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9442
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5729
National Ranking
2085

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Malte F. Stuecker is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a substantial body of work in related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. A smaller number of publications also cover Astronomy and Astrophysics and Ecology.

The scientist's work prominently addresses topics including Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Communications Earth & Environment, and Nature. This demonstrates a consistent contribution to high-profile peer-reviewed journals within climate and environmental sciences.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research:

  • Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability, 2021, Earth System Dynamics
  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections, 2020, Geophysical monograph
  • Increasing ENSO-rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature-rainfall relationship, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Marine heatwaves need clear definitions so coastal communities can adapt, 2023, Nature

Their collaborative network includes several frequent coauthors, among whom are Fei-Fei Jin, Axel Timmermann, Wenjun Zhang, Feng Jiang, and Sarah M. Kang. These coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

    Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

  • Pantropical Climate Interactions

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Lixin Wu;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Tim Li

  • Recent Walker circulation strengthening and Pacific cooling amplified by Atlantic warming

    Shayne McGregor;Axel Timmermann;Malte F Stuecker;Matthew Heathcote England

  • Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Agus Santoso;Matthew Collins;Boris Dewitte

  • Polar amplification dominated by local forcing and feedbacks

    Malte F. Stuecker;Cecilia M. Bitz;Kyle C. Armour;Cristian Proistosescu

  • A combination mode of the annual cycle and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation

    Malte F. Stuecker;Axel Timmermann;Fei-Fei Jin;Shayne McGregor

  • Revisiting ENSO/Indian Ocean Dipole phase relationships

    Malte F. Stuecker;Malte F. Stuecker;Axel Timmermann;Fei-Fei Jin;Yoshimitsu Chikamoto

  • Conditions leading to the unprecedented low Antarctic sea ice extent during the 2016 austral spring season

    Malte F. Stuecker;Malte F. Stuecker;Cecilia M. Bitz;Kyle C. Armour

  • Combination Mode Dynamics of the Anomalous Northwest Pacific Anticyclone

    Malte F. Stuecker;Fei-Fei Jin;Axel Timmermann;Shayne McGregor

  • Unraveling El Niño's impact on the East Asian Monsoon and Yangtze River summer flooding

    Wenjun Zhang;Fei-Fei Jin;Malte F. Stuecker;Andrew T. Wittenberg

  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections

    Andréa S. Taschetto;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Malte F. Stuecker;Malte F. Stuecker;Dietmar Dommenget;Dietmar Dommenget

  • Impact of different El Niño types on the El Niño/IOD relationship

    Wenjun Zhang;Yalan Wang;Fei-Fei Jin;Malte F. Stuecker

  • Revisiting the Pacific Meridional Mode.

    Malte F. Stuecker

  • The Effect of the South Pacific Convergence Zone on the Termination of El Niño Events and the Meridional Asymmetry of ENSO

    Shayne McGregor;Axel Timmermann;Niklas Schneider;Malte F Stuecker

  • Marine heatwaves need clear definitions so coastal communities can adapt

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  • Model tropical Atlantic biases underpin diminished Pacific decadal variability

    Shayne McGregor;Malte F. Stuecker;Malte F. Stuecker;Jules B. Kajtar;Matthew H. England

  • Increasing ENSO–rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature–rainfall relationship

    Kyung-Sook Yun;June-Yi Lee;Axel Timmermann;Karl Stein

  • Future high-resolution El Niño/Southern Oscillation dynamics

    Christian Wengel;Christian Wengel;Sun-Seon Lee;Malte F. Stuecker;Axel Timmermann

  • Climate variability impacts on rice production in the Philippines

    Malte F. Stuecker;Michelle Tigchelaar;Michael B. Kantar

  • Impact of ENSO longitudinal position on teleconnections to the NAO

    Wenjun Zhang;Ziqi Wang;Malte F. Stuecker;Malte F. Stuecker;Andrew G. Turner

  • Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability

    Keith Bradley Rodgers;Sun-Seon Lee;Nan Rosenbloom;Axel Timmermann

  • A New Understanding of El Niño’s Impact over East Asia: Dominance of the ENSO Combination Mode

    Wenjun Zhang;Haiyan Li;Malte F. Stuecker;Fei-Fei Jin

Frequent Co-Authors

Fei-Fei Jin
Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Shayne McGregor
Shayne McGregor Monash University
Kyle C. Armour
Kyle C. Armour University of Washington
Jong-Seong Kug
Jong-Seong Kug Seoul National University
Dietmar Dommenget
Dietmar Dommenget Monash University
Antonietta Capotondi
Antonietta Capotondi National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Cecilia M. Bitz
Cecilia M. Bitz University of Washington
Matthew H. England
Matthew H. England University of New South Wales

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