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Jochem Marotzke

Jochem Marotzke

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
90
Citations
33130
World Ranking
585
National Ranking
39

Jochem Marotzke 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 Jochem Marotzke sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 296 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jochem Marotzke 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 Jochem Marotzke 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
  • 2007 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Earth Sciences

Overview

Jochem Marotzke is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a significant body of work focusing on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research intersects various specialized subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, sociology and political science, and economics and econometrics.

Their research primarily addresses topics including climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate change policy and economics, as well as cryospheric studies and observations.

Major recent publications by Jochem Marotzke include:

  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6, 2020, Earth System Dynamics
  • ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales, 2023, Geoscientific Model Development
  • The ICON Earth System Model Version 1.0, 2022, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Dynamical and thermodynamical drivers of variability in European summer heat extremes, 2020, Climate Dynamics

Jochem Marotzke frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Anita Engels, Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse, Andrés López-Rivera, Anna Pagnone, and Jan Wilkens, with collaboration counts ranging between 22 and 25 publications each.

Their scholarly output appears regularly in prominent venues such as Environmental Research Letters, Nature Climate Change, the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Nature Communications, and Geoscientific Model Development.

The scientist has contributed to book publications, notably with the title Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook: The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming - social drivers and physical processes published by Universität Hamburg in 2023.

In recognition of their work, Jochem Marotzke was awarded membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007 for contributions in Earth Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of climate models

    G. M. Flato;J. Marotzke;B. Abiodun;Pascale Braconnot

  • 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

  • Abrupt climate change

    RB Alley;Jochem Marotzke;WD Nordhaus;JT Overpeck

  • 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

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

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

  • Temporal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

    Stuart A. Cunningham;Torsten Kanzow;Darren Rayner;Molly O. Baringer

  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

    Clara Deser;Flavio Lehner;Keith B. Rodgers;Toby R. Ault

  • Characteristics of the ocean simulations in the Max Planck Institute Ocean Model (MPIOM) the ocean component of the MPI-Earth system model

    J. H. Jungclaus;Nils Fischer;Helmuth Haak;K. Lohmann

  • The collective-risk social dilemma and the prevention of simulated dangerous climate change

    Manfred Milinski;Ralf D. Sommerfeld;Hans-Jürgen Krambeck;Floyd A. Reed

  • 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

  • Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6

    Flavio Lehner;Flavio Lehner;Clara Deser;Nicola Maher;Jochem Marotzke

  • The Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble - Enabling the Exploration of Climate System Variability

    Nicola Maher;Sebastian Milinski;Laura Suarez‐Gutierrez;Michael Botzet

  • Continuous, Array-Based Estimates of Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport at 26.5°N

    William E. Johns;Molly O. Baringer;Lisa M. Beal;S. A. Cunningham

  • Global ocean circulation during 1992-1997, estimated from ocean observations and a general circulation model

    D Stammer;C Wunsch;R Giering;C Eckert

  • Stabilizing the earth's climate is not a losing game: supporting evidence from public goods experiments.

    Manfred Milinski;Dirk Semmann;Hans-Jürgen Krambeck;Jochem Marotzke

  • Climate and carbon-cycle variability over the last millennium

    Johann H. Jungclaus;S. J. Lorenz;C. Timmreck;C. H. Reick

  • Abrupt climate change: Inevitable surprises

    R.B. Alley;Jochem Marotzke;W. Nordhaus

  • Construction of the adjoint MIT ocean general circulation model and application to Atlantic heat transport sensitivity

    Jochem Marotzke;Ralf Giering;Kate Q. Zhang;Detlef Stammer

  • Energy budget constraints on climate response

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

  • Multiple Equilibria of the Global Thermohaline Circulation

    Jochem Marotzke;Jürgen Willebrand

  • Seasonal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

    Torsten Kanzow;Torsten Kanzow;S. A. Cunningham;W. E. Johns;J. J-M. Hirschi

Frequent Co-Authors

Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Wolfgang A. Müller
Wolfgang A. Müller Max Planck Society
Stuart A. Cunningham
Stuart A. Cunningham Scottish Association For Marine Science
Holger Pohlmann
Holger Pohlmann Max Planck Society
Torsten Kanzow
Torsten Kanzow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Johanna Baehr
Johanna Baehr Universität Hamburg
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Uwe Mikolajewicz
Uwe Mikolajewicz Max Planck Society
Christopher S. Meinen
Christopher S. Meinen Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society

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