Brian J. Soden

29.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
157 papers, 19.9k citations indexed

About

Brian J. Soden is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian J. Soden has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 19.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 142 papers in Atmospheric Science and 32 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Brian J. Soden's work include Climate variability and models (126 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (73 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (44 papers). Brian J. Soden is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (126 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (73 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (44 papers). Brian J. Soden collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Brian J. Soden's co-authors include Isaac M. Held, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Richard P. Allan, Stephen A. Klein, Ngar-Cheung Lau, Robert Colman, F. P. Bretherton, Viju O. John, Jie He and Eui‐Seok Chung and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Brian J. Soden

151 papers receiving 19.2k 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.

Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming

2006 3.8k citations Brian J. Soden et al. profile →
Remote Sea Surface Temperature Variations during ENSO: Evidence for a Tropical Atmospheric Bridge

1999 1.3k citations Brian J. Soden et al. profile →
Atmospheric Warming and the Amplification of Precipitation Extremes

2008 1.2k citations Brian J. Soden et al. Science profile →
Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation

2007 1.1k citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden profile →
Water Vapor Feedback and Global Warming

2000 934 citations Brian J. Soden et al. profile →
Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing

2006 855 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden et al. profile →
An Assessment of Climate Feedbacks in Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Models

2006 813 citations Brian J. Soden et al. profile →
How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes?

2006 765 citations Brian J. Soden et al. profile →
Quantifying Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels

2008 609 citations Brian J. Soden et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian J. Soden United States	57	17.5k	15.8k	5.0k	796	717	157	19.9k
John Fasullo United States	60	11.8k 0.7×	9.8k 0.6×	4.9k 1.0×	796 1.0×	915 1.3×	156	15.4k
J. David Neelin United States	67	15.0k 0.9×	12.8k 0.8×	5.3k 1.1×	570 0.7×	652 0.9×	242	16.8k
E. Roeckner Germany	65	15.3k 0.9×	14.4k 0.9×	4.0k 0.8×	861 1.1×	909 1.3×	145	18.4k
Sandrine Bony France	60	19.3k 1.1×	17.4k 1.1×	2.9k 0.6×	967 1.2×	937 1.3×	149	22.4k
Duane E. Waliser United States	72	14.6k 0.8×	13.9k 0.9×	4.2k 0.8×	746 0.9×	304 0.4×	277	16.3k
Wesley Ebisuzaki United States	15	11.6k 0.7×	10.7k 0.7×	3.8k 0.8×	814 1.0×	607 0.8×	24	13.9k
Masao Kanamitsu United States	44	13.6k 0.8×	12.5k 0.8×	4.1k 0.8×	944 1.2×	491 0.7×	113	15.6k
J. T. Kiehl United States	62	15.1k 0.9×	15.5k 1.0×	2.0k 0.4×	532 0.7×	914 1.3×	137	20.0k
Jonathan M. Gregory United Kingdom	83	17.1k 1.0×	14.6k 0.9×	6.8k 1.4×	1.6k 2.1×	1.1k 1.6×	279	23.9k
Adam A. Scaife United Kingdom	66	13.5k 0.8×	12.9k 0.8×	3.6k 0.7×	576 0.7×	296 0.4×	265	15.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian J. Soden

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Soden, Brian J., et al.. (2025). Negligible contribution from aerosols to recent trends in Earth’s energy imbalance. Science Advances. 11(48). eadv9429–eadv9429.

He, Haozhe, Brian J. Soden, Gabriel A. Vecchi, & Wenchang Yang. (2025). Stratospheric aerosol injection can weaken the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 485–485.

Soden, Brian J., et al.. (2025). Observational constraints suggest a smaller effective radiative forcing from aerosol–cloud interactions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(13). 7299–7313. 1 indexed citations

Hsieh, Tsung‐Lin, et al.. (2024). Dependence of tropical cyclone seeds and climate sensitivity on tropical cloud response. Science Advances. 10(37). eadi2779–eadi2779. 1 indexed citations

Harrop, Bryce E., Jian Lu, L. Ruby Leung, et al.. (2024). An overview of cloud–radiation denial experiments for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1. Geoscientific model development. 17(8). 3111–3135. 3 indexed citations

Soden, Brian J., et al.. (2024). Why Does Atmospheric Radiative Heating Weaken Midlatitude Cyclones?. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(19).

Zhang, Bosong, Ming Zhao, Haozhe He, et al.. (2023). The Dependence of Climate Sensitivity on the Meridional Distribution of Radiative Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(18). 7 indexed citations

He, Haozhe, Ryan J. Kramer, Brian J. Soden, & Nadir Jeevanjee. (2023). State dependence of CO ₂ forcing and its implications for climate sensitivity. Science. 382(6674). 1051–1056. 44 indexed citations

Liu, Maofeng, et al.. (2023). The Spread of Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency Traced to Ocean Salinity. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(4). 3 indexed citations

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Shi, Lei, Carl J. Schreck, Viju O. John, et al.. (2022). Assessing the consistency of satellite-derived upper tropospheric humidity measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(23). 6949–6963. 5 indexed citations

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Kramer, Ryan J., Haozhe He, Brian J. Soden, et al.. (2021). Observational Evidence of Increasing Global Radiative Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 62 indexed citations

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Soden, Brian J., et al.. (2021). Examining the Role of Cloud Radiative Interactions in Tropical Cyclone Development Using Satellite Measurements and WRF Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(15). 27 indexed citations

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Soden, Brian J., et al.. (2021). Compensation Between Cloud Feedback and Aerosol‐Cloud Interaction in CMIP6 Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(4). 55 indexed citations

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Zhang, Bosong, Brian J. Soden, Gabriel A. Vecchi, & Wenchang Yang. (2021). Investigating the Causes and Impacts of Convective Aggregation in a High Resolution Atmospheric GCM. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(11). 8 indexed citations

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Vecchi, Gabriel A., et al.. (2021). Influence of Vertical Wind Shear on the Ocean Response to Tropical Cyclones Based on Satellite Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(20). 5 indexed citations

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Clement, Amy, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden, et al.. (2010). The Response of the Walker Circulation to LGM Forcing: Implications for Detection in Proxies. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 2 indexed citations

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Vecchi, Gabriel A. & Brian J. Soden. (2007). Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2007(10). 1529–1530. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Xizhi, Brian J. Soden, Darren L. Jackson, Hui Su, & Jonathan H. Jiang. (2006). Co-variability of tropical temperature and humidity: a comparison of model, reanalysis data and satellite observation. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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Soden, Brian J.. (2005). The Radiative Signature of Upper Tropospheric Moistening. 1 indexed citations

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Mapes, Brian, et al.. (2004). Bimodality in Tropical Water Vapor. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 9 indexed citations

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