2026 Klaus Fraedrich: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	72	1519	1444	107	105	340	15918

Klaus Fraedrich 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 Klaus Fraedrich sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 340 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Klaus Fraedrich 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 Klaus Fraedrich sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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

Overview

Klaus Fraedrich is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and related subfields such as Oceanography, Soil Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of Fraedrich's work include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, cryospheric studies and observations, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate change and permafrost, and climate change impacts on agriculture.

Frequent publication venues for Fraedrich include:

Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Remote Sensing
Climate Dynamics
Climatic Change
International Journal of Modern Physics C

Coauthors who have collaborated frequently with Fraedrich include Fei Ge, Xiefei Zhi, Shoupeng Zhu, Frank Sielmann, and Xiuhua Zhu.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Klaus Fraedrich feature topics on climate and atmospheric science across various respected journals:

Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), 2020, Monthly Weather Review
Conspicuous temperature extremes over Southeast Asia: seasonal variations under 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming, 2020, Climatic Change
Driving mechanisms of urbanization: Evidence from geographical, climatic, social-economic and nighttime light data, 2023, Ecological Indicators
Added value of the regionally coupled model ROM in the East Asian summer monsoon modeling, 2020, Theoretical and Applied Climatology
How Striking Is the Intergenerational Difference in Exposure to Compound Heatwaves Over Southeast Asia?, 2023, Earth's Future

In addition to journal articles, Klaus Fraedrich has contributed to scientific literature through book publications. A notable work includes the book titled Weather Dynamics, published by World Scientific in 2023.

Best Publications

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

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

741
Citations
Estimating the Dimensions of Weather and Climate Attractors

Klaus Fraedrich

490
Citations
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

407
Citations
The Planet Simulator: Towards a user friendly model

Klaus Fraedrich;Heiko Jansen;Edilbert Kirk;Ute Luksch

373
Citations
Scaling of atmosphere and ocean temperature correlations in observations and climate models.

Klaus Fraedrich;Richard Blender

357
Citations
Climate anomalies in Europe associated with ENSO extremes

Klaus Fraedrich;Klaus Müller

355
Citations
Identification of cyclone-track regimes in the North Atlantic

R. Blender;K. Fraedrich;F. Lunkeit

335
Citations
Global climatology of Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) and Convective Inhibition (CIN) in ERA-40 reanalysis

Kathrin Riemann-Campe;Klaus Fraedrich;Frank Lunkeit

282
Citations
A green planet versus a desert world: estimating the maximum effect of vegetation on the land surface climate.

Axel Kleidon;Klaus Fraedrich;Martin Heimann

267
Citations
An ENSO impact on Europe

Klaus Fraedrich

237
Citations
Welt im Wandel: Strategien zur Bewältigung globaler Umweltrisiken. Jahresgutachten 1998

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen Wbgu;F. Beese;K. Fraedrich;P. Klemmer

223
Citations
Scaling regimes of composite rainfall time series

Klaus Fraedrich;Chris Larnder

212
Citations
Precipitation climate of Central Asia and the large-scale atmospheric circulation

Oliver Bothe;Klaus F. Fraedrich;Xiuhua Zhu

203
Citations
Large-Scale Flow and the Long-Lasting Blocking High over Russia: Summer 2010

Andrea Schneidereit;Silke Schubert;Pavel Vargin;Frank Lunkeit

202
Citations
Observed drought and wetness trends in Europe: an update

I. Bordi;K. Fraedrich;A. Sutera

188
Citations
Variability of temperature in the Tibetan Plateau based on homogenized surface stations and reanalysis data

Qinglong You;Qinglong You;Qinglong You;Klaus Fraedrich;Guoyu Ren;Nick Pepin

180
Citations
Spatio-temporal variability of dry and wet periods in eastern China

I. Bordi;K. Fraedrich;J.-M. Jiang;A. Sutera

174
Citations
Uncertainty dynamics and predictability in chaotic systems

Leonard A. Smith;C. Ziehmann;K. Fraedrich

166
Citations
Recent climate change in the North Atlantic/European sector

Peter C. Werner;Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe;Klaus Fraedrich;Hermann Oesterle

159
Citations
Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)

Stephanie Fiedler;Traute Crueger;Roberta D’Agostino;Karsten Peters

149
Citations
East Asian warm season temperature variations over the past two millennia.

Huan Zhang;Johannes P. Werner;Elena García-Bustamante;Fidel González-Rouco

75
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Qinglong You Fudan University

Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg

Christoph C. Raible University of Bern

Lance M. Leslie University of Technology Sydney

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart

Guoyu Ren China University of Geosciences

Axel Kleidon Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

External Links

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