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

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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. Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming
    2006 3.8k citations Isaac M. Held, Brian J. Soden Journal of Climate profile →
  2. Tropical cyclones and climate change
    2010 2.3k citations Thomas R. Knutson, Isaac M. Held et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  3. 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. profile →
  4. Water Vapor Feedback and Global Warming
    2000 934 citations Isaac M. Held, Brian J. Soden profile →
  5. Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing
    2006 855 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden et al. Nature profile →
  6. An Assessment of Climate Feedbacks in Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Models
    2006 813 citations Brian J. Soden, Isaac M. Held Journal of Climate profile →
  7. Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Warming on the Frequency of Intense Atlantic Hurricanes
    2010 806 citations Thomas R. Knutson, Gabriel A. Vecchi et al. profile →
  8. 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 →
  9. Modeling Tropical Convergence Based on the Moist Static Energy Budget
    1987 680 citations Isaac M. Held et al. profile →
  10. Nonlinear Axially Symmetric Circulations in a Nearly Inviscid Atmosphere
    1980 672 citations Isaac M. Held et al. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences profile →
  11. Quantifying Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels
    2008 609 citations Brian J. Soden, Isaac M. Held et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  12. 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 →
  13. The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Thermal Forcing: Idealized Slab-Ocean Experiments with a GCM
    2008 540 citations Sarah M. Kang, Isaac M. Held et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Isaac M. Held 24.6k 23.0k 9.2k 1.9k 1.0k 205 30.2k
Mark A. Cane 20.2k 0.8× 18.3k 0.8× 11.5k 1.3× 2.6k 1.4× 219 0.2× 269 27.6k
Peter J. Webster 17.1k 0.7× 15.7k 0.7× 8.5k 0.9× 1.5k 0.8× 286 0.3× 156 21.8k
Kerry Emanuel 30.8k 1.3× 36.1k 1.6× 15.5k 1.7× 2.7k 1.5× 765 0.7× 354 42.0k
Gabriel A. Vecchi 24.7k 1.0× 21.2k 0.9× 11.5k 1.3× 2.8k 1.5× 186 0.2× 280 30.5k
Syukuro Manabe 14.1k 0.6× 14.9k 0.6× 5.0k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 601 0.6× 122 20.1k
Jonathan M. Gregory 17.1k 0.7× 14.6k 0.6× 6.8k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 228 0.2× 279 23.9k
Bin Wang 37.9k 1.5× 36.9k 1.6× 17.6k 1.9× 1.3k 0.7× 319 0.3× 511 42.4k
E. Roeckner 15.3k 0.6× 14.4k 0.6× 4.0k 0.4× 909 0.5× 499 0.5× 145 18.4k
Karl E. Taylor 33.4k 1.4× 27.1k 1.2× 7.0k 0.8× 1.9k 1.0× 763 0.7× 122 41.4k
David Rind 12.8k 0.5× 15.4k 0.7× 2.4k 0.3× 2.2k 1.2× 1.6k 1.5× 243 20.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zurita‐Gotor, Pablo & Isaac M. Held. (2025). Strong Superrotation at High CO2 in an Idealized Terrestrial Aquaplanet. Journal of Climate. 38(18). 4789–4805.
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Zhang, Yi, William R. Boos, Isaac M. Held, Christopher J. Paciorek, & S. Fueglistaler. (2024). Forecasting Tropical Annual Maximum Wet‐Bulb Temperatures Months in Advance From the Current State of ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(7). 4 indexed citations
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Zurita‐Gotor, Pablo, et al.. (2023). Non‐Uniqueness in ITCZ Latitude Due To Radiation‐Circulation Coupling in an Idealized GCM. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(10).
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Zhang, Yi, Isaac M. Held, & S. Fueglistaler. (2021). Projections of tropical heat stress constrained by atmospheric dynamics. Nature Geoscience. 14(3). 133–137. 79 indexed citations
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Jeevanjee, Nadir, et al.. (2018). Sensitivity of Radiative‐Convection Equilibrium to Divergence Damping in GFDL‐FV3‐Based Cloud‐Resolving Model Simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(7). 1527–1536. 4 indexed citations
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Xiang, Baoqiang, Ming Zhao, Isaac M. Held, & Jean‐Christophe Golaz. (2017). Predicting the severity of spurious “double ITCZ” problem in CMIP5 coupled models from AMIP simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(3). 1520–1527. 62 indexed citations
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Balaji, V., Rusty Benson, Bruce Wyman, & Isaac M. Held. (2016). Coarse-grained component concurrency in Earth System modeling.
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Balaji, V., Rusty Benson, Bruce Wyman, & Isaac M. Held. (2016). Coarse-grained component concurrency in Earth system modeling: parallelizing atmospheric radiative transfer in the GFDL AM3 model using the Flexible Modeling System coupling framework. Geoscientific model development. 9(10). 3605–3616. 13 indexed citations
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Kang, Sarah M., Isaac M. Held, & Shang‐Ping Xie. (2013). Contrasting the tropical responses to zonally asymmetric extratropical and tropical thermal forcing. Climate Dynamics. 42(7-8). 2033–2043. 47 indexed citations
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Bader, David C., C. Covey, William J. Gutowski, et al.. (2008). Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations. Insecta mundi. 97 indexed citations
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Held, Isaac M., et al.. (2006). Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 44 indexed citations
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Vecchi, Gabriel A., Brian J. Soden, Andrew T. Wittenberg, et al.. (2006). Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing. Nature. 441(7089). 73–76. 855 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reichler, Thomas & Isaac M. Held. (2005). A possible widening of the tropical Hadley cell over the past decades. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations
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Held, Isaac M., Thomas L. Delworth, Jianhua Lü, Kirsten L. Findell, & Thomas R. Knutson. (2005). Simulation of Sahel drought in the 20th and 21st centuries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(50). 17891–17896. 346 indexed citations
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Salmon, Rick, et al.. (2001). The General circulation of the atmosphere : 2000 program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution eBooks. 15 indexed citations
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Held, Isaac M. & Max J. Suárez. (1994). A Proposal for the Intercomparison of the Dynamical Cores of Atmospheric General Circulation Models. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 75(10). 1825–1830. 724 indexed citations breakdown →
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Held, Isaac M. & Peter J. Phillips. (1990). A Barotropic Model of the Interaction between the Hadley Cell and a Rossby Wave. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 47(7). 856–869. 57 indexed citations
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Held, Isaac M. & David Andrews. (1983). On the Direction of the Eddy Momentum Flux in Baroclinic Instability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 40(9). 2220–2231. 24 indexed citations
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Held, Isaac M.. (1978). The Vertical Scale of an Unstable Baroclinic Wave and Its Importance for Eddy Heat Flux Parameterizations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 35(4). 572–576. 96 indexed citations
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Held, Isaac M.. (1976). The Tropospheric Lapse Rate and Climatic Sensitivity.. PhDT. 1 indexed citations

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