Igor Esau

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Igor Esau is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Igor Esau has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Atmospheric Science, 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 43 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Igor Esau's work include Climate variability and models (43 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (43 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (29 papers). Igor Esau is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (43 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (43 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (29 papers). Igor Esau collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Russia and Finland. Igor Esau's co-authors include Sergej Zilitinkevich, Stephen Outten, Richard Davy, Victoria Miles, А. V. Chernokulsky, Tobias Wolf, Alexander Baklanov, С. А. Сорокина, Mikhail Varentsov and Oscar Brousse and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Igor Esau

99 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

THE ROLE OF THE BARENTS S... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
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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. THE ROLE OF THE BARENTS SEA IN THE ARCTIC CLIMATE SYSTEM
    2013 362 citations Igor Esau et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Igor Esau 2.4k 1.9k 1.4k 501 418 104 3.5k
Sergej Zilitinkevich 3.1k 1.3× 2.3k 1.2× 1.7k 1.2× 968 1.9× 382 0.9× 141 4.3k
Jordi Vilà-Guerau De Arellano 4.6k 1.9× 4.7k 2.4× 1.8k 1.2× 504 1.0× 785 1.9× 203 6.5k
S. Pal Arya 1.6k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 694 1.4× 451 1.1× 92 3.1k
Stephen E. Belcher 1.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 988 0.7× 237 0.5× 260 0.6× 67 3.6k
Pedro M. M. Soares 3.5k 1.5× 4.2k 2.2× 797 0.6× 137 0.3× 279 0.7× 146 5.5k
Heping Liu 1.5k 0.6× 2.5k 1.3× 904 0.6× 565 1.1× 131 0.3× 157 3.7k
T.W. Horst 2.1k 0.9× 2.0k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 430 0.9× 258 0.6× 57 3.2k
Shiyuan Zhong 3.1k 1.3× 3.0k 1.5× 983 0.7× 91 0.2× 357 0.9× 176 3.9k
Steven Oncley 2.8k 1.2× 3.8k 2.0× 1.5k 1.0× 630 1.3× 201 0.5× 77 4.9k
Ian N. Harman 770 0.3× 1.5k 0.8× 923 0.6× 237 0.5× 176 0.4× 46 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Igor Esau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Igor Esau

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Igor Esau. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Igor Esau 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 Igor Esau. Igor Esau 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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Birkelund, Yngve, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Potential of Sentinel-1 Ocean Wind Field Product for Near-Surface Offshore Wind Assessment in the Norwegian Arctic. Atmosphere. 15(2). 146–146. 3 indexed citations
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Esau, Igor & Victoria Miles. (2024). A local climate perspective on possible development pathways for Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Polar Record. 60. 1 indexed citations
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Esau, Igor. (2022). XXI-st century: a shift of paradigm in the planetary boundary layer theory. 15(1). 9–18. 1 indexed citations
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Esau, Igor, Victoria Miles, Andrey Soromotin, et al.. (2021). Urban heat islands in the Arctic cities: an updated compilation of in situ and remote-sensing estimations. Advances in science and research. 18. 51–57. 8 indexed citations
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Esau, Igor, Leonid Bobylev, Natalia Gnatiuk, et al.. (2021). An enhanced integrated approach to knowledgeable high-resolution environmental quality assessment. Environmental Science & Policy. 122. 1–13. 11 indexed citations
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Sizov, Oleg, et al.. (2021). Zooming in on Arctic urban nature: green and blue space in Nadym, Siberia. Environmental Research Letters. 16(7). 75009–75009. 6 indexed citations
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Wolf, Tobias, Lasse H. Pettersson, & Igor Esau. (2020). A very high-resolution assessment and modelling of urban air quality. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(2). 625–647. 32 indexed citations
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Konstantinov, Pavel, Mikhail Varentsov, & Igor Esau. (2018). A high density urban temperature network deployed in several cities of Eurasian Arctic. Environmental Research Letters. 13(7). 75007–75007. 50 indexed citations
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Varentsov, Mikhail, Pavel Konstantinov, Alexander Baklanov, et al.. (2018). Anthropogenic and natural drivers of a strong winter urban heat island in a typical Arctic city. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(23). 17573–17587. 62 indexed citations
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Esau, Igor & Victoria Miles. (2016). WARMER URBAN CLIMATES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN SPACES IN NORTHERN SIBERIAN CITIES. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13 indexed citations
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Outten, Stephen & Igor Esau. (2016). Bjerknes compensation in the Bergen Climate Model. Climate Dynamics. 49(7-8). 2249–2260. 12 indexed citations
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Zilitinkevich, Sergej, Markku Kulmala, & Igor Esau. (2015). Megacities – Refining Models to Client Environment. 64(1). 20–22. 6 indexed citations
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Outten, Stephen & Igor Esau. (2013). Extreme winds over Europe in the ENSEMBLES regional climate models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(10). 5163–5172. 26 indexed citations
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Esau, Igor, et al.. (2013). Structuring of turbulence and its impact on basic features of Ekman boundary layers. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 20(4). 589–604. 7 indexed citations
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Outten, Stephen, Richard Davy, & Igor Esau. (2013). Eurasian Winter Cooling: Intercomparison of Reanalyses and CMIP5 Data Sets. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 6(5). 324–331. 9 indexed citations
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Esau, Igor. (2012). Large scale turbulence structures in the Ekman boundary layer. Geofizika. 29(1). 5–34. 3 indexed citations
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Esau, Igor. (2009). Large-eddy simulation experiments with nudging to observed mean meteorological profiles. EGUGA. 1501. 1 indexed citations
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Zilitinkevich, Sergej, J. C. R. Hunt, Andrey A. Grachev, et al.. (2005). The effect of large eddies on the convective heat/mass transfer over complex terrain: advanced theory and its validation against experimental and LES data. University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE). 40. 20–26. 4 indexed citations
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Fedorovich, Evgeni, Robert J. Conzemius, Igor Esau, et al.. (2004). Entrainment into sheared convective boundary layers as predicted by different large eddy simulation codes. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 42 indexed citations
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Esau, Igor. (2003). Large eddy simulation of planetary boundary layers with dynamic mixed subfilter closure. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 1 indexed citations

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