Matthias Röthlisberger

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 667 citations indexed

About

Matthias Röthlisberger is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthias Röthlisberger has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 667 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Matthias Röthlisberger's work include Climate variability and models (24 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (18 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (8 papers). Matthias Röthlisberger is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (24 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (18 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (8 papers). Matthias Röthlisberger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Matthias Röthlisberger's co-authors include Olivia Martius, Lukas Papritz, Heini Wernli, Stephan Pfahl, Lance F. Bosart, Daniel Keyser, Christian M. Grams, Daniel Reker, Gisbert Schneider and Petra Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Chemical Communications and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Matthias Röthlisberger

26 papers receiving 645 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Quantifying the physical processes leading to atmospheric hot extremes at a global scale

2023 93 citations Matthias Röthlisberger, Lukas Papritz Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthias Röthlisberger Switzerland	14	566	521	110	41	31	26	667
Ji Liren China	12	526 0.9×	514 1.0×	170 1.5×	10 0.2×	28 0.9×	35	618
Nikolay Iakovlev Russia	7	357 0.6×	406 0.8×	153 1.4×	8 0.2×	15 0.5×	26	527
Glenn Carver United Kingdom	11	416 0.7×	540 1.0×	54 0.5×	90 2.2×	32 1.0×	24	622
Ning Jiang China	13	416 0.7×	320 0.6×	158 1.4×	9 0.2×	32 1.0×	36	494
Masaru Inatsu Japan	15	702 1.2×	689 1.3×	282 2.6×	3 0.1×	17 0.5×	71	844
Md Wahiduzzaman China	12	351 0.6×	307 0.6×	139 1.3×	14 0.3×	28 0.9×	29	409
Tess Parker Australia	12	442 0.8×	339 0.7×	93 0.8×	30 0.7×	41 1.3×	29	565
Frank T. Huang United States	14	141 0.2×	366 0.7×	62 0.6×	28 0.7×	27 0.9×	24	552
Birgit Haßler United States	16	875 1.5×	941 1.8×	60 0.5×	64 1.6×	58 1.9×	47	1.1k
J. S. Boyle United States	9	753 1.3×	698 1.3×	106 1.0×	13 0.3×	37 1.2×	9	850

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Papritz, Lukas, et al.. (2024). Understanding the vertical temperature structure of recent record-shattering heatwaves. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 5(1). 323–343. 12 indexed citations

Vries, Andries Jan de, Moshe Armon, Klaus Klingmüller, et al.. (2024). Breaking Rossby waves drive extreme precipitation in the world’s arid regions. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 493–493. 7 indexed citations

Wernli, Heini, et al.. (2024). Drastic increase in the magnitude of very rare summer-mean vapor pressure deficit extremes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7022–7022. 10 indexed citations

Schemm, Sebastian & Matthias Röthlisberger. (2024). Aquaplanet simulations with winter and summer hemispheres: model setup and circulation response to warming. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 5(1). 43–63. 4 indexed citations

Boettcher, Maxi, et al.. (2023). The ERA5 Extreme Seasons Explorer as a Basis for Research at the Weather and Climate Interface. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104(3). E631–E644. 4 indexed citations

Papritz, Lukas, Matthias Röthlisberger, Rodrigo Caballero, et al.. (2023). The Role of Local and Remote Processes for Wintertime Surface Energy Budget Extremes over Arctic Sea Ice. Journal of Climate. 36(21). 7657–7674. 2 indexed citations

Röthlisberger, Matthias, Arthur Geßler, Andreas Rigling, et al.. (2023). Meteorological history of low-forest-greenness events in Europe in 2002–2022. Biogeosciences. 20(6). 1155–1180. 8 indexed citations

Röthlisberger, Matthias & Lukas Papritz. (2023). A Global Quantification of the Physical Processes Leading to Near‐Surface Cold Extremes. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(5). 17 indexed citations

Papritz, Lukas & Matthias Röthlisberger. (2023). A Novel Temperature Anomaly Source Diagnostic: Method and Application to the 2021 Heatwave in the Pacific Northwest. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(23). 4 indexed citations

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Röthlisberger, Matthias & Lukas Papritz. (2023). Quantifying the physical processes leading to atmospheric hot extremes at a global scale. Nature Geoscience. 16(3). 210–216. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

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Röthlisberger, Matthias, et al.. (2022). Recurrent Rossby waves and south-eastern Australian heatwaves. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 3(4). 1139–1156. 12 indexed citations

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Röthlisberger, Matthias, Barbara Scherrer, Andries Jan de Vries, & Raphael Portmann. (2022). The role of cyclones and potential vorticity cutoffs for the occurrence of unusually long wet spells in Europe. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 3(3). 733–754. 2 indexed citations

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Martius, Olivia, et al.. (2021). Recurrent Rossby Wave Packets Modulate the Persistence of Dry and Wet Spells Across the Globe. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(5). 35 indexed citations

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Flaounas, Emmanouil, Matthias Röthlisberger, Maxi Boettcher, Michael Sprenger, & Heini Wernli. (2021). Extreme wet seasons – their definition and relationship with synoptic-scale weather systems. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 2(1). 71–88. 7 indexed citations

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Röthlisberger, Matthias, Christoph Frei, Flavio Lehner, et al.. (2021). A New Framework for Identifying and Investigating Seasonal Climate Extremes. Journal of Climate. 34(19). 7761–7782. 9 indexed citations

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Röthlisberger, Matthias, Michael Sprenger, Emmanouil Flaounas, Urs Beyerle, & Heini Wernli. (2020). The substructure of extremely hot summers in the Northern Hemisphere. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 1(1). 45–62. 13 indexed citations

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Spensberger, Clemens, Erica Madonna, Maxi Boettcher, et al.. (2020). Dynamics of concurrent and sequential Central European and Scandinavian heatwaves. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 146(732). 2998–3013. 34 indexed citations

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Röthlisberger, Matthias, et al.. (2019). The Climatological Impact of Recurving North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones on Downstream Extreme Precipitation Events. Monthly Weather Review. 147(5). 1513–1532. 23 indexed citations

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Martynov, Andrey, Nikola Bešič, Alessandro Hering, et al.. (2018). A severe hail storm in complex topography in Switzerland - Observations and processes. Atmospheric Research. 209. 76–94. 46 indexed citations

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Röthlisberger, Matthias, et al.. (2018). Rossby Wave Initiation by Recurving Tropical Cyclones in the Western North Pacific. Monthly Weather Review. 146(5). 1283–1301. 14 indexed citations

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