Mika Rantanen

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Mika Rantanen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Mika Rantanen has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Atmospheric Science, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 3 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Mika Rantanen's work include Climate variability and models (16 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (7 papers). Mika Rantanen is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (16 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (7 papers). Mika Rantanen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Norway and United Kingdom. Mika Rantanen's co-authors include Ari Laaksonen, Otto Hyvärinen, Alexey Yu. Karpechko, Timo Vihma, Antti Lipponen, Kimmo Ruosteenoja, Kalle Nordling, Jouni Räisänen, Victoria A. Sinclair and Heikki Järvinen and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Science Advances and Nature Geoscience.

In The Last Decade

Mika Rantanen

19 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979

2022 1.4k citations Mika Rantanen, Alexey Yu. Karpechko et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →

Peers

Mika Rantanen

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ECOLO

OCEAN

Kalle Nordling Finland

Otto Hyvärinen Finland

Frans‐Jan W. Parmentier Sweden

Inger Hanssen‐Bauer Norway

Alexey Yu. Karpechko Finland

Rajmund Przybylak Poland

Janet Pawlak Norway

Kathy J. Kuletz United States

Olga Pavlova Russia

Peter A. Bieniek United States

Kalle Nordling Finland

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312 ×1.0

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180 ×0.9

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183 ×1.0

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Countries citing papers authored by Mika Rantanen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mika Rantanen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mika Rantanen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mika Rantanen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mika Rantanen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mika Rantanen. Mika Rantanen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Aalto, Juha, Matti Kämäräinen, Mika Rantanen, et al.. (2026). A new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic. Science Advances. 12(2). eadw5698–eadw5698.

Rantanen, Mika, Samuli Helama, Jouni Räisänen, & Hilppa Gregow. (2025). Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Rantanen, Mika, et al.. (2025). Svalbard's Record‐Breaking Arctic Summer 2024: Anomalies Beyond Climatological Warming Trends. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(8). 1 indexed citations

Rantanen, Mika. (2024). Natural variability boosts Arctic warming. Nature Geoscience. 17(6). 485–486. 3 indexed citations

Rantanen, Mika, Jouni Räisänen, & Joonas Merikanto. (2024). A method for estimating the effect of climate change on monthly mean temperatures: September 2023 and other recent record‐warm months in Helsinki, Finland. Atmospheric Science Letters. 25(6). 7 indexed citations

Rantanen, Mika & Ari Laaksonen. (2024). The jump in global temperatures in September 2023 is extremely unlikely due to internal climate variability alone. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 28 indexed citations

Rantanen, Mika, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Serial Cyclone Clustering on Extremely High Sea Levels in the Baltic Sea. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(6). 3 indexed citations

Rantanen, Mika, et al.. (2024). The atmospheric ‘cold blob’ over Fennoscandia from October 2023 to January 2024. Weather. 80(1). 10–16. 3 indexed citations

Rantanen, Mika, Matti Kämäräinen, Miska Luoto, & Juha Aalto. (2024). Manifold increase in the spatial extent of heatwaves in the terrestrial Arctic. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 3 indexed citations

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Rantanen, Mika, Simon H. Lee, & Juha Aalto. (2023). Asymmetric warming rates between warm and cold weather regimes in Europe. Atmospheric Science Letters. 24(10). 6 indexed citations

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Rantanen, Mika, Matti Kämäräinen, Pekka Niittynen, et al.. (2023). Bioclimatic atlas of the terrestrial Arctic. Scientific Data. 10(1). 40–40. 9 indexed citations

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Rantanen, Mika, Alexey Yu. Karpechko, Antti Lipponen, et al.. (2022). The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 1441 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aalto, Juha, Pentti Pirinen, Pekka E. Kauppi, et al.. (2021). High-resolution analysis of observed thermal growing season variability over northern Europe. Climate Dynamics. 58(5-6). 1477–1493. 19 indexed citations

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Rantanen, Mika, et al.. (2021). Characteristics of joint heavy precipitation and high sea level events on the Finnish coast in 1961–2020. 2 indexed citations

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Rantanen, Mika, Terhi K. Laurila, Victoria A. Sinclair, & Hilppa Gregow. (2021). Storm Aila: An unusually strong autumn storm in Finland. Weather. 76(9). 306–312. 1 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Victoria A., et al.. (2020). The characteristics and structure of extra-tropical cyclones in a warmer climate. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 1(1). 1–25. 60 indexed citations

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Rantanen, Mika, et al.. (2020). The extratropical transition of Hurricane Ophelia (2017) as diagnosed with a generalized omega equation and vorticity equation. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 72(1). 1721215–1721215. 19 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Victoria A., et al.. (2019). The summer 2018 heatwave in Finland. Weather. 74(11). 403–409. 35 indexed citations

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Rantanen, Mika, Jouni Räisänen, Victoria A. Sinclair, & Heikki Järvinen. (2018). Sensitivity of idealised baroclinic waves to mean atmospheric temperature and meridional temperature gradient changes. Climate Dynamics. 52(5-6). 2703–2719. 11 indexed citations

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Rantanen, Mika, et al.. (2017). OZO v.1.0: software for solving a generalised omega equation and the Zwack–Okossi height tendency equation using WRF model output. Geoscientific model development. 10(2). 827–841. 8 indexed citations

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