Nicola Maher

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Nicola Maher is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicola Maher has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Nicola Maher's work include Climate variability and models (27 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (10 papers). Nicola Maher is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (27 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (19 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (10 papers). Nicola Maher collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Germany and United States. Nicola Maher's co-authors include Andrew L. Lowry, Paul A. O’Gorman, Markus G. Donat, Lisa V. Alexander, Sebastian Milinski, Jochem Marotzke, Matthew H. England, Alex Sen Gupta, Flavio Lehner and Lukas Brunner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Nicola Maher

33 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

More extreme precipitation in the world’s dry and wet regions

2016 1.3k citations Markus G. Donat, Andrew L. Lowry et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6

2020 371 citations Flavio Lehner, Clara Deser et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicola Maher Australia	17	2.2k	1.6k	381	338	216	35	2.7k
María Jesús Esteban‐Parra Spain	26	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	413 1.1×	348 1.0×	155 0.7×	70	2.8k
Robin Chadwick United Kingdom	27	2.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	233 0.6×	372 1.1×	181 0.8×	64	2.6k
Yolanda Castro‐Díez Spain	27	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	421 1.1×	355 1.1×	156 0.7×	73	2.9k
Emanuele Bevacqua Germany	19	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	399 1.0×	193 0.6×	329 1.5×	47	2.9k
Jan Sedláčék Switzerland	18	2.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	384 1.0×	315 0.9×	273 1.3×	36	2.8k
Arona Diédhiou France	30	2.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	510 1.3×	385 1.1×	332 1.5×	145	3.7k
Glen Harris United Kingdom	23	2.4k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	364 1.0×	407 1.2×	244 1.1×	34	3.0k
Danielle C. Verdon‐Kidd Australia	24	1.8k 0.8×	989 0.6×	608 1.6×	456 1.3×	171 0.8×	78	2.3k
Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti Brazil	25	2.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.3×	443 1.2×	557 1.6×	151 0.7×	63	3.3k
Aurélien Ribes France	33	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	416 1.1×	561 1.7×	133 0.6×	81	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicola Maher

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Maher, Nicola, Adam S. Phillips, Robert C. J. Wills, et al.. (2025). The updated Multi-Model Large Ensemble Archive and the Climate Variability Diagnostics Package: new tools for the study of climate variability and change. Geoscientific model development. 18(18). 6341–6365. 2 indexed citations

Suárez‐Gutiérrez, Laura & Nicola Maher. (2025). Temperature variability projections remain uncertain after constraining them to best performing Large Ensembles of individual Climate Models. Nature Communications. 17(1). 314–314.

Abram, Nerilie J., Nicola Maher, Georgina Falster, et al.. (2025). Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making. npj Climate Action. 4(1). 3 indexed citations

Kay, Jennifer E., et al.. (2024). Sea ice feedbacks cause more greenhouse cooling than greenhouse warming at high northern latitudes on multi-century timescales. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 41003–41003. 1 indexed citations

King, Andrew D., Tilo Ziehn, Matthew A. Chamberlain, et al.. (2024). Exploring climate stabilisation at different global warming levels in ACCESS-ESM-1.5. Earth System Dynamics. 15(5). 1353–1383. 12 indexed citations

Amaya, Dillon J., Nicola Maher, Clara Deser, et al.. (2024). Linking Projected Changes in Seasonal Climate Predictability and ENSO Amplitude. Journal of Climate. 38(3). 675–688. 3 indexed citations

Santos, Victor Malagon, Aimée B. A. Slangen, Tim H. J. Hermans, et al.. (2023). Improving statistical projections of ocean dynamic sea-level change using pattern recognition techniques. Ocean science. 19(2). 499–515. 1 indexed citations

Maher, Nicola, Robert C. J. Wills, Pedro DiNezio, et al.. (2023). The future of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation: using large ensembles to illuminate time-varying responses and inter-model differences. Earth System Dynamics. 14(2). 413–431. 41 indexed citations

Maher, Nicola, Thibault Tabarin, & Sebastian Milinski. (2022). Combining machine learning and SMILEs to classify, better understand, and project changes in ENSO events. Earth System Dynamics. 13(3). 1289–1304. 4 indexed citations

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Ward, B., Francesco S. R. Pausata, & Nicola Maher. (2021). The sensitivity of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation to volcanic aerosol spatial distribution in the MPI Grand Ensemble. Earth System Dynamics. 12(3). 975–996. 10 indexed citations

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Maher, Nicola, Scott B. Power, & Jochem Marotzke. (2021). More accurate quantification of model-to-model agreement in externally forced climatic responses over the coming century. Nature Communications. 12(1). 788–788. 46 indexed citations

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Suárez‐Gutiérrez, Laura, Sebastian Milinski, & Nicola Maher. (2021). Exploiting large ensembles for a better yet simpler climate model evaluation. 1 indexed citations

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Lehner, Flavio, Clara Deser, Nicola Maher, et al.. (2020). Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6. Earth System Dynamics. 11(2). 491–508. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ward, B., Francesco S. R. Pausata, & Nicola Maher. (2020). The sensitivity of the ENSO to volcanic aerosol spatial distribution in the MPI large ensemble. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 2 indexed citations

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Milinski, Sebastian, Nicola Maher, & Dirk Olonscheck. (2020). How large does a large ensemble need to be?. Earth System Dynamics. 11(4). 885–901. 124 indexed citations

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Milinski, Sebastian, Nicola Maher, & Dirk Olonscheck. (2019). How large does a large ensemble need to be?. 4 indexed citations

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Maher, Nicola, Daniela Matei, Sebastian Milinski, & Jochem Marotzke. (2018). ENSO Change in Climate Projections: Forced Response or Internal Variability?. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(20). 109 indexed citations

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Maher, William A., et al.. (2016). The use of the marine gastropod, Cellana tramoserica, as a biomonitor of metal contamination in near shore environments. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 188(7). 391–391. 13 indexed citations

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Donat, Markus G., Andrew L. Lowry, Lisa V. Alexander, Paul A. O’Gorman, & Nicola Maher. (2016). More extreme precipitation in the world’s dry and wet regions. Nature Climate Change. 6(5). 508–513. 1262 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maher, Nicola. (1994). Minangkabau Migration: Developing an Ethnic Identity in a Multicultural Society. Australian Geographical Studies. 32(1). 58–68. 7 indexed citations

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