2026 Armin Köhl: 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	43	7121	6844	458	448	133	6873

Armin Köhl publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Armin Köhl sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 133 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Armin Köhl D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Armin Köhl sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Armin Köhl is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. The scientist's work also intersects with Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Computational Mechanics.

Köhl's research topics encompass various aspects of oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability and models, and marine and coastal ecosystems. Additional areas of study include geophysics and gravity measurements, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Frequent coauthors include Detlef Stammer, Johann Jungclaus, Chuanyu Liu, Fan Wang, and Matthew R. Mazloff, indicating collaboration across multiple research groups and disciplines.

Their publication record includes papers in several notable journals, with frequent appearances in the Journal of Climate and Climate Dynamics. Other common venues for their work include the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Köhl include:

Evaluating the GECCO3 1948-2018 ocean synthesis - a configuration for initializing the MPI-ESM climate model, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Towards an End-to-End Analysis and Prediction System for Weather, Climate, and Marine Applications in the Red Sea, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
What causes the spread of model projections of ocean dynamic sea-level change in response to greenhouse gas forcing?, 2020, Climate Dynamics
How well do we know ocean salinity and its changes?, 2020, Progress In Oceanography
Four Types of Baroclinic Instability Waves in the Global Oceans and the Implications for the Vertical Structure of Mesoscale Eddies, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Best Publications

Projecting twenty-first century regional sea-level changes

A.B.A. Slangen;A.B.A. Slangen;Mark Carson;C.A. Katsman;R.S.W. van de Wal

495
Citations
Initializing Decadal Climate Predictions with the GECCO Oceanic Synthesis: Effects on the North Atlantic

Holger Pohlmann;Johann H. Jungclaus;Armin Köhl;Detlef Stammer

338
Citations
The Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project (ORA-IP)

M. A. Balmaseda;F. Hernandez;A. Storto;M. D. Palmer

316
Citations
Ocean mixed layer depth: A subsurface proxy of ocean‐atmosphere variability

K Lorbacher;K Lorbacher;Dietmar Dommenget;Dietmar Dommenget;P P Niiler;A Kohl

256
Citations
Measuring Global Ocean Heat Content to Estimate the Earth Energy Imbalance

Benoit Meyssignac;Tim Boyer;Zhongxiang Zhao;Maria Z. Hakuba;Maria Z. Hakuba

249
Citations
Estimating air‐sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and momentum through global ocean data assimilation

D. Stammer;K. Ueyoshi;A. Köhl;W. G. Large

231
Citations
Coastal sea level changes: Observed and projected during the 20th and 21st century.

M. Carson;Armin Köhl;Detlef Stammer;A.B.A. Slangen

208
Citations
Evaluation of the GECCO2 ocean synthesis: transports of volume, heat and freshwater in the Atlantic

Armin Köhl

198
Citations
Variability of the Meridional Overturning in the North Atlantic from the 50-Year GECCO State Estimation

Armin Köhl;Detlef Stammer

195
Citations
NASA Supercomputer Improves Prospects for Ocean Climate Research

D. Menemenlis;C. Hill;A. Adcrocft;J.-M. Campin

184
Citations
Interannual to Decadal Changes in the ECCO Global Synthesis

A. Köhl;D. Stammer;B. Cornuelle

175
Citations
Seasonal overturning circulation in the Red Sea: 1. Model validation and summer circulation

Fengchao Yao;Ibrahim Hoteit;Larry J. Pratt;Amy S. Bower

173
Citations
Decadal Sea Level Changes in the 50-Year GECCO Ocean Synthesis

Armin Köhl;Detlef Stammer

147
Citations
Seasonal overturning circulation in the Red Sea: 2. Winter circulation

Fengchao Yao;Ibrahim Hoteit;Lawrence J. Pratt;Amy S. Bower

142
Citations
Generation and Stability of a Quasi-Permanent Vortex in the Lofoten Basin

Armin Köhl

142
Citations
Ocean Data Assimilation in Support of Climate Applications: Status and Perspectives

D. Stammer;M. Balmaseda;P. Heimbach;A. Köhl

142
Citations
Ocean heat content variability and change in an ensemble of ocean reanalyses

M. D. Palmer;C. D. Roberts;M. Balmaseda;Y. S. Chang

139
Citations
MiKlip - a National Research Project on Decadal Climate Prediction

Jochem Marotzke;Wolfgang A. Müller;Freja S. E. Vamborg;Paul Becker

131
Citations
Comparison of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation between 1960 and 2007 in six ocean reanalysis products

A. R. Karspeck;Detlef Stammer;Armin Köhl;G. Danabasoglu

129
Citations
An assessment of air–sea heat fluxes from ocean and coupled reanalyses

Maria Valdivieso;Keith Haines;Magdalena Balmaseda;You-Soon Chang;You-Soon Chang

123
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Stammer Universität Hamburg

Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

Keith Haines University of Reading

Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Patrick Heimbach The University of Texas at Austin

Ibrahim Hoteit King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Ichiro Fukumori California Institute of Technology

Tong Lee California Institute of Technology

Bruce D. Cornuelle University of California, San Diego

Matthew Martin Met Office

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