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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
18604
World Ranking
2565
National Ranking
172

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Elena Xoplaki is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany and has an extensive research background primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Artificial Intelligence, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics of their work focus on Climate variability and models, Tree-ring climate responses, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Climate Change and Health Impacts.

Notable recent research papers include:
Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (2022, Reviews of Geophysics)
Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change (2021, Nature)
The extremely hot and dry 2018 summer in central and northern Europe from a multi-faceted weather and climate perspective (2023, Natural hazards and earth system sciences)
Facilitating adoption of AI in natural disaster management through collaboration (2022, Nature Communications)
Ambient temperature and mental health hospitalizations in Bern, Switzerland: A 45-year time-series study (2021, PLoS ONE)

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Jürg Luterbacher
  • Niklas Luther
  • Andrea Toreti
  • Athanasios T. Vafeidis
  • Wolfgang Crämer

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature
  • Atmospheric Research

Elena Xoplaki has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Nature: Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions (2nd Edition, 2021).

The scientist has received recognition as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • European seasonal and annual temperature variability, trends, and extremes since 1500.

    Jürg Luterbacher;Daniel Dietrich;Elena Xoplaki;Martin Grosjean

  • Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

    Wolfgang Cramer;Joël Guiot;Marianela Fader;Joaquim Garrabou;Joaquim Garrabou

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • The Mediterranean climate: An overview of the main characteristics and issues

    P Lionello;Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli;Roberta Boscolo;Pinhas Alpert

  • Climate change and impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.

    J. Lelieveld;P. Hadjinicolaou;E. Kostopoulou;E. Kostopoulou;J. Chenoweth

  • Wet season Mediterranean precipitation variability: influence of large-scale dynamics and trends

    Elena Xoplaki;J. F. González-Rouco;Jürg Luterbacher;Heinz Wanner

  • Indices for daily temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe analyzed for the period 1901–2000

    Anders Moberg;Philip D. Jones;David Lister;Alexander Walther

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • Reconstruction of sea level pressure fields over the Eastern North Atlantic and Europe back to 1500

    J. Luterbacher;E. Xoplaki;D. Dietrich;R. Rickli

  • Long‐term drought severity variations in Morocco

    Jan Esper;David Frank;Ulf Büntgen;Anne Verstege

  • Summer heat waves over western Europe 1880–2003, their relationship to large-scale forcings and predictability

    Paul Della-Marta;Paul Della-Marta;Paul Della-Marta;Jürg Luterbacher;H von Weissenfluh;Elena Xoplaki

  • European spring and autumn temperature variability and change of extremes over the last half millennium

    Elena Xoplaki;Jürg Luterbacher;Heiko Paeth;Daniel Dietrich

  • Mediterranean summer air temperature variability and its connection to the large-scale atmospheric circulation and SSTs

    E. Xoplaki;E. Xoplaki;J. F. González-Rouco;J. Luterbacher;H. Wanner

  • Heat wave changes in the eastern Mediterranean since 1960

    F. G. Kuglitsch;F. G. Kuglitsch;A. Toreti;A. Toreti;E. Xoplaki;E. Xoplaki;P. M. Della-Marta

  • ENSO influence on Europe during the last centuries

    Stefan Brönnimann;Elena Xoplaki;Carlo Casty;Andreas Pauling

  • The Late Maunder Minimum (1675–1715) – A Key Period forStudying Decadal Scale Climatic Change in Europe

    Jurg Luterbacher;R. Rickli;Elena Xoplaki;Elena Xoplaki;C. Tinguely

  • Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change

    Dagomar Degroot;Kevin Anchukaitis;Martin Bauch;Jakob Burnham

  • Heat Wave Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean since 1960

    Franz G. Kuglitsch;Andrea Toreti;Elena Xoplaki;Paul M. Della Marta

  • Impact of climate change on the water resources of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region: Modeled 21st century changes and implications

    Jonathan Chenoweth;Panos Hadjinicolaou;Adriana Bruggeman;Jos Lelieveld;Jos Lelieveld;Jos Lelieveld

  • Mediterranean climate variability over the last centuries: a review

    Jürg Luterbacher;Elena Xoplaki;Carlo Casty;Heinz Wanner

  • East Asian warm season temperature variations over the past two millennia.

    Huan Zhang;Johannes P. Werner;Elena García-Bustamante;Fidel González-Rouco

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Andrea Toreti
Andrea Toreti University of Giessen
Heinz Wanner
Heinz Wanner University of Bern
Malcolm K. Hughes
Malcolm K. Hughes University of Arizona
Dominik Fleitmann
Dominik Fleitmann University of Basel
Prodromos Zanis
Prodromos Zanis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Eduardo Zorita
Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Piero Lionello
Piero Lionello University of Salento
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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