Adam H. Sobel

21.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
226 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Adam H. Sobel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam H. Sobel has authored 226 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 201 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 200 papers in Atmospheric Science and 68 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Adam H. Sobel's work include Climate variability and models (197 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (132 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (121 papers). Adam H. Sobel is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (197 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (132 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (121 papers). Adam H. Sobel collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Adam H. Sobel's co-authors include Suzana J. Camargo, Eric D. Maloney, Michael K. Tippett, Christopher S. Bretherton, Shuguang Wang, Michela Biasutti, Kerry Emanuel, Lorenzo M. Polvani, Daehyun Kim and John C. H. Chiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Adam H. Sobel

219 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Use of a Genesis Potential Index to Diagnose ENSO Effects on Tropical Cyclone Genesis

2007 665 citations Suzana J. Camargo, Kerry Emanuel et al. profile →
Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

2015 646 citations Adam H. Sobel et al. profile →
Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensity and ENSO

2005 631 citations Suzana J. Camargo, Adam H. Sobel profile →
Tropical cyclones and climate change

2015 558 citations Suzana J. Camargo, Adam H. Sobel et al. profile →
The Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation and Balanced Tropical Moisture Waves*

2001 518 citations Adam H. Sobel et al. profile →
Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

2018 436 citations Adam H. Sobel et al. profile →
Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change

2013 435 citations Adam H. Sobel et al. profile →
Human influence on tropical cyclone intensity

2016 303 citations Adam H. Sobel, Suzana J. Camargo et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adam H. Sobel United States	68	14.0k	13.5k	5.5k	594	459	226	16.0k
Rowan Sutton United Kingdom	56	12.2k 0.9×	10.1k 0.7×	5.2k 1.0×	597 1.0×	175 0.4×	156	13.9k
Martin P. Hoerling United States	63	12.0k 0.9×	9.4k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	843 1.4×	223 0.5×	152	13.7k
Suzana J. Camargo United States	58	10.1k 0.7×	10.6k 0.8×	5.1k 0.9×	534 0.9×	592 1.3×	184	12.7k
Julie M. Arblaster United States	58	11.4k 0.8×	9.4k 0.7×	3.3k 0.6×	913 1.5×	249 0.5×	118	14.4k
John Fasullo United States	60	11.8k 0.8×	9.8k 0.7×	4.9k 0.9×	352 0.6×	306 0.7×	156	15.4k
Yochanan Kushnir United States	69	14.4k 1.0×	12.1k 0.9×	6.8k 1.2×	687 1.2×	437 1.0×	153	18.0k
Brian J. Soden United States	57	17.5k 1.2×	15.8k 1.2×	5.0k 0.9×	507 0.9×	132 0.3×	157	19.9k
Akio Kitoh Japan	57	12.0k 0.9×	11.3k 0.8×	3.0k 0.6×	890 1.5×	226 0.5×	195	15.0k
Thomas L. Delworth United States	73	18.1k 1.3×	15.2k 1.1×	7.8k 1.4×	805 1.4×	281 0.6×	207	21.9k
David J. Karoly Australia	58	13.1k 0.9×	11.0k 0.8×	4.1k 0.8×	1.2k 2.0×	350 0.8×	206	16.6k

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Kropf, Chahan M., Jamie W. McCaughey, Chia‐Ying Lee, et al.. (2025). Navigating and attributing uncertainty in future tropical cyclone risk estimates. Science Advances. 11(16). eadn4607–eadn4607. 2 indexed citations

Hill, Spencer A., Adam H. Sobel, Michela Biasutti, et al.. (2025). More extreme Indian monsoon rainfall in El Niño summers. Science. 389(6766). 1220–1224.

Ivanovich, Catherine, Radley M. Horton, Adam H. Sobel, & Deepti Singh. (2024). Subseasonal Variability of Humid Heat During the South Asian Summer Monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(6). 12 indexed citations

Fosu, Boniface, Adam H. Sobel, Suzana J. Camargo, et al.. (2024). Assessing Future Tropical Cyclone Risk Using Downscaled 1 CMIP6 Projections. VU Research Portal. 2(1). 1 indexed citations

Patricola, Christina M., et al.. (2024). The atmospheric effect of aerosols on future tropical cyclone frequency and precipitation in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model. Climate Dynamics. 62(9). 8755–8788. 2 indexed citations

Hill, Spencer A., Adam H. Sobel, Michela Biasutti, & Mark A. Cane. (2022). On the All‐India Rainfall Index and Sub‐India Rainfall Heterogeneity. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(2). 3 indexed citations

Wang, Shuguang, Zane Martin, Adam H. Sobel, et al.. (2022). A Multivariate Index for Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations Based on the Seasonally‐Varying Modal Structures. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(4). 9 indexed citations

Camargo, Suzana J., et al.. (2022). An Investigation of Tropical Cyclone Development Pathways as an Indicator of Extratropical Transition. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 100(4). 707–724. 5 indexed citations

Sobel, Adam H., Allison A. Wing, Suzana J. Camargo, et al.. (2021). Tropical Cyclone Frequency. Earth s Future. 9(12). 112 indexed citations

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Camargo, Suzana J., Adam H. Sobel, Gregory S. Elsaesser, et al.. (2021). Evolution of Tropical Cyclone Properties Across the Development Cycle of the GISS‐E3 Global Climate Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(1). e2021MS002601–e2021MS002601. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Shuguang, Adam H. Sobel, Chia‐Ying Lee, et al.. (2020). Propagating Mechanisms of the 2016 Summer BSISO Event: Air‐Sea Coupling, Vorticity, and Moisture. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(2). 10 indexed citations

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Lee, Chia‐Ying, Michael K. Tippett, Adam H. Sobel, & Suzana J. Camargo. (2018). An Environmentally Forced Tropical Cyclone Hazard Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(1). 223–241. 116 indexed citations

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Sobel, Adam H.. (2018). Aerosol vs. Greenhouse Gas Influences on Tropical Cyclone Potential Intensity. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Shuguang, et al.. (2017). Coupling with ocean mixed layer leads to intraseasonal variability in tropical deep convection: Evidence from cloud‐resolving simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9(1). 616–626. 1 indexed citations

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Yokoi, Satoru & Adam H. Sobel. (2015). Intraseasonal Variability and Seasonal March of the Moist Static Energy Budget over the Eastern Maritime Continent during CINDY2011/DYNAMO. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 93A(0). 81–100. 23 indexed citations

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Sobel, Adam H. & Tapio Schneider. (2013). Correction to “Single‐layer axisymmetric model for a Hadley circulation with parameterized eddy momentum forcing”. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 5(3). 654–657. 1 indexed citations

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Field, Robert D., Camille Risi, Gavin A. Schmidt, et al.. (2012). A Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer HDO/H ₂ O retrieval simulator for climate models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(21). 10485–10504. 9 indexed citations

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Lintner, Benjamin R., Gilles Bellon, Adam H. Sobel, Daehyun Kim, & J. David Neelin. (2012). Implementation of the Quasi‐equilibrium Tropical Circulation Model 2 (QTCM2): Global simulations and convection sensitivity to free tropospheric moisture. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 4(4). 18 indexed citations

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Sobel, Adam H. & Suzana J. Camargo. (2010). Projected future changes in tropical summer climate. AGUFM. 2010. 12 indexed citations

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Sobel, Adam H. & Takeshi Horinouchi. (2000). On the Dynamics of Easterly Waves, Monsoon Depressions, and Tropical Depression Type Disturbances. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 78(2). 167–173. 15 indexed citations

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