Reto Knutti

66.7k total citations · 29 hit papers
242 papers, 36.8k citations indexed

About

Reto Knutti is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Reto Knutti has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 36.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 142 papers in Atmospheric Science and 44 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Reto Knutti's work include Climate variability and models (165 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (99 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (94 papers). Reto Knutti is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (165 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (99 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (94 papers). Reto Knutti collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Reto Knutti's co-authors include Erich Fischer, Claudia Tebaldi, Pierre Friedlingstein, Jan Sedláčék, Susan Solomon, Gian‐Kasper Plattner, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Malte Meinshausen, Joeri Rogelj and David Masson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Reto Knutti

238 papers receiving 35.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) for CMIP6

2016 3.2k citations Detlef P. van Vuuren, Pierre Friedlingstein et al. profile →
Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions

2009 2.2k citations Susan Solomon, Gian‐Kasper Plattner et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C

2009 2.1k citations Reto Knutti, Myles Allen et al. profile →
Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility

2013 1.7k citations Reto Knutti, Pierre Friedlingstein et al. profile →
The use of the multi-model ensemble in probabilistic climate projections

2007 1.4k citations Reto Knutti et al. profile →
Robustness and uncertainties in the new CMIP5 climate model projections

2012 1.2k citations Reto Knutti et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes

2015 1.0k citations Erich Fischer, Reto Knutti Nature Climate Change profile →
Challenges in Combining Projections from Multiple Climate Models

2009 928 citations Reto Knutti, Jan Čermák et al. profile →
Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

2013 783 citations Pierre Friedlingstein, Reto Knutti et al. profile →
Communication of the role of natural variability in future North American climate

2012 669 citations Clara Deser, Reto Knutti et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Climate model genealogy: Generation CMIP5 and how we got there

2013 652 citations Reto Knutti et al. profile →
Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal

2016 644 citations Joeri Rogelj, Michiel Schaeffer et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

2020 603 citations Clara Deser, Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Global warming under old and new scenarios using IPCC climate sensitivity range estimates

2012 596 citations Joeri Rogelj, Reto Knutti et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets

2014 556 citations Pierre Friedlingstein, Joeri Rogelj et al. profile →
Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets

2016 556 citations Reto Knutti et al. profile →
Observed heavy precipitation increase confirms theory and early models

2016 516 citations Erich Fischer, Reto Knutti Nature Climate Change profile →
Precipitation variability increases in a warmer climate

2017 496 citations Angeline G. Pendergrass, Reto Knutti et al. profile →
Robust spatially aggregated projections of climate extremes

2013 449 citations Erich Fischer, Urs Beyerle et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models

2020 447 citations Katarzyna Tokarska, Martin B. Stolpe et al. Science Advances profile →
Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes

2021 394 citations Erich Fischer, Sebastian Sippel et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
The Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP v1.0)contribution to CMIP6

2016 391 citations Nathan P. Gillett, Hideo Shiogama et al. 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 →
The end of model democracy?

2010 368 citations Reto Knutti profile →
Imprint of Southern Ocean eddies on winds, clouds and rainfall

2013 346 citations Reto Knutti et al. profile →
Reconciling controversies about the ‘global warming hiatus’

2017 346 citations Martin B. Stolpe, Erich Fischer et al. profile →
A climate model projection weighting scheme accounting for performance and interdependence

2017 302 citations Reto Knutti, Benjamin M. Sanderson et al. profile →
Prediction and projection of heatwaves

2022 232 citations Erich Fischer, Reto Knutti et al. profile →
Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period

2021 161 citations Nathan P. Gillett, Megan C. Kirchmeier‐Young et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Reto Knutti

