Michael Wehner

36.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
252 papers, 16.6k citations indexed

About

Michael Wehner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Wehner has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 16.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 146 papers in Atmospheric Science and 28 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Michael Wehner's work include Climate variability and models (151 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (111 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (52 papers). Michael Wehner is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (151 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (111 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (52 papers). Michael Wehner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Michael Wehner's co-authors include Robert J. Wood, George M. Whitesides, Bobak Mosadegh, Ryan L. Truby, Jennifer A. Lewis, Francis W. Zwiers, David R. Easterling, Xuebin Zhang, Daniel J. Fitzgerald and W.G. Wolfer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Wehner

236 papers receiving 16.1k citations

Hit Papers

An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirel... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2016 2013 2014 2013 2018 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots
    2016 1.7k citations Michael Wehner et al. profile →
  2. Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility
    2013 1.7k citations Michael Wehner et al. profile →
  3. A Resilient, Untethered Soft Robot
    2014 916 citations Michael Wehner et al. profile →
  4. Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the CMIP5 ensemble
    2013 872 citations Michael Wehner et al. profile →
  5. Soft Somatosensitive Actuators via Embedded 3D Printing
    2018 502 citations Michael Wehner et al. profile →
  6. Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events
    2018 342 citations Michael Wehner et al. profile →
  7. Changes in Annual Extremes of Daily Temperature and Precipitation in CMIP6 Models
    2020 235 citations Michael Wehner et al. profile →
  8. Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming
    2022 126 citations James P. Kossin, Michael Wehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Wehner United States 65 9.3k 7.7k 3.7k 1.9k 1.7k 252 16.6k
Dani Or Switzerland 78 3.5k 0.4× 2.1k 0.3× 983 0.3× 2.3k 1.2× 136 0.1× 439 21.5k
Kiyoshi Takahashi Japan 46 2.7k 0.3× 952 0.1× 1.8k 0.5× 457 0.2× 126 0.1× 370 9.4k
Stephen W. Pacala United States 82 12.5k 1.3× 3.6k 0.5× 982 0.3× 985 0.5× 622 0.4× 182 26.7k
Jia Li China 53 3.4k 0.4× 1.9k 0.2× 421 0.1× 147 0.1× 347 0.2× 601 12.7k
Andrea Rinaldo Italy 71 3.9k 0.4× 1.8k 0.2× 282 0.1× 281 0.1× 554 0.3× 276 15.0k
J. Scott Turner United States 22 1.0k 0.1× 1.9k 0.2× 627 0.2× 511 0.3× 1.7k 1.0× 67 7.2k
Michael Raupach Germany 65 12.5k 1.3× 5.2k 0.7× 435 0.1× 1.6k 0.8× 954 0.6× 342 23.5k
Qin Zhang China 27 3.5k 0.4× 3.0k 0.4× 208 0.1× 245 0.1× 1.3k 0.8× 105 5.3k
S. Dash India 41 2.2k 0.2× 1.8k 0.2× 565 0.2× 345 0.2× 187 0.1× 356 7.5k
John Taylor Australia 42 4.8k 0.5× 4.4k 0.6× 594 0.2× 126 0.1× 237 0.1× 247 12.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Wehner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Risser, Mark D., et al.. (2025). Data-driven upper bounds and event attribution for unprecedented heatwaves. Weather and Climate Extremes. 47. 100743–100743. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Xueke, et al.. (2025). Increased frequency of planetary wave resonance events over the past half-century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2504482122–e2504482122. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Xueke, Michael Mann, Michael Wehner, et al.. (2024). Role of atmospheric resonance and land–atmosphere feedbacks as a precursor to the June 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(4). e2315330121–e2315330121. 18 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yang, Michael Wehner, & William D. Collins. (2024). Back-to-back high category atmospheric river landfalls occur more often on the west coast of the United States. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 4 indexed citations
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Risser, Mark D., et al.. (2024). Leveraging Extremal Dependence to Better Characterize the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave. Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics. 31(1). 24–45. 6 indexed citations
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Wehner, Michael, et al.. (2024). On the uncertainty of long-period return values of extreme daily precipitation. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 5 indexed citations
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Balaguru, Karthik, L. Ruby Leung, Gregory R. Foltz, et al.. (2024). A Global Increase in Nearshore Tropical Cyclone Intensification. Earth s Future. 12(5). 10 indexed citations
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Paciorek, Christopher J. & Michael Wehner. (2024). Comment on “Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States”. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(1). 2 indexed citations
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Noy, Ilan, Michael Wehner, Dáithí A. Stone, et al.. (2023). Event attribution is ready to inform loss and damage negotiations. Nature Climate Change. 13(12). 1279–1281. 14 indexed citations
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Rhoades, Alan M., Colin M. Zarzycki, Mohammed Ombadi, et al.. (2023). Recreating the California New Year's Flood Event of 1997 in a Regionally Refined Earth System Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(10). 8 indexed citations
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Reed, Kevin A., Michael Wehner, & Colin M. Zarzycki. (2022). Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change. Nature Communications. 13(1). 84 indexed citations
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Rhoades, Alan M., Benjamin J. Hatchett, Mark D. Risser, et al.. (2022). Asymmetric emergence of low-to-no snow in the midlatitudes of the American Cordillera. Nature Climate Change. 12(12). 1151–1159. 30 indexed citations
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Collow, Allison B. Marquardt, Christine A. Shields, Bin Guan, et al.. (2022). An Overview of ARTMIP's Tier 2 Reanalysis Intercomparison: Uncertainty in the Detection of Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(8). 62 indexed citations
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Rhoades, Alan M., Mark D. Risser, Dáithí A. Stone, Michael Wehner, & Andrew D. Jones. (2021). Implications of warming on western United States landfalling atmospheric rivers and their flood damages. Weather and Climate Extremes. 32. 100326–100326. 36 indexed citations
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Sassi, Maximiliano, Ludovico Nicótina, Pardeep Pall, et al.. (2019). Impact of climate change on European winter and summer flood losses. Advances in Water Resources. 129. 165–177. 30 indexed citations
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Lawal, Kamoru A., et al.. (2019). Capability of CAM5.1 in simulating maximum air temperature patterns over West Africa during boreal spring. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. 5(4). 1815–1838. 2 indexed citations
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Wehner, Michael, Dáithí A. Stone, Dann Mitchell, et al.. (2018). Changes in extremely hot days under stabilized 1.5 and 2.0 °C global warming scenarios as simulated by the HAPPI multi-model ensemble. Earth System Dynamics. 9(1). 299–311. 35 indexed citations
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Timmermans, Ben, Dáithí A. Stone, Michael Wehner, & Harinarayan Krishnan. (2017). Impact of tropical cyclones on modeled extreme wind‐wave climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(3). 1393–1401. 49 indexed citations
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Wehner, Michael, Kevin A. Reed, Burlen Loring, Dáithí A. Stone, & Harinarayan Krishnan. (2017). Changes in tropical cyclones under stabilized 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming scenarios as simulated by the Community Atmospheric Model under the HAPPI protocols. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations
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Easterling, David R. & Michael Wehner. (2009). Is the climate warming or cooling?. Geophysical Research Letters. 36(8). 427 indexed citations

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