Sharon Nicholson

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Sharon Nicholson is affiliated with the following schools: University of Maryland, College Park, Florida State University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Pennsylvania State University

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Sharon Nicholson's Degrees

PhD Meteorology Pennsylvania State University
Masters Meteorology Pennsylvania State University
Bachelors Meteorology Pennsylvania State University

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According to Wikipedia, Sharon E. Nicholson is a meteorology professor at Florida State University in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science. Nicholson has been teaching about and researching climates of Africa. Nicholson has earned the Humboldt Award, the Fulbright Global Scholar award, a National Science Foundation Award.

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ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF GLOBAL SOURCES OF ATMOSPHERIC SOIL DUST IDENTIFIED WITH THE NIMBUS 7 TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER (TOMS) ABSORBING AEROSOL PRODUCT (2002) (2589)
Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia (2013) (983)
The nature of rainfall variability over Africa on time scales of decades to millenia (2000) (677)
Desertification, Drought, and Surface Vegetation: An Example from the West African Sahel (1998) (612)
THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE EL NIÑO–SOUTHERN OSCILLATION TO AFRICAN RAINFALL (1997) (602)
Climatic and environmental change in Africa during the last two centuries (2001) (562)
The West African Sahel: A Review of Recent Studies on the Rainfall Regime and Its Interannual Variability (2013) (511)
The influence of soil type on the relationships between NDVI, rainfall, and soil moisture in semiarid Botswana. I. NDVI response to rainfall (1994) (484)
A comparison of the vegetation response to rainfall in the Sahel and East Africa, using normalized difference vegetation index from NOAA AVHRR (1990) (483)
An Analysis of Recent Rainfall Conditions in West Africa, Including the Rainy Seasons of the 1997 El Nino and the 1998 La Nina Years (2000) (406)
On the question of the ''recovery'' of the rains in the West African Sahel (2005) (373)
Land surface processes and Sahel climate (2000) (336)
Climate and climatic variability of rainfall over eastern Africa (2017) (332)
On the relation between rainfall and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index for diverse vegetation types in East Africa (1993) (310)
Validation of TRMM and Other Rainfall Estimates with a High-Density Gauge Dataset for West Africa. Part II: Validation of TRMM Rainfall Products (2003) (300)
A revised picture of the structure of the “monsoon” and land ITCZ over West Africa (2009) (298)
A Study of the Dynamic Factors Influencing the Rainfall Variability in the West African Sahel (2001) (281)
African environmental and climatic changes and the general atmospheric circulation in late pleistocene and holocene (1980) (264)
The quasi-periodic behavior of rainfall variability in Africa and its relationship to the southern oscillation (1986) (263)
A STUDY OF RAINFALL AND VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN THE AFRICAN SAHEL USING NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (1990) (256)
The Relationship between California Rainfall and ENSO Events (1989) (244)
An Overview of African Rainfall Fluctuations of the Last Decade (1993) (235)
The Nature of Rainfall Fluctuations in Subtropical West Africa (1980) (232)
The Spatial Coherence of African Rainfall Anomalies: Interhemispheric Teleconnections (1986) (231)
A re‐evaluation of rainfall variability in the sahel. Part I. Characteristics of rainfall fluctuations (1993) (214)
Rainfall Variability in Equatorial and Southern Africa: Relationships with Sea Surface Temperatures along the Southwestern Coast of Africa (1987) (212)
VARIATIONS IN THE SIZE OF THE SAHARA DESERT FROM 1980 TO 1997 (1999) (208)
Rainfall and Atmospheric Circulation during Drought Periods and Wetter Years in West Africa (1981) (206)
