| Environmental characterization of global sources of atmospheric soil dust identified with the Nimbus 7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) absorbing aerosol product JM Prospero, P Ginoux, O Torres, SE Nicholson, TE Gill Reviews of geophysics 40 (1), 2-1-2-31, 2002 | 3134 | 2002 |
| Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia Nature geoscience 6 (5), 339-346, 2013 | 1042 | 2013 |
| The nature of rainfall variability over Africa on time scales of decades to millenia SE Nicholson Global and planetary change 26 (1-3), 137-158, 2000 | 860 | 2000 |
| Desertification, drought, and surface vegetation: An example from the West African Sahel SE Nicholson, CJ Tucker, MB Ba Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 79 (5), 815-830, 1998 | 858 | 1998 |
| A review of climate dynamics and climate variability in Eastern Africa SE Nicholson Limnology, Climatology and paleoclimatology of the East African lakes, 25-56, 2019 | 818 | 2019 |
| Climatic and environmental change in Africa during the last two centuries SE Nicholson Climate research 17 (2), 123-144, 2001 | 790 | 2001 |
| The relationship of the El Niño–Southern oscillation to African rainfall SE Nicholson, J Kim International Journal of Climatology: A Journal of the Royal Meteorological …, 1997 | 756 | 1997 |
| The West African Sahel: A review of recent studies on the rainfall regime and its interannual variability SE Nicholson International Scholarly Research Notices 2013 (1), 453521, 2013 | 641 | 2013 |
| A comparison of the vegetation response to rainfall in the Sahel and East Africa, using normalized difference vegetation index from NOAA AVHRR SE Nicholson, ML Davenport, AR Malo Climatic change 17, 209-241, 1990 | 629 | 1990 |
| Observed climate variability and change N Nicholls, GV Gruza, J Jouzel, TR Karl, LA Ogallo, DE Parker, JR Christy, ... Climate change 1995-The science of climate change (IPCC), 137-192, 1996 | 626 | 1996 |
| Climate and climatic variability of rainfall over eastern Africa SE Nicholson Reviews of Geophysics 55 (3), 590-635, 2017 | 595 | 2017 |
| An analysis of recent rainfall conditions in West Africa, including the rainy seasons of the 1997 El Niño and the 1998 La Niña years SE Nicholson, B Some, B Kone Journal of climate 13 (14), 2628-2640, 2000 | 544 | 2000 |
| On the question of the “recovery” of the rains in the West African Sahel S Nicholson Journal of arid environments 63 (3), 615-641, 2005 | 513 | 2005 |
| The influence of soil type on the relationships between NDVI, rainfall, and soil moisture in semiarid Botswana. I. NDVI response to rainfall SE Nicholson, TJ Farrar Remote sensing of environment 50 (2), 107-120, 1994 | 508 | 1994 |
| Land surface processes and Sahel climate S Nicholson Reviews of Geophysics 38 (1), 117-139, 2000 | 462 | 2000 |
| On the relation between rainfall and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index for diverse vegetation types in East Africa ML Davenport, SE Nicholson International Journal of Remote Sensing 14 (12), 2369-2389, 1993 | 460 | 1993 |
| A revised picture of the structure of the “monsoon” and land ITCZ over West Africa SE Nicholson Climate Dynamics 32, 1155-1171, 2009 | 389 | 2009 |
| African environmental and climatic changes and the general atmospheric circulation in late Pleistocene and Holocene SE Nicholson, H Flohn Climatic change 2 (4), 313-348, 1980 | 388 | 1980 |
| A study of the dynamic factors influencing the rainfall variability in the West African Sahel JP Grist, SE Nicholson Journal of climate 14 (7), 1337-1359, 2001 | 383 | 2001 |
| The nature of rainfall fluctuations in subtropical West Africa SE Nicholson Monthly Weather Review 108 (4), 473-487, 1980 | 373 | 1980 |
