Flavio Lehner

11.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
95 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Flavio Lehner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Flavio Lehner has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 69 papers in Atmospheric Science and 12 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Flavio Lehner's work include Climate variability and models (73 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (36 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (27 papers). Flavio Lehner is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (73 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (36 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (27 papers). Flavio Lehner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Flavio Lehner's co-authors include Clara Deser, Reto Knutti, Angeline G. Pendergrass, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Christoph C. Raible, Erich Fischer, Thomas F. Stocker, Sloan Coats, Jochem Marotzke and Jakob Zscheischler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Flavio Lehner

92 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2020 2017 2020 2020 2018 200 400 600
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. Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects
    2020 603 citations Clara Deser, Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  2. Precipitation variability increases in a warmer climate
    2017 496 citations Angeline G. Pendergrass, Reto Knutti et al. profile →
  3. Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models
    2020 447 citations Katarzyna Tokarska, Martin B. Stolpe et al. Science Advances profile →
  4. Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6
    2020 371 citations Flavio Lehner, Clara Deser et al. profile →
  5. Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America
    2018 342 citations K. N. Musselman, Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  6. Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change
    2021 242 citations Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Folmer Krikken et al. profile →
  7. Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events
    2022 213 citations Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  8. Advancing research on compound weather and climate events via large ensemble model simulations
    2023 94 citations Flavio Lehner, Pascal Yiou 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
Flavio Lehner United States 45 5.3k 3.8k 887 655 612 95 6.8k
Toru Nozawa Japan 29 4.8k 0.9× 3.8k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 611 0.9× 406 0.7× 56 6.2k
Grigory Nikulin Sweden 43 6.2k 1.2× 4.8k 1.3× 1.1k 1.2× 553 0.8× 959 1.6× 94 7.8k
Emily Black United Kingdom 37 3.9k 0.7× 2.8k 0.7× 509 0.6× 658 1.0× 771 1.3× 77 5.1k
Xuejie Gao China 33 5.5k 1.0× 4.2k 1.1× 912 1.0× 567 0.9× 739 1.2× 89 7.2k
Erik Kjellström Sweden 44 5.6k 1.1× 4.5k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 864 1.3× 551 0.9× 129 7.8k
Mansour Almazroui Saudi Arabia 40 4.5k 0.9× 3.3k 0.9× 705 0.8× 581 0.9× 625 1.0× 188 6.1k
Dáithí A. Stone United States 43 5.8k 1.1× 4.0k 1.1× 603 0.7× 541 0.8× 638 1.0× 107 7.4k
Jon Eischeid United States 39 5.5k 1.0× 3.9k 1.0× 775 0.9× 788 1.2× 649 1.1× 84 7.0k
Olivia Martius Switzerland 41 6.4k 1.2× 5.4k 1.4× 615 0.7× 921 1.4× 367 0.6× 190 7.6k
Luís Gimeno Spain 49 7.3k 1.4× 5.9k 1.6× 837 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 460 0.8× 329 9.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Flavio Lehner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kang, Sarah M., Angeline G. Pendergrass, Flavio Lehner, et al.. (2025). Higher precipitation in East Asia and western United States expected with future Southern Ocean warming. Nature Geoscience. 18(4). 313–321. 2 indexed citations
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Fasullo, John, Julie M. Caron, Adam S. Phillips, et al.. (2024). Modes of Variability in E3SM and CESM Large Ensembles. Journal of Climate. 37(8). 2629–2653. 2 indexed citations
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Lehner, Flavio, et al.. (2024). Identifying Robust Decarbonization Pathways for the Western U.S. Electric Power System Under Deep Climate Uncertainty. Earth s Future. 12(10). 5 indexed citations
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Liang, Yu‐Chiao, Flavio Lehner, Michael Previdi, et al.. (2023). Exploiting SMILEs and the CMIP5 Archive to Understand Arctic Climate Change Seasonality and Uncertainty. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(2). 9 indexed citations
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Stevenson, Samantha, Sloan Coats, Danielle Touma, et al.. (2022). Twenty-first century hydroclimate: A continually changing baseline, with more frequent extremes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(12). e2108124119–e2108124119. 88 indexed citations
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Wieder, William R., Daniel P. Kennedy, Flavio Lehner, et al.. (2022). Pervasive alterations to snow-dominated ecosystem functions under climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(30). e2202393119–e2202393119. 35 indexed citations
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Bonan, David, Flavio Lehner, & Marika M. Holland. (2021). Partitioning uncertainty in projections of Arctic sea ice. Environmental Research Letters. 16(4). 44002–44002. 51 indexed citations
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Ciavarella, Andrew, Peter A. Stott, Sarah Kew, et al.. (2021). Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence. Climatic Change. 166(1-2). 9–9. 101 indexed citations
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Deser, Clara, Adam S. Phillips, Isla R. Simpson, et al.. (2020). Isolating the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases: A New CESM1 Large Ensemble Community Resource. Journal of Climate. 33(18). 7835–7858. 125 indexed citations
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Tokarska, Katarzyna, Martin B. Stolpe, Sebastian Sippel, et al.. (2020). Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models. Science Advances. 6(12). eaaz9549–eaaz9549. 447 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stolpe, Martin B., Katarzyna Tokarska, Sebastian Sippel, et al.. (2020). Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models. 3 indexed citations
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Deser, Clara, Flavio Lehner, Keith B. Rodgers, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects. Nature Climate Change. 10(8). 791–791. 10 indexed citations
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Tokarska, Katarzyna, Vivek K. Arora, Nathan P. Gillett, et al.. (2020). Uncertainty in carbon budget estimates due to internal climate variability. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 104064–104064. 12 indexed citations
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Moore, Frances C., Nick Obradovich, Flavio Lehner, & Patrick Baylis. (2019). Rapidly declining remarkability of temperature anomalies may obscure public perception of climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(11). 4905–4910. 155 indexed citations
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Pendergrass, Angeline G., et al.. (2019). Nonlinear Response of Extreme Precipitation to Warming in CESM1. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(17-18). 10551–10560. 49 indexed citations
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Krikken, Folmer, Flavio Lehner, Karsten Haustein, Igor Drobyshev, & Geert Jan van Oldenborgh. (2019). Attribution of the role of climate change in the forest fires in Sweden2018. 29 indexed citations
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Krikken, Folmer, Flavio Lehner, Igor Drobyshev, & Geert Jan van Oldenborgh. (2019). Attribution of the role of global warming in the forest fires in Sweden 2018. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 17342. 1 indexed citations
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Musselman, K. N., Flavio Lehner, Kyoko Ikeda, et al.. (2018). Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America. Nature Climate Change. 8(9). 808–812. 342 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lehner, Flavio, Sloan Coats, Thomas F. Stocker, et al.. (2017). Projected drought risk in 1.5°C and 2°C warmer climates. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(14). 7419–7428. 244 indexed citations
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Ortega, Pablo, Flavio Lehner, Mathieu Casado, et al.. (2014). A multi-proxy model-tested NAO reconstruction for the last millennium. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11989. 5 indexed citations

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