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Christoph Schär

Christoph Schär

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
104
Citations
40454
World Ranking
289
National Ranking
11

Overview

Christoph Schär is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans numerous studies focusing on atmospheric and climate phenomena, with a total of 67 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 66 in Environmental Science.

The scientist's subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Information Systems and Management, and Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research topics emphasize climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, precipitation measurement and analysis, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Recent contributions by Christoph Schär include the following papers:

  • Prediction and projection of heatwaves, 2022, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitation, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • Towards advancing scientific knowledge of climate change impacts on short-duration rainfall extremes, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Christian Zeman
  • Nikolina Ban
  • Silje Lund Sørland
  • Heini Wernli
  • David Leutwyler

Christoph Schär has published extensively in multiple venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics

Best Publications

  • The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves

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

  • Land–atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Daniel Lüthi;Michael Litschi;Christoph Schär

  • Near-term climate change: Projections and predictability

    Ben Kirtman;Scott B. Power;Akintayo John Adedoyin;George J. Boer

  • Consistent geographical patterns of changes in high-impact European heatwaves

    E. M. Fischer;E. M. Fischer;C. Schär

  • Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interactions during the 2003 European Summer Heat Wave

    E. M. Fischer;S. I. Seneviratne;P. L. Vidale;D. Lüthi

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

    Christoph Frei;Christoph Schär

  • Regional climate modeling on European scales: a joint standard evaluation of the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble

    S. Kotlarski;K. Keuler;O. B. Christensen;A. Colette

  • Contribution of land‐atmosphere coupling to recent European summer heat waves

    E. M. Fischer;S. I. Seneviratne;D. Lüthi;C. Schär

  • Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

    Hayley J. Fowler;Geert Lenderink;Andreas F. Prein;Seth Westra

  • An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate

    Daniela Jacob;Lars Bärring;Ole Bøssing Christensen;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

  • The Soil–Precipitation Feedback: A Process Study with a Regional Climate Model

    Christoph Schär;Daniel Lüthi;Urs Beyerle;Erdmann Heise

  • Understanding Flood Regime Changes in Europe: A state of the art assessment

    J Hall;B Arheimer;M Borga;R Brazdil;R Brazdil

  • The global energy balance from a surface perspective

    Martin Wild;Doris Folini;Christoph Schär;Norman Loeb

  • Seasonality and Interannual Variability of the Westerly Jet in the Tibetan Plateau Region

    Reinhard Schiemann;Daniel Lüthi;Christoph Schär

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

    Christoph Frei;Christoph Schär

  • Heavy precipitation in a changing climate: Does short‐term summer precipitation increase faster?

    Nikolina Ban;Juerg Schmidli;Christoph Schär

  • Evaluation of the convection‐resolving regional climate modeling approach in decade‐long simulations

    Nikolina Ban;Juerg Schmidli;Christoph Schär

  • Climate change: hot news from summer 2003.

    Christoph Schär;Gerd Jendritzky

  • Surrogate climate-change scenarios for regional climate models

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

  • The Soil Moisture–Precipitation Feedback in Simulations with Explicit and Parameterized Convection

    Cathy Hohenegger;Peter Brockhaus;Christopher S. Bretherton;Christoph Schär

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Lüthi
Daniel Lüthi ETH Zurich
Sven Kotlarski
Sven Kotlarski Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Martin Wild
Martin Wild ETH Zurich
Mark A. Liniger
Mark A. Liniger Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Ulrike Lohmann
Ulrike Lohmann ETH Zurich
Pier Luigi Vidale
Pier Luigi Vidale University of Reading
Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Ole Bøssing Christensen
Ole Bøssing Christensen Danish Meteorological Institute

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