Dirk Notz

15.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
87 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Dirk Notz is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Notz has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Atmospheric Science, 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dirk Notz's work include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (75 papers), Climate change and permafrost (47 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (47 papers). Dirk Notz is often cited by papers focused on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (75 papers), Climate change and permafrost (47 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (47 papers). Dirk Notz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Dirk Notz's co-authors include Julienne Strœve, Julienne Stroeve, Jochem Marotzke, M. Grae Worster, Johann Jungclaus, Helmuth Haak, Daniela Matei, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Thorsten Mauritsen and Jin‐Song von Storch and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Notz

82 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons

2018 691 citations Dirk Notz et al. profile →
Characteristics of the ocean simulations in the Max Planck Institute Ocean Model (MPIOM) the ocean component of the MPI‐Earth system model

2013 600 citations Dirk Notz et al. profile →
Arctic Sea Ice in CMIP6

2020 415 citations Dirk Notz et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO ₂ emission

2016 389 citations Dirk Notz, Julienne Stroeve profile →
Version 2 of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF and ESA CCI sea-ice concentration climate data records

2019 247 citations Thomas Lavergne, Atle Macdonald Sørensen et al. The cryosphere profile →
Observationally-constrained projections of an ice-free Arctic even under a low emission scenario

2023 90 citations Yeon‐Hee Kim, Seung‐Ki Min et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Notz Germany	37	5.1k	3.0k	1.2k	706	306	87	6.0k
Jennifer E. Kay United States	48	8.1k 1.6×	6.6k 2.2×	996 0.8×	508 0.7×	244 0.8×	117	9.4k
Sebastian Gerland Norway	39	4.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	745 1.1×	177 0.6×	146	5.4k
Ignatius Rigor United States	34	6.2k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.8×	206 0.7×	55	7.0k
Klaus Dethloff Germany	38	5.3k 1.0×	4.2k 1.4×	746 0.6×	276 0.4×	97 0.3×	147	5.8k
Donald K. Perovich United States	63	11.9k 2.3×	3.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.6×	1.4k 1.9×	328 1.1×	243	13.0k
Bruno Tremblay Canada	32	2.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	564 0.5×	545 0.8×	102 0.3×	151	3.3k
Jeff Ridley United Kingdom	36	3.3k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	809 0.7×	302 0.4×	83 0.3×	94	4.3k
Bonnie Light United States	31	3.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.3×	743 0.6×	531 0.8×	89 0.3×	59	3.9k
Ola M. Johannessen Norway	38	4.1k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	2.1k 1.8×	649 0.9×	118 0.4×	201	5.5k
Peter Wadhams United Kingdom	47	5.6k 1.1×	916 0.3×	2.2k 1.8×	680 1.0×	145 0.5×	204	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk Notz

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Golledge, Nicholas R., Elizabeth D. Keller, Alexandra Gossart, et al.. (2025). Antarctic coastal polynyas in the global climate system. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(2). 126–139. 2 indexed citations

Mehlmann, Carolin, et al.. (2025). A hybrid ice-mélange model based on particle and continuum methods. The cryosphere. 19(1). 129–141.

Hoppe, Clara J. M., Niels Fuchs, Dirk Notz, et al.. (2024). Photosynthetic light requirement near the theoretical minimum detected in Arctic microalgae. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7385–7385. 17 indexed citations

Vrese, Philipp de, Goran Georgievski, J. Fidel González‐Rouco, et al.. (2023). Representation of soil hydrology in permafrost regions may explain large part of inter-model spread in simulated Arctic and subarctic climate. The cryosphere. 17(5). 2095–2118. 12 indexed citations

Kim, Yeon‐Hee, Seung‐Ki Min, Nathan P. Gillett, Dirk Notz, & Elizaveta Malinina. (2023). Observationally-constrained projections of an ice-free Arctic even under a low emission scenario. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3139–3139. 90 indexed citations breakdown →

Thomas, Max, et al.. (2021). The Roland von Glasow Air-Sea-Ice Chamber (RvG-ASIC): an experimental facility for studying ocean–sea-ice–atmosphere interactions. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(3). 1833–1849. 5 indexed citations

Shi, Xiaoxu, Dirk Notz, Jiping Liu, Hu Yang, & Gerrit Lohmann. (2021). Sensitivity of Northern Hemisphere climate to ice–ocean interface heat flux parameterizations. Geoscientific model development. 14(8). 4891–4908. 7 indexed citations

Roach, Lettie A., Jakob Dörr, Caroline Holmes, et al.. (2020). Antarctic Sea Ice Area in CMIP6. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(9). 190 indexed citations

Kern, Stefan, Thomas Lavergne, Dirk Notz, et al.. (2019). Satellite passive microwave sea-ice concentration data set intercomparison: closed ice and ship-based observations. The cryosphere. 13(12). 3261–3307. 71 indexed citations

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Lavergne, Thomas, Atle Macdonald Sørensen, Stefan Kern, et al.. (2019). Version 2 of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF and ESA CCI sea-ice concentration climate data records. The cryosphere. 13(1). 49–78. 247 indexed citations breakdown →

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Notz, Dirk, et al.. (2018). Arctic Sea Ice in a 1.5°C Warmer World. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(4). 1963–1971. 67 indexed citations

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Notz, Dirk & Julienne Stroeve. (2018). The Trajectory Towards a Seasonally Ice-Free Arctic Ocean. PubMed. 4(4). 407–416. 80 indexed citations

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Notz, Dirk. (2015). How well must climate models agree with observations?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 373(2052). 105 indexed citations

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Notz, Dirk, et al.. (2015). A 1-D modelling study of Arctic sea-ice salinity. The cryosphere. 9(1). 305–329. 20 indexed citations

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Rysgaard, Søren, Fei Wang, R. J. Galley, et al.. (2014). Temporal dynamics of ikaite in experimental sea ice. The cryosphere. 8(4). 1469–1478. 32 indexed citations

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Vihma, Timo, Roberta Pirazzini, Ilker Fer, et al.. (2014). Advances in understanding and parameterization of small-scale physical processes in the marine Arctic climate system: a review. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(17). 9403–9450. 133 indexed citations

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Rysgaard, Søren, Fei Wang, R. J. Galley, et al.. (2013). Dynamic ikaite production and dissolution in sea ice – control by temperature, salinity and p CO ₂ conditions. 3 indexed citations

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Notz, Dirk. (2013). Sea-ice extent provides a limited metric of model performance. 4 indexed citations

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Vihma, Timo, Roberta Pirazzini, Ian A. Renfrew, et al.. (2013). Advances in understanding and parameterization of small-scale physical processes in the marine Arctic climate system: a review. 6 indexed citations

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Levermann, Anders, Jonathan Bamber, Sybren Drijfhout, et al.. (2010). Climatic tipping elements with potential impact on Europe. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich).

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