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Friederike E. L. Otto

Friederike E. L. Otto

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2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
58
Citations
12935
World Ranking
180
National Ranking
9

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
16893
World Ranking
2443
National Ranking
190

Friederike E. L. Otto 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 Friederike E. L. Otto sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 187 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Friederike E. L. Otto 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 Friederike E. L. Otto sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Friederike E. L. Otto is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in global and planetary change. This core field spans 108 publications, supported by notable subfields such as atmospheric science, sociology and political science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics related to climate and environmental dynamics. Key themes include climate variability and models, climate change and health impacts, flood risk assessment and management, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate change impacts on agriculture, hydrology and drought analysis, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Friederike E. L. Otto include:

  • Sjoukje Philip
  • Sarah Kew
  • Luke J. Harrington
  • Robert Vautard
  • Emmanuel Raju

The scientist has published extensively in multiple academic venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • Climatic Change
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Environmental Research Climate
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Nature Climate Change

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Friederike E. L. Otto include:

  • "A framework for complex climate change risk assessment," 2021, One Earth
  • "Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective," 2022, Environmental Research Climate
  • "Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change," 2021, Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • "Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada in June 2021," 2022, Earth System Dynamics
  • "A protocol for probabilistic extreme event attribution analyses," 2020, Advances in statistical climatology, meteorology and oceanography

Best Publications

  • IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events

    Peter A. Stott;Nikolaos Christidis;Friederike E. L. Otto;Ying Sun

  • Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective

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  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

    Nicholas P. Simpson;Katharine J. Mach;Andrew Constable;Jeremy Hess

  • Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017

    Geert Jan Van Oldenborgh;Karin Van Der Wiel;Antonia Sebastian;Antonia Sebastian;Roop Singh

  • Reconciling two approaches to attribution of the 2010 Russian heat wave

    F. E. L. Otto;N. Massey;G. J. van Oldenborgh;R. G. Jones

  • Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

    Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Folmer Krikken;Sophie Lewis;Nicholas J. Leach

  • Energy budget constraints on climate response

    Alexander Otto;Friederike E. L. Otto;Olivier Boucher;John Church

  • Human influence on climate in the 2014 southern England winter floods and their impacts

    Nathalie Schaller;Alison L. Kay;Rob Lamb;Neil R. Massey

  • Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change

    Peter Stott;Nikolaos Christidis;Friederike Otto;Ying Sun

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

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  • A real-time Global Warming Index

    K. Haustein;M. R. Allen;M. R. Allen;P. M. Forster;F. E. L. Otto

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

  • A protocol for probabilistic extreme event attribution analyses

    Sjoukje Yvette Philip;Sarah F. Kew;Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Friederike E.L. Otto

  • Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution

    Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Karin van der Wiel;Sarah Kew;Sjoukje Philip

  • weather@home—development and validation of a very large ensemble modelling system for probabilistic event attribution

    N. Massey;N. Massey;R. Jones;R. Jones;F. E. L. Otto;T. Aina

  • Stop blaming the climate for disasters

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  • Anthropogenic influence on the drivers of the Western Cape drought 2015–2017

    Friederike E L Otto;Piotr Wolski;Flavio Lehner;Claudia Tebaldi

  • Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe

    Robert Vautard;M. Van Aalst;Olivier Boucher;Agathe Drouin

  • Attribution of the heavy rainfall events leading to severe flooding in Western Europe during July 2021

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  • Potential influences on the United Kingdom's floods of winter 2013/14

    Chris Huntingford;Terry Marsh;Adam A. Scaife;Elizabeth J. Kendon

  • Causal Counterfactual Theory for the Attribution of Weather and Climate-Related Events

    A. Hannart;J. Pearl;F. E. L. Otto;P. Naveau

  • Attribution of Weather and Climate Events

    Friederike E.L. Otto

  • Extreme heat in India and anthropogenic climate change

    Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Sjoukje Philip;Sarah Kew;Michiel van Weele

  • Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017

    K. van der Wiel;G. J. van Oldenborgh;A. Sebastian;R. Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Robert Vautard
Robert Vautard École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Miguel D. Mahecha
Miguel D. Mahecha Leipzig University
Emily Boyd
Emily Boyd Lund University
Andrew D. King
Andrew D. King University of Melbourne
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office
Tim Cowan
Tim Cowan University of Southern Queensland
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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