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Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
82
Citations
27593
World Ranking
874
National Ranking
53

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Daniela Jacob is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research in Germany. The research focus spans the broad domains of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on climate-related studies and atmospheric sciences.

They have contributed extensively to research on climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes. Additional research topics include sustainability and climate change governance, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and climate change policy and economics.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Daniela Jacob include:

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community (2020), published in Regional Environmental Change
  • Evaluation of the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Model Ensemble (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Climate hazard indices projections based on CORDEX-CORE, CMIP5 and CMIP6 ensemble (2021), published in Climate Dynamics
  • Analysis of Compound Climate Extremes and Exposed Population in Africa Under Two Different Emission Scenarios (2020), published in Earth s Future
  • Assessing mean climate change signals in the global CORDEX-CORE ensemble (2020), published in Climate Dynamics

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated on multiple occasions with Daniela Jacob include Diana Rechid, Dmitry Sein, Claas Teichmann, William Cabos, and Torsten Weber.

Their works often appear in several notable venues, with repeat publications in:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Frontiers in Climate
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Earth s Future

Daniela Jacob has also contributed to book publications, including a titled work published by Springer Nature: "Handbook of Climate Services" (2020).

Best Publications

  • EURO-CORDEX : new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research

    Daniela Jacob;Juliane Petersen;Bastian Eggert;Antoinette Alias

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • 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

  • The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Taylor;T. Guillén Bolaños

  • An intercomparison of regional climate simulations for Europe: assessing uncertainties in model projections

    M. Déqué;D. P. Rowell;D. Lüthi;F. Giorgi

  • 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

  • A note to the simulation of the annual and inter-annual variability of the water budget over the Baltic Sea drainage basin

    D. Jacob

  • Sensitivity studies with the regional climate model REMO

    D. Jacob;R. Podzun

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

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

  • Future global meteorological drought hot spots: A study based on CORDEX data

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

  • The simulation of European heat waves from an ensemble of regional climate models within the EURO-CORDEX project

    Robert Vautard;Andreas Gobiet;Daniela Jacob;Michal Belda

  • The European climate under a 2 C global warming

    Robert Vautard;Andreas Gobiet;Stefan Sobolowski;Erik Kjellström

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • WCRP COordinated Regional Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX): A diagnostic MIP for CMIP6

    William J. Gutowski;Filippo Giorgi;Bertrand Timbal;Anne Frigon

  • A comprehensive model inter-comparison study investigating the water budget during the BALTEX-PIDCAP period

    D. Jacob;B. J. J. M. Van den Hurk;U. Andræ;G. Elgered

  • Precipitation in the EURO-CORDEX 0.11° and 0.44° simulations: high resolution, high benefits?

    A.F. Prein;A. Gobiet;H. Truhetz;K. Keuler

  • A first-of-its-kind multi-model convection permitting ensemble for investigating convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean

    Erika Coppola;Stefan Sobolowski;E. Pichelli;F. Raffaele

  • Assessing the Transferability of the Regional Climate Model REMO to Different COordinated Regional Climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX) Regions

    Daniela Jacob;Alberto Elizalde;Andreas Haensler;Stefan Hagemann

  • Regional climate change in Tropical and Northern Africa due to greenhouse forcing and land use changes

    Heiko Paeth;Kai Born;Robin Girmes;Ralf Podzun

  • Evaluation of the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Model Ensemble

    Robert Vautard;Nikolay Kadygrov;Carley Iles;Fredrik Boberg

  • Regional Climate Projections.

    Gerrit Lohmann;Manfred Mudelsee;D. Jacob;U. Haberlandt

Frequent Co-Authors

Claas Teichmann
Claas Teichmann Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Stefan Hagemann
Stefan Hagemann Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Sven Kotlarski
Sven Kotlarski Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Michel Déqué
Michel Déqué Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Grigory Nikulin
Grigory Nikulin Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Robert Vautard
Robert Vautard École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Ole Bøssing Christensen
Ole Bøssing Christensen Danish Meteorological Institute
Filippo Giorgi
Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen University of Copenhagen
Samuel Somot
Samuel Somot Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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