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59
Citations
21458
World Ranking
3019
National Ranking
84

Dim Coumou 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 Dim Coumou sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 191 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dim Coumou 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 Dim Coumou sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dim Coumou is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work has concentrated on several specialized topics including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Soybean genetics and cultivation

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Bart van den Hurk
  • Chiem van Straaten
  • Kai Kornhuber
  • Fei Luo
  • Tamara Happé

Coumou has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most common publication outlets are:

  • Earth System Dynamics
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Climate
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers include:

  • Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada in June 2021, 2022, Earth System Dynamics
  • Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate, 2021, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Heat extremes in Western Europe increasing faster than simulated due to atmospheric circulation trends, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Compound warm-dry and cold-wet events over the Mediterranean, 2020, Earth System Dynamics

Best Publications

  • A decade of weather extremes

    Dim Coumou;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather

    Judah Cohen;James A. Screen;Jason C. Furtado;Mathew Barlow

  • Increase of extreme events in a warming world

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Dim Coumou

  • Climate change impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa: from physical changes to their social repercussions

    Olivia Serdeczny;Sophie Adams;Florent Baarsch;Dim Coumou

  • Inferring causation from time series in Earth system sciences

    Jakob Runge;Jakob Runge;Sebastian Bathiany;Erik Bollt;Gustau Camps-Valls

  • Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather

    J. Cohen;X. Zhang;J. Francis;T. Jung;T. Jung

  • The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation

    D. Coumou;D. Coumou;G. Di Capua;G. Di Capua;S. Vavrus;L. Wang

  • Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia

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  • Increased record-breaking precipitation events under global warming

    Jascha Lehmann;Jascha Lehmann;Dim Coumou;Katja Frieler

  • Historic and future increase in the global land area affected by monthly heat extremes

    Dim Coumou;Alexander Robinson;Alexander Robinson;Alexander Robinson

  • The weakening summer circulation in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes

    Dim Coumou;Jascha Lehmann;Johanna Beckmann;Johanna Beckmann

  • Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events

    Michael E. Mann;Stefan Rahmstorf;Kai Kornhuber;Byron A. Steinman

  • Global increase in record-breaking monthly-mean temperatures

    Dim Coumou;Alexander Robinson;Alexander Robinson;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • Quasi-resonant circulation regimes and hemispheric synchronization of extreme weather in boreal summer

    Dim Coumou;Vladimir Petoukhov;Stefan Rahmstorf;Stefan Petri

  • Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern

    Kai Kornhuber;Scott Osprey;Dim Coumou;Dim Coumou;Stefan Petri

  • Climate change impacts in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region and their implications for vulnerable population groups

    Katharina Waha;Katharina Waha;Linda Krummenauer;Sophie Adams;Valentin Aich

  • Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions

    Kai Kornhuber;Kai Kornhuber;Dim Coumou;Dim Coumou;Elisabeth Vogel;Corey Lesk

  • Using causal effect networks to analyze different arctic drivers of midlatitude winter circulation

    Marlene Kretschmer;Dim Coumou;Jonathan F. Donges;Jakob Runge

  • Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada in June 2021

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  • More-Persistent Weak Stratospheric Polar Vortex States Linked to Cold Extremes

    Marlene Kretschmer;Dim Coumou;Laurie Agel;Mathew BArlow

  • Corrigendum: Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events

    Michael E. Mann;Stefan Rahmstorf;Kai Kornhuber;Byron A. Steinman

  • Turn down the heat : Why a 4°c warmer world must be avoided

    H.J. Schellnhuber;W. Hare;O. Serdeczny;S. Adams

  • Turn down the heat: climate extremes, regional impacts, and the case for resilience.

    H. J. Schellnhuber;B. Hare;O. Serdeczny;M. Schaeffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Rahmstorf
Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Michiel Schaeffer
Michiel Schaeffer Wageningen University & Research
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Katja Frieler
Katja Frieler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Holger Hoff
Holger Hoff University of Graz
Katharina Waha
Katharina Waha Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Sebastian Geiger
Sebastian Geiger Heriot-Watt University

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