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Overview

Christoph Frei is affiliated with the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to the understanding of climate variability and atmospheric phenomena.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Finance
  • Artificial Intelligence

Key research topics in Frei's work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Evaluation of daily precipitation analyses in E-OBS (v19.0e) and ERA5 by comparison to regional high-resolution datasets in European regions" (2021), published in International Journal of Climatology
  • "A New Framework for Identifying and Investigating Seasonal Climate Extremes" (2021), published in Journal of Climate
  • "Long-Term Alpine Precipitation Reconstruction (LAPrec): A Gridded Monthly Data Set Dating Back to 1871" (2024), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Daily sunshine grids for Austria since 1961 - combining station and satellite observations for a multi-decadal climate-monitoring dataset" (2024), published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology
  • "Correction to: Daily precipitation grids for Austria since 1961-development and evaluation of a spatial dataset for hydroclimatic monitoring and modelling" (2022), published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Frequent co-authors in Frei's work include:

  • Johann Hiebl
  • Francesco Isotta
  • Moritz Bandhauer
  • Mónika Lakatos
  • Cristian Lussana

The most common publication venues for their work are:

  • Theoretical and Applied Climatology
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves

    Christoph Schär;Pier Luigi Vidale;Daniel Lüthi;Christoph Frei

  • Future extreme events in European climate: an exploration of regional climate model projections

    Martin Beniston;David B. Stephenson;Ole B. Christensen;Christopher A. T. Ferro

  • A PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY OF THE ALPS FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION RAIN-GAUGE OBSERVATIONS

    Christoph Frei;Christoph Schär

  • Future change of precipitation extremes in Europe: Intercomparison of scenarios from regional climate models

    Christoph Frei;Christoph Frei;Regina Schöll;Sophie Fukutome;Jürg Schmidli

  • Downscaling from GCM precipitation: a benchmark for dynamical and statistical downscaling methods

    Jürg Schmidli;Christoph Frei;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Daily precipitation statistics in regional climate models: Evaluation and intercomparison for the European Alps

    Christoph Frei;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Michel Déqué;Daniela Jacob

  • The climate of daily precipitation in the Alps: development and analysis of a high‐resolution grid dataset from pan‐Alpine rain‐gauge data

    Francesco A. Isotta;Christoph Frei;Viktor Weilguni;Melita Perčec Tadić

  • Detection Probability of Trends in Rare Events: Theory and Application to Heavy Precipitation in the Alpine Region

    Christoph Frei;Christoph Schär

  • Surrogate climate-change scenarios for regional climate models

    Christoph Schär;Christoph Frei;Daniel Lüthi;Huw C. Davies

  • Comparison of six methods for the interpolation of daily, European climate data

    Nynke Hofstra;Malcolm Haylock;Mark New;Phil Jones

  • SAL—A Novel Quality Measure for the Verification of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts

    Heini Wernli;Marcus Paulat;Martin Hagen;Christoph Frei

  • Trends of heavy precipitation and wet and dry spells in Switzerland during the 20th century

    Jürg Schmidli;Christoph Frei

  • Statistical and dynamical downscaling of precipitation: An evaluation and comparison of scenarios for the European Alps

    J. Schmidli;C. M. Goodess;C. Frei;M. R. Haylock

  • Heavy precipitation processes in a warmer climate

    Christoph Frei;Christoph Schär;Daniel Lüthi;Huw C. Davies

  • Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events

    Christoph Schär;Nikolina Ban;Erich M. Fischer;Jan Rajczak

  • Interpolation of temperature in a mountainous region using nonlinear profiles and non-Euclidean distances

    Christoph Frei

  • Predictability and uncertainty in a regional climate model

    Pier Luigi Vidale;Daniel Lüthi;Christoph Frei;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • The return period of wind storms over Europe

    Paul M. Della-Marta;Hubert Mathis;Christoph Frei;Mark A. Liniger

  • Evaluation of daily precipitation analyses in E-OBS (v19.0e) and ERA5 by comparison to regional high-resolution datasets in European regions

    Moritz Bandhauer;Francesco Isotta;Mónika Lakatos;Cristian Lussana

  • Mesoscale precipitation variability in the region of the European Alps during the 20th century

    Jürg Schmidli;Christoph Schmutz;Christoph Frei;Heinz Wanner

  • Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events

    Christoph Schär;Nikolina Ban;Jan Rajczak;Jürg Schmidli

Frequent Co-Authors

Pier Luigi Vidale
Pier Luigi Vidale University of Reading
Mark A. Liniger
Mark A. Liniger Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Daniel Lüthi
Daniel Lüthi ETH Zurich
Flavio Lehner
Flavio Lehner Cornell University
Christof Appenzeller
Christof Appenzeller Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich
Huw C. Davies
Huw C. Davies ETH Zurich
Heini Wernli
Heini Wernli ETH Zurich

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