The diurnal and seasonal cycles of wind-borne dust over Africa North of the Equator (1997) (201)
The water balance of Lake Victoria (1998) (199)
THE INFLUENCE OF LA NINA ON AFRICAN RAINFALL (2000) (190)
A Review of Climate Dynamics and Climate Variability in Eastern Africa (2019) (189)
Correction: An analysis of the ENSO signal in the tropical Atlantic and Western Indian oceans (1997) (184)
Reconciling Past and Future Rainfall Trends over East Africa (2014) (183)
Validation of TRMM and Other Rainfall Estimates with a High-Density Gauge Dataset for West Africa. Part I: Validation of GPCC Rainfall Product and Pre-TRMM Satellite and Blended Products (2003) (181)
Coherent changes of southeastern equatorial and northern African rainfall during the last deglaciation (2014) (174)
Desertification in the Sahel: a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation (2007) (168)
The ITCZ and the Seasonal Cycle over Equatorial Africa (2018) (168)
A conceptual model for understanding rainfall variability in the West African Sahel on interannual and interdecadal timescales (2001) (166)
Rainfall over the African continent from the 19th through the 21st century (2017) (162)
A detailed look at the recent drought situation in the Greater Horn of Africa (2014) (153)
Historical Fluctuations of Lake Victoria and Other Lakes in the Northern Rift Valley of East Africa (1998) (151)
LONG‐TERM CHANGES IN AFRICAN RAINFALL (1989) (149)
Rainfall Conditions in Equatorial East Africa during the Nineteenth Century as Inferred from the Record of Lake Victoria (2001) (147)
Sub-Saharan Rainfall 1981–84 (1985) (143)
A pollution model for street-level air. (1975) (141)
Mesoscale Convective Systems over Western Equatorial Africa and Their Relationship to Large-Scale Circulation (2009) (132)
The relationship of rainfall variability in West Central Africa to sea‐surface temperature fluctuations (2007) (131)
Climatic variations in the Sahel and other African regions during the past five centuries (1978) (130)
Recent rainfall fluctuations in Africa and their relationship to past conditions over the continent (1994) (127)
The Relationship of Rainfall Variability in Western Equatorial Africa to the Tropical Oceans and Atmospheric Circulation. Part II: The Boreal Autumn (2013) (126)
The intensity, location and structure of the tropical rainbelt over west Africa as factors in interannual variability (2008) (122)
A physical basis for the interannual variability of rainfall in the Sahel (2007) (119)
A Two-Century Precipitation Dataset for the Continent of Africa (2012) (112)
Sub-Saharan Rainfall in the Years 1976–80: Evidence of Continued Drought (1983) (112)
Historical and Modern Fluctuations of Lakes Tanganyika and Rukwa and Their Relationship to Rainfall Variability (1999) (101)
Revised Rainfall Series for the West African Subtropics (1979) (99)
Possible causes of the Central Equatorial African long-term drought (2016) (94)
Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years (2013) (94)
Contrasting Conditions of Surface Water Balance in Wet Years and Dry Years as a Possible Land Surface-Atmosphere Feedback Mechanism in the West African Sahel (1994) (93)
Analysis of Convective Activity and Its Relationship to the Rainfall over the Rift Valley Lakes of East Africa during 1983–90 Using the Meteosat Infrared Channel (1998) (87)
Long‐term variability of the East African ‘short rains’ and its links to large‐scale factors (2015) (85)
The Centennial Trends Greater Horn of Africa precipitation dataset (2015) (82)
The Methodology of Historical Climate Reconstruction and its Application to Africa (1979) (81)
On the use of NDVI for estimating rainfall fields in the Kalahari of Botswana (1997) (77)
The nature of rainfall variability in Africa South of the Equator (1986) (77)
Spatial reconstruction of semi-quantitative precipitation fields over Africa during the nineteenth century from documentary evidence and gauge data (2012) (75)
African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years (2016) (74)
Dryland Climatology: Life and change in the dryland regions (2011) (74)
On the factors modulating the intensity of the tropical rainbelt over West Africa (2009) (72)
