Michael Sigl

13.2k citations

105 papers · 4.9k · 1 hit paper · h-index 38

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Atmospheric Science top 0.5%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Paleontology top 2%
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 96
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 79
- Cryospheric studies and observations 38
- Tree-ring climate responses 32
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 13
- Climate change and permafrost 10
Global and Planetary Change 35
- Climate variability and models 17

Co-authors: J. R. McConnell (46 shared papers)Matthew Toohey (17 shared papers)Lukas Wacker (10 shared papers)Margit Schwikowski (22 shared papers)Ulf Büntgen (8 shared papers)Jan Esper (7 shared papers)Olivia J. Maselli (11 shared papers)Nicola Di Cosmo (4 shared papers)
Journals: Climate of the past (14 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (9 papers)Quaternary Science Reviews (8 papers)Communications Earth & Environment (6 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (6 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Michael Sigl

103 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Michael Sigl's Hit Papers

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Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD 2016 · 636 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2016 Nature Geoscience

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1	Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD Nature Geoscience ·Ulf Büntgen, Vladimir S. Myglan, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Michael McCormick, Nicola Di Cosmo, Michael Sigl, Johann H. Jungclaus, Sebastian Wagner, Paul J. Krusic, Jan Esper, Jed Oliver Kaplan, Michiel de Vaan, Jürg Luterbacher, Lukas Wacker, Willy Tegel, Alexander V. Kirdyanov Hit paper breakdown →	2016	636
2	Volcanic stratospheric sulfur injections and aerosol optical depth from 500 BCE to 1900 CE Earth system science data ·Matthew Toohey, Michael Sigl	2017	231
3	A new bipolar ice core record of volcanism from WAIS Divide and NEEM and implications for climate forcing of the last 2000 years Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Michael Sigl, J. R. McConnell, Lawrence R. Layman, Olivia J. Maselli, Ken McGwire, Daniel Pasteris, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, Bo Møllesøe Vinther, Ross Edwards, Robert Mulvaney, Sepp Kipfstuhl	2012	197
4	The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology – Part 1: Methane synchronization (68–31 ka BP) and the gas age–ice age difference Climate of the past ·Christo Buizert, Kurt M. Cuffey, J. P. Severinghaus, Daniel Baggenstos, Tyler Jeffrey Fudge, Eric J. Steig, Bradley R. Markle, Mai Winstrup, Rachael H. Rhodes, Edward J. Brook, Todd Sowers, Gary D. Clow, Hai Cheng, Richard Lawrence Edwards, Michael Sigl, J. R. McConnell, K. C. Taylor	2015	175
5	Multiradionuclide evidence for the solar origin of the cosmic-ray events of AD 774/5 and 993/4 Nature Communications ·Florian Mekhaldi, Raimund Muscheler, Florian Adolphi, Ala Aldahan, J. Beer, J. R. McConnell, Göran Possnert, Michael Sigl, Anders M. Svensson, Hans‐Arno Synal, Kees C. Welten, Thomas E. Woodruff	2015	172
6	Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE Quaternary Science Reviews ·Clive Oppenheimer, Lukas Wacker, Jiandong Xu, Juan Diego Galván, Markus Stoffel, Sébastien Guillet, Christophe Corona, Michael Sigl, Nicola Di Cosmo, Irka Hajdas, Bo Pan, Remco E. Breuker, Lea Schneider, Jan Esper, Jie Fei, J. O. S. Hammond, Ulf Büntgen	2017	159
7	Insights from Antarctica on volcanic forcing during the Common Era Nature Climate Change ·Michael Sigl, J. R. McConnell, Matthew Toohey, Mark A. J. Curran, Sarah B. Das, Ross Edwards, Elisabeth Isaksson, Kenji Kawamura, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Kirstin Krüger, Lawrence R. Layman, Olivia J. Maselli, Yuko Motizuki, Hideaki Motoyama, Daniel R. Pasteris, Mirko Severi	2014	125
8	Abrupt ice-age shifts in southern westerly winds and Antarctic climate forced from the north Nature ·Christo Buizert, Michael Sigl, Mirko Severi, Bradley R. Markle, J. J. Wettstein, J. R. McConnell, Joel B. Pedro, Harald Sodemann, Kumiko Goto‐Azuma, Kenji Kawamura, Shuji Fujita, Hideaki Motoyama, Motohiro Hirabayashi, Ryu Uemura, Barbara Stenni, Frédéric Parrenin, Feng He, Tyler Jeffrey Fudge, Eric J. Steig	2018	124
9	Transatlantic distribution of the Alaskan White River Ash Geology ·Britta J.L. Jensen, Sean Pyne-O’Donnell, Gill Plunkett, DUANE G. FROESE, Paul D.M. Hughes, Michael Sigl, J. R. McConnell, Matthew J. Amesbury, Paul G. Blackwell, Christel van den Bogaard, Caitlin E. Buck, Dan J. Charman, John J. Clague, Valerie A. Hall, Johannes Koch, Helen Mackay, Gunnar Mallon, Lynsey McColl, Jonathan R. Pilcher	2014	121
