Lukas Brunner

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Lukas Brunner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lukas Brunner has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Lukas Brunner's work include Climate variability and models (23 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers). Lukas Brunner is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (23 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers). Lukas Brunner collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Austria and United Kingdom. Lukas Brunner's co-authors include Reto Knutti, Flavio Lehner, Ruth Lorenz, Andrea K. Steiner, Anna Merrifield, Nicola Maher, Ed Hawkins, Jochem Marotzke, Erich Fischer and Clara Deser and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lukas Brunner

26 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
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.

  1. Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6
    2020 371 citations Flavio Lehner, Clara Deser et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lukas Brunner Switzerland 14 1.1k 799 150 145 111 28 1.3k
Young‐Hwa Byun South Korea 16 829 0.8× 624 0.8× 109 0.7× 124 0.9× 86 0.8× 103 1.0k
R Francisco Italy 7 1.4k 1.3× 1.1k 1.4× 210 1.4× 123 0.8× 148 1.3× 10 1.6k
Yukiko Imada Japan 23 1.3k 1.2× 1.0k 1.3× 130 0.9× 376 2.6× 105 0.9× 63 1.5k
A. van Ulden Netherlands 10 1.1k 1.0× 825 1.0× 232 1.5× 118 0.8× 86 0.8× 11 1.3k
Xunqiang Bi Italy 7 1.5k 1.4× 1.3k 1.6× 183 1.2× 204 1.4× 171 1.5× 9 1.8k
Margot Bador France 17 1.2k 1.1× 843 1.1× 130 0.9× 157 1.1× 139 1.3× 29 1.4k
Aristita Busuioc Romania 19 869 0.8× 653 0.8× 155 1.0× 58 0.4× 76 0.7× 28 1.1k
Sandro Calmanti Italy 19 882 0.8× 631 0.8× 172 1.1× 293 2.0× 86 0.8× 39 1.1k
Andreas Haensler Germany 21 1.0k 1.0× 740 0.9× 181 1.2× 76 0.5× 203 1.8× 33 1.3k
Muhammad Ismail Saudi Arabia 14 937 0.9× 602 0.8× 169 1.1× 84 0.6× 230 2.1× 23 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Lukas Brunner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lukas Brunner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lukas Brunner

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

All Works

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Hohenegger, Cathy, et al.. (2025). Extreme events in the Amazon after deforestation.
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Maher, Nicola, Adam S. Phillips, Robert C. J. Wills, et al.. (2025). The updated Multi-Model Large Ensemble Archive and the Climate Variability Diagnostics Package: new tools for the study of climate variability and change. Geoscientific model development. 18(18). 6341–6365. 2 indexed citations
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Brunner, Lukas & Aiko Voigt. (2024). Pitfalls in diagnosing temperature extremes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 97–99. 26 indexed citations
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O’Reilly, Christopher, Lukas Brunner, Saïd Qasmi, et al.. (2024). Assessing observational constraints on future European climate in an out-of-sample framework. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 6 indexed citations
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Palmer, Tamzin, C. McSweeney, Ben Booth, et al.. (2023). Performance-based sub-selection of CMIP6 models for impact assessments in Europe. Earth System Dynamics. 14(2). 457–483. 29 indexed citations
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Brunner, Lukas & Sebastian Sippel. (2023). Identifying climate models based on their daily output using machine learning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 3 indexed citations
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Merrifield, Anna, Lukas Brunner, Ruth Lorenz, Vincent Humphrey, & Reto Knutti. (2023). Climate model Selection by Independence, Performance, and Spread (ClimSIPS v1.0.1) for regional applications. Geoscientific model development. 16(16). 4715–4747. 32 indexed citations
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Hegerl, Gabriele C., Andrew Ballinger, Ben Booth, et al.. (2021). Toward Consistent Observational Constraints in Climate Predictions and Projections. Frontiers in Climate. 3. 28 indexed citations
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Lehner, Flavio, Clara Deser, Nicola Maher, et al.. (2020). Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6. Earth System Dynamics. 11(2). 491–508. 371 indexed citations breakdown →
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Merrifield, Anna, Lukas Brunner, Ruth Lorenz, Iselin Medhaug, & Reto Knutti. (2020). An investigation of weighting schemes suitable for incorporating large ensembles into multi-model ensembles. Earth System Dynamics. 11(3). 807–834. 52 indexed citations
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Brunner, Lukas, Angeline G. Pendergrass, Flavio Lehner, et al.. (2020). Reduced global warming from CMIP6 projections when weighting models by performance and independence. Earth System Dynamics. 11(4). 995–1012. 211 indexed citations
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Merrifield, Anna, Lukas Brunner, Ruth Lorenz, & Reto Knutti. (2020). A weighting scheme to incorporate large ensembles in multi-model ensemble projections. 3 indexed citations
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Merrifield, Anna, Lukas Brunner, Ruth Lorenz, & Reto Knutti. (2019). A weighting scheme to incorporate large ensembles in multi-model ensemble projections. 5 indexed citations
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Brunner, Lukas, et al.. (2018). Spring frost risk for regional apple production under a warmer climate. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0200201–e0200201. 77 indexed citations
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Brunner, Lukas, Nathalie Schaller, James Anstey, Jana Sillmann, & Andrea K. Steiner. (2018). Dependence of Present and Future European Temperature Extremes on the Location of Atmospheric Blocking. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(12). 6311–6320. 100 indexed citations
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Brunner, Lukas & Andrea K. Steiner. (2017). A global perspective on atmospheric blocking using GPS radio occultation – one decade of observations. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(12). 4727–4745. 13 indexed citations
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Brunner, Lukas, Andrea K. Steiner, Barbara Scherllin‐Pirscher, & Martin Jury. (2016). Exploring atmospheric blocking with GPS radio occultation observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(7). 4593–4604. 12 indexed citations
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Brunner, Lukas, Gabriele C. Hegerl, & Andrea K. Steiner. (2016). Connecting Atmospheric Blocking to European Temperature Extremes in Spring. Journal of Climate. 30(2). 585–594. 101 indexed citations
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Brunner, Lukas, Andrea K. Steiner, Barbara Scherllin‐Pirscher, & Martin Jury. (2015). Feasibility of blocking detection in observations from radio occultation. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1519. 1 indexed citations
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Rebhandl, Winfried, et al.. (2007). In vitro study of ingested coins: leave them or retrieve them?. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 42(10). 1729–1734. 1 indexed citations

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