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Jürg Luterbacher

Jürg Luterbacher

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
103
Citations
43267
World Ranking
310
National Ranking
20

Jürg Luterbacher 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 Jürg Luterbacher sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 402 publications — 94th percentile

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

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

Jürg Luterbacher 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 Jürg Luterbacher sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jürg Luterbacher is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research work spans several key subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Artificial Intelligence, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's main research topics cover a range of climatic and environmental phenomena. These include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Jürg Luterbacher has published extensively in several notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Climate
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth-Science Reviews

Noteworthy recent papers authored or coauthored by Luterbacher include:

  • "An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3" (2020) published in Journal of Climate
  • "Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update: A Prediction for 2021-25" (2022) published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene" (2020) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Ranking of tree-ring based hydroclimate reconstructions of the past millennium" (2020) published in Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent collaborators in their research include Elena Xoplaki with 27 coauthored publications, Niklas Luther with 9, Rob Allan with 7, Stefan Brönnimann with 6, and Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist with 6 coauthored works.

In addition to journal publications, Luterbacher has contributed to book publications, including a title published by the University of Bern: "Wetternachhersage. 500 Jahre Klimavariationen und Naturkatastrophen (1496-1995)" set for release in 2024 with citation impact noted.

Best Publications

  • European seasonal and annual temperature variability, trends, and extremes since 1500.

    Jürg Luterbacher;Daniel Dietrich;Elena Xoplaki;Martin Grosjean

  • The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe

    David Barriopedro;Erich M. Fischer;Jürg Luterbacher;Ricardo M. Trigo

  • SOLAR INFLUENCES ON CLIMATE

    L. J. Gray;L. J. Gray;J. Beer;M. Geller;J.D. Haigh

  • 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

    Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen;Willy Tegel;Kurt Nicolussi;Michael McCormick

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system

    Laura C. Slivinski;Laura C. Slivinski;Gilbert P. Compo;Gilbert P. Compo;Jeffrey S. Whitaker;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

    Ulf Büntgen;Vladimir S. Myglan;Frederik Chaprentier Ljungqvist;Michael McCormick

  • A Review of the European Summer Heat Wave of 2003

    R. García-Herrera;J. Díaz;R. M. Trigo;J. Luterbacher

  • Information from paleoclimate archives

    Valerie Masson-Delmotte;Michael Schulz;A Abe-Ouchi;J Beer

  • NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION - CONCEPTS AND STUDIES

    Heinz Wanner;Stefan Brönnimann;Stefan Brönnimann;Carlo Casty;Dimitrios Gyalistras

  • Historical Climatology in Europe - the State of the Art

    Rudolf Brázdil;Christian Pfister;Heinz Wanner;Hans von Storch

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • The Mediterranean climate: An overview of the main characteristics and issues

    P Lionello;Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli;Roberta Boscolo;Pinhas Alpert

  • Wetternachhersage : 500 Jahre Klimavariationen und Naturkatastrophen (1496-1995)

    Christian Pfister;Hartmut Graßl;Jürg Luterbacher

  • Wet season Mediterranean precipitation variability: influence of large-scale dynamics and trends

    Elena Xoplaki;J. F. González-Rouco;Jürg Luterbacher;Heinz Wanner

  • Doubled length of western European summer heat waves since 1880

    Paul Della-Marta;Paul Della-Marta;Paul Della-Marta;Malcolm Haylock;Jürg Luterbacher;Heinz Wanner

  • Five hundred years of gridded high-resolution precipitation reconstructions over Europe and the connection to large-scale circulation

    Andreas Pauling;Jürg Luterbacher;Carlo Casty;Heinz Wanner

  • Extending North Atlantic Oscillation reconstructions back to 1500

    Chris D. Jones;Peter M. Cox

  • Indices for daily temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe analyzed for the period 1901–2000

    Anders Moberg;Philip D. Jones;David Lister;Alexander Walther

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • Reconstruction of sea level pressure fields over the Eastern North Atlantic and Europe back to 1500

    J. Luterbacher;E. Xoplaki;D. Dietrich;R. Rickli

Frequent Co-Authors

Elena Xoplaki
Elena Xoplaki University of Giessen
Heinz Wanner
Heinz Wanner University of Bern
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Stefan Brönnimann
Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Eduardo Zorita
Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Christian Pfister
Christian Pfister University of Bern
Andrea Toreti
Andrea Toreti University of Giessen
Rudolf Brázdil
Rudolf Brázdil Czech Academy of Sciences
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia

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