Lars Isaksen

39.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Lars Isaksen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Isaksen has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Atmospheric Science, 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 17 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lars Isaksen's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers), Climate variability and models (18 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (12 papers). Lars Isaksen is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers), Climate variability and models (18 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (12 papers). Lars Isaksen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Netherlands. Lars Isaksen's co-authors include Massimo Bonavita, Patricia de Rosnay, Clément Albergel, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, Elías Hólm, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Michael Fisher, Wolfgang Wagner, David G. H. Tan and Erik Andersson and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Lars Isaksen

45 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

ERA-20C: An Atmospheric Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century

2016 839 citations Paul Poli, Hans Hersbach et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lars Isaksen United Kingdom	28	3.2k	2.5k	1.2k	614	248	45	3.8k
Hua‐Lu Pan United States	22	4.4k 1.4×	4.3k 1.8×	695 0.6×	687 1.1×	367 1.5×	32	5.1k
Zavisă Janjić United States	23	5.6k 1.8×	5.2k 2.1×	1.2k 1.0×	554 0.9×	338 1.4×	55	6.4k
Ryan D. Torn United States	31	2.9k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	506 0.4×	691 1.1×	165 0.7×	74	3.5k
T. T. Wilheit United States	32	4.3k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	1.6k 1.4×	868 1.4×	108 0.4×	102	4.8k
Clemens Simmer Germany	43	4.1k 1.3×	3.8k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	227 0.4×	817 3.3×	202	5.6k
Carlos Jiménez France	27	1.7k 0.5×	2.3k 1.0×	853 0.7×	202 0.3×	965 3.9×	73	3.2k
Margaret A. LeMone United States	44	5.6k 1.8×	5.0k 2.0×	1.8k 1.5×	702 1.1×	166 0.7×	114	6.7k
Mark R. Drinkwater United States	34	3.9k 1.2×	659 0.3×	1.9k 1.6×	1.0k 1.7×	162 0.7×	126	4.9k
Gerrit Burgers Netherlands	18	1.9k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	444 0.4×	937 1.5×	261 1.1×	24	2.9k
Lance M. Leslie Australia	28	1.9k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	419 0.4×	418 0.7×	284 1.1×	157	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Lars Isaksen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lars Isaksen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars Isaksen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lars Isaksen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lars Isaksen 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 Lars Isaksen. Lars Isaksen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stoffelen, Ad, Angela Benedetti, Régis Borde, et al.. (2021). Toward an Aeolus Follow-On Mission: Wind-Profile Satellite Observing Requirements and Capabilities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(4). 351–356. 1 indexed citations

Weiler, Fabian, Michael Rennie, Thomas Kanitz, et al.. (2021). Correction of wind bias for the lidar on board Aeolus using telescope temperatures. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(11). 7167–7185. 33 indexed citations

Rennie, Michael, Lars Isaksen, Fabian Weiler, et al.. (2021). The impact of Aeolus wind retrievals on ECMWF global weather forecasts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 147(740). 3555–3586. 107 indexed citations

Ingleby, Bruce, Brett Candy, J. R. Eyre, et al.. (2020). The Impact of COVID‐19 on Weather Forecasts: A Balanced View. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(4). e2020GL090699–e2020GL090699. 14 indexed citations

Rennie, Michael & Lars Isaksen. (2020). An Assessment of the Impact of Aeolus Doppler Wind Lidar Observations for Use in Numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF. 2 indexed citations

Stoffelen, Ad, Angela Benedetti, Régis Borde, et al.. (2020). Wind Profile Satellite Observation Requirements and Capabilities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(11). E2005–E2021. 44 indexed citations

Muñoz-Sabater, Joaquı́n, Heather Lawrence, Clément Albergel, et al.. (2019). Assimilation of SMOS brightness temperatures in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(723). 2524–2548. 45 indexed citations

Plougonven, Riwal, et al.. (2019). Accuracy of Balloon Trajectory Forecasts in the Lower Stratosphere. Atmosphere. 10(2). 102–102. 4 indexed citations

Rosnay, Patricia de, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, Clément Albergel, et al.. (2019). SMOS brightness temperature forward modelling and long term monitoring at ECMWF. Remote Sensing of Environment. 237. 111424–111424. 24 indexed citations

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Muñoz-Sabater, Joaquı́n, Patricia de Rosnay, Clément Albergel, & Lars Isaksen. (2018). Sensitivity of Soil Moisture Analyses to Contrasting Background and Observation Error Scenarios. Water. 10(7). 890–890. 11 indexed citations

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Muñoz-Sabater, Joaquı́n, Patricia de Rosnay, Clément Albergel, & Lars Isaksen. (2017). Sensitivity of soil moisture analyses to contrasting background and observation error scenarios. EGUGA. 19199. 1 indexed citations

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Poli, Paul, Hans Hersbach, Dick Dee, et al.. (2016). ERA-20C: An Atmospheric Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century. Journal of Climate. 29(11). 4083–4097. 839 indexed citations breakdown →

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Albergel, Clément, Emanuel Dutra, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, et al.. (2015). Soil temperature at ECMWF: An assessment using ground‐based observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 120(4). 1361–1373. 35 indexed citations

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Bonavita, Massimo, et al.. (2015). The evolution of the ECMWF hybrid data assimilation system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 142(694). 287–303. 143 indexed citations

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Rosnay, Patricia de, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Clément Albergel, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, & Lars Isaksen. (2012). Initialisation of Land Surface Variables for Numerical Weather Prediction. Surveys in Geophysics. 35(3). 607–621. 144 indexed citations

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Žagar, Nedjeljka, Lars Isaksen, David Tan, & Joseph Tribbia. (2012). Balance properties of the short‐range forecast errors in the ECMWF 4D‐Var ensemble. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 139(674). 1229–1238. 19 indexed citations

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Albergel, Clément, Patricia de Rosnay, Claire Gruhier, et al.. (2011). Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations. Remote Sensing of Environment. 118. 215–226. 382 indexed citations

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Tan, David G. H., Erik Andersson, Michael Fisher, & Lars Isaksen. (2007). Observing‐system impact assessment using a data assimilation ensemble technique: application to the ADM–Aeolus wind profiling mission. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 133(623). 381–390. 68 indexed citations

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Cardinali, Carla, Lars Isaksen, & Erik Andersson. (2003). Use and Impact of Automated Aircraft Data in a Global 4DVAR Data Assimilation System. Monthly Weather Review. 131(8). 1865–1877. 64 indexed citations

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Isaksen, Lars. (1997). Impact of ERS scatterometer data in the ECMWF 4D-Var assimilation system. Preliminary studies. 414. 1829–1851. 8 indexed citations

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