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Bjorn Stevens

Bjorn Stevens

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
103
Citations
58785
World Ranking
305
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Bjorn Stevens is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and is active in research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Information Systems and Management, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, with a significant focus on Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds. Additional topics include Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Frequent publication venues for Bjorn Stevens include AGU Advances, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Geophysical Research Letters, Earth System Science Data, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Collaborations are notable with frequent co-authors such as Sandrine Bony, Christian Jakob, Cathy Hohenegger, A. Pier Siebesma, and Raphaëla Vogel.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bjorn Stevens include:

  • A digital twin of Earth for the green transition, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • EUREC 4 A, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • The Added Value of Large-eddy and Storm-resolving Models for Simulating Clouds and Precipitation, 2020, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • Clouds and Convective Self-Aggregation in a Multimodel Ensemble of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Sugar, Gravel, Fish, and Flowers: Dependence of Mesoscale Patterns of Trade-Wind Clouds on Environmental Conditions, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization

    Veronika Eyring;Sandrine Bony;Gerald A. Meehl;Catherine A. Senior

  • Deep learning and process understanding for data-driven Earth system science

    Markus Reichstein;Gustau Camps-Valls;Bjorn Stevens;Martin Jung

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    Olivier Boucher;David Randall;Paulo Artaxo;Christopher Bretherton

  • Climate and carbon cycle changes from 1850 to 2100 in MPI‐ESM simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5

    Marco A. Giorgetta;Johann H. Jungclaus;Christian H. Reick;Stephanie Legutke

  • Atmospheric component of the MPI-M Earth System Model: ECHAM6

    Bjorn Stevens;Marco Giorgetta;Monika Esch;Thorsten Mauritsen

  • Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system

    Bjorn Stevens;Graham Feingold

  • Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI-ESM1.2) and Its Response to Increasing CO2.

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Jürgen Bader;Tobias Becker;Jörg Behrens

  • Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

    Sandrine Bony;Bjorn Stevens;Dargan M W Frierson;Christian Jakob

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    O. Boucher;D. Randall;P. Artaxo;C. Bretherton

  • Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

    Nicolas Bellouin;Johannes Quaas;Edward Gryspeerdt;Stefan Kinne

  • A Large Eddy Simulation Intercomparison Study of Shallow Cumulus Convection

    A. Pier Siebesma;Christopher S. Bretherton;Andrew Brown;Andreas Chlond

  • Evaluation of Large-Eddy Simulations via Observations of Nocturnal Marine Stratocumulus

    Bjorn Stevens;Chin-Hoh Moeng;Andrew S. Ackerman;Christopher S. Bretherton

  • What Are Climate Models Missing

    Bjorn Stevens;Sandrine Bony

  • DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains

    Bjorn Stevens;Masaki Satoh;Ludovic Auger;Joachim Biercamp

  • A Summary of the CMIP5 Experiment Design

    Karl E. Taylor;Ronald J. Stouffer;Gerald A. Meehl;Peter Cox

  • Rain in Shallow Cumulus Over the Ocean: The RICO Campaign

    R. M. Rauber;B. Stevens;B. Stevens;H. T. Ochs;C. Knight

  • The Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble - Enabling the Exploration of Climate System Variability

    Nicola Maher;Sebastian Milinski;Laura Suarez‐Gutierrez;Michael Botzet

  • Dynamics and chemistry of marine stratocumulus - DYCOMS II

    Bjorn Stevens;Donald H. Lenschow;Gabor Vali;Hermann Gerber

  • Structure of the Entrainment Zone Capping the Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    Peter P. Sullivan;Chin-Hoh Moeng;Bjorn Stevens;Donald H. Lenschow

  • Large‐eddy simulation of the diurnal cycle of shallow cumulus convection over land

    A. R. Brown;R. T. Cederwall;A. Chlond;P. G. Duynkerke

  • Climate and carbon-cycle variability over the last millennium

    Johann H. Jungclaus;S. J. Lorenz;C. Timmreck;C. H. Reick

  • Overview of the Coupled MOdel Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) Experimental Design and Organization

    Eyring;S Bony;G A Meehl;C A Senior

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandrine Bony
Sandrine Bony Université Paris Cité
Thorsten Mauritsen
Thorsten Mauritsen Stockholm University
Hauke Schmidt
Hauke Schmidt Max Planck Society
Robert Pincus
Robert Pincus University of Colorado Boulder
Graham Feingold
Graham Feingold National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
William R. Cotton
William R. Cotton Colorado State University
Christopher S. Bretherton
Christopher S. Bretherton University of Washington
Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Marco A. Giorgetta
Marco A. Giorgetta Max Planck Society
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society

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