Erland Källén

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Erland Källén is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Erland Källén has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Atmospheric Science, 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Erland Källén's work include Climate variability and models (25 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (25 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (11 papers). Erland Källén is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (25 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (25 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (11 papers). Erland Källén collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and Uganda. Erland Källén's co-authors include Magdalena Balmaseda, Kevin E. Trenberth, Thorsten Mauritsen, Gunilla Svensson, Michael Tjernström, Rune Grand Graversen, Linus Magnusson, Nils Gustafsson, Lars Isaksen and Nedjeljka Žagar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Erland Källén

40 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
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  1. Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content
    2013 398 citations Erland Källén et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Erland Källén Sweden 16 1.6k 1.6k 444 104 62 40 2.0k
Karen M. Shell United States 18 1.9k 1.2× 1.9k 1.2× 259 0.6× 50 0.5× 38 0.6× 22 2.2k
Kyong‐Hwan Seo South Korea 30 2.1k 1.3× 2.2k 1.4× 820 1.8× 60 0.6× 61 1.0× 86 2.4k
Valentin Dymnikov Russia 11 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 566 1.3× 49 0.5× 35 0.6× 50 1.6k
Robert Colman Australia 28 2.9k 1.8× 3.1k 2.0× 461 1.0× 75 0.7× 64 1.0× 60 3.4k
Stefano Tibaldi United Kingdom 24 2.5k 1.5× 2.5k 1.6× 643 1.4× 142 1.4× 33 0.5× 55 2.8k
Laurent Fairhead France 11 1.0k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 229 0.5× 61 0.6× 85 1.4× 18 1.5k
Edwin K. Schneider United States 30 2.2k 1.3× 2.5k 1.6× 1.4k 3.1× 74 0.7× 55 0.9× 81 2.8k
A. Boville United States 6 2.4k 1.5× 2.5k 1.6× 429 1.0× 118 1.1× 63 1.0× 6 2.8k
Leopold Haimberger Austria 28 2.0k 1.2× 2.0k 1.3× 459 1.0× 144 1.4× 52 0.8× 72 2.5k
Elías Hólm United Kingdom 15 1.4k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 380 0.9× 110 1.1× 20 0.3× 22 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erland Källén

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erland Källén

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stoffelen, Ad, Angela Benedetti, Régis Borde, et al.. (2021). Toward an Aeolus Follow-On Mission: Wind-Profile Satellite Observing Requirements and Capabilities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(4). 351–356. 1 indexed citations
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Stoffelen, Ad, Angela Benedetti, Régis Borde, et al.. (2020). Wind Profile Satellite Observation Requirements and Capabilities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(11). E2005–E2021. 44 indexed citations
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Magnusson, Linus, Jonas Nycander, & Erland Källén. (2009). Flow-dependent versus flow-independent initial perturbations for ensemble prediction. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 61(2). 194–194. 45 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Lisa, Linus Magnusson, & Erland Källén. (2008). Independent Estimations of the Asymptotic Variability in an Ensemble Forecast System. Monthly Weather Review. 136(11). 4105–4112. 20 indexed citations
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Graversen, Rune Grand, Thorsten Mauritsen, Michael Tjernström, Erland Källén, & Gunilla Svensson. (2008). Vertical structure of recent Arctic warming. Nature. 451(7174). 53–56. 479 indexed citations
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Källén, Erland. (2008). Special issue with manuscripts related to ESA’s Atmospheric Dynamics Mission/Aeolus. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 60(2). 189–189. 4 indexed citations
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Körnich, Heiner & Erland Källén. (2007). Combining the mid-latitudinal and equatorial mass/wind balance relationships in global data assimilation. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 60(2). 261–261. 1 indexed citations
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Azar, Christian, Anders Biel, Runar Brännlund, et al.. (2007). Vetenskapligt underlag för klimatpolitiken : Rapport från Vetenskapliga rådet för klimatfrågor. 2 indexed citations
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Mauritsen, Thorsten & Erland Källén. (2004). Blocking prediction in an ensemble forecasting system. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 56(3). 218–228. 10 indexed citations
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Brandefelt, Jenny & Erland Källén. (2004). The Response of the Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Circulation to an Enhanced Greenhouse Gas Forcing. Journal of Climate. 17(22). 4425–4442. 13 indexed citations
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Žagar, Nedjeljka, Nils Gustafsson, & Erland Källén. (2004). Dynamical response of equatorial waves in four-dimensional variational data assimilation. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 56(1). 29–46. 28 indexed citations
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Gustafsson, Nils, Erland Källén, & Sigurður B. Þorsteinsson. (1998). Sensitivity of forecast errors to initial and lateral boundary conditions. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 50(2). 167–167. 27 indexed citations
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Källén, Erland, et al.. (1998). Sensitivity of forecast errors to initial and lateral boundary conditions. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 50(2). 167–185. 10 indexed citations
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Huang, Xiang‐Yu, et al.. (1994). A Comparison between Digital Filtering Initialization and Nonlinear Normal-Mode Initialization in a Data Assimilation System. Monthly Weather Review. 122(5). 1001–1015. 11 indexed citations
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Källén, Erland & Xiang‐Yu Huang. (1988). The influence of isolated observations on short-range numerical weather forecasts. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 40A(4). 324–336. 3 indexed citations
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Källén, Erland & Xiang‐Yu Huang. (1988). The influence of isolated observations on short-range numerical weather forecasts. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 40(4). 324–324. 9 indexed citations
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Källén, Erland & Xiang‐Yu Huang. (1987). A simple model for large-scale thermohaline convection. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. 11(2). 153–173. 5 indexed citations
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Källén, Erland. (1987). Surface effects of vertically propagating gravity waves in a stratified fluid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 182. 111–125. 8 indexed citations
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Burridge, D. M. & Erland Källén. (1984). Problems and Prospects in Long and Medium Range Weather Forecasting. 10 indexed citations
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Källén, Erland, et al.. (1978). A Note on the Condition for Existence of More than One Steady-State Solution in Budyko-Sellers Type Models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 35(6). 1123–1125. 27 indexed citations

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