Michelle L’Heureux

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Michelle L’Heureux is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle L’Heureux has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 45 papers in Atmospheric Science and 21 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Michelle L’Heureux's work include Climate variability and models (51 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (31 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers). Michelle L’Heureux is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (51 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (31 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers). Michelle L’Heureux collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Michelle L’Heureux's co-authors include Michael K. Tippett, Anthony G. Barnston, David W. J. Thompson, Zeng‐Zhen Hu, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Shuhua Li, David G. DeWitt, Sukyoung Lee, R. Wayne Higgins and Bradfield Lyon and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Scientific Reports and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Michelle L’Heureux

50 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Skill of Real-Time Seasonal ENSO Model Predictions during 2002–11: Is Our Capability Increasing?

2011 521 citations Anthony G. Barnston, Michael K. Tippett et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
Influence of high-latitude atmospheric circulation changes on summertime Arctic sea ice

2017 329 citations Qinghua Ding, Axel Schweiger 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						Papers	Cites
Michelle L’Heureux United States	30	3.5k	3.3k	1.6k	127	93	52	4.0k
Malte F. Stuecker United States	38	4.3k 1.2×	3.7k 1.1×	2.4k 1.5×	176 1.4×	81 0.9×	108	4.9k
Yongqi Gao Norway	34	2.9k 0.8×	3.1k 1.0×	969 0.6×	138 1.1×	59 0.6×	114	3.6k
Dietmar Dommenget Australia	33	3.9k 1.1×	3.1k 0.9×	2.4k 1.5×	255 2.0×	74 0.8×	95	4.5k
Kristian Mogensen United Kingdom	20	2.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	68 0.5×	121 1.3×	32	3.2k
Paul Berrisford United Kingdom	23	3.5k 1.0×	3.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	106 0.8×	190 2.0×	41	4.1k
Tim Woollings United Kingdom	50	7.0k 2.0×	6.6k 2.0×	2.0k 1.3×	135 1.1×	142 1.5×	140	7.8k
Gennady A. Chepurin United States	13	3.5k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	2.4k 1.5×	218 1.7×	58 0.6×	21	4.0k
John S. Woollen United States	11	3.5k 1.0×	3.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	115 0.9×	199 2.1×	14	4.1k
Yan Xue United States	30	3.1k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	114 0.9×	106 1.1×	64	3.5k
Sarah Ineson United Kingdom	25	3.2k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	115 0.9×	60 0.6×	46	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michelle L’Heureux

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20 of 20 papers shown

Levine, Aaron F. Z., Michelle L’Heureux, & Caihong Wen. (2025). Understanding spring forecast El Niño false alarms in the North American Multi-Model Ensemble. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1).

Kumar, Arun, et al.. (2024). Why Do DJF 2023/24 Upper‐Level 200‐hPa Geopotential Height Forecasts Look Different From the Expected El Niño Response?. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(14). 2 indexed citations

Lee, Sukyoung, Michelle L’Heureux, Andrew T. Wittenberg, et al.. (2022). On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 5(1). 96 indexed citations

Tippett, Michael K., Chiara Lepore, & Michelle L’Heureux. (2022). Predictability of a tornado environment index from El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Arctic Oscillation. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 3(3). 1063–1075. 12 indexed citations

Huang, Bohua, Chul‐Su Shin, Arun Kumar, Michelle L’Heureux, & Magdalena Balmaseda. (2021). The relative roles of decadal climate variations and changes in the ocean observing system on seasonal prediction skill of tropical Pacific SST. Climate Dynamics. 56(9-10). 3045–3063. 6 indexed citations

Oldenborgh, Geert Jan van, Harry H. Hendon, Tim Stockdale, et al.. (2021). Defining El Niño indices in a warming climate. Environmental Research Letters. 16(4). 44003–44003. 71 indexed citations

Huang, Boyin, Michelle L’Heureux, Zeng‐Zhen Hu, Xungang Yin, & Huai‐Min Zhang. (2020). How Significant Was the 1877/78 El Niño?. Journal of Climate. 33(11). 4853–4869. 20 indexed citations

Johnson, Nathaniel C., Michelle L’Heureux, Chueh‐Hsin Chang, & Zeng‐Zhen Hu. (2019). On the Delayed Coupling Between Ocean and Atmosphere in Recent Weak El Niño Episodes. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(20). 11416–11425. 18 indexed citations

Ding, Qinghua, Axel Schweiger, Michelle L’Heureux, et al.. (2019). Fingerprints of internal drivers of Arctic sea ice loss in observations and model simulations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 2 indexed citations

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Baxter, Ian, Qinghua Ding, Axel Schweiger, et al.. (2019). How Tropical Pacific Surface Cooling Contributed to Accelerated Sea Ice Melt from 2007 to 2012 as Ice Is Thinned by Anthropogenic Forcing. Journal of Climate. 32(24). 8583–8602. 64 indexed citations

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Ding, Qinghua, Axel Schweiger, Michelle L’Heureux, et al.. (2018). Fingerprints of internal drivers of Arctic sea ice loss in observations and model simulations. Nature Geoscience. 12(1). 28–33. 146 indexed citations

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L’Heureux, Michelle, Michael K. Tippett, K. Takahashi, et al.. (2018). Strength Outlooks for the El Niño–Southern Oscillation. Weather and Forecasting. 34(1). 165–175. 20 indexed citations

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Harnos, Kirstin, et al.. (2018). Skill of Seasonal Arctic Sea Ice Extent Predictions Using the North American Multimodel Ensemble. Journal of Climate. 32(2). 623–638. 12 indexed citations

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L’Heureux, Michelle, Michael K. Tippett, Arun Kumar, et al.. (2017). Strong Relations Between ENSO and the Arctic Oscillation in the North American Multimodel Ensemble. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(22). 25 indexed citations

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Barnston, Anthony G., Michael K. Tippett, Meghana Ranganathan, & Michelle L’Heureux. (2017). Deterministic skill of ENSO predictions from the North American Multimodel Ensemble. Climate Dynamics. 53(12). 7215–7234. 152 indexed citations

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L’Heureux, Michelle, K. Takahashi, Andrew Watkins, et al.. (2016). Observing and Predicting the 2015/16 El Niño. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 98(7). 1363–1382. 266 indexed citations

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L’Heureux, Michelle, Michael K. Tippett, & Anthony G. Barnston. (2016). Reply to “Comment on ‘Characterizing ENSO Coupled Variability and Its Impact on North American Seasonal Precipitation and Temperature’”. Journal of Climate. 30(1). 437–441. 2 indexed citations

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L’Heureux, Michelle, Sukyoung Lee, & Bradfield Lyon. (2013). Recent multidecadal strengthening of the Walker circulation across the tropical Pacific. Nature Climate Change. 3(6). 571–576. 243 indexed citations

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Wang, Shih‐Yu, Michelle L’Heureux, & Jin‐Ho Yoon. (2013). Are Greenhouse Gases Changing ENSO Precursors in the Western North Pacific?*. Journal of Climate. 26(17). 6309–6322. 49 indexed citations

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Kumar, Arun, et al.. (2008). An Assessment of Errors in the Simulation of Atmospheric Interannual Variability in Uncoupled AGCM Simulations. Journal of Climate. 21(10). 2204–2217. 12 indexed citations

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