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Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations is a research topic within Atmospheric Science. Science Explorer counts 68k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advancements in numerical weather prediction models, including topics such as ensemble Kalman filtering, data assimilation, convective parameterization, mesoscale modeling, probabilistic forecasting, microphysics schemes, boundary layer processes, radiative transfer models, hydrological modeling, and atmospheric dynamics.

  • Ensemble Kalman Filter
  • Data Assimilation
  • Convective Parameterization
  • Mesoscale Modeling
  • Probabilistic Forecasting
  • Microphysics Scheme
  • Boundary Layer
  • Radiative Transfer Model
  • Hydrological Model
  • Atmospheric Dynamics
Research works
68k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Which countries lead Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.8k and 2.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.8k works
  2. 2 United States 2.9k works
  3. 3 India 844 works
  4. 4 Germany 642 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 616 works
  6. 6 France 509 works
  7. 7 Japan 423 works
  8. 8 Italy 345 works
  9. 9 Russia 315 works
  10. 10 South Korea 303 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 35.7%United States: 26.9%India: 7.9%Germany: 6.0%6 others listed: 23.5%36%largest
China3,811 · 35.7%United States2,877 · 26.9%India844 · 7.9%Germany642 · 6.0%6 others listed2,511 · 23.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations research, followed by China Meteorological Administration and Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 466 works
  2. 2 China Meteorological AdministrationChina 367 works
  3. 3 Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 295 works
  4. 4 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 219 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 200 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 169 works
  7. 7 Ministry of Earth SciencesIndia 159 works
  8. 8 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 158 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of Meteorological SciencesChina 134 works
  10. 10 NSF National Center for Atmospheric ResearchUnited States 123 works

Who are the leading researchers in Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations include Yoshua Bengio, Wei Huang and Philippe Ciais.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  4. 4 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  5. 5 Rinaldo Bellomo Australia 182k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations?

The most cited paper in Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations is "The ERA5 global reanalysis" (Hans Hersbach et al., 2020), with 32,366 citations. Next come "The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system" (26,509) and "Physics-informed neural networks: A deep learning framework for solving forward and inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations" (19,776).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The ERA5 global reanalysis Hans Hersbach et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Open access 17 May 2020 32,366
2 The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system Dick P. Dee et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Open access Apr 2011 26,509
3 Physics-informed neural networks: A deep learning framework for solving forward and inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations Maziar Raissi, Paris Perdikaris, George Em Karniadakis · Journal of Computational Physics Open access 3 Nov 2018 19,776
4 Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow Edward N. Lorenz · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Open access Mar 1963 19,616
5 An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design Karl E. Taylor, Ronald J. Stouffer, Gerald A. Meehl · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Open access 7 Oct 2011 14,860
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations research done?

The largest centres of Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Boulder (United States) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tsukuba and Offenbach.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.4k works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 522 works
  3. 3 BoulderUnited States 273 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 171 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 167 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 161 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 152 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 146 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 137 works
  10. 10 NormanUnited States 132 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tsukuba25.8 works171×
  2. OffenbachDE · 40.7 works134×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations?

Among universities, judged by research, ETH Zurich, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and Beijing Normal University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 16.6%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →ETH ZurichHohai UniversityBeijing Normal Unive…Nanjing University o…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1ETH ZurichSwitzerland 71.717.6%8.3×68 -17.6%
2Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 66.57.8%61.4×295 +41.7%
3Beijing Normal UniversityChina 65.114.7%7.2×68 +22.9%
4Hohai UniversityChina 63.516.0%7.6×53 +15.5%
5Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 63.020.1%1.5×16 +214.2%
6Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 62.324.5%3.3×17 +54.1%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61.312.3%5.1×100 +13.8%
8Columbia UniversityUnited States 60.117.9%3.3×43 -31.0%
9Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 58.922.5%1.1×21 +169.1%
10University of ReadingUnited Kingdom 58.612.6%28.6×65 -45.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, country by country

Is Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.053% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations0.057% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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