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Erich M. Fischer

Erich M. Fischer

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
68
Citations
30116
World Ranking
1492
National Ranking
38

Overview

Erich M. Fischer is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, contributing to research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The scientist's research spans multiple subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Fischer's work focuses on several key topics within these fields:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Science Advances
  • Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Earth System Dynamics

Fischer has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably:

  • Reto Knutti
  • Sebastian Sippel
  • Sonia I. Seneviratne
  • Urs Beyerle
  • Joel Zeder

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Fischer include:

  • "Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes," 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6," 2021, Earth System Dynamics
  • "Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6," 2020, Earth System Dynamics
  • "Prediction and projection of heatwaves," 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe

    David Barriopedro;Erich M. Fischer;Jürg Luterbacher;Ricardo M. Trigo

  • Marine heatwaves under global warming

    Thomas L. Frölicher;Thomas L. Frölicher;Erich M. Fischer;Nicolas Gruber

  • Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes

    E. M. Fischer;R. Knutti

  • 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

  • Understanding the regional pattern of projected future changes in extreme precipitation

    S. Pfahl;P. A. O’Gorman;E. M. Fischer

  • Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal

    Carl Friedrich Schleussner;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Michiel Schaeffer;Tabea Lissner

  • A Review of the European Summer Heat Wave of 2003

    R. García-Herrera;J. Díaz;R. M. Trigo;J. Luterbacher

  • Frequency of extreme precipitation increases extensively with event rareness under global warming.

    Gunnar Myhre;Kari Alterskjær;Camilla Weum Stjern;Øivind Hodnebrog

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

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

  • Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 °C and 2 °C

    Carl-Friedrich Schleussner;Tabea Katharina Lissner;Erich M. Fischer;Jan Wohland

  • Top ten European heatwaves since 1950 and their occurrence in the coming decades

    Simone Russo;Jana Sillmann;Erich M Fischer

  • Observed heavy precipitation increase confirms theory and early models

    Erich M. Fischer;Reto Knutti

  • Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6

    Claudia Tebaldi;Kevin Debeire;Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Erich Fischer

  • Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models

    Katarzyna B. Tokarska;Martin B. Stolpe;Sebastian Sippel;Erich M. Fischer

  • Robust spatially aggregated projections of climate extremes

    E. M. Fischer;U. Beyerle;R. Knutti

  • Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes

    E. M. Fischer;S. Sippel;R. Knutti

  • Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6

    Flavio Lehner;Flavio Lehner;Clara Deser;Nicola Maher;Jochem Marotzke

  • Reconciling controversies about the ‘global warming hiatus’

    Iselin Medhaug;Martin B. Stolpe;Erich M. Fischer;Reto Knutti

  • A climate model projection weighting scheme accounting for performance and interdependence

    Reto Knutti;Reto Knutti;Jan Sedláček;Benjamin M. Sanderson;Ruth Lorenz

  • European climate response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the last half millennium

    Erich Fischer;Erich Fischer;Jürg Luterbacher;Eduardo Zorita;S Tett

Frequent Co-Authors

Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich
Jana Sillmann
Jana Sillmann Universität Hamburg
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hideo Shiogama
Hideo Shiogama National Institute for Environmental Studies
Sven Kotlarski
Sven Kotlarski Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Jakob Zscheischler
Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Flavio Lehner
Flavio Lehner Cornell University
Markus G. Donat
Markus G. Donat Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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