Easterly Waves over Africa. Part II: Observed and Modeled Contrasts between Wet and Dry Years (2002) (70)
The Predictability of Rainfall over the Greater Horn of Africa. Part I: Prediction of Seasonal Rainfall (2014) (70)
The Relationship between El Nino and Drought over Botswana (2001) (70)
Interannual Variability in Rainfall, Water Vapor Flux, and Vertical Motion over West Africa (2000) (68)
On the feasibility of using a lake water balance model to infer rainfall: an example from Lake Victoria (2000) (68)
The Turkana low‐level jet: mean climatology and association with regional aridity (2016) (67)
Land surface atmosphere interaction (1988) (66)
A low-level jet along the Benguela coast, an integral part of the Benguela current ecosystem (2010) (66)
Saharan climates in historic times. (1980) (65)
Fluctuations of Rift Valley Lakes Malawi and Chilwa During Historical Times: A Synthesis of Geological, Archaeological and Historical Information (1998) (64)
An analysis of recent rainfall conditions in eastern Africa (2016) (64)
Unlocking Pre-1850 Instrumental Meteorological Records: A Global Inventory (2019) (59)
Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate (2009) (59)
Assessing reanalysis data for understanding rainfall climatology and variability over Central Equatorial Africa (2019) (56)
A Semi-Quantitative, Regional Precipitation Data Set for Studying African Climates of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. Overview of the Data Set (2001) (53)
Assessing recovery and change in West Africa's rainfall regime from a 161‐year record (2018) (52)
A detailed rainfall climatology for Malawi, Southern Africa (2014) (49)
Rainfall in the Sahel during 1994 (1996) (45)
Meteorological factors affecting the sudden decline in Lake Urmia’s water level (2016) (42)
Comments on “The South Indian Convergence Zone and Interannual Rainfall Variability over Southern Africa” and the Question of ENSO's Influence on Southern Africa (2003) (41)
Temporal and spatial variability of SSTs in the tropical Atlantic and Indian Oceans (1990) (40)
The Mean Surface Water Balance over Africa and Its Interannual Variability (1997) (39)
Validation of Satellite Precipitation Estimates over the Congo Basin (2019) (39)
a Climatic Chronology for Africa: Synthesis of Geological, Historical, and Meteorological Information and Data. (1976) (38)
Mesoscale Patterns of Rainfall, Cloudiness and Evaporation over the Great Lakes of East Africa (2002) (37)
Satellite-derived interannual variability of West African rainfall during 1983-88 (1995) (36)
Understanding the Central Equatorial African long-term drought using AMIP-type simulations (2018) (36)
Satellite-Derived Surface Radiation Budget over the African Continent. Part II: Climatologies of the Various Components (2001) (34)
Wave Activity on the Tropical Easterly Jet (2007) (33)
A note on long‐term variations of the African easterly jet (2011) (33)
Long-term variations of aerosol optical depth and aerosol radiative forcing over Iran based on satellite and AERONET data (2017) (32)
On the diurnal cycle of cloudiness over Lake Victoria and its influence on evaporation from the lake (2000) (32)
The Predictability of Rainfall over the Greater Horn of Africa. Part II: Prediction of Monthly Rainfall during the Long Rains (2015) (31)
Spatial teleconnections in African rainfall: A comparison of 19th and 20th century patterns (2014) (28)
Recent Rainfall Fluctuations in Africa — Interhemispheric Teleconnections (1983) (28)
Interpreting Annual Rainfall from the Levels of Lake Victoria (2002) (27)
Satellite-Derived Surface Radiation Budget over the African Continent. Part I: Estimation of Downward Solar Irradiance and Albedo (2001) (26)
An Analysis of West African Dynamics Using a Linearized GCM (2008) (26)
Examining the Potential Contributions of Extreme “Western V” Sea Surface Temperatures to the 2017 March–June East African Drought (2019) (24)
New Rainfall Datasets for the Congo Basin and Surrounding Regions (2018) (23)
Evolution and current state of our understanding of the role played in the climate system by land surface processes in semi-arid regions (2015) (23)
A revised version of Lettau's evapoclimatonomy model (1996) (23)
