Stephan Pfahl

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Stephan Pfahl is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Pfahl has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 83 papers in Atmospheric Science and 17 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Stephan Pfahl's work include Climate variability and models (79 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (58 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (29 papers). Stephan Pfahl is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (79 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (58 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (29 papers). Stephan Pfahl collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Stephan Pfahl's co-authors include Heini Wernli, Harald Sodemann, Paul A. O’Gorman, Erich Fischer, Olivia Martius, Jennifer L. Catto, Christian M. Grams, Franziska Aemisegger, Daniel Steinfeld and Clément Chevalier and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Pfahl

91 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Understanding the regional pattern of projected future changes in extreme precipitation

2017 758 citations Stephan Pfahl, Paul A. O’Gorman et al. profile →
Atmospheric blocking and weather extremes over the Euro-Atlantic sector – a review

2022 160 citations Stephan Pfahl et al. Weather and Climate Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephan Pfahl Switzerland	40	5.0k	4.7k	872	694	430	94	5.9k
Benjamin R. Lintner United States	36	3.4k 0.7×	2.6k 0.6×	96 0.1×	447 0.6×	621 1.4×	88	4.1k
Paul J. Neiman United States	49	7.5k 1.5×	7.9k 1.7×	125 0.1×	853 1.2×	1.1k 2.6×	108	9.1k
K. Froehlich Austria	19	1.2k 0.2×	1.7k 0.4×	2.2k 2.5×	444 0.6×	525 1.2×	32	3.2k
Andreas Sterl Netherlands	35	2.9k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	86 0.1×	2.5k 3.6×	200 0.5×	64	5.0k
Jonathon S. Wright China	29	2.3k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	104 0.1×	410 0.6×	188 0.4×	86	3.0k
Baruch Ziv Israel	33	2.6k 0.5×	2.7k 0.6×	70 0.1×	529 0.8×	184 0.4×	87	4.1k
Martin C. Todd United Kingdom	29	3.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.7×	86 0.1×	170 0.2×	247 0.6×	44	3.9k
U. Jambor United States	3	2.2k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	137 0.2×	1.5k 2.1×	1.0k 2.4×	5	4.4k
J. Radakovich United States	4	2.2k 0.4×	1.7k 0.4×	136 0.2×	1.5k 2.1×	1.0k 2.4×	5	4.3k
Efrat Morin Israel	41	2.8k 0.6×	2.2k 0.5×	97 0.1×	192 0.3×	1.3k 2.9×	119	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephan Pfahl

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephan Pfahl

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Pfahl

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pfahl, Stephan, et al.. (2025). Environments and lifting mechanisms of cold-frontal convective cells during the warm season in Germany. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 6(2). 695–713.

Luca, Paolo De, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Blocking Frequencies in Very‐High Resolution Idealized Climate Model Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(22). 2 indexed citations

Botsyun, Svetlana, Franziska Aemisegger, Leonie Villiger, Ingo Kirchner, & Stephan Pfahl. (2024). Quantifying free tropospheric moisture sources over the western tropical Atlantic with numerical water tracers and isotopes. Atmospheric Science Letters. 25(12).

Pfahl, Stephan, et al.. (2024). Future changes in North Atlantic winter cyclones in CESM-LE – Part 2: A Lagrangian analysis. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 5(1). 163–179. 3 indexed citations

Pfahl, Stephan, et al.. (2023). The climatology and nature of warm-season convective cells in cold-frontal environments over Germany. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(12). 3703–3721. 4 indexed citations

O’Gorman, Paul A., et al.. (2023). Moist available potential energy of the mean state of the atmosphere and the thermodynamic potential for warm conveyor belts and convection. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 4(2). 361–379. 5 indexed citations

Pfahl, Stephan, et al.. (2023). What distinguishes 100-year precipitation extremes over central European river catchments from more moderate extreme events?. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 4(2). 427–447. 1 indexed citations

Villiger, Leonie, Marina Dütsch, Sandrine Bony, et al.. (2023). Water isotopic characterisation of the cloud–circulation coupling in the North Atlantic trades – Part 1: A process-oriented evaluation of COSMO _iso simulations with EUREC ⁴ A observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(23). 14643–14672. 5 indexed citations

Hartmann, Kai, et al.. (2022). Precipitation Over Southern Africa: Moisture Sources and Isotopic Composition. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(21). 13 indexed citations

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Teubler, Franziska, et al.. (2022). Future changes in North Atlantic winter cyclones in CESM-LE – Part 1: Cyclone intensity, potential vorticity anomalies, and horizontal wind speed. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 3(2). 429–448. 27 indexed citations

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Diekmann, Christopher J., Matthias Schneider, Peter Knippertz, et al.. (2021). A Lagrangian Perspective on Stable Water Isotopes During the West African Monsoon. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(19). 16 indexed citations

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Diekmann, Christopher J., Matthias Schneider, Franziska Aemisegger, et al.. (2021). Analysis of stable water isotopes in tropospheric moisture during the West African Monsoon. Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations

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Aemisegger, Franziska, Heini Wernli, Matthias Schneider, et al.. (2021). Disentangling different moisture transport pathways over the eastern subtropical North Atlantic using multi-platform isotope observations and high-resolution numerical modelling. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(21). 16319–16347. 19 indexed citations

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Thurnherr, Iris, Anna Kozachek, Pascal Graf, et al.. (2020). Meridional and vertical variations of the water vapour isotopic composition in the marine boundary layer over the Atlantic and Southern Ocean. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(9). 5811–5835. 34 indexed citations

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Sprenger, Matthias, Christine Stumpp, Markus Weiler, et al.. (2019). The Demographics of Water: A Review of Water Ages in the Critical Zone. Reviews of Geophysics. 57(3). 800–834. 227 indexed citations

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Graf, Pascal, Heini Wernli, Stephan Pfahl, & Harald Sodemann. (2019). A new interpretative framework for below-cloud effects on stable water isotopes in vapour and rain. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(2). 747–765. 77 indexed citations

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Pasquier, Julie T., Stephan Pfahl, & Christian M. Grams. (2018). Modulation of Atmospheric River Occurrence and Associated Precipitation Extremes in the North Atlantic Region by European Weather Regimes. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(2). 1014–1023. 59 indexed citations

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Aemisegger, Franziska, et al.. (2015). Isotope meteorology of cold front passages: A case study combining observations and modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(13). 5652–5660. 75 indexed citations

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Škerlak, Bojan, et al.. (2014). Rapid exchange between the stratosphere and the planetary boundary layer over the Tibetan Plateau. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9903. 2 indexed citations

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Aemisegger, Franziska, Patrick Sturm, Pascal Graf, et al.. (2012). Measuring variations of δ ¹⁸ O and δ ² H in atmospheric water vapour using laser spectroscopy: an instrument characterisation study. 3 indexed citations

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