2026 Andreas Sterl: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	45	6225	5975	158	152	97	18365

Overview

Andreas Sterl is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with specific attention to global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

Climate variability and models
Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
Meteorological phenomena and simulations

Andreas Sterl has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - diagnostics for extreme events, regional and impact evaluation, and analysis of Earth system models in CMIP, 2021, published in Geoscientific Model Development
KNMI'23 Climate Scenarios for the Netherlands: Storyline Scenarios of Regional Climate Change, 2024, published in Earth's Future
KNMI'23 national climate scenarios - background dataset, 2023, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
KNMI'23 national climate scenarios - background dataset, 2023, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent contributors alongside Andreas Sterl include:

Karin van der Wiel
Jules Beersma
Henk van den Brink
Folmer Krikken
Frank Selten

Their publications are often featured in venues such as:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Earth's Future
Geoscientific Model Development

Best Publications

The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

S. M. Uppala;P. W. Kållberg;Adrian J. Simmons;U. Andrae

8609
Citations
EC-Earth V2.2: description and validation of a new seamless earth system prediction model

W. Hazeleger;W. Hazeleger;X. Wang;C. Severijns;S. Stefanescu

738
Citations
EC-Earth A Seamless Earth-System Prediction Approach in Action

Wilco Hazeleger;Camiel Severijns;Tido Semmler;Simona Ştefănescu

618
Citations
Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array

Stephen C. Riser;Howard J. Freeland;Dean Roemmich;Susan Wijffels

599
Citations
A Global View on the Wind Sea and Swell Climate and Variability from ERA-40

Alvaro Semedo;Kay Sušelj;Anna Rutgersson;Andreas Sterl

533
Citations
On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

424
Citations
100-Year Return Value Estimates for Ocean Wind Speed and Significant Wave Height from the ERA-40 Data

S. Caires;A. Sterl

372
Citations
Climatology, variability and extrema of ocean waves: the Web-based KNMI/ERA-40 wave atlas

Andreas Sterl;Sofia Caires;Sofia Caires

336
Citations
Humid heat waves at different warming levels

Simone Russo;Jana Sillmann;Andreas Sterl

324
Citations
Western Europe is warming much faster than expected

G.J. van Oldenborgh;S.S. Drijfhout;A. van Ulden;R.J. Haarsma

305
Citations
Validation of ocean wind and wave data using triple collocation

S. Caires;A. Sterl

280
Citations
On the (In)Homogeneity of Reanalysis Products

Andreas Sterl

263
Citations
Exploring high-end scenarios for local sea level rise to develop flood protection strategies for a low-lying delta—the Netherlands as an example

Caroline A. Katsman;A. Sterl;J. J. Beersma;H. W. van den Brink

257
Citations
When can we expect extremely high surface temperatures

Andreas Sterl;Camiel Severijns;Henk Dijkstra;Wilco Hazeleger

249
Citations
More hurricanes to hit western Europe due to global warming

Reindert J. Haarsma;Wilco Hazeleger;Camiel Severijns;Hylke de Vries

229
Citations
Response of the Atlantic overturning circulation to South Atlantic sources of buoyancy

Wilbert Weijer;Wilhelmus P.M De Ruijter;Andreas Sterl;Sybren S Drijfhout

215
Citations
Intercomparison of Different Wind–Wave Reanalyses

S. Caires;A. Sterl;J.-R. Bidlot;N. Graham

209
Citations
Projection of Global Wave Climate Change toward the End of the Twenty-First Century

Alvaro Semedo;Ralf Weisse;Arno Behrens;Andreas Sterl

193
Citations
Assessment of the reliability of wave observations from voluntary observing ships: Insights from the validation of a global wind wave climatology based on voluntary observing ship data

Sergey K. Gulev;Vika Grigorieva;Andreas Sterl;David Woolf

183
Citations
Fifteen years of global wave hindcasts using winds from the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts reanalysis: Validating the reanalyzed winds and assessing the wave climate

A. Sterl;G. J. Komen;P. D. Cotton

179
Citations
ESMValTool (v1.0) – a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP

Veronika Eyring;Mattia Righi;Axel Lauer;Martin Evaldsson

168
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilco Hazeleger Utrecht University

Alessandro Tagliabue University of Liverpool

Marion Gehlen French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

Jean-Claude Dutay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Sybren Drijfhout University of Southampton

Hein J W de Baar University of Groningen

Henk A. Dijkstra Utrecht University

Reindert J. Haarsma Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Richard Bintanja University of Groningen

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

External Links

Personal website of Andreas Sterl

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