Interannual and interdecadal variability of rainfall over the African continent during the last two centuries (1998) (22)
Responding to Desertification at the National Scale Detection, Explanation,and Responses (2002) (20)
A climatonomic description of the surface energy balance in the central Sahel. Part II: the evapoclimatonomy submodel. (1990) (17)
Climate Models Lack Jet–Rainfall Coupling over West Africa (2017) (15)
A Climatonomic Description of the Surface Energy Balance in the Central Sahel. Part I: Shortwave Radiation (1990) (14)
Corrigendum: The Centennial Trends Greater Horn of Africa precipitation dataset (2018) (14)
Development of a rainfall sensitive tree-ring chronology in Zimbabwe (1997) (13)
Climate of the Sahel and West Africa (2018) (13)
Pleistocene and Holocene climates in Africa (1982) (13)
Corrigendum: Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia (2015) (12)
African drought: Characteristics, causal theories and global teleconnections (2013) (12)
A daily resolution evapoclimatonomy model applied to surface water balance calculations at the HAPEX-Sahel supersites (1997) (10)
Application of Evapoclimatonomy to Monthly Surface Water Balance Calculations at the HAPEX-Sahel Supersites (1996) (9)
On the Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index as an Indicator of Rainfall (1994) (8)
Need for harmonized long-term multi-lake monitoring of African Great Lakes (2022) (8)
Application of remote sensing to climatic and environmental studies in arid and semi-arid lands (2001) (8)
The Tropical Easterly Jet over Africa, its representation in six reanalysis products, and its association with Sahel rainfall (2020) (7)
Meteorological causes of the catastrophic rains of October/November 2019 in equatorial Africa (2021) (7)
A low-level jet in eastern Iran: a possible factor in dust events in the region (2015) (7)
Reduction of bidirectional effects in NOAA-AVHRR data acquired during the HAPEX-Sahel experiment (1997) (7)
The 1780s: Global Climate Anomalies, Floods, Droughts, and Famines (2018) (6)
Assessing the Reliability of Satellite and Reanalysis Estimates of Rainfall in Equatorial Africa (2021) (6)
A Multi-Century History of Drought and Wetter Conditions in Africa (2018) (6)
Lake-effect rains over Lake Victoria and their association with Mesoscale Convective Systems (2021) (5)
Correction to: Assessing reanalysis data for understanding rainfall climatology and variability over Central Equatorial Africa (2019) (4)
Variations of African lakes during the last two centuries (1998) (4)
The Rainfall and Convective Regime over Equatorial Africa, with Emphasis on the Congo Basin (2022) (4)
Remote sensing of land surface parameters of relevance to climate studies (1989) (4)
Statistical Typing of rainfall anomalies in subsaharan Africa (1979) (3)
Temporal and Spatial Variability of SSTs in the Tropical Atlantic (1990) (3)
On the diurnal cycle of rainfall and convection over Lake Victoria and its catchment. Part 2: Meteorological factors in the diurnal and seasonal cycles (2021) (3)
Dryland Climatology: Sub-Saharan Africa (2011) (2)
Dryland Climatology: Defining aridity: the classification and character of dryland climates (2011) (2)
Prediction of trace gas emissions and their climatic impacts: some geographical considerations (1992) (2)
A semi-quantitative regional precipitation data set for nineteenth-century Africa (2012) (2)
Coherent Changes of Northern and Eastern Equatorial Africa Rainfall during the Last Deglaciation (2014) (2)
Short Rains and Long Rains (2017) (1)
Dryland Climatology: Radiation, heat, and surface exchange processes (2011) (1)
Dryland Climatology: Introduction to dryland environments (2011) (1)
Re-Examining the ITCZ as a Control on Rainfall and Its Variability in Equatorial Africa (2018) (1)
Dryland Climatology: Precipitation in the drylands (2011) (1)
Synergistic use of multispectral satellite data for monitoring arid lands. (1992) (1)
MONSOON SYSTEMS AND CONTINENTAL RAINFALL OVER EQUATORIAL AFRICA (2006) (1)
Dryland Climatology: Desertification (2011) (1)
A jet streak circulation associated with a low-latitude jet in the Southern Hemisphere over Africa. (2007) (1)
