Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
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Why Is Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick is an Australian climate scientist and expert in heatwave research. She was awarded a NSW Young Tall Poppy in 2013 and received the Dorothy Hill award in 2021. She has extensive science communication experience.
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick's Published Works
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Published Works
- A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves (2016) (725)
- Increasing frequency, intensity and duration of observed global heatwaves and warm spells (2012) (633)
- On the Measurement of Heat Waves (2013) (600)
- Evaluation of the AR4 Climate Models’ Simulated Daily Maximum Temperature, Minimum Temperature, and Precipitation over Australia Using Probability Density Functions (2007) (574)
- A review on the scientific understanding of heatwaves—Their measurement, driving mechanisms, and changes at the global scale (2015) (386)
- Impacts of climate change on the world's most exceptional ecoregions (2011) (331)
- Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? (2014) (308)
- More Frequent, Longer, and Hotter Heat Waves for Australia in the Twenty-First Century (2014) (213)
- The timing of anthropogenic emergence in simulated climate extremes (2015) (125)
- Evaluation of the AR 4 Climate Models ’ Simulated Daily Maximum Temperature , Minimum Temperature , and Precipitation over Australia Using Probability Density Functions (2007) (122)
- Ranking the AR4 climate models over the Murray‐Darling Basin using simulated maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation (2008) (116)
- Relationships between climate variability, soil moisture, and Australian heatwaves (2015) (101)
- Regional Projections of Future Seasonal and Annual Changes in Rainfall and Temperature over Australia Based on Skill-Selected AR4 Models (2008) (79)
- Heatwaves: hotter, longer, more often (2014) (60)
- Debate heating up over changes in climate variability (2013) (55)
- Large scale and sub-regional connections in the lead up to summer heat wave and extreme rainfall events in eastern Australia (2014) (54)
- Evaluating global climate models for the Pacific island region (2011) (53)
- Smaller projected increases in 20‐year temperature returns over Australia in skill‐selected climate models (2009) (48)
- Do weak AR4 models bias projections of future climate changes over Australia? (2009) (48)
- Global and Regional Comparison of Daily 2-m and 1000-hPa Maximum and Minimum Temperatures in Three Global Reanalyses (2009) (39)
- Systematic differences in future 20 year temperature extremes in AR4 model projections over Australia as a function of model skill (2013) (37)
- Atmospheric and Oceanic Conditions Associated with Southern Australian Heat Waves: A CMIP5 Analysis (2014) (37)
- Limited evidence of anthropogenic influence on the 2011-12 Extreme Rainfall over Southeast Australia (2013) (34)
- The usefulness of different realizations for the model evaluation of regional trends in heat waves (2013) (32)
- Increased simulated risk of the hot Australian summer of 2012/13 due to anthropogenic activity as measured by heat wave frequency and intensity (2014) (24)
- Biases and Model Agreement in Projections of Climate Extremes over the Tropical Pacific (2011) (22)
- CMIP3 ensemble climate projections over the western tropical Pacific based on model skill (2012) (22)
- Regional changes of climate extremes over Australia – a comparison of regional dynamical downscaling and global climate model simulations (2014) (22)
- Increased Risk of the 2014 Australian May Heatwave Due to Anthropogenic Activity (2015) (14)
- Reducing uncertainty in selecting climate models for hydrological impact assessments (2007) (7)
- Mechanisms Explaining Recent Changes in Australian Climate Extremes (2017) (5)
- Ability of global climate models at a regional scale over Australia (2007) (3)
- Climate Change Science: Status, and Next Steps in the Projection of Future Changes (2007) (3)
- Future projections of Australian heat wave number and intensity based on CMIP5 models (2014) (3)
- There are no time-travelling climatologists: why we use climate models (2013) (1)
- Climate council : heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent (2014) (1)
- Reply to “Comments on ‘Global Regional Comparison of Daily 2-m and 1000-hPa Maximum and Minimum Temperatures in Three Global Reanalyses’” (2012) (0)
- Large scale and sub-regional connections in the lead up to 1 summer heat wave and extreme rainfall events in eastern Australia 2 3 4 5 (2015) (0)
- The Amplification of Australian Heatwave Characteristics in a Large Single-Model Ensemble. (2014) (0)
- Climate model reliability (2011) (0)
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