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Thorsten Mauritsen

Thorsten Mauritsen

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
21347
World Ranking
2278
National Ranking
36

Thorsten Mauritsen 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 Thorsten Mauritsen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 164 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thorsten Mauritsen 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 Thorsten Mauritsen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thorsten Mauritsen is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses on several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics of Mauritsen's research include Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Frequent co-authors in Mauritsen's work include Angshuman Modak, Linnea Huusko, Jean-Louis Dufresne, Timothy Andrews, and Kyle C. Armour.

Mauritsen has published extensively in several key venues. These include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Geophysical Research Letters, Climate of the Past, and Nature Climate Change.

Recent publications by Thorsten Mauritsen showcase a range of topics and journals:

  • An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence, 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Multiple drivers of the North Atlantic warming hole, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • On the climate sensitivity and historical warming evolution in recent coupled model ensembles, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales, 2023, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Enhanced warming constrained by past trends in equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature gradient, 2020, Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

  • Climate and carbon cycle changes from 1850 to 2100 in MPI‐ESM simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5

    Marco A. Giorgetta;Johann H. Jungclaus;Christian H. Reick;Stephanie Legutke

  • Atmospheric component of the MPI-M Earth System Model: ECHAM6

    Bjorn Stevens;Marco Giorgetta;Monika Esch;Thorsten Mauritsen

  • Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks in contemporary climate models

    Felix Pithan;Thorsten Mauritsen

  • Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI-ESM1.2) and Its Response to Increasing CO2.

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Jürgen Bader;Tobias Becker;Jörg Behrens

  • An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

    S C Sherwood;M J Webb;J D Annan;K C Armour

  • Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

    Nicolas Bellouin;Johannes Quaas;Edward Gryspeerdt;Stefan Kinne

  • A higher-resolution version of the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM1.2-HR)

    W. A. Müller;W. A. Müller;J. H. Jungclaus;T. Mauritsen;J. Baehr

  • Vertical structure of recent Arctic warming

    Rune G. Graversen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Michael Tjernström;Erland Källén

  • The Art and Science of Climate Model Tuning

    Frédéric Hourdin;Thorsten Mauritsen;Andrew Gettelman;Jean-Christophe Golaz

  • Tuning the climate of a global model

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Bjoern Stevens;Erich Roeckner;Traute Crueger

  • Single-Column Model Intercomparison for a Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    J Cuxart;A A M Holtslag;R J Beare;E Bazile

  • The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation without a role for ocean circulation.

    Amy Clement;Katinka Bellomo;Lisa N. Murphy;Mark A. Cane

  • Why is it so difficult to represent stably stratified conditions in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models

    Irina Sandu;Anton Beljaars;Peter Bechtold;Thorsten Mauritsen

  • ICON-A, the Atmosphere Component of the ICON Earth System Model: I. Model Description

    Marco A. Giorgetta;Renate Brokopf;Traute Crueger;Monika Esch

  • An Arctic CCN-limited cloud-aerosol regime

    T. Mauritsen;Joseph Sedlar;Michael Tjernström;Caroline Leck

  • Missing iris effect as a possible cause of muted hydrological change and high climate sensitivity in models

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Bjorn Stevens

  • Turbulence energetics in stably stratified geophysical flows: Strong and weak mixing regimes

    S. S. Zilitinkevich;S. S. Zilitinkevich;S. S. Zilitinkevich;T. Elperin;N. Kleeorin;I. Rogachevskii

  • Multiple drivers of the North Atlantic warming hole

    Paul Keil;Thorsten Mauritsen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Johann H. Jungclaus;Christopher Hedemann

  • Evaluation of the Diurnal Cycle in the atmospheric boundary layer over land as represented by a variety of single-column models: The second GABLS Experiment

    Gunilla Svensson;A. A. M. Holtslag;V. Kumar;T. Mauritsen

  • A transitioning Arctic surface energy budget: the impacts of solar zenith angle, surface albedo and cloud radiative forcing

    Joseph Sedlar;Michael Tjernström;Thorsten Mauritsen;Matthew D. Shupe

  • The Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS): Overview and experimental design

    Michael Tjernström;Caroline Leck;C. E. Birch;J. W. Bottenheim

  • MACv2-SP: a parameterization of anthropogenic aerosol optical properties and an associated Twomey effect for use in CMIP6

    Bjorn Stevens;Stephanie Fiedler;Stefan Kinne;Karsten Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Monika Esch
Monika Esch Max Planck Society
Hauke Schmidt
Hauke Schmidt Max Planck Society
Uwe Mikolajewicz
Uwe Mikolajewicz Max Planck Society
Marco A. Giorgetta
Marco A. Giorgetta Max Planck Society
Michael Tjernström
Michael Tjernström Stockholm University
Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society
Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society

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