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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
66
Citations
24629
World Ranking
2035
National Ranking
52

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Markus G. Donat is affiliated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. The scope of their work also extends to Water Science and Technology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The main topics of their research include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent publication venues for Markus G. Donat include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters

The researcher has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
  • Lisa V. Alexander
  • Pablo Ortega
  • Robert Dunn
  • Carlos Delgado-Torres

Recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • "Marine Heatwaves," 2020, published in Annual Review of Marine Science
  • "Development of an Updated Global Land In Situ-Based Data Set of Temperature and Precipitation Extremes: HadEX3," 2020, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwave events," 2020, published in Scientific Reports
  • "Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales," 2021, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Intercomparison of annual precipitation indices and extremes over global land areas from in situ, space-based and reanalysis products," 2020, published in Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves

    Alistair J. Hobday;Lisa V. Alexander;Sarah E. Perkins;Dan A. Smale;Dan A. Smale

  • Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century

    Eric C. J. Oliver;Eric C. J. Oliver;Markus G. Donat;Michael T. Burrows;Pippa J. Moore

  • More extreme precipitation in the world’s dry and wet regions

    Markus G. Donat;Andrew L. Lowry;Lisa V. Alexander;Paul A. O’Gorman

  • Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services

    Dan A. Smale;Dan A. Smale;Thomas Wernberg;Eric C. J. Oliver;Eric C. J. Oliver;Eric C. J. Oliver;Mads Thomsen

  • Updated analyses of temperature and precipitation extreme indices since the beginning of the twentieth century: The HadEX2 dataset

    M. G. Donat;L. V. Alexander;H. Yang;I. Durre

  • Marine Heatwaves.

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  • The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields

    Elisabeth Vogel;Markus G. Donat;Markus G. Donat;Lisa Victoria Alexander;Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen

  • Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Markus G. Donat;Andy J. Pitman;Reto Knutti

  • Categorizing and naming marine heatwaves

    Alistair J. Hobday;Eric C.J. Oliver;Eric C.J. Oliver;Alex Sen Gupta;Jessica A. Benthuysen

  • A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers

    Neil J. Holbrook;Neil J. Holbrook;Hillary A. Scannell;Alexander Sen Gupta;Jessica A. Benthuysen

  • Projected Marine Heatwaves in the 21st Century and the Potential for Ecological Impact

    Eric C. J. Oliver;Michael T. Burrows;Markus G. Donat;Alex Sen Gupta;Alex Sen Gupta

  • No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Markus G. Donat;Brigitte Mueller;Brigitte Mueller;Lisa V. Alexander

  • Global Land-Based Datasets for Monitoring Climatic Extremes

    M.G. Donat;L.V. Alexander;H. Yang;I. Durre

  • Development of an updated global land In situ‐based data set of temperature and precipitation extremes : HadEX3

    Robert J.H. Dunn;Lisa V. Alexander;Markus G. Donat;Xuebin Zhang

  • Changes in extreme temperature and precipitation in the Arab region: long‐term trends and variability related to ENSO and NAO

    M. G. Donat;T. C. Peterson;M. Brunet;A. D. King

  • Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwaves events

    Alexander Sen Gupta;Mads Thomsen;Jessica A. Benthuysen;Alistair J. Hobday

  • The shifting probability distribution of global daytime and night-time temperatures

    Markus G. Donat;Lisa V. Alexander

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa V. Alexander
Lisa V. Alexander University of New South Wales
Gregor C. Leckebusch
Gregor C. Leckebusch University of Birmingham
Uwe Ulbrich
Uwe Ulbrich Freie Universität Berlin
Andrew D. King
Andrew D. King University of Melbourne
Andrew J. Pitman
Andrew J. Pitman University of New South Wales
David J. Karoly
David J. Karoly Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Dan A. Smale
Dan A. Smale Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Eric C. J. Oliver
Eric C. J. Oliver Dalhousie University
Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick
Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick University of New South Wales
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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