2026 Olivia Martius: 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	53	4208	4029	108	102	248	11756

Overview

Olivia Martius is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has an extensive background in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and related models, as well as the impacts of extreme weather events and hydrological processes.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Climate variability and models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Cryospheric studies and observations
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Their research spans a variety of subfields that support these topics, such as:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Water Science and Technology
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Oceanography

Olivia Martius has contributed to numerous academic publications, often working alongside frequent coauthors including Alexandre Tuel, Jakob Zscheischler, Tim Raupach, Regula Muelchi, and Urs Germann.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Olivia Martius include:

"A typology of compound weather and climate events" (2020) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"Understanding and managing connected extreme events" (2020) published in Nature Climate Change
"Atmospheric blocking and weather extremes over the Euro-Atlantic sector - a review" (2022) published in Weather and Climate Dynamics
"Event-Based Storylines to Address Climate Risk" (2020) published in Earth's Future
"The effects of climate change on hailstorms" (2021) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Their work appears in several publication venues with a recurring presence in:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Weather and Climate Dynamics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Geophysical Research Letters
Weather and Climate Extremes

The research carried out by Olivia Martius contributes to advancing scientific understanding in environmental and atmospheric sciences, with a concentration on extreme weather events and their underlying climatic drivers.

Best Publications

A typology of compound weather and climate events

Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius;Olivia Martius;Seth Westra;Emanuele Bevacqua

1279
Citations
Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

Theodore G. Shepherd;Emily Boyd;Raphael A. Calel;Raphael A. Calel;Sandra C. Chapman;Sandra C. Chapman

683
Citations
Understanding and managing connected extreme events

Colin Raymond;Colin Raymond;Radley M. Horton;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius

597
Citations
Blocking and its Response to Climate Change

Tim Woollings;David E. Barriopedro;John Methven;Seok-Woo Son

517
Citations
Warm Conveyor Belts in the ERA-Interim Dataset (1979–2010): Part I: Climatology and Potential Vorticity Evolution

Erica Madonna;Heini Wernli;Hanna Joos;Olivia Martius

448
Citations
Blocking precursors to stratospheric sudden warming events

Olivia Martius;L. M. Polvani;H. C. Davies

321
Citations
Rossby Wave Packets on the Midlatitude Waveguide—A Review

Volkmar Wirth;Michael Riemer;Edmund K. M. Chang;Olivia Martius

267
Citations
A global quantification of compound precipitation and wind extremes

Olivia Martius;Stephan Pfahl;Clément Chevalier

234
Citations
The effects of climate change on hailstorms

Timothy H. Raupach;Timothy H. Raupach;Timothy H. Raupach;Olivia Martius;Olivia Martius;John T. Allen;Michael Kunz

181
Citations
The role of upper-level dynamics and surface processes for the Pakistan flood of July 2010

Olivia Martius;Olivia Martius;H. Sodemann;H. Joos;S. Pfahl

179
Citations
Breaking Waves at the Tropopause in the Wintertime Northern Hemisphere: Climatological Analyses of the Orientation and the Theoretical LC1/2 Classification

Olivia Martius;C. Schwierz;H. C. Davies

172
Citations
Event-Based Storylines to Address Climate Risk

Jana Sillmann;Theodore G. Shepherd;Bart van den Hurk;Wilco Hazeleger

170
Citations
Spatial and temporal distribution of hailstorms in the Alpine region: a long‐term, high resolution, radar‐based analysis

Luca Nisi;Olivia Martius;Olivia Martius;A. Hering;M. Kunz

161
Citations
Tropopause-Level Waveguides

Olivia Martius;C. Schwierz;H. C. Davies

160
Citations
Recurrent Synoptic-Scale Rossby Wave Patterns and Their Effect on the Persistence of Cold and Hot Spells

Matthias Röthlisberger;Linda Frossard;Lance F. Bosart;Daniel Keyser

145
Citations
Episodes of alpine heavy precipitation with an overlying elongated stratospheric intrusion: a climatology

Olivia Martius;Evelyn Zenklusen;Cornelia Schwierz;Huw C. Davies

143
Citations
The Modulation of the Subtropical and Extratropical Atmosphere in the Pacific Basin in Response to the Madden–Julian Oscillation

Richard W. Moore;Olivia Martius;Thomas Spengler

139
Citations
Far‐upstream precursors of heavy precipitation events on the Alpine south‐side

Olivia Martius;C. Schwierz;H. C. Davies

133
Citations
Clustering of Regional-Scale Extreme Precipitation Events in Southern Switzerland

Yannick Barton;Paraskevi Giannakaki;Harald von Waldow;Clément Chevalier

133
Citations
Persistent Circulation Regimes and Preferred Regime Transitions in the North Atlantic

Christian Franzke;Tim Woollings;Olivia Martius

127
Citations
Atmospheric Blocking and Weather Extremes over the Euro-Atlantic Sector – A Review

Lisa-Ann Kautz;Olivia Martius;Stephan Pfahl;Joaquim G. Pinto

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern

Rolf Weingartner University of Bern

Christoph C. Raible University of Bern

Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Huw C. Davies ETH Zurich

Heini Wernli ETH Zurich

Massimiliano Zappa Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Michael Sprenger ETH Zurich

Stephan Pfahl Freie Universität Berlin

Gilbert P. Compo National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

External Links

Personal website of Olivia Martius

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