Thomas Schwitalla

1.3k total citations
39 papers, 669 citations indexed

About

Thomas Schwitalla is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Schwitalla has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 669 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Atmospheric Science, 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Thomas Schwitalla's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (30 papers), Climate variability and models (22 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (9 papers). Thomas Schwitalla is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (30 papers), Climate variability and models (22 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (9 papers). Thomas Schwitalla collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and United States. Thomas Schwitalla's co-authors include Volker Wulfmeyer, Hans‐Stefan Bauer, Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi, Oliver Branch, Andreas Behrendt, Günther Zängl, Michael Weston, Marouane Temimi, F. Aoshima and Youssef Wehbe and has published in prestigious journals such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society and International Journal of Climatology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Schwitalla

36 papers receiving 658 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Schwitalla Germany 16 557 544 86 55 46 39 669
Aaron Kennedy United States 14 708 1.3× 745 1.4× 72 0.8× 27 0.5× 41 0.9× 34 854
Kohei Aranami Japan 7 751 1.3× 651 1.2× 103 1.2× 136 2.5× 27 0.6× 9 866
Linda Schlemmer Switzerland 16 878 1.6× 844 1.6× 154 1.8× 63 1.1× 32 0.7× 32 981
Simon Pellerin Canada 7 538 1.0× 472 0.9× 90 1.0× 60 1.1× 33 0.7× 8 593
Stephane Sénési France 10 458 0.8× 480 0.9× 63 0.7× 71 1.3× 57 1.2× 17 574
Stefan Rahimi United States 14 454 0.8× 444 0.8× 50 0.6× 18 0.3× 67 1.5× 33 561
Hisaki Eito Japan 8 574 1.0× 468 0.9× 60 0.7× 101 1.8× 17 0.4× 14 636
Silke Trömel Germany 17 739 1.3× 503 0.9× 204 2.4× 32 0.6× 61 1.3× 53 860
Ryoji Nagasawa Japan 5 559 1.0× 493 0.9× 69 0.8× 107 1.9× 20 0.4× 6 644
M. L. Cancillo Spain 14 488 0.9× 506 0.9× 78 0.9× 33 0.6× 18 0.4× 44 678

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Schwitalla

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Schwitalla

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Schwitalla

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schwitalla, Thomas, Lisa Jach, Volker Wulfmeyer, & Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi. (2025). Soil moisture–atmosphere coupling strength over central Europe in the recent warming climate. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(4). 1405–1424.
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Branch, Oliver, Lisa Jach, Thomas Schwitalla, Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi, & Volker Wulfmeyer. (2024). Scaling artificial heat islands to enhance precipitation in the United Arab Emirates. Earth System Dynamics. 15(1). 109–129. 2 indexed citations
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Warrach‐Sagi, Kirsten, et al.. (2024). Assessment of Seasonal Rainfall Prediction in Ethiopia: Evaluating a Dynamic Recurrent Neural Network to Downscale ECMWF-SEAS5 Rainfall. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 41(11). 2230–2244.
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Jach, Lisa, Thomas Schwitalla, Oliver Branch, Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi, & Volker Wulfmeyer. (2022). Sensitivity of land–atmosphere coupling strength to changing atmospheric temperature and moisture over Europe. Earth System Dynamics. 13(1). 109–132. 16 indexed citations
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Branch, Oliver, Thomas Schwitalla, Marouane Temimi, et al.. (2021). Seasonal and diurnal performance of daily forecasts with WRF V3.8.1 over the United Arab Emirates. Geoscientific model development. 14(3). 1615–1637. 26 indexed citations
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Jach, Lisa, Thomas Schwitalla, Oliver Branch, Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi, & Volker Wulfmeyer. (2021). Sensitivity of land-atmosphere coupling strength to perturbations of early-morning temperature and moisture profiles in the European summer. 3 indexed citations
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Schwitalla, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Turbulence-permitting air pollution simulation for the Stuttgart metropolitan area. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(6). 4575–4597. 2 indexed citations
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Schwitalla, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Assimilation of Lidar Water Vapour Mixing Ratio and Temperature Profiles into a Convection-Permitting Model. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 98(5). 959–986. 6 indexed citations
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Schwitalla, Thomas, Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi, Volker Wulfmeyer, & Michael Resch. (2020). Near-global-scale high-resolution seasonal simulations with WRF-Noah-MP v.3.8.1. Geoscientific model development. 13(4). 1959–1974. 7 indexed citations
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Wehbe, Youssef, Marouane Temimi, Michael Weston, et al.. (2019). Analysis of an extreme weather event in a hyper-arid region using WRF-Hydro coupling, station, and satellite data. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 19(6). 1129–1149. 56 indexed citations
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Kawabata, Takuya, Thomas Schwitalla, Ahoro Adachi, et al.. (2018). Observational operators for dual polarimetric radars in variationaldata assimilation systems. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations
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Kawabata, Takuya, Thomas Schwitalla, Ahoro Adachi, et al.. (2018). Observational operators for dual polarimetric radars in variational data assimilation systems (PolRad VAR v1.0). Geoscientific model development. 11(6). 2493–2501. 14 indexed citations
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Kawabata, Takuya, Hans‐Stefan Bauer, Thomas Schwitalla, Volker Wulfmeyer, & Ahoro Adachi. (2017). Evaluation of Forward Operators for Polarimetric Radars Aiming for Data Assimilation. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 96A(0). 157–174. 8 indexed citations
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Schwitalla, Thomas, Hans‐Stefan Bauer, Volker Wulfmeyer, & Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi. (2017). Continuous high-resolution midlatitude-belt simulations for July–August 2013 with WRF. Geoscientific model development. 10(5). 2031–2055. 12 indexed citations
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Schwitalla, Thomas, Hans‐Stefan Bauer, Volker Wulfmeyer, & Kirsten Warrach‐Sagi. (2016). Continuous high resolution mid-latitude belt simulations for July–August 2013 with WRF. 1 indexed citations
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Grzeschik, Matthias, Thomas Schwitalla, Hans‐Stefan Bauer, & Volker Wulfmeyer. (2012). Comparison of WRF 3D-Var with the DART EnKF for a COPS IOP. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 13479.
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Bauer, Hans‐Stefan, Volker Wulfmeyer, Thomas Schwitalla, Florian Zus, & Matthias Grzeschik. (2011). Operational assimilation of GPS slant path delay measurements into the MM5 4DVAR system. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 1 indexed citations
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Bauer, Hans‐Stefan, Manfred Dorninger, Volker Wulfmeyer, et al.. (2011). Predictive skill of a subset of models participating in D‐PHASE in the COPS region. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 137(S1). 287–305. 32 indexed citations
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Chu, Jianhua, et al.. (2010). Regional Climate Simulation (1989-2009) with WRF in the CORDEX-Europe Domain. 1 indexed citations
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Schwitalla, Thomas, Hans‐Stefan Bauer, Volker Wulfmeyer, & Günther Zängl. (2008). Systematic errors of QPF in low-mountain regions as revealed by MM5 simulations. Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 17(6). 903–919. 45 indexed citations

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