10	Ash from Changbaishan Millennium eruption recorded in Greenland ice: Implications for determining the eruption's timing and impact Geophysical Research Letters ·Chunqing Sun, Gill Plunkett, Jiaqi Liu, Hongli Zhao, Michael Sigl, J. R. McConnell, Jonathan R. Pilcher, Bo Møllesøe Vinther, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, Valerie A. Hall	2014	109
11	Climatic and societal impacts of a volcanic double event at the dawn of the Middle Ages Climatic Change ·Matthew Toohey, Kirstin Krüger, Michael Sigl, Frøde Stordal, Henrik Hovland Svensen	2016	106
12	Disproportionately strong climate forcing from extratropical explosive volcanic eruptions Nature Geoscience ·Matthew Toohey, Kirstin Krüger, Hauke Schmidt, Claudia Timmreck, Michael Sigl, Markus Stoffel, Rob Wilson	2019	103
13	Post 17th-Century Changes of European PAH Emissions Recorded in High-Altitude Alpine Snow and Ice Environmental Science & Technology ·Jacopo Gabrieli, Paul Vallelonga, Giulio Cozzi, Paolo Gabrielli, Andrea Gambaro, Michael Sigl, Fabio Decet, Margit Schwikowski, H. W. Gäggeler, Claude F. Boutron, Paolo Cescon, Carlo Barbante	2010	102
14	Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt and constrains interstate conflict in ancient Egypt Nature Communications ·Joseph G. Manning, Francis Ludlow, A. Stine, William R. Boos, Michael Sigl, Jennifer R. Marlon	2017	101
15	Antarctic-wide array of high-resolution ice core records reveals pervasive lead pollution began in 1889 and persists today Scientific Reports ·J. R. McConnell, Olivia J. Maselli, Michael Sigl, Paul Vallelonga, T. Neumann, H. Anschütz, Roger C. Bales, Mark A. J. Curran, Sarah B. Das, Ross Edwards, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Lawrence R. Layman, Elizabeth Ruth Thomas	2014	101
16	Volcanic stratospheric sulfur injections and aerosol optical depth during the Holocene (past 11 500 years) from a bipolar ice-core array Earth system science data ·Michael Sigl, Matthew Toohey, J. R. McConnell, Jihong Cole‐Dai, Mirko Severi	2022	95
17	Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas Nature ·Frederick Reinig, Lukas Wacker, Olaf Jöris, Clive Oppenheimer, Giulia Guidobaldi, Daniel Nievergelt, Florian Adolphi, Paolo Cherubini, Stefan Engels, Jan Esper, Alexander Land, Christine S. Lane, Hardy Pfanz, Sabine Remmele, Michael Sigl, Adam Sookdeo, Ulf Büntgen	2021	89
18	Greenland precipitation trends in a long‐term instrumental climate context (1890–2012): evaluation of coastal and ice core records International Journal of Climatology ·Sebastian H. Mernild, Edward Hanna, J. R. McConnell, Michael Sigl, Andrew P. Beckerman, Jacob C. Yde, John Cappelen, Jeppe K. Malmros, Konrad Steffen	2014	85
19	Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·J. R. McConnell, Michael Sigl, Gill Plunkett, Andrea Burke, Woon Mi Kim, Christoph Raible, Andrew I. Wilson, Joseph G. Manning, Francis Ludlow, Nathan J. Chellman, Helen M. Innes, Zhen Yang, Jessica F. Larsen, Janet R. Schaefer, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi, F. Wilhelms, Thomas Opel, Hanno Meyer, Jørgen Peder Steffensen	2020	79
20	A novel radiocarbon dating technique applied to an ice core from the Alps indicating late Pleistocene ages Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Theo Manuel Jenk, Sönke Szidat, David Bolius, Michael Sigl, H. W. Gäggeler, Lukas Wacker, Matthias Ruff, Carlo Barbante, Claude F. Boutron, Margit Schwikowski	2009	79

About Michael Sigl

Michael Sigl is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Paleontology and Geophysics, having authored 105 papers that have together received 4.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (79 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (38 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (32 papers), Climate variability and models (17 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (13 papers), Climate change and permafrost (10 papers), Polar Research and Ecology (10 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (3.8k citations), Paleontology (618 citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.4k citations), Geophysics (489 citations) and Environmental Chemistry (364 citations). Michael Sigl has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include J. R. McConnell, Matthew Toohey, Lukas Wacker, Margit Schwikowski, Ulf Büntgen, Jan Esper, Olivia J. Maselli, Nicola Di Cosmo, Kirstin Krüger and Sebastian Wagner. Their work appears in journals such as Climate of the past, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Quaternary Science Reviews, Communications Earth & Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

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