Axel Kleidon

8.8k total citations
160 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Axel Kleidon is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Kleidon has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 58 papers in Atmospheric Science and 37 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Axel Kleidon's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (53 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (34 papers) and Climate variability and models (31 papers). Axel Kleidon is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (53 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (34 papers) and Climate variability and models (31 papers). Axel Kleidon collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Axel Kleidon's co-authors include Martin Heimann, Maik Renner, Philipp Porada, Klaus Fraedrich, Lee M. Miller, Stanislaus J. Schymanski, Harold A. Mooney, Ryan Pavlick, Ulrich Pöschl and Bettina Weber and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Axel Kleidon

150 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Peers

Axel Kleidon
Werner von Bloh Germany
Christian H. Reick Germany
Forrest M. Hoffman United States
Jon D. Pelletier United States
Hirofumi Hashimoto Japan
G. J. Boer Canada
Jordi Catalán Spain
Sean P. Burns United States
Jean‐Louis Dufresne France
James J. O’Brien United States
Werner von Bloh Germany
Axel Kleidon
Citations per year, relative to Axel Kleidon Axel Kleidon (= 1×) peers Werner von Bloh

Countries citing papers authored by Axel Kleidon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Axel Kleidon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Axel Kleidon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Axel Kleidon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Axel Kleidon based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Axel Kleidon. Axel Kleidon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Ozawa, Hisashi, et al.. (2025). Thermodynamics of Morphogenesis: Beading and Branching Pattern Formation in Diffusion-Driven Salt Finger Plumes. Entropy. 27(2). 106–106. 1 indexed citations
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Kleidon, Axel. (2024). The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited. Physics of Life Reviews. 51. 382–389.
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Notholt, Justus, Holger Schmithüsen, Matthias Buschmann, & Axel Kleidon. (2024). Infrared Radiative Effects of Increasing CO2 and CH4 on the Atmosphere in Antarctica Compared to the Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(2).
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Kleidon, Axel, et al.. (2020). Regional wind energy potentials are defined by the kinetic energy budget of the atmospheric boundary layer. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020. 3 indexed citations
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Renner, Maik, Claire Brenner, Kaniska Mallick, et al.. (2019). Using phase lags to evaluate model biases in simulating the diurnal cycle of evapotranspiration: a case study in Luxembourg. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(1). 515–535. 27 indexed citations
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Germer, Sonja & Axel Kleidon. (2019). Have wind turbines in Germany generated electricity as would be expected from the prevailing wind conditions in 2000-2014?. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0211028–e0211028. 31 indexed citations
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Porada, Philipp, John T. Van Stan, & Axel Kleidon. (2019). Significant contribution of non-vascular vegetation to global rainfall interception. Max Planck Digital Library. 11389. 1 indexed citations
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Kleidon, Axel, et al.. (2018). Evaluating the effect of nutrient redistribution by animals on the phosphorus cycle of lowland Amazonia. Biogeosciences. 15(1). 279–295. 7 indexed citations
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Renner, Maik, Claire Brenner, Kaniska Mallick, et al.. (2018). Understanding model biases in the diurnal cycle of evapotranspiration: a case study in Luxembourg. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations
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Miller, Lee M. & Axel Kleidon. (2017). Wind speed reductions by large-scale wind turbine deployments lower turbine efficiencies and set low wind power potentials. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 8002. 1 indexed citations
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Kleidon, Axel. (2016). How the Earth generates renewable energy: Physical limits and their implications for a sustainable energy future. Max Planck Digital Library. 6(2). 18–31. 1 indexed citations
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Porada, Philipp, Timothy M. Lenton, Alexandre Pohl, et al.. (2016). High potential for weathering and climate effects of non-vascular vegetation in the Late Ordovician. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12113–12113. 82 indexed citations
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Zehe, Erwin, Uwe Ehret, Laurent Pfister, et al.. (2014). HESS Opinions: Functional units: a novel framework to explore the link between spatial organization and hydrological functioning of intermediate scale catchments. Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). 5 indexed citations
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Pavlick, Ryan, D. Drewry, & Axel Kleidon. (2013). Quantifying the importance of plant functional diversity for ecosystem functioning and resilience under scenarios of climate change (Invited). AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Virgo, Nathaniel, E. Simoncini, & Axel Kleidon. (2012). The thermodynamic drivers of atmospheric chemical disequilibrium and their relationship to habitability. EGUGA. 8941. 1 indexed citations
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Simoncini, E., Axel Kleidon, & Enzo Gallori. (2010). The emergence of life: Thermodynamics of chemical free energy generation in off-axis hydrothermal vent systems and its consequences for compartmentalization and life's origins. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 10. 3325–3344. 2 indexed citations
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Kleidon, Axel. (2002). Testing the Effect of Life on Earth's Functioning: How Gaian is the Earth System?. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 2 indexed citations

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