Dryland Climatology: Asia (2011) (1)
Moving Beyond the East African Climate Paradox (2019) (1)
A New Look at the Seasonal Cycle of Rainfall in East Africa (2018) (0)
Multi-decadal Variability in the Sahel and Guinea Coast Regions of Africa (2017) (0)
Dryland Climatology: People in the dryland environments (2011) (0)
Recent rainfall conditions in the Congo Basin (2022) (0)
Book review: Drought: Past Problems and Future Scenarios (2013) (0)
Inertial Instability as a Mechanism for Latitudinal Shifts in the West African Rain Belt (2018) (0)
Dryland Climatology: The Mediterranean lands (2011) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Desert microclimate (2011) (0)
CHARACTERIZING THE VARIABILITY OF THE INDIAN MONSOON : CHANGES IN EVAPORATIVE SOURCES FOR SUMMERTIME RAINFALL EVENTS (2011) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Plant and animal life in the desert (2011) (0)
Rainfall over the African continent since 1800 (2016) (0)
Drought versus Desertification: The Case of the Sahel (2019) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Hydrologic processes in the drylands (2011) (0)
Dryland Climatology: The geomorphologic background (2011) (0)
A review of our understanding of the role played in the climate system by land surface processes (Invited) (2013) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Water balance (2011) (0)
An Examination of Drought in Eastern Africa and its Predictability (2017) (0)
The global historical climate database HCLIM (2023) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Australia (2011) (0)
Investigating the role of the land surface in explaining the interannual variation of the net radiation balance over the Northwest Sahara and sub-Sahara (1987) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Evaporation (2011) (0)
Book reviews (1989) (0)
The relationship between the equatorial westerlies, upper-level zonal flow and interannual variability of the West African monsoon (2013) (0)
Documenting a decline in boreal spring rainfall over the Congo Basin and eastern Africa (2016) (0)
Climatic variability and climatic change (2011) (0)
Dryland Climatology: The global distribution of arid climates and rainfall (2011) (0)
Congo Basin Research (2022) (0)
A newly-documented low-level coastal jet along the Benguela Coast of Southern Africa (2010) (0)
On the diurnal cycle of rainfall and convection over Lake Victoria and its catchment. Part 1: Rainfall and Mesoscale Convective Systems (2021) (0)
The feasibility of reconstructing hydroclimate over West Africa using tree-ring chronologies in the Mediterranean region (2022) (0)
Dryland Climatology: North America (2011) (0)
The Question of Priorities in Rainfall Information and Data: A Minority Viewpoint? (1997) (0)
Unraveling the Electronic Structure of Individual Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes (1999) (0)
Physical impacts of regional climate change in the West African Sahel and the question of desertification (1997) (0)
Dryland Climatology: South America (2011) (0)
1 LONG-TERM VARIATIONS IN INTENSITY AND LOCATION OF THE AFRICAN EASTERLY JET (2009) (0)
Dryland Climatology: The general atmospheric circulation (2011) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Drought and other hazards (2011) (0)
Some dynamical aspects of the precipitation regime over western equatorial Africa (2010) (0)
Potential vorticity diagnostics associated with the Tropical Easterly Jet over Africa and links to rainfall variability (2010) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Desert winds and dust (2011) (0)
Instrumental Meteorological Records before 1850: An Inventory (2020) (0)
Africa (1997) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Vegetation of the dryland regions (2011) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Preface (2011) (0)
Evolving Paradigms of Climatic Processes and Atmospheric Circulation Affecting Africa (2017) (0)
Relating multitemporal meteorological satellite data to climatological data for Africa (1987) (0)
Dryland Climatology: Coastal deserts (2011) (0)
Two Centuries of Africa Rainfall and Links to the Global Oceans (2018) (0)

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