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Christian Jakob

Christian Jakob

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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
14526
World Ranking
3062
National Ranking
113

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Christian Jakob is a researcher affiliated with Monash University in Australia, specializing in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily focuses on climate variability and modeling, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds, with additional research interests in atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, tropical and extratropical cyclones, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and precipitation measurement and analysis.

The scientist has contributed notably to the study of global and planetary change and atmospheric science. Their subfields of study also include oceanography and environmental engineering, as well as economics and econometrics. This diverse range supports a comprehensive approach to understanding complex climate and atmospheric systems.

Christian Jakob has published extensively, with a significant number of articles featured in several key scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (11 publications)
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (8 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (3 publications)
  • Nature Climate Change (2 publications)
  • Journal of Climate (2 publications)

Their recent papers include:

  • "Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics," 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "EVALUATION OF CLOUDS, RADIATION, AND PRECIPITATION IN CMIP6 MODELS USING GLOBAL WEATHER STATES DERIVED FROM ISCCP-H CLOUD PROPERTY DATA," 2021, Journal of Climate
  • "An Adaptive Tracking Algorithm for Convection in Simulated and Remote Sensing Data," 2021, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • "The First 30 Years of GEWEX," 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Earth Virtualization Engines (EVE)," 2024, Earth System Science Data

Christian Jakob frequently collaborates with several other researchers, contributing to a robust scientific network. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sandrine Bony (14 co-authored publications)
  • A. Pier Siebesma (14 co-authored publications)
  • Björn Stevens (13 co-authored publications)
  • Michael J. Reeder (9 co-authored publications)
  • Martin S. Singh (6 co-authored publications)

The breadth of their research covers critical topics in climate science and related atmospheric studies, drawing on multiple methodologies and data sources to advance understanding in these fields.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of climate models

    G. M. Flato;J. Marotzke;B. Abiodun;Pascale Braconnot

  • Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

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

  • Validation and Sensitivities of Frontal Clouds Simulated by the ECMWF Model

    Stephen A. Klein;Christian Jakob

  • FIRE Arctic Clouds Experiment

    J. A. Curry;P. V. Hobbs;M. D. King;D. A. Randall

  • Relating global precipitation to atmospheric fronts

    Jennifer Catto;Christian Jakob;Gareth Berry;Neville Nicholls

  • Revision of convection, radiation and cloud schemes in the ECMWF integrated forecasting system

    D. Gregory;J.-J. Morcrette;C. Jakob;A. C. M. Beljaars

  • Objective identification of cloud regimes in the Tropical Western Pacific

    Christian Jakob;George Tselioudis

  • A global climatology of atmospheric fronts

    Gareth Berry;Michael J. Reeder;Christian Jakob

  • The ``Year'' of Tropical Convection (May 2008-April 2010): Climate Variability and Weather Highlights

    Duane E. Waliser;Mitchell W. Moncrieff;David Burridge;Andreas H. Fink

  • The Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment

    Peter T. May;James H. Mather;Geraint Vaughan;Christian Jakob

  • Evaluation of the diurnal cycle of precipitation, surface thermodynamics, and surface fluxes in the ECMWF model using LBA data

    Alan K. Betts;Christian Jakob

  • The Transpose-AMIP II Experiment and Its Application to the Understanding of Southern Ocean Cloud Biases in Climate Models

    Keith Williams;Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo;Michel Deque;Solange Fermepin

  • Tropical climate described as a distribution of weather states indicated by distinct mesoscale cloud property mixtures

    William B. Rossow;George Tselioudis;Allyson Polak;Christian Jakob

  • Increases in tropical rainfall driven by changes in frequency of organized deep convection

    Jackson Tan;Jackson Tan;Christian Jakob;William B. Rossow;George Tselioudis

  • Major Characteristics of Southern Ocean Cloud Regimes and Their Effects on the Energy Budget

    John M. Haynes;Christian Jakob;William B. Rossow;George Tselioudis

  • The ECMWF implementation of three‐dimensional variational assimilation (3D‐Var). III: Experimental results

    Erik Andersson;Jan Haseler;Per Undén;Philippe Courtier

  • Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics

    Tanya Fiedler;Andy J. Pitman;Kate Mackenzie;Nick Wood

  • Stratospheric water vapour and tropical tropopause temperatures in ECMWF analyses and multi-year simulations

    A. J. Simmons;A. Untch;C. Jakob;P. Kållberg

  • Breeding phenology and larval distribution of amphibians in a Mediterranean pond network with unpredictable hydrology

    Christiane Jakob;Gilles Poizat;Michael Veith;Alfred Seitz

  • Tropical and Subtropical Cloud Transitions in Weather and Climate Prediction Models: The GCSS/WGNE Pacific Cross-Section Intercomparison (GPCI)

    J. Teixeira;S. Cardoso;S. Cardoso;M. Bonazzola;J. Cole

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Protat
Alain Protat Bureau of Meteorology
Peter T. May
Peter T. May Monash University
Neville Nicholls
Neville Nicholls Monash University
George Tselioudis
George Tselioudis Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Christopher R. Williams
Christopher R. Williams University of Colorado Boulder
Gerald G. Mace
Gerald G. Mace University of Utah
Patrick Minnis
Patrick Minnis Langley Research Center
William B. Rossow
William B. Rossow City College of New York
Greg M. McFarquhar
Greg M. McFarquhar University of Oklahoma
Nigel J. Tapper
Nigel J. Tapper Monash University

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