Nicholas Siler

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 948 citations indexed

About

Nicholas Siler is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Siler has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 948 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Atmospheric Science, 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 2 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Siler's work include Climate variability and models (28 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (12 papers). Nicholas Siler is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (28 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (12 papers). Nicholas Siler collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Nicholas Siler's co-authors include Gerard H. Roe, Kyle C. Armour, Dale R. Durran, L. Ruby Leung, Alex Hall, Ashley E. Payne, Jonathan J. Rutz, Gabriele Villarini, F. Martin Ralph and Alexandre M. Ramos and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Siler

28 papers receiving 936 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change

2020 267 citations L. Ruby Leung, Nicholas Siler et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Siler United States	15	743	716	113	95	65	29	948
Toshiyuki Nakaegawa Japan	15	631 0.8×	468 0.7×	151 1.3×	62 0.7×	67 1.0×	39	860
Maximiliano Viale Argentina	17	945 1.3×	847 1.2×	91 0.8×	157 1.7×	88 1.4×	31	1.2k
Nathan Steiger United States	18	1.1k 1.5×	882 1.2×	131 1.2×	38 0.4×	119 1.8×	39	1.3k
Oliver Bothe Germany	18	865 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	169 1.5×	153 1.6×	41 0.6×	36	1.2k
C. Schmutz Switzerland	11	1.3k 1.7×	1.2k 1.7×	230 2.0×	58 0.6×	92 1.4×	11	1.5k
S. Tytéca France	17	827 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	231 2.0×	141 1.5×	48 0.7×	19	1.3k
Wu Guoxiong China	12	828 1.1×	599 0.8×	177 1.6×	31 0.3×	96 1.5×	41	950
Socorro Medina United States	12	1.5k 2.0×	1.5k 2.0×	120 1.1×	100 1.1×	49 0.8×	13	1.7k
Ori Adam Israel	18	816 1.1×	870 1.2×	314 2.8×	31 0.3×	72 1.1×	47	1.1k
Tessa R. Vance Australia	17	820 1.1×	545 0.8×	80 0.7×	74 0.8×	163 2.5×	37	954

Countries citing papers authored by Nicholas Siler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Siler

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Loikith, Paul C., et al.. (2025). Explaining the 2022 Record Low Great Salt Lake Volume. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(2).

Siler, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Weakened Orographic Influence on Cool‐Season Precipitation in Simulations of Future Warming Over the Western US. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(2). 6 indexed citations

Hall, Alex, Stefan Rahimi, Jesse Norris, et al.. (2024). An Evaluation of Dynamical Downscaling Methods Used to Project Regional Climate Change. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(24). 8 indexed citations

Bonan, David, Nicole Feldl, Nicholas Siler, et al.. (2024). The Influence of Climate Feedbacks on Regional Hydrological Changes Under Global Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(3). 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Wenyu, L. Ruby Leung, Nicholas Siler, & Jian Lu. (2023). Future precipitation increase constrained by climatological pattern of cloud effect. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6363–6363. 6 indexed citations

Bonan, David, Nicholas Siler, Gerard H. Roe, & Kyle C. Armour. (2023). Energetic Constraints on the Pattern of Changes to the Hydrological Cycle under Global Warming. Journal of Climate. 36(10). 3499–3522. 12 indexed citations

Siler, Nicholas, David Bonan, & Aaron Donohoe. (2023). Diagnosing Mechanisms of Hydrologic Change under Global Warming in the CESM1 Large Ensemble. Journal of Climate. 36(23). 8243–8257. 5 indexed citations

Po–Chedley, Stephen, John Fasullo, Nicholas Siler, et al.. (2022). Internal variability and forcing influence model–satellite differences in the rate of tropical tropospheric warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(47). e2209431119–e2209431119. 24 indexed citations

Rupp, David E., et al.. (2022). Spatial patterns of extreme precipitation and their changes under ~ 2 °C global warming: a large-ensemble study of the western USA. Climate Dynamics. 59(7-8). 2363–2379. 6 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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Fiorella, Richard P., Nicholas Siler, Jesse Nusbaumer, & David Noone. (2021). Enhancing Understanding of the Hydrological Cycle via Pairing of Process‐Oriented and Isotope Ratio Tracers. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(10). 11 indexed citations

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Inglis, Gordon N., Fran Bragg, Natalie Burls, et al.. (2020). Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the EECO, PETM and latest Paleocene. Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt). 9 indexed citations

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Inglis, Gordon N., Fran Bragg, Natalie Burls, et al.. (2020). Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and latest Paleocene. Climate of the past. 16(5). 1953–1968. 102 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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Siler, Nicholas, Cristian Proistosescu, & Stephen Po–Chedley. (2018). Natural Variability Has Slowed the Decline in Western U.S. Snowpack Since the 1980s. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(1). 346–355. 45 indexed citations

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Siler, Nicholas, Gerard H. Roe, & Kyle C. Armour. (2018). Insights into the Zonal-Mean Response of the Hydrologic Cycle to Global Warming from a Diffusive Energy Balance Model. Journal of Climate. 31(18). 7481–7493. 44 indexed citations

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Siler, Nicholas, Gerard H. Roe, Kyle C. Armour, & Nicole Feldl. (2018). Revisiting the surface-energy-flux perspective on the sensitivity of global precipitation to climate change. Climate Dynamics. 52(7-8). 3983–3995. 27 indexed citations

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Amaya, Dillon J., Nicholas Siler, Shang‐Ping Xie, & Arthur J. Miller. (2017). The interplay of internal and forced modes of Hadley Cell expansion: lessons from the global warming hiatus. Climate Dynamics. 51(1-2). 305–319. 48 indexed citations

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Siler, Nicholas, Stephen Po–Chedley, & Christopher S. Bretherton. (2017). Variability in modeled cloud feedback tied to differences in the climatological spatial pattern of clouds. Climate Dynamics. 50(3-4). 1209–1220. 23 indexed citations

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Christian, John E., Nicholas Siler, Michelle Koutnik, & Gerard H. Roe. (2016). Identifying Dynamically Induced Variability in Glacier Mass-Balance Records. Journal of Climate. 29(24). 8915–8929. 5 indexed citations

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