Axel Seifert

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
83 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Axel Seifert is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Seifert has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Atmospheric Science, 72 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Axel Seifert's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (60 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (52 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (27 papers). Axel Seifert is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (60 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (52 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (27 papers). Axel Seifert collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Israel. Axel Seifert's co-authors include K.D. Beheng, Thorsten Reinhardt, Michael Baldauf, Jochen Förstner, Matthias Raschendorfer, Detlev Majewski, А. Хаин, Björn Stevens, Thijs Heus and A. Pokrovsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Axel Seifert

81 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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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.

Operational Convective-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction with the COSMO Model: Description and Sensitivities

2011 852 citations Axel Seifert, Jochen Förstner et al. profile →
A two-moment cloud microphysics parameterization for mixed-phase clouds. Part 1: Model description

2005 513 citations Axel Seifert et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Axel Seifert Germany	29	4.1k	4.1k	617	376	160	83	4.6k
Jerry Y. Harrington United States	29	4.3k 1.1×	4.1k 1.0×	502 0.8×	293 0.8×	62 0.4×	71	4.7k
Adrian Lock United Kingdom	36	4.0k 1.0×	3.9k 1.0×	386 0.6×	689 1.8×	397 2.5×	73	4.5k
A. Pier Siebesma Netherlands	41	5.5k 1.3×	5.3k 1.3×	647 1.0×	1.2k 3.2×	692 4.3×	104	6.2k
Andreas Chlond Germany	19	2.5k 0.6×	2.5k 0.6×	463 0.8×	529 1.4×	324 2.0×	36	2.9k
Ewan O’Connor Finland	34	4.4k 1.1×	4.3k 1.1×	435 0.7×	643 1.7×	67 0.4×	103	4.9k
Susan C. van den Heever United States	38	3.8k 0.9×	3.8k 0.9×	422 0.7×	274 0.7×	33 0.2×	137	4.2k
Peter N. Blossey United States	27	2.5k 0.6×	2.4k 0.6×	235 0.4×	170 0.5×	212 1.3×	87	2.9k
Peter G. Duynkerke Netherlands	36	3.7k 0.9×	3.2k 0.8×	499 0.8×	1.2k 3.2×	608 3.8×	71	4.2k
Jason A. Milbrandt Canada	35	4.5k 1.1×	4.0k 1.0×	178 0.3×	494 1.3×	52 0.3×	88	4.8k
Stewart G. Cober Canada	26	2.4k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	273 0.4×	427 1.1×	84 0.5×	63	2.9k

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Spichtinger, Peter, et al.. (2025). Investigating ice formation pathways using a novel two-moment multi-class cloud microphysics scheme. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(8). 4505–4529. 2 indexed citations

Seifert, Axel, et al.. (2025). Predicting ice supersaturation for contrail avoidance: ensemble forecasting using ICON with two-moment ice microphysics. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(23). 17253–17274.

Seifert, Axel, Jochen Förstner, Christian M. Grams, et al.. (2023). Aerosol–cloud–radiation interaction during Saharan dust episodes: the dusty cirrus puzzle. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(11). 6409–6430. 12 indexed citations

Seifert, Axel, et al.. (2021). Improving the representation of aggregation in a two-moment microphysical scheme with statistics of multi-frequency Doppler radar observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(22). 17133–17166. 15 indexed citations

Zeng, Yuefei, Alberto de Lózar, Tijana Janjić, & Axel Seifert. (2021). Applying a new integrated mass-flux adjustment filter in rapid update cycling of convective-scale data assimilation for the COSMO model (v5.07). Geoscientific model development. 14(3). 1295–1307. 8 indexed citations

Burkhardt, Ulrike, Martin Köhler, Luca Bugliaro, et al.. (2021). The behavior of high-CAPE (convective available potential energy) summer convection in large-domain large-eddy simulations with ICON. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(6). 4285–4318. 6 indexed citations

Seifert, Axel, et al.. (2020). Ice Particle Properties Inferred From Aggregation Modelling. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(8). 15 indexed citations

Dagan, Guy, Philip Stier, Matthew W. Christensen, et al.. (2020). Atmospheric energy budget response to idealized aerosol perturbation in tropical cloud systems. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(7). 4523–4544. 13 indexed citations

Heinold, Bernd, C. Engler, U. Schumann, et al.. (2018). The impact of mineral dust on cloud formation during the Saharan dust event in April 2014 over Europe. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(23). 17545–17572. 23 indexed citations

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Tomassini, Lorenzo, Paul R. Field, Rachel Honnert, et al.. (2016). The “Grey Zone” cold air outbreak global model intercomparison: A cross evaluation using large‐eddy simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9(1). 39–64. 32 indexed citations

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Onishi, Ryo & Axel Seifert. (2016). Reynolds-number dependence of turbulence enhancement on collision growth. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(19). 12441–12455. 17 indexed citations

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Sakradžija, Mirjana, Axel Seifert, & Thijs Heus. (2015). Fluctuations in a quasi-stationary shallow cumulus cloud ensemble. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 22(1). 65–85. 41 indexed citations

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Reutter, Philipp, J. Trentmann, Axel Seifert, et al.. (2014). 3-D model simulations of dynamical and microphysical interactions in pyroconvective clouds under idealized conditions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(14). 7573–7583. 24 indexed citations

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Sakradžija, Mirjana, Axel Seifert, & Thijs Heus. (2014). Shallow cumuli ensemble statistics for development of a stochastic parameterization. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7139. 1 indexed citations

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Seifert, Axel, et al.. (2014). On the analytic approximation of bulk collision rates of non-spherical hydrometeors. Geoscientific model development. 7(2). 463–478. 15 indexed citations

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Seifert, Axel, et al.. (2013). A bulk parametrization of melting snowflakes with explicit liquid water fraction for the COSMO model. Geoscientific model development. 6(6). 1925–1939. 22 indexed citations

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Heus, Thijs & Axel Seifert. (2013). Automated tracking of shallow cumulus clouds in large domain, long duration large eddy simulations. Geoscientific model development. 6(4). 1261–1273. 54 indexed citations

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Naumann, Ann Kristin, Axel Seifert, & Juan Pedro Mellado. (2013). A refined statistical cloud closure using double-Gaussian probability density functions. Geoscientific model development. 6(5). 1641–1657. 12 indexed citations

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Seifert, Axel & Thijs Heus. (2013). Large-eddy simulation of organized precipitating trade wind cumulus clouds. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(11). 5631–5645. 126 indexed citations

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Stevens, Björn & Axel Seifert. (2008). Understanding macrophysical outcomes of microphysical choices in simulations of shallow cumulus convection. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 86A. 143–162. 149 indexed citations

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