Boris Orlowsky

11.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
26 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Boris Orlowsky is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris Orlowsky has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Boris Orlowsky's work include Climate variability and models (18 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (10 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers). Boris Orlowsky is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (18 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (10 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers). Boris Orlowsky collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Boris Orlowsky's co-authors include Sonia I. Seneviratne, Martin Hirschi, Adriaan J. Teuling, Édouard L. Davin, T. Corti, Irene Lehner, Eric B. Jaeger, Peter Greve, Brigitte Mueller and Justin Sheffield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Boris Orlowsky

26 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

2010 3.8k citations Sonia I. Seneviratne, T. Corti et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →
Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land

2014 655 citations Peter Greve, Boris Orlowsky et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Observational evidence for soil-moisture impact on hot extremes in southeastern Europe

2010 611 citations Martin Hirschi, Sonia I. Seneviratne et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Global changes in extreme events: regional and seasonal dimension

2011 443 citations Boris Orlowsky, Sonia I. Seneviratne Climatic Change profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boris Orlowsky Switzerland	16	4.7k	3.5k	2.3k	1.4k	621	26	6.7k
Martin Hirschi Switzerland	29	5.9k 1.3×	4.3k 1.2×	2.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.4×	789 1.3×	55	8.4k
Édouard L. Davin Switzerland	34	5.8k 1.2×	3.8k 1.1×	2.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	593 1.0×	87	8.2k
Irene Lehner Switzerland	10	3.4k 0.7×	2.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	728 1.2×	19	5.3k
Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater United Kingdom	27	3.2k 0.7×	3.6k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	459 0.7×	61	6.0k
Ben Livneh United States	38	4.7k 1.0×	3.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	3.3k 2.5×	464 0.7×	116	7.5k
Martin Best United Kingdom	25	4.6k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	212 0.3×	50	6.6k
Eric B. Jaeger Switzerland	9	3.0k 0.6×	2.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	716 0.5×	563 0.9×	10	4.6k
Michael Barlage United States	42	4.9k 1.1×	4.5k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	284 0.5×	106	7.2k
Clément Albergel France	39	3.8k 0.8×	4.9k 1.4×	4.1k 1.8×	1.6k 1.1×	812 1.3×	118	8.1k
Brecht Martens Belgium	21	4.5k 1.0×	3.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	2.2k 1.6×	284 0.5×	36	6.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boris Orlowsky

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Fischer, Luzia, et al.. (2018). Searching for the optimal drought index and timescale combination to detect drought: a case study from the lower Jinsha River basin, China. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(1). 889–910. 26 indexed citations

Muccione, Veruska, Boris Orlowsky, Simon Allen, et al.. (2018). Climate change research in bilateral development programmes: experiences from India and Peru. Development in Practice. 29(3). 336–348. 1 indexed citations

Greve, Peter, Lukas Gudmundsson, Boris Orlowsky, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2016). A two-parameter Budyko function to represent conditions under which evapotranspiration exceeds precipitation. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(6). 2195–2205. 72 indexed citations

Greve, Peter, Lukas Gudmundsson, Boris Orlowsky, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2015). The Budyko framework beyond stationarity. 8 indexed citations

Guillod, Benoît P., Boris Orlowsky, Diego G. Miralles, Adriaan J. Teuling, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2015). Reconciling spatial and temporal soil moisture effects on afternoon rainfall. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6443–6443. 298 indexed citations

Seneviratne, Sonia I., Édouard L. Davin, Peter Greve, et al.. (2014). Relevance of land forcings and feedbacks in the attribution of climate extremes. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

Guillod, Benoît P., Boris Orlowsky, Diego G. Miralles, et al.. (2014). Land-surface controls on afternoon precipitation diagnosed from observational data: uncertainties and confounding factors. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(16). 8343–8367. 65 indexed citations

Orlowsky, Boris, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Lukas Gudmundsson, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2014). Todayʼs virtual water consumption and trade under future water scarcity. Environmental Research Letters. 9(7). 74007–74007. 55 indexed citations

Orlowsky, Boris & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2013). Elusive drought: uncertainty in observed trends and short- and long-term CMIP5 projections. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(5). 1765–1781. 304 indexed citations

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Seneviratne, Sonia I., et al.. (2011). Soil Moisture-Ecosystem-Climate Interactions in a Changing Climate. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 7 indexed citations

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Orlowsky, Boris & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2011). Investigating spatial climate relations using CARTs: An application to persistent hot days in a multimodel ensemble. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(D14). 5 indexed citations

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Orlowsky, Boris & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2011). Global changes in extreme events: regional and seasonal dimension. Climatic Change. 110(3-4). 669–696. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Orlowsky, Boris, Oliver Bothe, Klaus Fraedrich, Friedrich‐Wilhelm Gerstengarbe, & Xiuhua Zhu. (2010). Future Climates from Bias-Bootstrapped Weather Analogs: An Application to the Yangtze River Basin. Journal of Climate. 23(13). 3509–3524. 34 indexed citations

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Orlowsky, Boris & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2010). Statistical Analyses of Land–Atmosphere Feedbacks and Their Possible Pitfalls. Journal of Climate. 23(14). 3918–3932. 69 indexed citations

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Seneviratne, Sonia I., T. Corti, Édouard L. Davin, et al.. (2010). Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review. Earth-Science Reviews. 99(3-4). 125–161. 3768 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hirschi, Martin, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Vesselin Alexandrov, et al.. (2010). Observational evidence for soil-moisture impact on hot extremes in southeastern Europe. Nature Geoscience. 4(1). 17–21. 611 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gerstengarbe, Friedrich‐Wilhelm, et al.. (2009). A Combination of Cluster Analysis and Kappa Statistic for the Evaluation of Climate Model Results. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 48(9). 1757–1765. 8 indexed citations

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Orlowsky, Boris. (2007). Setzkasten Vergangenheit - ein kombinatorischer Ansatz für regionale Klimasimulationen. Publication Database PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)). 8 indexed citations

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Orlowsky, Boris, Friedrich‐Wilhelm Gerstengarbe, & P. Werner. (2007). A resampling scheme for regional climate simulations and its performance compared to a dynamical RCM. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 92(3-4). 209–223. 128 indexed citations

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Orlowsky, Boris, Erik H. Saenger, Yann Guéguen, & S. A. Shapiro. (2003). Effects of Parallel Crack Distributions on Effective Elastic Properties - a Numerical Study. International Journal of Fracture. 124(3-4). L171–L178. 32 indexed citations

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