Walter N. Meier

10.6k citations

103 papers · 7.0k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 34

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 0.2%
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Climate change and permafrost
- Cryospheric studies and observations
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 97
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics 95
- Climate change and permafrost 71
- Cryospheric studies and observations 61
Global and Planetary Change 22
- Climate variability and models 15
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 7

Co-authors: Julienne Strœve Mark C. Serreze Marika M. Holland T. A. Scambos James A Maslanik F. Fetterer A. P. Barrett V. M. Kattsov
Journals: Annals of Glaciology (11 papers)Remote Sensing (9 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (8 papers)Eos (7 papers)The cryosphere (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Walter N. Meier

100 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017 2019 · 548 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Environmental Research Letters
2014 Reviews of Geophysics
2012 Geophysical Research Letters
2007 Geophysical Research Letters

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1	Detection of multi-year ex-fast ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, using ICESat-2 satellite altimeter data Remote Sensing of Environment ·Kwan-Min Park, Hongjie Xie, Walter N. Meier, Stephen F. Ackley, N. T. Kurtz	2025	0
2	The Stepwise Reduction of Multiyear Sea Ice Area in the Arctic Ocean Since 1980 Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·David G. Babb, R. J. Galley, Sergei Kirillov, Jack Landy, Stephen Howell, Julienne Strœve, Walter N. Meier, Jens K. Ehn, David G. Barber	2023	24
3	Forecast Skill of the Arctic Sea Ice Outlook 2008–2022 Geophysical Research Letters ·Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Mitchell Bushuk, François Massonnet, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Cecilia M. Bitz, Walter N. Meier, Uma S. Bhatt	2023	9
4	An Updated Assessment of the Changing Arctic Sea Ice Cover Oceanography ·Walter N. Meier, Julienne Strœve	2022	53
5	Record winter winds in 2020/21 drove exceptional Arctic sea ice transport Communications Earth & Environment ·Robbie Mallett, Julienne Strœve, A. M. Khadr, Alex Crawford, Jennifer V. Lukovich, Mark C. Serreze, A. P. Barrett, Walter N. Meier, Harry Heorton, Michel Tsamados	2021	21
6	The Record Low Bering Sea Ice Extent in 2018: Context, Impacts, and an Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Richard Thoman, Uma S. Bhatt, Peter A. Bieniek, Brian Brettschneider, Michael Brubaker, Seth L. Danielson, Zachary M. Labe, Rick Lader, Walter N. Meier, Gay Sheffield, John E. Walsh	2020	61
7	Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017 Environmental Research Letters ·Jason E. Box, William Colgan, Torben R. Christensen, Niels Martin Schmidt, Magnus Lund, Frans‐Jan W. Parmentier, Ross Brown, Uma S. Bhatt, E. S. Euskirchen, V. E. Romanovsky, John E. Walsh, James E. Overland, Muyin Wang, Robert W. Corell, Walter N. Meier, Bert Wouters, Sebastian H. Mernild, Johanna Mård, Janet Pawlak, Terry D. Oberley Hit paper breakdown →	2019	548
8	Annomalies and Trends in the Sea Ice Cover from 40 years of Passive Microwave Data AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·J. C. Comiso, Walter N. Meier, T. Markus	2018	2
9	Super-Resolved Fine-Scale Sea Ice Motion Tracking IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Vickie M. Wang, Luis Manuel Alva valdivia, Yingli Tian, Walter N. Meier	2017	20
10	Arctic sea ice in 2016: A preview of the future EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Julienne Strœve, Mark C. Serreze, 陈良超 CHEN Liang-chao, Marika M. Holland, Stephen J. Vavrus, Walter N. Meier, T. A. Scambos, F. Fetterer	2017	3
11	Sea Ice Prediction Has Easy and Difficult Years NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ·Lawrence C. Hamilton, Cecilia M. Bitz, Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Matthew Cutler, Jennifer E. Kay, Walter N. Meier, Julienne Strœve, 安藤嘉康	2014	1
12	New IceTracker Tool Depicts Forward and Backward Arctic Sea Ice Trajectories AGUFM ·Stephanie Pfirman, Adhikari Kaustubh, Bruno Tremblay, R. Newton, Walter N. Meier	2013	1
13	Evaluation of a passive microwave sea ice concentration climate data record AGUFM ·Walter N. Meier, Ge Peng, D. J. Scott	2012	2
14	A simple approach to providing a more consistent Arctic sea ice extent time series from the 1950s to present The cryosphere ·Walter N. Meier, Julienne Strœve, A. P. Barrett, F. Fetterer	2012	28
15	Nimbus Satellite Data Rescue Project for Sea Ice Extent: Preliminary results from September 1964, 1966, and 1969 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Walter Randazzo, Walter N. Meier, G. G. Campbell, M.L.J. Karskens	2011	1
16	Can Sea-Ice extent from the 1960s, be determined from reprocessed Nimbus and other historic space based data? AGUFM ·Walter Randazzo, Nilubon Bootchai, Walter N. Meier, Raúl Cárdenas	2009	1
17	Arctic Sea Ice in 2008: Standing on the Threshold AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·S. Omlin, Walter N. Meier, Julienne Strœve, T. A. Scambos, D. Buthot	2008	3
18	Progress and Ongoing Issues in the Development of a Passive Microwave Sea Ice Extent/Concentration Climate Data Record AGUFM ·Walter N. Meier, F. Fetterer, Shoudong Chen, Julienne Strœve, Steinar Eastwood, Mustafa Ahmed Jasem Jasem, Leif Toudal Pedersen, Rasmus Tonboe	2008	1
19	National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies In Gridded and GIS Format AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·F. Fetterer, Charles W. Fowler, Sébastien Schmerber, Diana Beatriz Muñiz-Marquez, Walter N. Meier, P. Clemente‐Colón	2006	2
20	Tracking the Arctic's Shrinking Ice Cover: Another Extreme Minimum in 2004. AGUFM ·Julienne Strœve, F. Fetterer, K. Knowles, Walter N. Meier, S. Omlin, T. E. Arbetter	2004	18

About Walter N. Meier

Walter N. Meier is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography and Molecular Medicine, having authored 103 papers that have together received 7.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (95 papers), Climate change and permafrost (71 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (61 papers), Climate variability and models (15 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (9 papers), Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers) and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (6.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.5k citations), Oceanography (1.2k citations), Environmental Chemistry (801 citations) and Ecology (714 citations). Walter N. Meier has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Julienne Strœve, Mark C. Serreze, Marika M. Holland, T. A. Scambos, James A Maslanik, F. Fetterer, A. P. Barrett, V. M. Kattsov, Т. В. Павлова and Ge Peng. Their work appears in journals such as Annals of Glaciology, Remote Sensing, Geophysical Research Letters, Eos and The cryosphere.

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