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Heini Wernli

Heini Wernli

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
91
Citations
28125
World Ranking
561
National Ranking
19

Heini Wernli 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 Heini Wernli sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 416 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Heini Wernli 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 Heini Wernli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 91 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

  • Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
  • Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

Overview

Heini Wernli is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional work in Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's main areas of study include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Heini Wernli has an extensive publication record in several prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Climate

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Franziska Aemisegger
  • Michael Sprenger
  • Iris Thurnherr
  • Maxi Boettcher
  • Hanna Joos

Recent papers by Heini Wernli include:

  • Prediction and projection of heatwaves, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Potential vorticity structure of embedded convection in a warm conveyor belt and its relevance for large-scale dynamics, 2020, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Highly Active Ice-Nucleating Particles at the Summer North Pole, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • The three-dimensional life cycles of potential vorticity cutoffs: a global and selected regional climatologies in ERA-Interim (1979-2018), 2021, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • How an uncertain short-wave perturbation on the North Atlantic wave guide affects the forecast of an intense Mediterranean cyclone (Medicane Zorbas), 2020, Weather and Climate Dynamics

Heini Wernli has received recognition as a Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

Best Publications

  • A lagrangian‐based analysis of extratropical cyclones. I: The method and some applications

    By Heini Wernli;Huw C. Davies

  • IMILAST: A Community Effort to Intercompare Extratropical Cyclone Detection and Tracking Algorithms

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmu S. Benestad

  • Stratosphere-troposphere exchange: A review, and what we have learned from STACCATO

    A. Stohl;P. Bonasoni;P. Cristofanelli;W. Collins

  • Interannual variability of Greenland winter precipitation sources: Lagrangian moisture diagnostic and North Atlantic Oscillation influence

    H. Sodemann;H. Sodemann;C. Schwierz;C. Schwierz;H. Wernli

  • Surface Cyclones in the ERA-40 Dataset (1958–2001). Part I: Novel Identification Method and Global Climatology

    Heini Wernli;Cornelia Schwierz

  • The LAGRANTO Lagrangian analysis tool – version 2.0

    Michael Sprenger;Heini Wernli

  • A 15-Year Climatology of Warm Conveyor Belts

    Sabine Eckhardt;Andreas Stohl;Heini Wernli;Paul James

  • Warm Conveyor Belts in the ERA-Interim Dataset (1979–2010): Part I: Climatology and Potential Vorticity Evolution

    Erica Madonna;Heini Wernli;Hanna Joos;Olivia Martius

  • SAL—A Novel Quality Measure for the Verification of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts

    Heini Wernli;Marcus Paulat;Martin Hagen;Christoph Frei

  • Quantifying the Relevance of Cyclones for Precipitation Extremes

    Stephan Pfahl;Heini Wernli

  • Prediction and projection of heatwaves

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  • IMILAST – a community effort to intercompare extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms: assessing method-related uncertainties

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmus Benestad

  • Quantifying the relevance of atmospheric blocking for co-located temperature extremes in the Northern Hemisphere on (sub-)daily time scales

    S. Pfahl;H. Wernli

  • Balancing Europe’s wind-power output through spatial deployment informed by weather regimes

    Christian M. Grams;Remo Beerli;Stefan Pfenninger;Iain Staffell

  • HYMEX , a 10-year Multidisciplinary Program on the mediterranean water cycle.

    P. Drobinski;Véronique Ducrocq;P. Alpert;E. Anagnostou

  • Aerosol- and updraft-limited regimes of cloud droplet formation: influence of particle number, size and hygroscopicity on the activation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN)

    P. Reutter;P. Reutter;H. Su;J. Trentmann;M. Simmel

  • Dynamical aspects of the life cycle of the winter storm ‘Lothar’ (24–26 December 1999)

    Heini Wernli;Sebastien Dirren;Mark A. Liniger;Matthias Zillig

  • The key role of diabatic processes in modifying the upper-tropospheric wave guide: a North Atlantic case-study

    Christian M. Grams;Heini Wernli;Maxi Böttcher;Jana Čampa

  • A global climatology of stratosphere–troposphere exchange using the ERA-Interim data set from 1979 to 2011

    Bojan Škerlak;Michael Sprenger;Heini Wernli

  • Heavy precipitation on the alpine southside: An upper-level precursor

    Alexia C. Massacand;Heini Wernli;Huw C. Davies

  • Kilometer-scale climate models: Prospects and challenges

    Christoph Schär;Oliver Fuhrer;Andrea Arteaga;Nikolina Ban

  • A lagrangian‐based analysis of extratropical cyclones. II: A detailed case‐study

    Heini Wernli

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Pfahl
Stephan Pfahl Freie Universität Berlin
Peter Hoor
Peter Hoor Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Peter Knippertz
Peter Knippertz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Olivia Martius
Olivia Martius University of Bern
Christiane Voigt
Christiane Voigt German Aerospace Center
Ulrich Corsmeier
Ulrich Corsmeier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andreas Stohl
Andreas Stohl University of Vienna
Michaela I. Hegglin
Michaela I. Hegglin University of Reading

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