Isaac M. Held

46.0k total citations · 13 hit papers
205 papers, 30.2k citations indexed

About

Isaac M. Held is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Isaac M. Held has authored 205 papers receiving a total of 30.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 172 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 152 papers in Atmospheric Science and 94 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Isaac M. Held's work include Climate variability and models (167 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (85 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (73 papers). Isaac M. Held is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (167 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (85 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (73 papers). Isaac M. Held collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Canada. Isaac M. Held's co-authors include Brian J. Soden, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Ming Zhao, Thomas R. Knutson, Max J. Suárez, J. David Neelin, Stephen T. Garner, Dargan M. W. Frierson, Thomas L. Delworth and Mingfang Ting and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Isaac M. Held

201 papers receiving 29.1k 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.

Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming

2006 3.8k citations Isaac M. Held, Brian J. Soden Journal of Climate profile →
Tropical cyclones and climate change

2010 2.3k citations Thomas R. Knutson, Isaac M. Held et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America

2007 1.7k citations Isaac M. Held, Gabriel A. Vecchi et al. Science profile →
Water Vapor Feedback and Global Warming

2000 934 citations Isaac M. Held, Brian J. Soden Annual Review of Energy and the Environment profile →
Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing

2006 855 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden et al. Nature profile →
An Assessment of Climate Feedbacks in Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Models

2006 813 citations Brian J. Soden, Isaac M. Held Journal of Climate profile →
Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Warming on the Frequency of Intense Atlantic Hurricanes

2010 806 citations Thomas R. Knutson, Gabriel A. Vecchi et al. Science profile →
A Proposal for the Intercomparison of the Dynamical Cores of Atmospheric General Circulation Models

1994 724 citations Isaac M. Held, Max J. Suárez Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
Modeling Tropical Convergence Based on the Moist Static Energy Budget

1987 680 citations Isaac M. Held et al. profile →
Nonlinear Axially Symmetric Circulations in a Nearly Inviscid Atmosphere

1980 672 citations Isaac M. Held et al. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences profile →
Quantifying Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels

2008 609 citations Brian J. Soden, Isaac M. Held et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Simulations of Global Hurricane Climatology, Interannual Variability, and Response to Global Warming Using a 50-km Resolution GCM

2009 548 citations Ming Zhao, Isaac M. Held et al. Journal of Climate profile →
The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Thermal Forcing: Idealized Slab-Ocean Experiments with a GCM

2008 540 citations Isaac M. Held, Dargan M. W. Frierson et al. Journal of Climate profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Strong Superrotation at High CO2 in an Idealized Terrestrial Aquaplanet 2025 ·Journal of Climate ·Pablo Zurita‐Gotor, Isaac M. Held	0
2	Forecasting Tropical Annual Maximum Wet‐Bulb Temperatures Months in Advance From the Current State of ENSO 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Yi Zhang, William R. Boos, Isaac M. Held, Christopher J. Paciorek, S. Fueglistaler	4
3	Non‐Uniqueness in ITCZ Latitude Due To Radiation‐Circulation Coupling in an Idealized GCM 2023 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Pablo Zurita‐Gotor, Isaac M. Held, Timothy M. Merlis, (unknown), Spencer A. Hill, Cameron G. MacDonald	0
4	Projections of tropical heat stress constrained by atmospheric dynamics 2021 ·Nature Geoscience ·Yi Zhang, Isaac M. Held, S. Fueglistaler	79
5	Sensitivity of Radiative‐Convection Equilibrium to Divergence Damping in GFDL‐FV3‐Based Cloud‐Resolving Model Simulations 2018 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·(unknown), Nadir Jeevanjee, Lucas Harris, Isaac M. Held	4
6	Predicting the severity of spurious “double ITCZ” problem in CMIP5 coupled models from AMIP simulations 2017 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Baoqiang Xiang, Ming Zhao, Isaac M. Held, Jean‐Christophe Golaz	62
7	Coarse-grained component concurrency in Earth System modeling 2016 ·V. Balaji, Rusty Benson, Bruce Wyman, Isaac M. Held	0
8	Coarse-grained component concurrency in Earth system modeling: parallelizing atmospheric radiative transfer in the GFDL AM3 model using the Flexible Modeling System coupling framework 2016 ·Geoscientific model development ·V. Balaji, Rusty Benson, Bruce Wyman, Isaac M. Held	13
9	Simplicity amid Complexity 2014 ·Science ·Isaac M. Held	27
10	Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming 2006 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Isaac M. Held	44
11	Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing breakdown → 2006 ·Nature ·Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Isaac M. Held, Ants Leetmaa, Matthew Harrison	855
12	A Gray-Radiation Aquaplanet Moist GCM. Part I: Static Stability and Eddy Scale 2006 ·Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ·Dargan M. W. Frierson, Isaac M. Held, Pablo Zurita‐Gotor	308
13	A possible widening of the tropical Hadley cell over the past decades 2005 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Thomas Reichler, Isaac M. Held	1
14	Simulation of Sahel drought in the 20th and 21st centuries 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Isaac M. Held, Thomas L. Delworth, Jianhua Lü, Kirsten L. Findell, Thomas R. Knutson	346
15	The Gap between Simulation and Understanding in Climate Modeling 2005 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Isaac M. Held	331
16	Water Vapor Feedback and Global Warming breakdown → 2000 ·Annual Review of Energy and the Environment ·Isaac M. Held, Brian J. Soden	934
17	A Proposal for the Intercomparison of the Dynamical Cores of Atmospheric General Circulation Models breakdown → 1994 ·Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Isaac M. Held, Max J. Suárez	724
18	Homogeneous Quasi-Geostrophic Turbulence Driven by a Uniform Temperature Gradient 1980 ·Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ·Dale B. Haidvogel, Isaac M. Held	69
19	The Vertical Scale of an Unstable Baroclinic Wave and Its Importance for Eddy Heat Flux Parameterizations 1978 ·Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ·Isaac M. Held	96
20	The Tropospheric Lapse Rate and Climatic Sensitivity. 1976 ·PhDT ·Isaac M. Held	1

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