Björn Stevens

57.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
320 papers, 30.6k citations indexed

About

Björn Stevens is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Björn Stevens has authored 320 papers receiving a total of 30.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 269 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 260 papers in Atmospheric Science and 35 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Björn Stevens's work include Climate variability and models (166 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (164 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (143 papers). Björn Stevens is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (166 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (164 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (143 papers). Björn Stevens collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Björn Stevens's co-authors include Sandrine Bony, Veronika Eyring, Ronald J. Stouffer, Karl E. Taylor, C. A. Senior, Gerald A. Meehl, Graham Feingold, Markus Reichstein, Gustau Camps‐Valls and Prabhat and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Björn Stevens

309 papers receiving 30.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization

2016 7.3k citations Sandrine Bony, Björn Stevens et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
Deep learning and process understanding for data-driven Earth system science

2019 3.0k citations Björn Stevens et al. profile →
Atmospheric component of the MPI‐M Earth System Model: ECHAM6

2013 1.1k citations Björn Stevens, M. A. Giorgetta et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems profile →
Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system

2009 825 citations Björn Stevens et al. profile →
Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

2015 646 citations Sandrine Bony, Björn Stevens et al. profile →
A Large Eddy Simulation Intercomparison Study of Shallow Cumulus Convection

2003 583 citations A. Pier Siebesma, Christopher S. Bretherton et al. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences profile →
DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains

2019 332 citations Björn Stevens, Christopher S. Bretherton et al. profile →
A digital twin of Earth for the green transition