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Increasing extreme precipitation variability plays a key role in future record-shattering event probability 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Sebastian Sippel, (unknown), Erich Fischer, Reto Knutti	9
2	Durability of carbon dioxide removal is critical for Paris climate goals 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Zeke Hausfather, Reto Knutti	22
3	The potential for structural errors in emergent constraints 2021 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Benjamin M. Sanderson, Angeline G. Pendergrass, Charles D. Koven, Florent Brient, Ben Booth, Rosie A. Fisher, Reto Knutti	32
4	Urban multi-model climate projections of intense heat in Switzerland 2021 ·Climate Services ·(unknown), Sven Kotlarski, Ana Casanueva, Elke Hertig, Erich Fischer, Reto Knutti	9
5	Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Climate Change ·Nathan P. Gillett, Megan C. Kirchmeier‐Young, Aurélien Ribes, Hideo Shiogama, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Reto Knutti, Guillaume Gastineau, Jasmin G. John, Lijuan Li, Larissa Nazarenko, Nan Rosenbloom, Øyvind Seland, Tongwen Wu, Seiji Yukimoto, Tilo Ziehn	161
6	An integrated approach to quantifying uncertainties in the remaining carbon budget 2021 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·H. Damon Matthews, Katarzyna Tokarska, Joeri Rogelj, Chris Smith, Andrew H. MacDougall, Karsten Haustein, Nadine Mengis, Sebastian Sippel, Piers Forster, Reto Knutti	73
7	Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models breakdown → 2020 ·Science Advances ·Katarzyna Tokarska, Martin B. Stolpe, Sebastian Sippel, Erich Fischer, Chris Smith, Flavio Lehner, Reto Knutti	447
8	Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models 2020 ·Martin B. Stolpe, Katarzyna Tokarska, Sebastian Sippel, Erich Fischer, Chris Smith, Flavio Lehner, Reto Knutti	3
9	Publisher Correction: Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects 2020 ·Nature Climate Change ·Clara Deser, Flavio Lehner, Keith B. Rodgers, Toby R. Ault, Thomas L. Delworth, Pedro DiNezio, Arlene M. Fiore, Claude Frankignoul, John C. Fyfe, Daniel E. Horton, Jennifer E. Kay, Reto Knutti, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Jochem Marotzke, Karen A. McKinnon, Shoshiro Minobe, James T. Randerson, James A. Screen, Isla R. Simpson, Mingfang Ting	10
10	Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles 2020 ·Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change ·Marius Zumwald, (unknown), Christoph Baumberger, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, David N. Bresch, Reto Knutti	30
11	Selecting a climate model subset to optimise key ensemble properties 2018 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Nadja Herger, Gab Abramowitz, Reto Knutti, Oliver Angélil, Karsten Lehmann, Benjamin M. Sanderson	110
12	Model dependence in multi-model climate ensembles: weighting, sub-selection and out-of-sample testing 2018 ·Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Gab Abramowitz, Nadja Herger, E. D. Gutmann, Dorit Hammerling, Reto Knutti, Martin Leduc, Ruth Lorenz, Robert Pincus, Gavin A. Schmidt	11
13	Understanding the drivers of marine liquid-water cloud occurrence and properties with global observations using neural networks 2017 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Hendrik Andersen, Jan Čermák, Julia Fuchs, Reto Knutti, Ulrike Lohmann	47
14	Focus on cumulative emissions, global carbon budgets and the implications for climate mitigation targets 2017 ·Environmental Research Letters ·H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, Reto Knutti, Myles Allen	94
15	The social and scientific values that shape national climate scenarios: a comparison of the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK 2017 ·Regional Environmental Change ·(unknown), James J. Porter, Suraje Dessai, David N. Bresch, Reto Knutti	26
16	Mapping the climate change challenge 2016 ·Nature Climate Change ·Stéphane Hallegatte, Joeri Rogelj, Myles Allen, Leon Clarke, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christopher B. Field, Pierre Friedlingstein, (unknown), Reto Knutti, Katharine J. Mach, Michael D. Mastrandrea, Adrien Michel, Jan C. Minx, Michael Oppenheimer, Gian‐Kasper Plattner, Keywan Riahi, Michiel Schaeffer, Thomas F. Stocker, Detlef P. van Vuuren	81
17	The Contribution of Atmospheric Circulation and Coverage Bias to the Warming Hiatus 2015 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·(unknown), Erich Fischer, Reto Knutti	1
18	Feedbacks, climate sensitivity, and the limits of linear models 2015 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Maria Rugenstein, Reto Knutti	6
19	Spatial aggregation reveals robust projections in climate extremes 2013 ·AGUFM ·Erich Fischer, Urs Beyerle, Reto Knutti	1
20	Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions breakdown → 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Susan Solomon, Gian‐Kasper Plattner, Reto Knutti, Pierre Friedlingstein	2220

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