Christoph Beck

16.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
87 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Christoph Beck is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Beck has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 40 papers in Atmospheric Science and 20 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christoph Beck's work include Climate variability and models (29 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (16 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (15 papers). Christoph Beck is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (29 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (16 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (15 papers). Christoph Beck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Christoph Beck's co-authors include M. Kottek, B. Rudolf, Franz Rubel, Jürgen Grieser, Andreas Philipp, Jucundus Jacobeit, Radan Huth, Matthias Demuzere, Jürg Luterbacher and Ole Einar Tveito and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Stroke.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Beck

82 papers receiving 11.7k 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.

World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated

2006 8.6k citations M. Kottek, Jürgen Grieser et al. Meteorologische Zeitschrift profile →
Classifications of Atmospheric Circulation Patterns

2008 511 citations Christoph Beck, Andreas Philipp et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Beck Germany	27	4.9k	3.6k	2.9k	1.5k	1.4k	87	12.1k
Jürgen Grieser Germany	15	4.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	38	10.5k
Franz Rubel Austria	28	3.5k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	70	11.8k
M. Kottek Austria	6	3.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.4×	2.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	7	9.6k
Alexis Berg United States	31	5.7k 1.2×	3.1k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	445 0.3×	44	10.4k
Murray Peel Australia	38	6.8k 1.4×	2.7k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	2.5k 1.7×	1.1k 0.8×	120	15.8k
B. Rudolf Germany	17	10.5k 2.1×	8.9k 2.4×	2.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	34	18.1k
Keith W. Oleson United States	54	10.6k 2.2×	6.3k 1.7×	4.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.1×	624 0.4×	84	14.8k
Brian Finlayson Australia	39	4.7k 1.0×	2.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	3.9k 2.6×	1.1k 0.8×	131	16.1k
Jason Beringer Australia	54	6.4k 1.3×	2.0k 0.6×	2.6k 0.9×	2.8k 1.9×	411 0.3×	176	9.5k
Tracey Holloway United States	36	7.2k 1.5×	2.7k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	3.5k 2.3×	330 0.2×	92	15.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Christoph Beck

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christoph Beck

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Beck

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

All Works

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Hertig, Elke, et al.. (2023). High-resolution intra-urban assessments of future heat events and heat waves for the city of Augsburg, Germany. Urban Climate. 49. 101472–101472. 2 indexed citations

Niu, Jianguo, L. E. Flynn, Christoph Beck, et al.. (2023). Enterprise version 8 total column ozone algorithm (EV8TOz) development and applications on multiple sensors. Remote Sensing Letters. 14(3). 231–242. 1 indexed citations

Sfîcă, Lucian, et al.. (2020). Cloud cover changes driven by atmospheric circulation in Europe during the last decades. International Journal of Climatology. 41(S1). 32 indexed citations

Verdonck, Marie-Leen, Matthias Demuzere, Benjamin Bechtel, et al.. (2019). The Human Influence Experiment (Part 2): Guidelines for Improved Mapping of Local Climate Zones Using a Supervised Classification. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 27–27. 12 indexed citations

Ertl, Michael, Christoph Beck, Gertrud Hammel, et al.. (2019). New Insights into Weather and Stroke: Influences of Specific Air Masses and Temperature Changes on Stroke Incidence. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 47(5-6). 275–284. 12 indexed citations

Beck, Christoph, et al.. (2018). Variability and triggering factors of observed global mean land-surface precipitation since 1951. OPUS (Augsburg University).

Bechtel, Benjamin, Paul J. Alexander, Christoph Beck, et al.. (2018). Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation. Urban Climate. 27. 24–45. 223 indexed citations

Bechtel, Benjamin, Matthias Demuzere, Panagiotis Sismanidis, et al.. (2017). Quality of Crowdsourced Data on Urban Morphology—The Human Influence Experiment (HUMINEX). Urban Science. 1(2). 15–15. 82 indexed citations

Beck, Christoph, et al.. (2015). Statistical modeling of urban air temperature distributions under different synoptic conditions. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 15292. 2 indexed citations

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Beck, Christoph, et al.. (2015). Impact of seasonal synoptic weather types on local PM10 concentrations in Bavaria/Germany: recent conditions and future projections. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2114. 1 indexed citations

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Beck, Christoph, et al.. (2015). Sensitivity of proxies on non-linear interactions in the climate system. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 18560–18560. 7 indexed citations

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Philipp, Andreas, et al.. (2014). Combining artificial neural networks and circulation type classification: does it improve downscaling models?. EGUGA. 16395. 1 indexed citations

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Beck, Christoph, Andreas Philipp, & Jucundus Jacobeit. (2014). Interannual drought index variations in Central Europe related to large-scale atmospheric circulation. EGUGA. 5933. 1 indexed citations

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Hofstätter, Michael, et al.. (2013). WETRAX: WEather Patterns, Cyclone TRAcks and related precipitation EXtremes. OPUS (Augsburg University). 3 indexed citations

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Beck, Christoph, et al.. (2012). Local PM10 concentrations in Augsburg (Germany) and their connection to large scale circulation types. EGUGA. 12971. 1 indexed citations

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Beck, Christoph, Bastian Cheng, Anna Krützelmann, et al.. (2012). Outcome of MRI-based intravenous thrombolysis in carotid-T occlusion. Journal of Neurology. 259(10). 2141–2146. 8 indexed citations

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Beck, Christoph. (2012). Are there weekly cycles in occurrence frequencies of large‐scale circulation types?. Atmospheric Science Letters. 13(4). 238–243. 2 indexed citations

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Beck, Christoph, et al.. (2010). Schulbegleitung am Förderzentrum mit dem Förderschwerpunkt Geistige Entwicklung. 6 indexed citations

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Bartholy, Judit, Rita Pongrácz, Andreas Philipp, Christoph Beck, & Anikó Kern. (2010). Application of different weather pattern classifications to simulated future climate conditions for Central Europe. 1 indexed citations

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Kottek, M., Jürgen Grieser, Christoph Beck, B. Rudolf, & Franz Rubel. (2006). World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated. Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 15(3). 259–263. 8649 indexed citations breakdown →

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