Gunnar Myhre

40.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
209 papers, 12.3k citations indexed

About

Gunnar Myhre is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Gunnar Myhre has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Atmospheric Science, 177 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 28 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Gunnar Myhre's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (156 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (95 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (94 papers). Gunnar Myhre is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (156 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (95 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (94 papers). Gunnar Myhre collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and United Kingdom. Gunnar Myhre's co-authors include Frøde Stordal, Keith P. Shine, B. H. Samset, E. J. Highwood, Øivind Hodnebrog, Terje K. Berntsen, Oliviér Boucher, Jan S. Fuglestvedt, Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie and Michael Schulz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gunnar Myhre

199 papers receiving 12.0k 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.

Radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide: A significant revision of the methane radiative forcing

2016 610 citations Gunnar Myhre, Keith P. Shine et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Frequency of extreme precipitation increases extensively with event rareness under global warming

2019 609 citations Gunnar Myhre, Kari Alterskjær et al. profile →
New estimates of radiative forcing due to well mixed greenhouse gases

1998 599 citations Gunnar Myhre, Keith P. Shine et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Global warming potentials and radiative efficiencies of halocarbons and related compounds: A comprehensive review

2013 405 citations Øivind Hodnebrog, Jan S. Fuglestvedt et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
A multi-model assessment of the Global Warming Potential of hydrogen

2023 129 citations Maria Sand, Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gunnar Myhre Norway	63	9.1k	8.9k	1.6k	973	703	209	12.3k
G. Faluvegi United States	44	4.4k 0.5×	5.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	699 0.7×	464 0.7×	98	7.8k
Joyce E. Penner United States	67	13.1k 1.4×	14.2k 1.6×	3.4k 2.0×	827 0.8×	921 1.3×	237	17.2k
D. Koch United States	45	5.8k 0.6×	6.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	465 0.5×	378 0.5×	79	8.4k
Guy Brasseur United States	64	9.7k 1.1×	12.6k 1.4×	2.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.4×	588 0.8×	302	15.7k
Donald J. Wuebbles United States	49	6.1k 0.7×	6.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	478 0.7×	242	11.7k
Larry W. Horowitz United States	64	8.2k 0.9×	11.2k 1.3×	5.2k 3.2×	1.4k 1.5×	738 1.0×	209	14.2k
Michael J. Prather United States	64	10.9k 1.2×	12.4k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	859 0.9×	721 1.0×	224	15.8k
Paul I. Palmer United Kingdom	58	9.3k 1.0×	11.4k 1.3×	3.5k 2.1×	1.6k 1.6×	593 0.8×	220	14.3k
Michael Schulz Germany	53	8.8k 1.0×	9.6k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	741 0.8×	250 0.4×	221	12.3k
Didier Hauglustaine France	51	5.7k 0.6×	6.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	851 0.9×	697 1.0×	136	8.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gunnar Myhre

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Myhre, Gunnar, Øivind Hodnebrog, Norman G. Loeb, & Piers Forster. (2025). Observed trend in Earth energy imbalance may provide a constraint for low climate sensitivity models. Science. 388(6752). 1210–1213. 1 indexed citations

Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt, Marit Sandstad, Srinath Krishnan, Gunnar Myhre, & Maria Sand. (2025). Sensitivity of climate effects of hydrogen to leakage size, location, and chemical background. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(9). 4929–4942. 3 indexed citations

Malavelle, Florent, Ying Chen, Daniel G. Partridge, et al.. (2024). How well are aerosol–cloud interactions represented in climate models? – Part 1: Understanding the sulfate aerosol production from the 2014–15 Holuhraun eruption. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(3). 1939–1960. 3 indexed citations

Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt, Magne Aldrin, Terje K. Berntsen, et al.. (2024). The aerosol pathway is crucial for observationally constraining climate sensitivity and anthropogenic forcing. Earth System Dynamics. 15(6). 1435–1458. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Hailong, Jingbo Wu, Mingxuan Wu, et al.. (2023). The Emissions Model Intercomparison Project (Emissions-MIP): quantifying model sensitivity to emission characteristics. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(23). 14779–14799. 3 indexed citations

Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt, Øivind Hodnebrog, & Gunnar Myhre. (2023). Trends in atmospheric methane concentrations since 1990 were driven and modified by anthropogenic emissions. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 45 indexed citations

Hodnebrog, Øivind, Birthe Marie Steensen, Louis Marelle, et al.. (2021). Understanding model diversity in future precipitation projections for South America. Climate Dynamics. 58(5-6). 1329–1347. 13 indexed citations

Smith, Chris, Glen Harris, Matthew D. Palmer, et al.. (2021). Energy Budget Constraints on the Time History of Aerosol Forcing and Climate Sensitivity. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(13). 41 indexed citations

Kramer, Ryan J., Haozhe He, Brian J. Soden, et al.. (2021). Observational Evidence of Increasing Global Radiative Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 62 indexed citations

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Andrews, Timothy, Chris Smith, Gunnar Myhre, et al.. (2021). Effective Radiative Forcing in a GCM With Fixed Surface Temperatures. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(4). 25 indexed citations

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Misios, Stergios, Matthew Kasoar, Lesley J. Gray, et al.. (2021). Similar patterns of tropical precipitation and circulation changes under solar and greenhouse gas forcing. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104045–104045. 1 indexed citations

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Hodnebrog, Øivind, Borgar Aamaas, Jan S. Fuglestvedt, et al.. (2020). Updated Global Warming Potentials and Radiative Efficiencies of Halocarbons and Other Weak Atmospheric Absorbers. Reviews of Geophysics. 58(3). e2019RG000691–e2019RG000691. 101 indexed citations

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Xie, Xiaoning, Gunnar Myhre, Xiaodong Liu, et al.. (2020). Distinct responses of Asian summer monsoon to black carbon aerosols and greenhouse gases. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(20). 11823–11839. 24 indexed citations

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Stjern, Camilla W., B. H. Samset, Oliviér Boucher, et al.. (2020). How aerosols and greenhouse gases influence the diurnal temperature range. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(21). 13467–13480. 32 indexed citations

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Kang, Sarah M., Matt Hawcroft, Baoqiang Xiang, et al.. (2019). Extratropical–Tropical Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (Etin-Mip): Protocol and Initial Results. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 100(12). 2589–2606. 37 indexed citations

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Boucher, Oliviér, Christoph Kleinschmitt, & Gunnar Myhre. (2017). Quasi‐Additivity of the Radiative Effects of Marine Cloud Brightening and Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Injection. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(21). 19 indexed citations

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Samset, B. H., Gunnar Myhre, Piers Forster, et al.. (2017). Weak hydrological sensitivity to temperature change over land, independent of climate forcing. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 1(1). 34 indexed citations

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Dalsøren, S. B., Cathrine Lund Myhre, Gunnar Myhre, et al.. (2016). Atmospheric methane evolution the last 40 years. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(5). 3099–3126. 56 indexed citations

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Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt, Terje K. Berntsen, Magne Aldrin, Matthew T. G. Holden, & Gunnar Myhre. (2014). A lower and more constrained estimate of climate sensitivity using updated observations and detailed radiative forcing time series. Earth System Dynamics. 5(1). 139–175. 50 indexed citations

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Hodnebrog, Øivind, Terje K. Berntsen, Olivier Dessens, et al.. (2012). Future impact of traffic emissions on atmospheric ozone and OH based on two scenarios. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(24). 12211–12225. 11 indexed citations

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