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45
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8871
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6348
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Stephan Pfahl 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 Stephan Pfahl sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 131 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephan Pfahl 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 Stephan Pfahl sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stephan Pfahl is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research predominantly focuses on climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and tropical and extratropical cyclones.

Their work covers various subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, geochemistry and petrology, and touches on health, toxicology and mutagenesis. Main topics of their research encompass climate variability and models alongside oceanographic and atmospheric processes, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, and atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Pfahl has frequently published in several scientific venues, with the greatest number of papers appearing in Weather and Climate Dynamics, followed by contributions to Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Natural hazards and earth system sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Atmospheric Science Letters.

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Stephan Pfahl include:

  • "Atmospheric blocking and weather extremes over the Euro-Atlantic sector - a review" (2022, Weather and Climate Dynamics)
  • "The sensitivity of atmospheric blocking to upstream latent heating - numerical experiments" (2020, Weather and Climate Dynamics)
  • "Meridional and vertical variations of the water vapour isotopic composition in the marine boundary layer over the Atlantic and Southern Ocean" (2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • "A Lagrangian Perspective on Stable Water Isotopes During the West African Monsoon" (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • "A Lagrangian analysis of upper-tropospheric anticyclones associated with heat waves in Europe" (2020, Weather and Climate Dynamics)

Collaboration plays a significant role in Pfahl's research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Heini Wernli
  • Franziska Aemisegger
  • Lisa Schielicke
  • Fabienne Dahinden
  • Florian Ruff

Best Publications

  • Understanding the regional pattern of projected future changes in extreme precipitation

    S. Pfahl;P. A. O’Gorman;E. M. Fischer

  • What controls deuterium excess in global precipitation

    Stephan Pfahl;Harald Sodemann

  • Quantifying the Relevance of Cyclones for Precipitation Extremes

    Stephan Pfahl;Heini Wernli

  • Quantifying the relevance of atmospheric blocking for co-located temperature extremes in the Northern Hemisphere on (sub-)daily time scales

    S. Pfahl;H. Wernli

  • The demographics of water: A review of water ages in the critical zone

    Matthias Sprenger;Matthias Sprenger;Matthias Sprenger;Christine Stumpp;Markus Weiler;Werner Aeschbach

  • Importance of latent heat release in ascending air streams for atmospheric blocking

    Stephan Pfahl;Cornelia Schwierz;Mischa Croci-Maspoli;Christian M. Grams

  • Warm Conveyor Belts in the ERA-Interim Dataset (1979–2010). Part II: Moisture Origin and Relevance for Precipitation

    Stephan Pfahl;Erica Madonna;Maxi Boettcher;Hanna Joos

  • The importance of fronts for extreme precipitation

    J. L. Catto;S. Pfahl

  • A global quantification of compound precipitation and wind extremes

    Olivia Martius;Stephan Pfahl;Clément Chevalier

  • Air parcel trajectory analysis of stable isotopes in water vapor in the eastern Mediterranean

    Stephan Pfahl;Heini Wernli

  • Deuterium excess as a proxy for continental moisture recycling and plant transpiration

    Franziska Aemisegger;Stephan Pfahl;Harald Sodemann;Irene Lehner;Irene Lehner

  • Atmospheric processes triggering the central European floods in June 2013

    C. M. Grams;H. Binder;S. Pfahl;N. Piaget

  • Measuring variations of δ 18 O and δ 2 H in atmospheric water vapour using two commercial laser-based spectrometers: an instrument characterisation study

    F. Aemisegger;P. Sturm;P. Sturm;P. Graf;H. Sodemann

  • 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

  • Characterising the relationship between weather extremes in Europe and synoptic circulation features

    Stephan Pfahl

  • A Climatology of Cold Air Outbreaks and Their Impact on Air–Sea Heat Fluxes in the High-Latitude South Pacific

    Lukas Papritz;Stephan Pfahl;Harald Sodemann;Heini Wernli

  • The role of latent heating in atmospheric blocking dynamics: a global climatology

    Daniel Steinfeld;Stephan Pfahl;Stephan Pfahl

  • Processes determining heat waves across different European climates

    Philipp Zschenderlein;Andreas H. Fink;Stephan Pfahl;Heini Wernli

  • The Future of Midlatitude Cyclones

    Jennifer L. Catto;Duncan Ackerley;James F. Booth;Adrian J. Champion

  • A Lagrangian investigation of hot and cold temperature extremes in Europe

    Melanie Bieli;Stephan Pfahl;Heini Wernli

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Heini Wernli
Heini Wernli ETH Zurich
Matthias Schneider
Matthias Schneider Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Olivia Martius
Olivia Martius University of Bern
Holger Pohlmann
Holger Pohlmann Max Planck Society
Peter Knippertz
Peter Knippertz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Frank Hase
Frank Hase Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wolfgang A. Müller
Wolfgang A. Müller Max Planck Society
Ulrich Corsmeier
Ulrich Corsmeier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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