, Stephen Blenkinsop, et al.. (2008). Development of agro-environmental scenarios to support pesticide risk assessment in Europe. The Science of The Total Environment. 407(1). 574–588. 34 indexed citations

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