2021 242 citations Péter Bauer, Björn Stevens et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Björn Stevens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Björn Stevens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Björn Stevens 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 Björn Stevens. Björn Stevens is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	BEACH: Barbados and Eastern Atlantic Combined High-altitude dropsonde datasets 2025 ·(unknown), Theresa Mieslinger, (unknown), Geet George, Lukas Kluft, Tobias Kölling, Sandrine Bony, (unknown), Björn Stevens	0
2	Influence of mesoscale circulations on the formation of humidity haloes 2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), Björn Stevens	0
3	Effects of vertical grid spacing on the climate simulated in the ICON-Sapphire global storm-resolving model 2024 ·Geoscientific model development ·Hauke Schmidt, Sebastian Rast, Jiawei Bao, (unknown), Shih‐Wei Fang, (unknown), (unknown), Lukas Kluft, (unknown), Theresa Lang, Ulrike Niemeier, Andrea Schneidereit, Andrew Williams, Björn Stevens	5
4	Upper Bounds of Maximum Land Surface Temperatures in a Warming Climate and Limits to Plant Growth 2023 ·Earth s Future ·Milad Aminzadeh, Dani Or, Björn Stevens, Amir AghaKouchak, Nima Shokri	7
5	Deep learning and a changing economy in weather and climate prediction 2023 ·Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Péter Bauer, Peter Dueben, Matthew Chantry, Francisco J. Doblas‐Reyes, Torsten Hoefler, Amy McGovern, Björn Stevens	13
6	Early Development and Tuning of a Global Coupled Cloud Resolving Model, and its Fast Response to Increasing CO2 2022 ·Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography ·Thorsten Mauritsen, René Redler, Monika Esch, Björn Stevens, Cathy Hohenegger, Daniel Klocke, Renate Brokopf, Helmuth Haak, Leonidas Linardakis, Niklas Röber, Reiner Schnur	3
7	Temperature‐Dependence of the Clear‐Sky Feedback in Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Lukas Kluft, (unknown), Manfred Brath, Stefan A. Buehler, Björn Stevens	17
8	Changes in the Tropical Lapse Rate due to Entrainment and Their Impact on Climate Sensitivity 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Jiawei Bao, Björn Stevens, Lukas Kluft, Diego Jiménez de la Cuesta Otero	10
9	Characterization and Evolution of Organized Shallow Convection in the Downstream North Atlantic Trades 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Hauke Schulz, Ryan Eastman, Björn Stevens	44
10	A digital twin of Earth for the green transition breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Climate Change ·Péter Bauer, Björn Stevens, Wilco Hazeleger	242
11	Linking Large‐Eddy Simulations to Local Cloud Observations 2020 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Vera Schemann, Kerstin Ebell, Bernhard Pospichal, Roel Neggers, Christopher Moseley, Björn Stevens	16
12	Extratropical–Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (Etin-Mip): Protocol and Initial Results 2019 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Sarah M. Kang, Matt Hawcroft, Baoqiang Xiang, Yen‐Ting Hwang, (unknown), Francis Codron, Traute Crueger, Clara Deser, Øivind Hodnebrog, (unknown), (unknown), Yu Kosaka, Teresa Losada, Carlos R. Mechoso, Gunnar Myhre, Øyvind Seland, Björn Stevens, Masahiro Watanabe, Sungduk Yu	37
13	ETIN-MIP Extratropical-Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project – protocol and initial results 2019 ·University of Southern Queensland ePrints (University of Southern Queensland) ·Sarah M. Kang, Matt Hawcroft, Baoqiang Xiang, Yen‐Ting Hwang, (unknown), Francis Codron, Traute Crueger, Clara Deser, Øivind Hodnebrog, (unknown), (unknown), Yu Kosaka, Teresa Losada, Carlos R. Mechoso, Gunnar Myhre, Øyvind Seland, Björn Stevens, Masahiro Watanabe, Sungduk Yu	2
14	First forcing estimates from the future CMIP6 scenarios of anthropogenic aerosol optical properties and an associated Twomey effect 2019 ·Geoscientific model development ·Stephanie Fiedler, Björn Stevens, Matthew Gidden, Steven J. Smith, Keywan Riahi, Detlef P. van Vuuren	30
15	First forcing estimates from the future CMIP6 scenarios ofanthropogenic aerosol optical properties and an associated Twomeyeffect 2018 ·OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Stephanie Fiedler, Björn Stevens, Matthew Gidden, Steven J. Smith, Keywan Riahi, Detlef P. van Vuuren	1
16	Characterization and quantification of bioaerosols in Saharan dust transported across the Atlantic 2017 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·(unknown), Stefanie Maier, Emilio Rodríguez‐Caballero, Florian Ditas, Thomas Klimach, Maria Praß, Isabella Hrabě de Angelis, Edmund Blades, Bruna A. Holanda, Mira L. Pöhlker, (unknown), (unknown), David Farrell, Björn Stevens, Joseph M. Prospero, (unknown), Meinrat O. Andreae, Janine Fröhlich‐Nowoisky, Christopher Pöhlker, Bettina Weber	1
17	Radiative convective equilibrium as a framework for studying the interaction between convection and its large‐scale environment 2016 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Levi G. Silvers, Björn Stevens, Thorsten Mauritsen, M. A. Giorgetta	24
18	Easy Volcanic Aerosol (EVA v1.0): an idealized forcing generator for climate simulations 2016 ·Geoscientific model development ·Matthew Toohey, Björn Stevens, Hauke Schmidt, Claudia Timmreck	78
19	Simulations of Trade Wind Cumuli under a Strong Inversion 2001 ·Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ·Björn Stevens, Andrew S. Ackerman, Bruce A. Albrecht, Andrew R. Brown, Andreas Chlond, Joan Cuxart, Peter G. Duynkerke, D. C. Lewellen, M. K. MacVean, Roel Neggers, Enrique Sánchez, A. Pier Siebesma, David E. Stevens	206
20	Simulation of a Stratocumulus-Topped Planetary Boundary Layer: Intercomparison among Different Numerical Codes 1996 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·(unknown), William R. Cotton, Björn Stevens, Christopher S. Bretherton, (unknown), Andreas Chlond, Marat Khairoutdinov, Steven K. Krueger, (unknown), M. K. MacVean, (unknown), A. Pier Siebesma, (unknown)	124

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