Felix Pithan

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Felix Pithan is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Felix Pithan has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Atmospheric Science, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 1 paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Felix Pithan's work include Climate variability and models (22 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (13 papers). Felix Pithan is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (22 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (13 papers). Felix Pithan collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Felix Pithan's co-authors include Thorsten Mauritsen, Theodore G. Shepherd, Gunilla Svensson, Brian Medeiros, Giuseppe Zappa, Irina Sandu, Martin Vancoppenolle, Paul J. Kushner, Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo and Hugues Goosse and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Felix Pithan

24 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks i... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2018 250 500 750
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. Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks in contemporary climate models
    2014 958 citations Felix Pithan, Thorsten Mauritsen Nature Geoscience profile →
  2. Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions
    2018 327 citations Hugues Goosse, Jennifer E. Kay et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Felix Pithan Germany 14 2.0k 1.7k 187 113 55 24 2.1k
Karen M. Shell United States 18 1.9k 1.0× 1.9k 1.1× 259 1.4× 37 0.3× 38 0.7× 22 2.2k
Karoline Block Germany 7 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 204 1.1× 39 0.3× 42 0.8× 10 1.3k
Yannick Peings United States 25 2.2k 1.1× 2.0k 1.2× 437 2.3× 45 0.4× 33 0.6× 56 2.4k
Richard Cullather United States 25 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 268 1.4× 45 0.4× 104 1.9× 51 1.8k
Yen‐Ting Hwang United States 19 2.3k 1.2× 2.5k 1.5× 774 4.1× 69 0.6× 66 1.2× 37 2.7k
Helge Goessling Germany 19 1.0k 0.5× 821 0.5× 268 1.4× 101 0.9× 29 0.5× 53 1.2k
Keith M. Hines United States 26 2.3k 1.2× 1.8k 1.1× 316 1.7× 43 0.4× 89 1.6× 42 2.4k
V. Ya. Galin Russia 16 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 323 1.7× 30 0.3× 22 0.4× 30 1.4k
Youichi Kamae Japan 26 1.3k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 360 1.9× 41 0.4× 57 1.0× 56 1.5k
Eui‐Seok Chung South Korea 24 1.3k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 425 2.3× 23 0.2× 52 0.9× 62 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Felix Pithan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Felix Pithan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Felix Pithan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Athanase, Marylou, et al.. (2024). Projected amplification of summer marine heatwaves in a warming Northeast Pacific Ocean. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 11 indexed citations
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Pithan, Felix, et al.. (2024). Diurnal Temperature Range Trends Differ Below and Above the Melting Point. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(17). 3 indexed citations
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Pithan, Felix, et al.. (2024). Antarctic Warm Extremes Across Seasons and Their Response to Advection. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(15). 2 indexed citations
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Pithan, Felix, Marylou Athanase, Sandro Dahlke, et al.. (2023). Nudging allows direct evaluation of coupled climate models with in situ observations: a case study from the MOSAiC expedition. Geoscientific model development. 16(7). 1857–1873. 4 indexed citations
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Svensson, Gunilla, Matthew D. Shupe, Felix Pithan, et al.. (2023). Warm air intrusions reaching the MOSAiC expedition in April 2020—The YOPP targeted observing period (TOP). Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 11(1). 12 indexed citations
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Goessling, Helge, et al.. (2022). The July 2019 European Heat Wave in a Warmer Climate: Storyline Scenarios with a Coupled Model Using Spectral Nudging. Journal of Climate. 35(8). 2373–2390. 31 indexed citations
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Taylor, Patrick, Robyn C. Boeke, Linette Boisvert, et al.. (2021). Process drivers, inter-model spread, and the path forward: A review of amplified Arctic warming. 3 indexed citations
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Pithan, Felix & Thomas Jung. (2021). Arctic Amplification of Precipitation Changes—The Energy Hypothesis. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(21). 19 indexed citations
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Pithan, Felix & Inna Polichtchouk. (2020). Effects of Topography and Realistic Drag on the Southern Hemisphere Midlatitude Jet in a Dry Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(3). 1 indexed citations
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Semmler, Tido, Felix Pithan, & Thomas Jung. (2020). Quantifying two-way influences between the Arctic and mid-latitudes through regionally increased CO2 concentrations in coupled climate simulations. Climate Dynamics. 54(7-8). 3307–3321. 9 indexed citations
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Pithan, Felix, et al.. (2020). Following moist intrusions into the Arctic using SHEBA observations in a Lagrangian perspective. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 146(732). 3522–3533. 21 indexed citations
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Sandu, Irina, Annelize van Niekerk, Theodore G. Shepherd, et al.. (2019). Impacts of orography on large-scale atmospheric circulation. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 2(1). 80 indexed citations
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Goosse, Hugues, Jennifer E. Kay, Kyle C. Armour, et al.. (2018). Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1919–1919. 327 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pithan, Felix, Gunilla Svensson, Rodrigo Caballero, et al.. (2018). Role of air-mass transformations in exchange between the Arctic and mid-latitudes. Nature Geoscience. 11(11). 805–812. 123 indexed citations
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Sandu, Irina, Peter Bechtold, Anton Beljaars, et al.. (2015). Impacts of parameterized orographic drag on the Northern Hemisphere winter circulation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 8(1). 196–211. 62 indexed citations
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Pithan, Felix, W. M. Angevine, & Thorsten Mauritsen. (2015). Improving a global model from the boundary layer: Total turbulent energy and the neutral limit Prandtl number. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 7(2). 791–805. 25 indexed citations
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Pithan, Felix & Thorsten Mauritsen. (2014). Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks in contemporary climate models. Nature Geoscience. 7(3). 181–184. 958 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pithan, Felix, Brian Medeiros, & Thorsten Mauritsen. (2013). Mixed-phase clouds cause climate model biases in Arctic wintertime temperature inversions. Climate Dynamics. 43(1-2). 289–303. 127 indexed citations
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Pithan, Felix & Thorsten Mauritsen. (2013). Comments on “Current GCMs' Unrealistic Negative Feedback in the Arctic”. Journal of Climate. 26(19). 7783–7788. 13 indexed citations
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