Sylvia Sullivan

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sylvia Sullivan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia Sullivan has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 2 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sylvia Sullivan's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (14 papers), Climate variability and models (11 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Sylvia Sullivan is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (14 papers), Climate variability and models (11 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Sylvia Sullivan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Greece. Sylvia Sullivan's co-authors include Jiabo Yin, Shenglian Guo, Pierre Gentine, Athanasios Nenes, Yao Zhang, Ren Wang, Sha Zhou, Jie Chen, Corinna Hoose and Lei Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Sullivan

24 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Large increase in global storm runoff extremes driven by climate and anthropogenic changes

2018 346 citations Jiabo Yin, Pierre Gentine et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sylvia Sullivan United States	15	772	488	283	108	68	27	1.1k
Shuichi KURE Japan	20	557 0.7×	451 0.9×	267 0.9×	85 0.8×	90 1.3×	94	1.1k
Guojin Pang China	18	706 0.9×	855 1.8×	142 0.5×	12 0.1×	131 1.9×	26	1.2k
Doug McNeall United Kingdom	16	596 0.8×	352 0.7×	99 0.3×	84 0.8×	38 0.6×	29	811
Daniel Gann United States	9	406 0.5×	119 0.2×	323 1.1×	12 0.1×	178 2.6×	28	694
Elenio Avolio Italy	18	549 0.7×	611 1.3×	38 0.1×	12 0.1×	116 1.7×	60	846
N. Parazoo United States	20	1.2k 1.6×	808 1.7×	52 0.2×	15 0.1×	172 2.5×	29	1.5k
Xiaohua Hao China	20	463 0.6×	1.2k 2.4×	344 1.2×	6 0.1×	210 3.1×	86	1.5k
Blanche W. Meeson United States	10	390 0.5×	180 0.4×	67 0.2×	57 0.5×	143 2.1×	28	895

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Gong, Jie, et al.. (2025). Cloud top observations of LWIR spectro-polarimetry. 10–10.

Araya, E. D., Sylvia Sullivan, & Aiko Voigt. (2025). Ice crystal complexity leads to weaker ice cloud radiative heating in idealized single-column simulations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(15). 8943–8958.

Sullivan, Sylvia, et al.. (2025). Moisture–Precipitation Couplings for Mesoscale Convective Systems in Tracking Data and Idealized Simulations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 82(9). 1885–1902.

Yin, Jiabo, Pierre Gentine, Huimin Wang, et al.. (2023). Large anomalies in future extreme precipitation sensitivity driven by atmospheric dynamics. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3197–3197. 41 indexed citations

Sullivan, Sylvia, et al.. (2023). How does cloud-radiative heating over the North Atlantic change with grid spacing, convective parameterization, and microphysics scheme in ICON version 2.1.00?. Geoscientific model development. 16(12). 3535–3551. 5 indexed citations

Gasparini, Blaž, et al.. (2023). Opinion: Tropical cirrus – from micro-scale processes to climate-scale impacts. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(24). 15413–15444. 17 indexed citations

Bacer, Sara, Sylvia Sullivan, Odran Sourdeval, et al.. (2021). Cold cloud microphysical process rates in a global chemistry–climate model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(3). 1485–1505. 9 indexed citations

Yin, Jiabo, Shenglian Guo, Pierre Gentine, et al.. (2021). Does the Hook Structure Constrain Future Flood Intensification Under Anthropogenic Climate Warming?. Water Resources Research. 57(2). 107 indexed citations

Sotiropoulou, Georgia, Sylvia Sullivan, Julien Savre, et al.. (2020). The impact of secondary ice production on Arctic stratocumulus. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(3). 1301–1316. 56 indexed citations

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Gu, Lei, Jie Chen, Jiabo Yin, et al.. (2020). Projected increases in magnitude and socioeconomic exposure of global droughts in 1.5 and 2 °C warmer climates. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(1). 451–472. 95 indexed citations

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Schiro, Kathleen A., Sylvia Sullivan, Yi‐Hung Kuo, et al.. (2020). Environmental Controls on Tropical Mesoscale Convective System Precipitation Intensity. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 77(12). 4233–4249. 24 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Sylvia, Corinna Hoose, Alexei Kiselev, Thomas Leisner, & Athanasios Nenes. (2018). Initiation of secondary ice production in clouds. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(3). 1593–1610. 65 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Sylvia, et al.. (2018). The effect of secondary ice production parameterization on the simulation of a cold frontal rainband. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(22). 16461–16480. 36 indexed citations

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Bacer, Sara, Sylvia Sullivan, Vlassis A. Karydis, et al.. (2018). Implementation of a comprehensive ice crystal formation parameterization for cirrus and mixed-phase clouds in the EMAC model (based on MESSy 2.53). Geoscientific model development. 11(10). 4021–4041. 17 indexed citations

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Yin, Jiabo, Pierre Gentine, Sha Zhou, et al.. (2018). Large increase in global storm runoff extremes driven by climate and anthropogenic changes. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4389–4389. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sullivan, Sylvia, Ricardo Morales, Donifan Barahona, & Athanasios Nenes. (2016). Understanding cirrus ice crystal number variability for different heterogeneous ice nucleation spectra. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(4). 2611–2629. 13 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Sylvia, et al.. (2016). Role of updraft velocity in temporal variability of global cloud hydrometeor number. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(21). 5791–5796. 37 indexed citations

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Roesler, Erika, Michael E. Taylor, M. B. Boslough, & Sylvia Sullivan. (2014). Arctic Storms in a Regionally Refined Atmospheric General Circulation Model. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Sylvia. (2006). The Work-Faith Connection for Low-Income Mothers: A Research Note. Sociology of Religion. 67(1). 99–108. 28 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Sylvia, An S. De Vriese, Christopher Redhead, et al.. (1993). Molecular cloning and characterization of p64, a chloride channel protein from kidney microsomes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 268(20). 14948–14955. 119 indexed citations

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