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Overview

Erik Kjellström is affiliated with the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in atmospheric science and global and planetary change. Their work intersects with civil and structural engineering, oceanography, and water science and technology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to environmental studies.

The researcher's main topics of study include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, cryospheric studies and observations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate change and permafrost, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Erik Kjellström's scholarly output includes numerous papers published in well-regarded venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community," 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • "Evaluation of the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Model Ensemble," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Assessment of the European Climate Projections as Simulated by the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional and Global Climate Model Ensemble," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Climate change in the Baltic Sea region: a summary," 2022, Earth System Dynamics
  • "Warmer climate projections in EC-Earth3-Veg: the role of changes in the greenhouse gas concentrations from CMIP5 to CMIP6," 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent publication venues for Kjellström include:

  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a group of coauthors in their field. Frequent collaborators include Ole B. Christensen, Danijel Belušić, Petter Lind, Grigory Nikulin, and David Lindstedt.

Best Publications

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

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

  • The Rossby Centre Regional Climate model RCA3: model description and performance

    Patrick Samuelsson;Colin G. Jones;Ulrika Willén;Anders Ullerstig

  • 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

  • 21st century changes in the European climate: uncertainties derived from an ensemble of regional climate model simulations

    Erik Kjellström;Grigory Nikulin;Ulf Hansson;Gustav Strandberg

  • Simulation of the tropospheric sulfur cycle in a global climate model

    Johann Feichter;Erik Kjellström;Henning Rodhe;Frank Dentener

  • Evaluation and future projections of temperature, precipitation and wind extremes over Europe in an ensemble of regional climate simulations

    Grigory Nikulin;Erik Kjellström;Ulf Hansson;Gustav Strandberg

  • Potential applications of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) predictions

    Christopher J. White;Christopher J. White;Henrik Carlsen;Andrew W. Robertson;Richard J.T. Klein

  • 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

  • Weight assignment in regional climate models

    Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Erik Kjellström;Filippo Giorgi;Geert Lenderink

  • Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

    M. J Gaillard;S. Sugita;F. Mazier;F. Mazier;A. K Trondman

  • 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 140-year simulation of European climate with the new version of the Rossby Centre regional atmospheric climate model (RCA3)

    Erik Kjellström;Lars Bärring;Stefan Gollvik;Ulf Hansson

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

    Robert Vautard;Nikolay Kadygrov;Carley Iles;Fredrik Boberg

  • Potential climate change impact on wind energy resources in northern Europe: analyses using a regional climate model

    S C Pryor;R J Barthelmie;Erik Kjellström

  • Assessment of the European Climate Projections as Simulated by the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional and Global Climate Model Ensemble

    Erika Coppola;Rita Nogherotto;James M. Ciarlo;Filippo Giorgi

  • Global high resolution versus Limited Area Model climate change projections over Europe: quantifying confidence level from PRUDENCE results

    M Deque;R G Jones;M Wild;F Giorgi

  • A comparison of scavenging and deposition processes in global models: results from the WCRP Cambridge Workshop of 1995

    P. J. Rasch;J. Feichter;K. Law;N. Mahowald

  • Modelling daily temperature extremes: recent climate and future changes over Europe

    Erik Kjellström;Lars Bärring;Daniela Jacob;Richard Jones

  • The effects of 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming on Africa in the CORDEX ensemble

    Grigory Nikulin;Christopher Lennard;Alessandro Dosio;Erik Kjellström

  • Daily and monthly temperature and precipitation statistics as performance indicators for regional climate models.

    Erik Kjellström;Fredrik Boberg;Manuel Castro;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Grigory Nikulin
Grigory Nikulin Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Ole Bøssing Christensen
Ole Bøssing Christensen Danish Meteorological Institute
Colin Jones
Colin Jones University of Leeds
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen University of Copenhagen
Johann Feichter
Johann Feichter Max Planck Society
Geert Lenderink
Geert Lenderink Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Patrick Samuelsson
Patrick Samuelsson Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Daniela Jacob
Daniela Jacob Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Marie-José Gaillard
Marie-José Gaillard Linnaeus University
Samuel Somot
Samuel Somot Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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