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Erich Roeckner

Erich Roeckner

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
90
Citations
43316
World Ranking
573
National Ranking
38

Erich Roeckner 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 Erich Roeckner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 218 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erich Roeckner 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 Erich Roeckner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Erich Roeckner is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography.

The scientist's main research topics include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Malcolm Roberts, Pier Luigi Vidale, Dian Putrasahan, Christopher D. Roberts, and Rein Haarsma.

Erich Roeckner has published extensively in several key scientific venues. These include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Among their recent papers are:

  • Impact of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Simulation Using the HighResMIP-PRIMAVERA Multimodel Ensemble, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Projected Future Changes in Tropical Cyclones Using the CMIP6 HighResMIP Multimodel Ensemble, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Impact of Higher Spatial Atmospheric Resolution on Precipitation Extremes Over Land in Global Climate Models, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Sensitivity of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to Model Resolution in CMIP6 HighResMIP Simulations and Implications for Future Changes, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Northern Hemisphere blocking simulation in current climate models: evaluating progress from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 to 6 and sensitivity to resolution, 2020, Weather and Climate Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM 5. PART I: Model description

    Erich Roeckner;G. Bäuml;L. Bonaventura;Renate Brokopf

  • The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM-4: Model description and simulation of present-day climate

    Erich Roeckner;Klaus Arpe;Lennart Bengtsson;M. Christoph

  • 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

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

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

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

    Bjorn Stevens;Marco Giorgetta;Monika Esch;Thorsten Mauritsen

  • Sensitivity of Simulated Climate to Horizontal and Vertical Resolution in the ECHAM5 Atmosphere Model

    E. Roeckner;R. Brokopf;M. Esch;M. Giorgetta

  • 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

  • Intercomparison and interpretation of climate feedback processes in 19 atmospheric general circulation models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • Storm Tracks and Climate Change

    Lennart Bengtsson;Kevin I. Hodges;Erich Roeckner

  • Ocean Circulation and Tropical Variability in the Coupled Model ECHAM5/MPI-OM

    J. H. Jungclaus;Noel Keenlyside;M. Botzet;H. Haak

  • The Effect of Eurasian Snow Cover on Regional and Global Climate Variations

    T. P. Barnett;L. Dümenil;U. Schlese;E. Roeckner

  • Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in 14 IPCC AR4 Climate Models. Part I: Convective Signals

    Jia Lin Lin;George N. Kiladis;Brian E. Mapes;Klaus M. Weickmann

  • Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector

    Noel Keenlyside;Mojib Latif;J. Jungclaus;L. Kornblueh

  • Interpretation of Cloud-Climate Feedback as Produced by 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • Transient climate change simulations with a coupled atmosphere–ocean GCM including the tropospheric sulfur cycle

    E. Roeckner;Lennart Bengtsson;Johann Feichter;J. Lelieveld

  • A higher-resolution version of the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM1.2-HR)

    W. A. Müller;W. A. Müller;J. H. Jungclaus;T. Mauritsen;J. Baehr

  • Will the tropical land biosphere dominate the climate-carbon cycle feedback during the twenty-first century?

    T. J. Raddatz;C. J. Reick;W. Knorr;J. Kattge

  • Simulation of the present-day climate with the ECHAM model: Impact of model physics and resolution

    Erich Roeckner;Klaus Arpe;Lennart Bengtsson;S. Brinkop

  • Design and performance of a new cloud microphysics scheme developed for the ECHAM general circulation model

    U. Lohmann;E. Roeckner

  • The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM5 Part II: Sensitivity of simulated climate to horizontal and vertical resolution

    Erich Roeckner;Renate Brokopf;Monika Esch;Marko Giorgetta

Frequent Co-Authors

Monika Esch
Monika Esch Max Planck Society
Marco A. Giorgetta
Marco A. Giorgetta Max Planck Society
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Mojib Latif
Mojib Latif GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Lennart Bengtsson
Lennart Bengtsson University of Reading
Thomas Raddatz
Thomas Raddatz Max Planck Society
Elisa Manzini
Elisa Manzini Max Planck Society
Thorsten Mauritsen
Thorsten Mauritsen Stockholm University
Ulrich Cubasch
Ulrich Cubasch Freie Universität Berlin
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society

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