Mathias W. Rotach

11.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
138 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Mathias W. Rotach is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mathias W. Rotach has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Atmospheric Science, 76 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 74 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mathias W. Rotach's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (78 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (67 papers) and Climate variability and models (42 papers). Mathias W. Rotach is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (78 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (67 papers) and Climate variability and models (42 papers). Mathias W. Rotach collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Switzerland and United States. Mathias W. Rotach's co-authors include Natascha Kljun, Hans Peter Schmid, Pierluigi Calanca, Alain Clappier, Alberto Martilli, Petra Klein, Alexander Gohm, Ivana Stiperski, Andreas Weigel and Dino Zardi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mathias W. Rotach

134 papers receiving 7.2k citations

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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.

An Urban Surface Exchange Parameterisation for Mesoscale Models

2002 909 citations Mathias W. Rotach et al. Boundary-Layer Meteorology profile →
A simple two-dimensional parameterisation for Flux Footprint Prediction (FFP)

2015 681 citations Natascha Kljun, Mathias W. Rotach et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
A Simple Parameterisation for Flux Footprint Predictions

2004 617 citations Natascha Kljun, Mathias W. Rotach et al. Boundary-Layer Meteorology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Are the Largest Benefits of Kilometer‐Scale Climate Models Over Mountains or Over Flatland? 2025 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Junhong Lee, Thomas Rackow, Mathias W. Rotach, Nikolina Ban	1
2	Agreement of multiple night- and daytime filtering approaches of eddy covariance-derived net ecosystem CO2 exchange over a mountain forest 2024 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·(unknown), (unknown), Albin Hammerle, Mathias W. Rotach, Georg Wohlfahrt	2
3	A gridded multi-site precipitation generator for complex terrain: an evaluation in the Austrian Alps 2023 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·(unknown), Mathias W. Rotach, Michael Oberguggenberger	0
4	Influence of grid resolution of large‐eddy simulations on foehn‐cold pool interaction 2022 ·Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·(unknown), Alexander Gohm, (unknown), Helen C. Ward, Mathias W. Rotach	12
5	Energy and mass exchange at an urban site in mountainous terrain – the Alpine city of Innsbruck 2022 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Helen C. Ward, Mathias W. Rotach, Alexander Gohm, M. Graus, Thomas Karl, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	10
6	Numerically consistent budgets of energy, momentum and mass in Cartesian coordinates: Application to the WRF model 2021 ·(unknown), Stefano Serafin, Mathias W. Rotach	1
7	Cold-Air Pool Processes in the Inn Valley During Föhn: A Comparison of Four Cases During the PIANO Campaign 2021 ·Boundary-Layer Meteorology ·(unknown), Alexander Gohm, (unknown), Helen C. Ward, Mathias W. Rotach	14
8	A process-based evaluation of the Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research Model (ICAR) 1.0.1 2021 ·Geoscientific model development ·(unknown), Marlis Hofer, E. D. Gutmann, Alexander Gohm, Mathias W. Rotach	6
9	Large‐eddy simulation of foehn–cold pool interactions in the Inn Valley during PIANO IOP 2 2020 ·Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·(unknown), Alexander Gohm, (unknown), Helen C. Ward, Mathias W. Rotach	30
10	Cycling of carbon and water in mountain ecosystems under changing climate and land use (CYCLAMEN) 2020 ·Florian Kitz, Georg Wohlfahrt, Mathias W. Rotach, Erich Tasser, (unknown), (unknown), Mariapina Castelli, Claudia Notarnicola, (unknown), Thorsten Simon	1
11	Atmospheric Pollutant Dispersion over Complex Terrain: Challenges and Needs for Improving Air Quality Measurements and Modeling 2020 ·Atmosphere ·Lorenzo Giovannini, Enrico Ferrero, Thomas Karl, Mathias W. Rotach, Chantal Staquet, Silvia Trini Castelli, Dino Zardi	72
12	Subsiding shells and the distribution of up- and downdraughts in warm cumulus clouds over land 2019 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Christian Mallaun, Andreas Giez, Georg J. Mayr, Mathias W. Rotach	5
13	Assessing the added value of the Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research (ICAR) model for precipitation in complex topography 2019 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·(unknown), Marlis Hofer, Fabien Maussion, E. D. Gutmann, Alexander Gohm, Mathias W. Rotach	10
14	Validating modeled critical crack length for crack propagation in the snow cover model SNOWPACK 2019 ·The cryosphere ·Bettina Richter, Jürg Schweizer, Mathias W. Rotach, Alec van Herwijnen	19
15	Subsiding shells and vertical mass flux in warm cumulus clouds over land 2018 ·Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Christian Mallaun, Andreas Giez, Georg J. Mayr, Mathias W. Rotach	2
16	Exchange Processes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over Mountainous Terrain 2018 ·Atmosphere ·Stefano Serafin, Bianca Adler, Joan Cuxart, Stephan F. J. De Wekker, Alexander Gohm, Branko Grisogono, Norbert Kalthoff, Daniel J. Kirshbaum, Mathias W. Rotach, Jürg Schmidli, Ivana Stiperski, Željko Večenaj, Dino Zardi	167
17	Current Challenges in Understanding and Predicting Transport and Exchange in the Atmosphere over Mountainous Terrain 2018 ·Atmosphere ·Manuela Lehner, Mathias W. Rotach	90
18	Comment on: “Corrections to the Mathematical Formulation of a Backwards Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model” by Gibson and Sailor (2012: Boundary-Layer Meteorology 145, 399–406) 2017 ·Boundary-Layer Meteorology ·(unknown), Mathias W. Rotach, Natascha Kljun	1
19	Quantifying horizontal and vertical tracer mass fluxes in an idealized valley during daytime 2016 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·(unknown), Alexander Gohm, Mathias W. Rotach	28
20	EMPOL 1.0: a new parameterization of pollen emission in numerical weather prediction models 2013 ·Geoscientific model development ·(unknown), Andreas Pauling, Mathias W. Rotach, H. Vogel, P. Kaufmann, Bernard Clot	39

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