Max Berkelhammer

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Max Berkelhammer is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Max Berkelhammer has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Atmospheric Science, 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Max Berkelhammer's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (31 papers), Climate variability and models (25 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (24 papers). Max Berkelhammer is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (31 papers), Climate variability and models (25 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (24 papers). Max Berkelhammer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Max Berkelhammer's co-authors include Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, Lowell Stott, Harvey Weiss, Manfred Mudelsee, Mike Walker, Les C. Cwynar, Antony J. Long, Svante Björck and Sune Olander Rasmussen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Max Berkelhammer

72 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: a Discussion Paper by a Working Group of INTIMATE (Integration of ice‐core, marine and terrestrial records) and the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (International Commission on Stratigraphy)

2012 663 citations Max Berkelhammer, Harvey Weiss et al. Journal of Quaternary Science profile →
Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period): two new Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) and three new stages/subseries

2018 281 citations Max Berkelhammer, Hai Cheng et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Max Berkelhammer	2.6k	1.4k	647	627	494	80	3.6k
Robert S. Webb	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	960 1.5×	381 0.6×	596 1.2×	49	3.7k
Olga N Solomina	4.0k 1.5×	1.0k 0.7×	748 1.2×	626 1.0×	651 1.3×	89	4.5k
Barbara Stenni	3.7k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 2.1×	389 0.6×	275 0.6×	130	4.5k
Heinz Wanner	3.7k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	948 1.5×	654 1.0×	669 1.4×	54	4.4k
Francesco S. R. Pausata	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	577 0.9×	326 0.5×	713 1.4×	78	3.1k
Sarah J. Feakins	2.7k 1.0×	709 0.5×	1.2k 1.9×	699 1.1×	527 1.1×	85	3.6k
Trevor Popp	2.4k 0.9×	507 0.4×	748 1.2×	466 0.7×	362 0.7×	43	2.8k
Gerhard H. Schleser	4.2k 1.6×	2.6k 1.9×	941 1.5×	598 1.0×	568 1.1×	81	5.0k
Uri Dayan	3.7k 1.4×	2.7k 2.0×	364 0.6×	372 0.6×	693 1.4×	98	5.0k
Abdelfettah Sifeddine	2.3k 0.9×	798 0.6×	1.3k 2.1×	428 0.7×	799 1.6×	129	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Max Berkelhammer

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Lee, Jangho, et al.. (2025). Analysis of urban flooding in Chicago based on crowdsourced data: drivers and the need for community-based mitigation strategies. Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability. 5(2). 25008–25008. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Jangho, Aaron I. Packman, Stephen W. Nesbitt, et al.. (2025). Comparing multi-source urban flood indicators: satellite, simulation, and citizen-reported data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 35007–35007.

Sprenger, Matthias, Stefan Seeger, Max Berkelhammer, et al.. (2025). Opportunistic Short‐Term Water Uptake Dynamics by Subalpine Trees Observed via In Situ Water Isotope Measurements. Water Resources Research. 61(8).

Berkelhammer, Max, et al.. (2024). Isotopic Fractionation during Sublimation of Low Porosity Ice. Chemical Geology. 670. 122445–122445.

Lee, Jangho, et al.. (2024). Urban Land Surface Temperature Downscaling in Chicago: Addressing Ethnic Inequality and Gentrification. Remote Sensing. 16(9). 1639–1639. 9 indexed citations

Ritter, François, et al.. (2023). Author Correction: Distinct response of gross primary productivity in five terrestrial biomes to precipitation variability. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1).

Berkelhammer, Max, et al.. (2023). Suspended in sound: New constraints on isotopic fractionation of falling hydrometeors using acoustically levitated water droplets. Hydrological Processes. 37(1). 2 indexed citations

Carbone, Mariah S., Andrew D. Richardson, billy barr, et al.. (2023). Interannual precipitation controls on soil CO₂ fluxes in high elevation conifer and aspen forests. Environmental Research Letters. 18(12). 124009–124009.

Shah, Santosh K., Max Berkelhammer, Qiang Li, et al.. (2022). Regional tree-ring oxygen isotope deduced summer monsoon drought variability for Kumaun-Gharwal Himalaya. Quaternary Science Reviews. 301. 107927–107927. 6 indexed citations

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Berkelhammer, Max, et al.. (2022). Root Foraging Alters Global Patterns of Ecosystem Legacy From Climate Perturbations. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(4). 5 indexed citations

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Comiso, Josefino C., et al.. (2021). Interrelationships of Sea Surface Salinity, Chlorophyll-α Concentration, and Sea Surface Temperature near the Antarctic Ice Edge. Journal of Climate. 34(15). 6069–6086. 10 indexed citations

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Berkelhammer, Max, Nadja Insel, & Ioana C. Stefanescu. (2021). Wetter Summers Mitigated Temperature Stress on Rocky Mountain Forests During the Last Interglacial Warm Period. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(18). 2 indexed citations

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Insel, Nadja & Max Berkelhammer. (2021). The influence of orbital parameters on the North American Monsoon system during the Last Interglacial Period. Journal of Quaternary Science. 36(4). 638–648. 4 indexed citations

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Berkelhammer, Max, Christopher J. Still, François Ritter, et al.. (2020). Persistence and Plasticity in Conifer Water‐Use Strategies. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(2). 34 indexed citations

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Jones, Miriam C., et al.. (2020). High sensitivity of Bering Sea winter sea ice to winter insolation and carbon dioxide over the last 5500 years. Science Advances. 6(36). 24 indexed citations

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Berkelhammer, Max, Roser Matamala, David Cook, et al.. (2020). Seasonal Evolution of Canopy Stomatal Conductance for a Prairie and Maize Field in the Midwestern United States from Continuous Carbonyl Sulfide Fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(6). 16 indexed citations

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Sinha, Ashish, Gayatri Kathayat, Harvey Weiss, et al.. (2019). Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Science Advances. 5(11). eaax6656–eaax6656. 79 indexed citations

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Cox, Christopher J., David Noone, Max Berkelhammer, et al.. (2019). Supercooled liquid fogs over the central Greenland Ice Sheet. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(11). 7467–7485. 8 indexed citations

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Rastogi, Bharat, Max Berkelhammer, Sonia Wharton, et al.. (2018). Large Uptake of Atmospheric OCS Observed at a Moist Old Growth Forest: Controls and Implications for Carbon Cycle Applications. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(11). 3424–3438. 18 indexed citations

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Berkelhammer, Max, et al.. (2018). Downwind footprint of an urban heat island on air and lake temperatures. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 1(1). 42 indexed citations

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