Nathan Steiger

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Nathan Steiger is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Steiger has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Atmospheric Science, 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 2 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Nathan Steiger's work include Climate variability and models (28 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (27 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (26 papers). Nathan Steiger is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (28 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (27 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (26 papers). Nathan Steiger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Switzerland. Nathan Steiger's co-authors include Gregory J. Hakim, Jason E. Smerdon, Raphael Neukom, Eric J. Steig, J. Werner, Juan José Gómez‐Navarro, Jianghao Wang, Edward R. Cook, Benjamin I. Cook and Julien Emile‐Geay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Steiger

36 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era

2019 282 citations Raphael Neukom, Nathan Steiger et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan Steiger United States	18	1.1k	882	131	119	81	39	1.3k
Andrew M. Lorrey New Zealand	21	957 0.8×	462 0.5×	149 1.1×	160 1.3×	124 1.5×	61	1.1k
Nicholas Siler United States	15	743 0.6×	716 0.8×	113 0.9×	65 0.5×	56 0.7×	29	948
Wu Guoxiong China	12	828 0.7×	599 0.7×	177 1.4×	96 0.8×	55 0.7×	41	950
C. Schmutz Switzerland	11	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	230 1.8×	92 0.8×	51 0.6×	11	1.5k
Toshiyuki Nakaegawa Japan	15	631 0.6×	468 0.5×	151 1.2×	67 0.6×	55 0.7×	39	860
Sylvia Dee United States	16	812 0.7×	588 0.7×	165 1.3×	197 1.7×	88 1.1×	63	1.1k
Ori Adam Israel	18	816 0.7×	870 1.0×	314 2.4×	72 0.6×	19 0.2×	47	1.1k
Natalie Burls United States	20	904 0.8×	667 0.8×	477 3.6×	179 1.5×	158 2.0×	59	1.2k
J. J. Wettstein United States	17	1.1k 1.0×	994 1.1×	309 2.4×	116 1.0×	21 0.3×	21	1.3k
Patrick Ludwig Germany	21	895 0.8×	519 0.6×	135 1.0×	77 0.6×	141 1.7×	61	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Nathan Steiger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathan Steiger

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Steiger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nathan Steiger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nathan Steiger 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 Nathan Steiger. Nathan Steiger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Tierney, Jessica E., Emily J. Judd, Matthew Osman, et al.. (2025). Advances in Paleoclimate Data Assimilation. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 53(1). 625–650.

Novello, Valdir F., et al.. (2024). A continental reconstruction of hydroclimatic variability in South America during the past 2000 years. Climate of the past. 20(9). 2117–2141.

Sinha, Ashish, Nathan Steiger, Liangcheng Tan, et al.. (2024). On Indian summer monsoon droughts and teleconnections over the past millennium. 3(1). 100108–100108. 1 indexed citations

Dagan, Guy, Jacob T. Seeley, & Nathan Steiger. (2023). Convection and Convective‐Organization in Hothouse Climates. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(11). 7 indexed citations

Dee, Sylvia, et al.. (2023). PDO and AMO Modulation of the ENSO–Asian Summer Monsoon Teleconnection During the Last Millennium. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(1). 11 indexed citations

Smerdon, Jason E., Edward R. Cook, & Nathan Steiger. (2023). The Historical Development of Large‐Scale Paleoclimate Field Reconstructions Over the Common Era. Reviews of Geophysics. 61(4). 9 indexed citations

Dee, Sylvia, et al.. (2022). Tropical Pacific and North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Patterns Modulate Mississippi Basin Hydroclimate Extremes Over the Last Millennium. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(2). 9 indexed citations

Dee, Sylvia & Nathan Steiger. (2022). ENSO’s Response to Volcanism in a Data Assimilation‐Based Paleoclimate Reconstruction Over the Common Era. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 37(3). 9 indexed citations

Erb, Michael P., Nicholas P. McKay, Nathan Steiger, et al.. (2022). Reconstructing Holocene temperatures in time and space using paleoclimate data assimilation. Climate of the past. 18(12). 2599–2629. 37 indexed citations

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Dee, Sylvia, et al.. (2022). Last Millennium ENSO Diversity and North American Teleconnections: New Insights From Paleoclimate Data Assimilation. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 37(3). 11 indexed citations

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Siler, Nicholas, et al.. (2021). Understanding drivers of glacier-length variability over the last millennium. The cryosphere. 15(3). 1645–1662. 9 indexed citations

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Erb, Michael P., Julien Emile‐Geay, Gregory J. Hakim, Nathan Steiger, & Eric J. Steig. (2020). Atmospheric dynamics drive most interannual U.S. droughts over the last millennium. Science Advances. 6(32). eaay7268–eaay7268. 20 indexed citations

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Dätwyler, Christoph, Martín Grosjean, Nathan Steiger, & Raphael Neukom. (2020). Teleconnections and relationship between the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) in reconstructions and models over the past millennium. Climate of the past. 16(2). 743–756. 35 indexed citations

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Siler, Nicholas, et al.. (2020). Understanding Drivers of Glacier Length Variability Over the LastMillennium. 1 indexed citations

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Klein, François, Nerilie J. Abram, Mark A.J. Curran, et al.. (2019). Assessing the robustness of Antarctic temperature reconstructions over the past 2 millennia using pseudoproxy and data assimilation experiments. Climate of the past. 15(2). 661–684. 25 indexed citations

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Neukom, Raphael, Nathan Steiger, Juan José Gómez‐Navarro, Jianghao Wang, & J. Werner. (2019). No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era. Nature. 571(7766). 550–554. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dätwyler, Christoph, Martín Grosjean, Nathan Steiger, & Raphael Neukom. (2019). Teleconnections and relationship between ENSO and SAM in reconstructions and models over the past millennium. 3 indexed citations

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Neukom, Raphael, Andrew Schurer, Nathan Steiger, & Gabriele C. Hegerl. (2018). Possible causes of data model discrepancy in the temperature history of the last Millennium. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 7572–7572. 28 indexed citations

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Steiger, Nathan & Gregory J. Hakim. (2016). Multi-timescale data assimilation for atmosphere–ocean state estimates. Climate of the past. 12(6). 1375–1388. 20 indexed citations

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Steiger, Nathan, Gregory J. Hakim, Eric J. Steig, David S. Battisti, & Gerard H. Roe. (2012). Climate Field Reconstruction via Data Assimilation. AGUFM. 2012. 2 indexed citations

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