Odd Helge Otterå

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Odd Helge Otterå is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Odd Helge Otterå has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Atmospheric Science, 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 17 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Odd Helge Otterå's work include Climate variability and models (39 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (21 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (19 papers). Odd Helge Otterå is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (39 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (21 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (19 papers). Odd Helge Otterå collaborates with scholars based in Norway, China and Germany. Odd Helge Otterå's co-authors include Mats Bentsen, Helge Drange, Lingling Suo, Yongqi Gao, Tor Eldevik, Tore Furevik, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Ingo Bethke, Igor Esau and Tao Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Odd Helge Otterå

52 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Odd Helge Otterå Norway	23	1.8k	1.5k	762	225	155	55	2.2k
Simon Marsland Australia	23	2.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	151 0.7×	187 1.2×	41	2.6k
Pablo Ortega Spain	22	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	718 0.9×	120 0.5×	159 1.0×	63	2.0k
Tore Furevik Norway	27	2.2k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	226 1.0×	147 0.9×	53	2.6k
Katja Lohmann Germany	21	1.9k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	106 0.5×	129 0.8×	40	2.6k
Davide Zanchettin Italy	29	1.7k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	652 0.9×	107 0.5×	179 1.2×	95	2.4k
Ruth Curry United States	18	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	1.9k 2.5×	249 1.1×	187 1.2×	24	2.7k
Erik Behrens New Zealand	25	921 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	310 1.4×	466 3.0×	53	2.0k
Rumi Ohgaito Japan	22	1.3k 0.8×	848 0.6×	395 0.5×	278 1.2×	300 1.9×	44	1.6k
Yafang Zhong United States	17	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	481 0.6×	145 0.6×	218 1.4×	36	1.8k
Peter L. Langen Denmark	28	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	245 0.3×	128 0.6×	211 1.4×	76	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Odd Helge Otterå

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Odd Helge Otterå

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All Works

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Zhang, Ling, Zhongshi Zhang, Lu Li, et al.. (2025). Flood modeling prior to the instrumental era reveals limited magnitude of 1931 Yangtze flood. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhongshi, Noel Keenlyside, Stefan Sobolowski, et al.. (2025). Intensification of extreme cold events in East Asia in response to global mean sea-level rise. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8700–8700.

Zhang, Zhongshi, et al.. (2024). Warm Advection as a Cause for Extreme Heat Event in North China. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(12). 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhongshi, Eystein Jansen, Stefan Sobolowski, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise. Nature Geoscience. 16(4). 321–327. 15 indexed citations

Tartaglione, Nazario, Thomas Toniazzo, Odd Helge Otterå, & Yvan Orsolini. (2023). Equilibrium Climate after Spectral and Bolometric Irradiance Reduction in Grand Solar Minimum Simulations. Climate. 12(1). 1–1.

Orsolini, Yvan, et al.. (2021). The 11 year solar cycle UV irradiance effect and its dependency on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Environmental Research Letters. 16(6). 64030–64030. 7 indexed citations

Tartaglione, Nazario, Thomas Toniazzo, Yvan Orsolini, & Odd Helge Otterå. (2020). A note on the statistical evidence for an influence of geomagnetic activity on Northern Hemisphere seasonal-mean stratospheric temperatures using the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis. Annales Geophysicae. 38(2). 545–555. 2 indexed citations

Li, Xiangyu, Chuncheng Guo, Zhongshi Zhang, Odd Helge Otterå, & Ran Zhang. (2020). PlioMIP2 simulations with NorESM-L and NorESM1-F. Climate of the past. 16(1). 183–197. 29 indexed citations

Tartaglione, Nazario, Thomas Toniazzo, Yvan Orsolini, & Odd Helge Otterå. (2019). A note on the statistical evidence for an influence of geomagnetic activity on JRA-55 northern hemisphere seasonal-mean stratospheric temperatures. 1 indexed citations

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Perner, Kerstin, Matthias Moros, Odd Helge Otterå, et al.. (2019). An oceanic perspective on Greenland’s recent freshwater discharge since 1850. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17680–17680. 19 indexed citations

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Guo, Chuncheng, Mats Bentsen, Ingo Bethke, et al.. (2019). Description and evaluation of NorESM1-F: a fast version of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM). Geoscientific model development. 12(1). 343–362. 54 indexed citations

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Lohmann, Katja, Emmanuel Mignot, Helene R. Langehaug, et al.. (2015). Using simulations of the last millennium to understand climate variability seen in palaeo-observations: similar variation of Iceland–Scotland overflow strength and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Climate of the past. 11(2). 203–216. 12 indexed citations

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Lohmann, Katja, Johann Jungclaus, Daniela Matei, et al.. (2014). The role of subpolar deep water formation and Nordic Seas overflows in simulated multidecadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Ocean science. 10(2). 227–241. 20 indexed citations

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Lei, Yu, Tore Furevik, Odd Helge Otterå, & Yongqi Gao. (2014). Modulation of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the summer precipitation over East China: a comparison of observations to 600-years control run of Bergen Climate Model. Climate Dynamics. 44(1-2). 475–494. 94 indexed citations

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Eldevik, Tor, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Anne E. Bjune, et al.. (2014). A brief history of climate – the northern seas from the Last Glacial Maximum to global warming. Quaternary Science Reviews. 106. 225–246. 72 indexed citations

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Wang, Tao, Odd Helge Otterå, Yongqi Gao, et al.. (2013). Anthropogenic forcing of shift in precipitation in Eastern China in late 1970s. 13 indexed citations

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Suo, Lingling, Odd Helge Otterå, Mats Bentsen, Yongqi Gao, & Ola M. Johannessen. (2013). External forcing of the early 20th century Arctic warming. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 65(1). 20578–20578. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Tao, Huijuan Wang, Odd Helge Otterå, et al.. (2013). Anthropogenic agent implicated as a prime driver of shift in precipitation in eastern China in the late 1970s. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(24). 12433–12450. 87 indexed citations

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Tjiputra, Jerry, Karen M. Assmann, Mats Bentsen, et al.. (2010). Bergen Earth system model (BCM-C): model description and regional climate-carbon cycle feedbacks assessment. Geoscientific model development. 3(1). 123–141. 39 indexed citations

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Otterå, Odd Helge, Mats Bentsen, Ingo Bethke, & Nils Gunnar Kvamstø. (2009). Simulated pre-industrial climate in Bergen Climate Model (version 2): model description and large-scale circulation features. Geoscientific model development. 2(2). 197–212. 59 indexed citations

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