Michael Ghil

29.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
346 papers, 19.5k citations indexed

About

Michael Ghil is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Ghil has authored 346 papers receiving a total of 19.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 193 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 184 papers in Atmospheric Science and 115 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Michael Ghil's work include Climate variability and models (169 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (100 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (83 papers). Michael Ghil is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (169 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (100 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (83 papers). Michael Ghil collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Russia. Michael Ghil's co-authors include Robert Vautard, Andrew W. Robertson, Pascal Yiou, Dmitri Kondrashov, Kayo Ide, Robert Vautard, Kingtse C. Mo, Michael D. Dettinger, J. David Neelin and Fei‐Fei Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Ghil

337 papers receiving 18.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

ADVANCED SPECTRAL METHODS FOR CLIMATIC TIME SERIES

2002 1.7k citations Michael Ghil, Kayo Ide et al. profile →
Singular-spectrum analysis: A toolkit for short, noisy chaotic signals

1992 1.1k citations Michael Ghil et al. profile →
Singular spectrum analysis in nonlinear dynamics, with applications to paleoclimatic time series

1989 913 citations Michael Ghil et al. profile →
Unified Notation for Data Assimilation : Operational, Sequential and Variational (gtSpecial IssueltData Assimilation in Meteology and Oceanography: Theory and Practice)

1997 658 citations Kayo Ide, Philippe Courtier et al. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II profile →
Turbulence and predictability in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate dynamics

1985 561 citations Michael Ghil et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Ghil United States	66	11.2k	10.3k	6.0k	1.9k	1.9k	346	19.5k
Andrew J. Majda United States	76	7.5k 0.7×	8.3k 0.8×	2.8k 0.5×	7.5k 3.9×	473 0.3×	470	26.9k
Pascal Yiou France	49	6.8k 0.6×	8.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.3×	758 0.4×	572 0.3×	179	13.1k
Edward N. Lorenz United States	44	7.9k 0.7×	7.6k 0.7×	2.4k 0.4×	174 0.1×	2.4k 1.3×	85	22.8k
James B. Elsner United States	44	4.2k 0.4×	4.2k 0.4×	1.7k 0.3×	422 0.2×	707 0.4×	178	7.2k
Steven A. Orszag United States	73	2.0k 0.2×	3.1k 0.3×	1.5k 0.3×	1.7k 0.9×	360 0.2×	250	33.9k
Robert Vautard France	56	9.2k 0.8×	7.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.3×	852 0.4×	554 0.3×	176	14.2k
U. Frisch France	50	2.1k 0.2×	1.8k 0.2×	745 0.1×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	144	17.1k
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert United States	60	3.7k 0.3×	5.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.3×	239 0.1×	715 0.4×	174	13.0k
Brian R. Hunt United States	47	3.1k 0.3×	3.5k 0.3×	773 0.1×	218 0.1×	411 0.2×	164	9.6k
Andrew W. Robertson United States	49	9.2k 0.8×	8.5k 0.8×	3.4k 0.6×	367 0.2×	300 0.2×	173	12.3k

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Bach, Eviatar & Michael Ghil. (2023). A Multi‐Model Ensemble Kalman Filter for Data Assimilation and Forecasting. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(1). 15 indexed citations

Ghil, Michael & Denisse Sciamarella. (2023). Review article: Dynamical systems, algebraic topology and the climate sciences. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 30(4). 399–434. 5 indexed citations

Mitsui, T., et al.. (2021). Orbital Insolation Variations, Intrinsic Climate Variability, and Quaternary Glaciations. Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin). 2 indexed citations

Ghil, Michael. (2020). Review article: Hilbert problems for the climate sciences in the 21st century – 20 years later. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 27(3). 429–451. 5 indexed citations

Metref, Sammy, Alexis Hannart, Juan Ruiz, et al.. (2019). Estimating model evidence using ensemble-based data assimilation with localization – The model selection problem. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 9 indexed citations

Groth, Andreas & Michael Ghil. (2017). Synchronization of world economic activity. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 27(12). 127002–127002. 17 indexed citations

Boers, Niklas, Bedartha Goswami, & Michael Ghil. (2017). A complete representation of uncertainties in layer-counted paleoclimatic archives. Climate of the past. 13(9). 1169–1180. 19 indexed citations

D’Andrea, Fabio, et al.. (2017). Coupled Climate–Economy–Biosphere (CoCEB) model – Part 1: Abatement efficacy of low-carbon technologies. 2 indexed citations

Ghil, Michael, et al.. (2015). Oscillations in a simple climate–vegetation model. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 22(3). 275–288. 20 indexed citations

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Robertson, Andrew W., Vincent Moron, Jian‐Hua Qian, & Michael Ghil. (2014). Weather types across the Maritime Continent: From the diurnal cycle to interannual variations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Ghil, Michael. (2012). The Complex Physics of Climate Change and Climate Sensitivity: A Grand Unification (Alfred Wegener Medal Lecture). EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14438. 1 indexed citations

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Alessio, S., Gianna Vivaldo, Carla Taricco, & Michael Ghil. (2012). Natural variability and anthropogenic effects in a Central Mediterranean core. Climate of the past. 8(2). 831–839. 2 indexed citations

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Alessio, S., Gianna Vivaldo, Carla Taricco, & Michael Ghil. (2011). Natural variability and anthropogenic effects in a Central Mediterranean core. 1 indexed citations

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Vivaldo, Gianna, et al.. (2010). Economic cycles and their synchronization: Spectral analysis of macroeconomic series from Italy, The Netherlands, and the UK. EGUGA. 11847. 2 indexed citations

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Deremble, Bruno, Fabio D’Andrea, & Michael Ghil. (2009). Fixed points, stable manifolds, weather regimes and their predictability. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 5603. 1 indexed citations

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Taricco, Carla, et al.. (2009). Two millennia of climate variability in the Central Mediterranean. Climate of the past. 5(2). 171–181. 55 indexed citations

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Ghil, Michael. (1997). <title>The SSA-MTM Toolkit: applications to analysis and prediction of time series</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3165. 216–230. 35 indexed citations

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Ide, Kayo, Philippe Courtier, Michael Ghil, & Andrew C. Lorenc. (1997). Unified Notation for Data Assimilation : Operational, Sequential and Variational (gtSpecial IssueltData Assimilation in Meteology and Oceanography: Theory and Practice). Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 75(1B). 181–189. 658 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ghil, Michael. (1997). Advances in Sequential Estimation for Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows (gtSpecial IssueltData Assimilation in Meteology and Oceanography: Theory and Practice). Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 75(1B). 289–304. 32 indexed citations

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Ghil, Michael. (1997). Advances in Sequential Estimation for Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 75. 25 indexed citations

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