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Climate Dynamics
H-index 57

Climate Dynamics

0930-7575

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/382

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 51 641 1290 57

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 865
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1556
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 18
SCIMAGO H-index: 196
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.588
Impact Factor: 3.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Climate Dynamics?

Climate Dynamics tackles a plethora of topics, such as Climatology, Precipitation, Climate model, Sea surface temperature and Atmospheric sciences. It connects research in Climatology with the related topic of Climate change. More specifically, the research on Climate change in it is related to Global warming.

It holds forums on Precipitation that merges themes from other disciplines such as Subtropics, Anticyclone and Weather Research and Forecasting Model. The journal focuses on Climate model but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Meteorology, Atmospheric model, Radiative forcing and Downscaling. The study of Predictability and how it intertwines with concepts under Forecast skill were explored in the presented Sea surface temperature research.

The research on Atmospheric sciences featured in it combines topics in other fields like Atmosphere, Convection and Latitude. The journal features studies on Oceanography, including topics such as Thermohaline circulation. Topics like East Asian Monsoon and Monsoon of South Asia are tackled as part of the discussions on Monsoon.

  • Climatology (99.11%)
  • Precipitation (28.95%)
  • Climate model (26.58%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The simulation of SST, sea ice extents and ocean heat transports in a version of the Hadley Centre coupled model without flux adjustments (2290 citations)
  • Decadal atmosphere-ocean variations in the Pacific (1966 citations)
  • The impact of new physical parametrizations in the Hadley Centre Climate Model—HADAM3 (1389 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Climate Dynamics:

The journal papers explore disciplines such as Climatology, Climate model, Precipitation, Climate change and Atmospheric sciences. The most cited papers explore research in Climatology and the adjacent study of Oceanography. Issues in Climate model were discussed in the published articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Meteorology, Atmospheric model, Atmospheric temperature and Downscaling.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Statistics
  • Climatology
  • Climate change

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Climate Dynamics mainly deals with areas of study such as Climatology, Precipitation, Sea surface temperature, Climate model and Climate change. Monsoon, Forcing (mathematics), Teleconnection, Atmospheric circulation and Anticyclone are all topics related to Climatology research discussed. Topics in Precipitation explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Plateau, Convection, Troposphere and Weather Research and Forecasting Model.

Climate Dynamics explores research in Predictability and overlapping concepts in Forecast skill to expand the discourse in Sea surface temperature. It addresses concerns in Climate model which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Global warming, Common spatial pattern and Magnitude (mathematics). Coupled model intercomparison project is the primary subject of Climate change works presented in it.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Robust late twenty-first century shift in the regional monsoons in RegCM-CORDEX simulations (20 citations)
  • Added value of kilometer-scale modeling over the third pole region: a CORDEX-CPTP pilot study (14 citations)
  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation (10 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Climate Dynamics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Bin Wang (100 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tim Li (75 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Arun Kumar (71 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Filippo Giorgi (60 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition, 9 more than at the previous edition,
  • Renguang Wu (59 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Climate Dynamics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (733 papers) published 109 papers at the last edition, 20 more than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (355 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (349 papers) published 47 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Reading (296 papers) published 24 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (274 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 1.52% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 44.87% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.06% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.70% of all publications and 30.37% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • A first-of-its-kind multi-model convection permitting ensemble for investigating convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean

    Erika Coppola;Stefan Sobolowski;E. Pichelli;F. Raffaele

    (2020)
    336 Citations
  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation

    Nikolina Ban;Cécile Caillaud;Erika Coppola;Emanuela Pichelli

    (2021)
    298 Citations
  • Simulating North American mesoscale convective systems with a convection-permitting climate model

    Andreas F. Prein;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Randy Bullock

    (2020)
    236 Citations
  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitation

    Emanuela Pichelli;Erika Coppola;Stefan Sobolowski;Nikolina Ban

    (2021)
    221 Citations
  • Changes in the convective population and thermodynamic environments in convection-permitting regional climate simulations over the United States

    Kristen L. Rasmussen;Kristen L. Rasmussen;Andreas F. Prein;Roy M. Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda

    (2020)
    212 Citations
  • Temperature dataset of CMIP6 models over China: evaluation, trend and uncertainty

    Qinglong You;Ziyi Cai;Fangying Wu;Zhihong Jiang

    (2021)
    199 Citations
  • Bias correction of temperature and precipitation over China for RCM simulations using the QM and QDM methods

    Yao Tong;Xuejie Gao;Zhenyu Han;Yaqi Xu

    (2021)
    197 Citations
  • Pan-European climate at convection-permitting scale: a model intercomparison study

    Ségolène Berthou;Elizabeth J. Kendon;Steven C. Chan;Nikolina Ban

    (2020)
    184 Citations
  • Advancing global storm surge modelling using the new ERA5 climate reanalysis

    Job C. M. Dullaart;Sanne Muis;Nadia Bloemendaal;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

    (2020)
    149 Citations
  • The global energy balance as represented in CMIP6 climate models

    Martin Wild

    (2020)
    149 Citations

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