Douglas Maraun

14.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
90 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Douglas Maraun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas Maraun has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 68 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Douglas Maraun's work include Climate variability and models (65 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (46 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (24 papers). Douglas Maraun is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (65 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (46 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (24 papers). Douglas Maraun collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United Kingdom. Douglas Maraun's co-authors include Martin Widmann, Jürgen Kurths, Mathieu Vrac, Emanuele Bevacqua, Henning W. Rust, José Manuel Gutiérrez, Richard E. Chandler, Timothy J. Osborn, M. Holschneider and Olivia Martius and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Douglas Maraun

87 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent de... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2020 2016 2013 2018 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent developments to bridge the gap between dynamical models and the end user
    2010 1.4k citations Douglas Maraun, Martin Widmann et al. profile →
  2. A typology of compound weather and climate events
    2020 893 citations Jakob Zscheischler, Olivia Martius et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
  3. Bias Correcting Climate Change Simulations - a Critical Review
    2016 612 citations Douglas Maraun profile →
  4. Bias Correction, Quantile Mapping, and Downscaling: Revisiting the Inflation Issue
    2013 560 citations Douglas Maraun profile →
  5. Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change
    2018 436 citations Douglas Maraun, Olivia Martius et al. Climatic Change profile →
  6. Towards process-informed bias correction of climate change simulations
    2017 392 citations Douglas Maraun, Martin Widmann et al. profile →
  7. Higher probability of compound flooding from precipitation and storm surge in Europe under anthropogenic climate change
    2019 332 citations Emanuele Bevacqua, Douglas Maraun et al. profile →
  8. Statistical Downscaling and Bias Correction for Climate Research
    2017 290 citations Douglas Maraun, Martin Widmann profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Douglas Maraun Germany 40 7.2k 4.9k 1.7k 700 638 90 8.9k
David M. H. Sexton United Kingdom 36 6.6k 0.9× 4.9k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 648 0.9× 509 0.8× 78 8.6k
Benjamin M. Sanderson United States 37 6.0k 0.8× 4.1k 0.8× 835 0.5× 799 1.1× 544 0.9× 93 8.0k
Jana Sillmann Norway 42 7.2k 1.0× 5.2k 1.1× 744 0.4× 975 1.4× 916 1.4× 96 9.4k
Mathieu Vrac France 45 5.9k 0.8× 4.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 513 0.7× 596 0.9× 144 7.4k
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen Denmark 52 8.1k 1.1× 7.0k 1.4× 2.0k 1.1× 825 1.2× 586 0.9× 138 11.1k
Richard W. Katz United States 46 7.1k 1.0× 4.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 946 1.4× 874 1.4× 101 9.7k
Christoph Frei Switzerland 38 7.7k 1.1× 6.6k 1.3× 1.7k 1.0× 632 0.9× 810 1.3× 59 10.1k
Tong Jiang China 51 6.3k 0.9× 2.8k 0.6× 3.5k 2.0× 760 1.1× 1.1k 1.7× 300 9.4k
Kenneth E. Kunkel United States 53 7.3k 1.0× 5.6k 1.1× 1.4k 0.8× 711 1.0× 968 1.5× 185 9.9k
William J. Gutowski United States 36 6.2k 0.9× 4.9k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 635 0.9× 594 0.9× 133 7.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Douglas Maraun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douglas Maraun

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ossó, Albert, et al.. (2025). A Cold Frontal Life Cycle Climatology and Front–Cyclone Relationships Over the North Atlantic and Europe. International Journal of Climatology. 45(8).
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Maraun, Douglas, R. Schiemann, Albert Ossó, & Martin Jury. (2025). Changes in event soil moisture-temperature coupling can intensify very extreme heat beyond expectations. Nature Communications. 16(1). 734–734. 8 indexed citations
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Mishra, Aditya N., Douglas Maraun, R. Schiemann, et al.. (2025). Long-lasting intense cut-off lows to become more frequent in the Northern Hemisphere. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 3 indexed citations
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Dosio, Alessandro, Mirco Migliavacca, & Douglas Maraun. (2025). How fast is climate changing? One generation is sufficient for unfamiliar heatwave characteristics to emerge in Europe. Climatic Change. 178(2). 2 indexed citations
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Ossó, Albert, Ileana Bladé, Alexey Yu. Karpechko, et al.. (2024). Advancing Our Understanding of Eddy-driven Jet Stream Responses to Climate Change – A Roadmap. 11(1). 6 indexed citations
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Truhetz, Heimo, et al.. (2024). Drivers of Cold Frontal Hourly Extreme Precipitation: A Climatological Study Over Europe. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(20). 2 indexed citations
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Petschko, Helene, et al.. (2023). Assessing uncertainties in landslide susceptibility predictions in a changing environment (Styrian Basin, Austria). Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(1). 205–229. 11 indexed citations
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Mishra, Aditya N., et al.. (2023). Climate change amplified the 2009 extreme landslide event in Austria. Climatic Change. 176(9). 124–124. 13 indexed citations
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Kaitna, Roland, et al.. (2023). Changes of hydro-meteorological trigger conditions for debris flows in a future alpine climate. The Science of The Total Environment. 872. 162227–162227. 13 indexed citations
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Manning, Colin, Martin Widmann, Douglas Maraun, Anne F. Van Loon, & Emanuele Bevacqua. (2023). Large spread in the representation of compound long-duration dry and hot spells over Europe in CMIP5. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 4(2). 309–329. 1 indexed citations
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Maraun, Douglas, Aditya N. Mishra, Heimo Truhetz, et al.. (2022). A severe landslide event in the Alpine foreland under possible future climate and land-use changes. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 43 indexed citations
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Casanueva, Ana, Sixto Herrera, Maialen Iturbide, et al.. (2020). Testing bias adjustment methods for regional climate change applications under observational uncertainty and resolution mismatch. Atmospheric Science Letters. 21(7). 84 indexed citations
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Zscheischler, Jakob, Olivia Martius, Seth Westra, et al.. (2020). A typology of compound weather and climate events. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 1(7). 333–347. 893 indexed citations breakdown →
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Petschko, Helene, et al.. (2020). Event-Based Landslide Modeling in the Styrian Basin, Austria: Accounting for Time-Varying Rainfall and Land Cover. Geosciences. 10(6). 217–217. 34 indexed citations
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Herrera, Sixto, Sven Kotlarski, Pedro M. M. Soares, et al.. (2018). Uncertainty in gridded precipitation products: Influence of station density, interpolation method and grid resolution. International Journal of Climatology. 39(9). 3717–3729. 85 indexed citations
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Manning, Colin, Martin Widmann, Douglas Maraun, et al.. (2017). A Multivariate Description of Compound Events of Meteorological Drought and Heat Waves. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 17118. 2 indexed citations
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Meredith, Edmund P., Douglas Maraun, В. А. Семенов, & Wonsun Park. (2016). Evidence for added value of convection-permitting models for studying changes in extreme precipitation. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations
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Maraun, Douglas, Martin Widmann, Rasmus Benestad, et al.. (2013). VALUE - Validating and Integrating Downscaling Methods for Climate Change Research. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4 indexed citations
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Rust, Henning W., Douglas Maraun, Jürgen P. Kropp, & J. Timmer. (2004). Power-Law Scaling and Long-Range Correlations in Temperature Records?. Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR). 1 indexed citations

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