Massimo Bollasina

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Massimo Bollasina is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Massimo Bollasina has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Atmospheric Science, 59 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Massimo Bollasina's work include Climate variability and models (52 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (33 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (24 papers). Massimo Bollasina is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (52 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (33 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (24 papers). Massimo Bollasina collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Massimo Bollasina's co-authors include Yi Ming, V. Ramaswamy, Sumant Nigam, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Laura J. Wilcox, K.-M. Lau, Debbie Polson, Alcide Zhao, Sabine Undorf and David S. Stevenson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Massimo Bollasina

65 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Weakening of the South Asi... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 250 500 750
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. Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Weakening of the South Asian Summer Monsoon
    2011 841 citations Massimo Bollasina, Yi Ming et al. profile →

Peers

Massimo Bollasina
Marc Salzmann Germany
Kyu‐Myong Kim United States
Alexandre Bernardes Pezza Australia
Sophie Bastin France
Bian He China
Markus Ziese Germany
H. Wanner Switzerland
Zunya Wang China
David Fereday United Kingdom
S. O. Krichak Israel
Marc Salzmann Germany
Massimo Bollasina
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Countries citing papers authored by Massimo Bollasina

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Fields of papers citing papers by Massimo Bollasina

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Massimo Bollasina

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Massimo Bollasina. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Massimo Bollasina 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 Massimo Bollasina. Massimo Bollasina 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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Schwendike, Juliane, Simon Peatman, Adrian J. Matthews, et al.. (2025). Atmospheric Response to Mesoscale Ocean Eddies in the Maritime Continent. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(4).
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Watson‐Parris, Duncan, Laura J. Wilcox, Camilla W. Stjern, et al.. (2025). Surface temperature effects of recent reductions in shipping SO 2 emissions are within internal variability. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(8). 4443–4454. 2 indexed citations
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Pall, Pardeep, Alexandre S. Gagnon, Massimo Bollasina, et al.. (2024). Assessing South Indian Ocean tropical cyclone characteristics in HighResMIP simulations. International Journal of Climatology. 44(13). 4792–4808. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Joseph G., Cathryn E. Birch, John H. Marsham, et al.. (2024). Evaluating pySTEPS optical flow algorithms for convection nowcasting over the Maritime Continent using satellite data. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(2). 567–582. 1 indexed citations
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Palmer, Paul I., et al.. (2024). Haze Optical Depth in Exoplanet Atmospheres Varies with Rotation Rate: Implications for Observations. The Astronomical Journal. 167(3). 97–97. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhen, Massimo Bollasina, & Laura J. Wilcox. (2024). Impact of Asian aerosols on the summer monsoon strongly modulated by regional precipitation biases. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(12). 7227–7252. 3 indexed citations
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Persad, Geeta, B. H. Samset, Laura J. Wilcox, et al.. (2023). Rapidly evolving aerosol emissions are a dangerous omission from near-term climate risk assessments. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 32001–32001. 22 indexed citations
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Schurer, Andrew, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Hugues Goosse, et al.. (2023). Role of multi-decadal variability of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation on Northern Hemisphere climate. Environmental Research Letters. 18(4). 44046–44046. 17 indexed citations
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Schurer, Andrew, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Hugues Goosse, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the contribution of forcing and three prominent modes of variability to historical climate. Climate of the past. 19(5). 943–957. 3 indexed citations
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Wilcox, Laura J., Robert J. Allen, B. H. Samset, et al.. (2023). The Regional Aerosol Model Intercomparison Project (RAMIP). Geoscientific model development. 16(15). 4451–4479. 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhen, Massimo Bollasina, Laura J. Wilcox, José M. Rodríguez, & Leighton A. Regayre. (2021). Contrasting the Role of Regional and Remote Circulation in Driving Asian Monsoon Biases in MetUM GA7.1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(14). 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lixia, Laura J. Wilcox, Nick Dunstone, et al.. (2021). Future changes in Beijing haze events under different anthropogenic aerosol emission scenarios. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(10). 7499–7514. 5 indexed citations
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Bollasina, Massimo, et al.. (2020). Strong large-scale climate response to North American sulphate aerosols in CESM. Environmental Research Letters. 15(11). 114051–114051. 3 indexed citations
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Wilcox, Laura J., Zhen Liu, B. H. Samset, et al.. (2020). Accelerated increases in global and Asian summer monsoon precipitation from future aerosol reductions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(20). 11955–11977. 68 indexed citations
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Freychet, Nicolas, Simon F. B. Tett, Massimo Bollasina, Kaicun Wang, & Gabriele C. Hegerl. (2019). The Local Aerosol Emission Effect on Surface Shortwave Radiation and Temperatures. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(3). 806–817. 22 indexed citations
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Samset, B. H., Marianne T. Lund, Massimo Bollasina, Gunnar Myhre, & Laura J. Wilcox. (2019). Emerging Asian aerosol patterns. Nature Geoscience. 12(8). 582–584. 90 indexed citations
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Singh, Deepti, Massimo Bollasina, Mingfang Ting, & Noah S. Diffenbaugh. (2018). Disentangling the influence of local and remote anthropogenic aerosols on South Asian monsoon daily rainfall characteristics. Climate Dynamics. 52(9-10). 6301–6320. 31 indexed citations
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Undorf, Sabine, Debbie Polson, Massimo Bollasina, et al.. (2018). Detectable Impact of Local and Remote Anthropogenic Aerosols on the 20th Century Changes of West African and South Asian Monsoon Precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(10). 4871–4889. 64 indexed citations
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Undorf, Sabine, Massimo Bollasina, Ben Booth, & Gabriele C. Hegerl. (2018). Contrasting the Effects of the 1850–1975 Increase in Sulphate Aerosols from North America and Europe on the Atlantic in the CESM. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(21). 23 indexed citations
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Bollasina, Massimo, et al.. (2004). The Role of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau Within the Asian Monsoon System. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 85(7). 1001–1004. 22 indexed citations

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