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2026
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Korea
2022

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
93
Citations
35665
World Ranking
514
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Korea Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Axel Timmermann is affiliated with Pusan National University in South Korea, with a research focus spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Anthropology, and Paleontology.

The scientist has contributed significantly to several main topics within their fields, including Climate variability and models, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Timmermann's recent publications include the following:

  • Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability, 2021, Earth System Dynamics
  • Future Changes of Summer Monsoon Characteristics and Evaporative Demand Over Asia in CMIP6 Simulations, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Climate effects on archaic human habitats and species successions, 2022, Nature
  • Increasing ENSO-rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature-rainfall relationship, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment

Frequent co-authors of Axel Timmermann include Sun-Seon Lee, Malte F. Stuecker, Karl Stein, Keith B. Rodgers, and Ryohei Yamaguchi.

The scientist commonly publishes in journals such as Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Climate Change, Research Square, and Communications Earth & Environment.

In recognition of their work, Timmermann was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Simon Borlace;Matthieu Lengaigne;Peter van Rensch

  • Increased El Nino frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming

    A. Timmermann;J. Oberhuber;A. Bacher;Monika Esch

  • Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus

    Matthew Heathcote England;Shayne McGregor;J Paul Spence;Gerald A Meehl

  • The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Nino

    Mat Collins;Mat Collins;Soon Il An;Wenju Cai;Alexandre Ganachaud

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

    Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

  • ENSO and greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Guojian Wang;Sang Wook Yeh

  • Information from paleoclimate archives

    Valerie Masson-Delmotte;Michael Schulz;A Abe-Ouchi;J Beer

  • Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics:a multi-model analysis

    Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Raphael Roth;Raphael Roth;J. S. Fuglestvedt;G. P. Peters

  • Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents

    Lixin Wu;Wenju Cai;Liping Zhang;Hisashi Nakamura

  • Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Guojian Wang;Guojian Wang;Agus Santoso;Michael J. Mcphaden

  • Recent Walker circulation strengthening and Pacific cooling amplified by Atlantic warming

    Shayne McGregor;Axel Timmermann;Malte F Stuecker;Matthew Heathcote England

  • Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Agus Santoso;Matthew Collins;Boris Dewitte

  • The Holocene temperature conundrum

    Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Jiang Zhu;Yair Rosenthal;Xu Zhang

  • Links between tropical rainfall and North Atlantic climate during the last glacial period

    Gaudenz Deplazes;Andreas Lückge;Larry C. Peterson;Axel Timmermann

  • Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

  • Northern hemispheric interdecadal variability : A coupled air-sea mode

    Axel Timmermann;Mojib Latif;Reinhard Voss;Anselm Grötzner

  • The influence of a weakening of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO

    Axel Timmermann;Y. Okumura;Soon-Il An;Amy Clement

  • Strong hemispheric coupling of glacial climate through freshwater discharge and ocean circulation

    R. Knutti;J. Flückiger;T. F. Stocker;A. Timmermann

  • Late Pleistocene climate drivers of early human migration

    Axel Timmermann;Tobias Friedrich

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    Hugues Goosse;Viktor Brovkin;Thierry Fichefet;R Haarsma

  • Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and Why does it matter?

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurie Menviel
Laurie Menviel University of New South Wales
Tobias Friedrich
Tobias Friedrich Hasso Plattner Institute
Fei-Fei Jin
Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Malte F. Stuecker
Malte F. Stuecker University of Hawaii at Manoa
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Oliver Timm
Oliver Timm University at Albany, State University of New York
Anne Mouchet
Anne Mouchet University of Liège
Shayne McGregor
Shayne McGregor Monash University
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen

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