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Douglas Maraun

Douglas Maraun

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
15338
World Ranking
4644
National Ranking
40

Overview

Douglas Maraun is affiliated with the University of Graz in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with marked expertise in specific subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, management, monitoring, policy and law, oceanography, and plant science.

Their work extensively covers topics including climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, landslides and related hazards, cryospheric studies and observations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Douglas Maraun has contributed to several recent papers, highlighting diverse aspects of climate and environmental science. These include:

  • A typology of compound weather and climate events (2020) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community (2020) in Regional Environmental Change
  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation (2021) published in Climate Dynamics
  • More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change (2020) appearing in Communications Earth & Environment
  • Testing bias adjustment methods for regional climate change applications under observational uncertainty and resolution mismatch (2020) published in Atmospheric Science Letters

Their frequent co-authors include Emanuele Bevacqua, Heimo Truhetz, Raphael Knevels, Herwig Proske, and Alexander Brenning, each having collaborated on multiple occasions.

Douglas Maraun's work has been published mainly in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Climate Dynamics
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Frontiers in Climate

Best Publications

  • Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent developments to bridge the gap between dynamical models and the end user

    Douglas Maraun;Douglas Maraun;F. Wetterhall;A. M. Ireson;R. E. Chandler

  • A typology of compound weather and climate events

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius;Olivia Martius;Seth Westra;Emanuele Bevacqua

  • Bias Correcting Climate Change Simulations - a Critical Review

    Douglas Maraun

  • Bias Correction, Quantile Mapping, and Downscaling: Revisiting the Inflation Issue

    Douglas Maraun

  • Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

    Theodore G. Shepherd;Emily Boyd;Raphael A. Calel;Raphael A. Calel;Sandra C. Chapman;Sandra C. Chapman

  • Cross wavelet analysis: significance testing and pitfalls

    Douglas Maraun;Jürgen Kurths

  • Towards process-informed bias correction of climate change simulations

    Douglas Maraun;Theodore G. Shepherd;Martin Widmann;Giuseppe Zappa

  • Higher probability of compound flooding from precipitation and storm surge in Europe under anthropogenic climate change.

    E. Bevacqua;D. Maraun;M. I. Vousdoukas;E. Voukouvalas

  • Statistical Downscaling and Bias Correction for Climate Research

    Douglas Maraun;Martin Widmann

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

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • Multivariate statistical modelling of compound events via pair-copula constructions: analysis of floods in Ravenna (Italy)

    Emanuele Bevacqua;Douglas Maraun;Ingrid Hobæk Haff;Martin Widmann

  • 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

  • Nonstationarities of regional climate model biases in European seasonal mean temperature and precipitation sums

    Douglas Maraun

  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation

    Nikolina Ban;Cécile Caillaud;Erika Coppola;Emanuela Pichelli

  • An intercomparison of a large ensemble of statistical downscaling methods over Europe: Results from the VALUE perfect predictor cross-validation experiment

    J. M. Gutiérrez;D. Maraun;M. Widmann;R. Huth;R. Huth

  • Nonstationary Gaussian processes in wavelet domain: synthesis, estimation, and significance testing.

    Douglas Maraun;J. Kurths;M. Holschneider

  • VALUE: A framework to validate downscaling approaches for climate change studies

    Douglas Maraun;Martin Widmann;José M. Gutiérrez;Sven Kotlarski

  • More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change.

    Emanuele Bevacqua;Michalis I. Vousdoukas;Giuseppe Zappa;Kevin Hodges

  • Tempting long-memory - on the interpretation of DFA results

    Douglas Maraun;H. W. Rust;Jens Timmer

  • Increased probability of compound long-duration dry and hot events in Europe during summer (1950–2013)

    Colin Manning;Martin Widmann;Emanuele Bevacqua;Anne F Van Loon

  • Characterisation of extreme winter precipitation in Mediterranean coastal sites and associated anomalous atmospheric circulation patterns

    Andrea Toreti;Andrea Toreti;Elena Xoplaki;Elena Xoplaki;Douglas Maraun;Franz G. Kuglitsch;Franz G. Kuglitsch

  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, Part I: Evaluation of precipitation

    Nikolina Ban;Erwan Brisson;Cécile Caillaud;Erika Coppola

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathieu Vrac
Mathieu Vrac Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
José M. Gutiérrez
José M. Gutiérrez Spanish National Research Council
Pedro M. M. Soares
Pedro M. M. Soares University of Lisbon
Radan Huth
Radan Huth Charles University
Rita M. Cardoso
Rita M. Cardoso University of Lisbon
Sven Kotlarski
Sven Kotlarski Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Wonsun Park
Wonsun Park GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Timothy J. Osborn
Timothy J. Osborn University of East Anglia
Rasmus E. Benestad
Rasmus E. Benestad Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Jürgen Kurths
Jürgen Kurths Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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