2026 Geert Jan van Oldenborgh: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	66	2050	58	160	20568

Overview

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh was affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focused on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular expertise in global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, environmental engineering, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their scholarly work addressed several key topics, including:

Climate variability and models
Meteorological phenomena and simulations
Hydrology and drought analysis
Flood risk assessment and management
Climate change impacts on agriculture
Hydrology and watershed management studies
Fire effects on ecosystems

Van Oldenborgh co-authored frequently with a group of researchers, including Sjoukje Philip, Friederike E. L. Otto, Sarah Kew, Robert Vautard, and Maarten van Aalst.

Their publications appeared in various academic venues, with multiple works published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Climatic Change, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Environmental Research Letters, and Earth System Dynamics.

Prominent papers authored or co-authored by van Oldenborgh included:

"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
"Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution," 2021, Climatic Change
"Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe," 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

2734
Citations
Near-term climate change: Projections and predictability

Ben Kirtman;Scott B. Power;Akintayo John Adedoyin;George J. Boer

1405
Citations
Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events

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

788
Citations
UNDERSTANDING EL NINO IN OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS : Progress and Challenges

Eric Guilyardi;Andrew Wittenberg;Alexey Fedorov;Matthew Collins

666
Citations
Decadal Climate Prediction: An Update from the Trenches

Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa Goddard;George Boer;Robert Burgman

598
Citations
KNMI Climate Explorer: A Web-Based Research Tool for High-Resolution Paleoclimatology

Valerie Trouet;Geert Jan Van Oldenborgh

579
Citations
Important role for ocean warming and increased ice-shelf melt in Antarctic sea-ice expansion

R. Bintanja;G. J. van Oldenborgh;S. S. Drijfhout;B. Wouters

559
Citations
El Niño in a changing climate: a multi-model study

G. J. van Oldenborgh;S. Y. Philip;M Collins

553
Citations
Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017

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

514
Citations
Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

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

421
Citations
Projected Changes in Mean and Extreme Precipitation in Africa under Global Warming. Part I: Southern Africa

Mxolisi E. Shongwe;G. J. Van Oldenborgh;B. J.J.M. Van Den Hurk;B. De Boer

419
Citations
Is a Decline of AMOC Causing the Warming Hole above the North Atlantic in Observed and Modeled Warming Patterns

Sybren Drijfhout;Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Andrea Cimatoribus

406
Citations
New climate change scenarios for the Netherlands

B. van den Hurk;A.K. Tank;G. Lenderink;A. van Ulden

375
Citations
Human influence on climate in the 2014 southern England winter floods and their impacts

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

347
Citations
Estimating Changes in Global Temperature since the Preindustrial Period

Edward D. Hawkins;Pablo Ortega;Emma Suckling;Andrew Schurer

311
Citations
Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change

Peter Stott;Nikolaos Christidis;Friederike Otto;Ying Sun

309
Citations
Searching for decadal variations in ENSO precipitation teleconnections

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Gerrit Burgers

307
Citations
Scaling and trends of hourly precipitation extremes in two different climate zones – Hong Kong and the Netherlands

G. Lenderink;H. Y. Mok;T. C. Lee;G. J. van Oldenborgh

302
Citations
A protocol for probabilistic extreme event attribution analyses

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

276
Citations
Observed and simulated impacts of the summer NAO in Europe: implications for projected drying in the Mediterranean region

Ileana Bladé;Brant Liebmann;Didac Fortuny;Geert Jan van Oldenborgh

266
Citations
When can we expect extremely high surface temperatures

Andreas Sterl;Camiel Severijns;Henk Dijkstra;Wilco Hazeleger

249
Citations
Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution

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

246
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Friederike E. L. Otto University of Oxford

Wilco Hazeleger Utrecht University

Robert Vautard École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay

Pascal Yiou French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

Peter A. Stott Met Office

Geert Lenderink Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Flavio Lehner Cornell University

Myles R. Allen University of Oxford

Ed Hawkins University of Reading

Sybren Drijfhout University of Southampton

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