Axel Kleidon

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry — Germany

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

52h-index8.9kcitations419works1.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(96), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics(84), Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution(65), Climate variability and models(63), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations(35)

Publications419 total

The Atmosphere as a Heat Engine Operating at Maximum Power
Journal of Climate·2025
Zukunftstechnologien bei der Stromerzeugung: Elektrizität im internationalen Vergleich
Physik in unserer Zeit·2025Open Access
Explaining Observed Daily Variations and Decadal Trends in the Diurnal Air Temperature Range
Geophysical Research Letters·2025Open Access
Vermeidung von Verbrennung senkt Primärenergiebedarf deutlich: Strom statt Wärme
Physik in unserer Zeit·2025Open Access
Explaining observed daily variations and decadal trends in the diurnal air temperature range
2025
Evaluating the impact of kinetic energy removal by wind turbines on the technical wind energy potential of the German Bight
Meteorologische Zeitschrift·2025Open Access
Identifying regional drivers shaping daily maximum temperatures and their extremes  
2025Open Access
Understanding altitudinal temperature variations using a surface energy balance approach 
2025Open Access
Correcting overestimated potential evaporation from the Penman-Monteith equation during water-limited conditions
2025Open Access
Thermodynamics of Morphogenesis: Beading and Branching Pattern Formation in Diffusion-Driven Salt Finger Plumes
Entropy·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Dissipative dynamics in river catchments: insights from probability distributions
2025
Cross‐Border Cooperation to Mitigate Wake Losses in Offshore Wind Energy: A 2050 Case Study for the North Sea
International Journal of Energy Research·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Thermodynamically inconsistent extreme precipitation sensitivities across continents driven by cloud-radiative effects
Nature Communications·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Estimating the technical wind energy potential of Kansas that incorporates the effect of regional wind resource depletion by wind turbines
Wind energy science·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget
Communications Earth & Environment·2024· 13 citedOpen Access
The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited
Physics of Life Reviews·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Life and Earth's Planetary Machinery Revisited
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
The new plant functional diversity model JeDi-BACH (version 1.0) in the ICON Earth System Model (version 1.0)
2024Open Access
Kann Kernenergie zur Energiewende beitragen?
Physik in unserer Zeit·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Preferential pathways in catchments induce simple functioning but complex chemical transport
2024Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Uwe Ehret(6), Erwin Zehe(6), Martin Heimann(5), Philipp Porada(5), Stanislaus J. Schymanski(5), Martijn Westhoff(5), Maik Renner(5), Ryan Pavlick(4), Klaus Fraedrich(4), Ulrike Scherer(4), Lee M. Miller(4), A. D. Friend(3), Tim Rademacher(3), Philippe Ciais(3), Akihiko Ito(3), Mark R. Lomas(3), Sibyll Schaphoff(3), Bettina Weber(3), Ulrich Pöschl(3), Hoshin V. Gupta(3)