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Overview

Flavio Lehner is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental and earth sciences, focusing on climate variability, atmospheric phenomena, and hydrological processes. Lehner has contributed extensively to the understanding of global and planetary change through empirical and modeling approaches.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, Lehner's work is particularly concentrated in the following subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The scientist's research topics cover a range of key aspects related to climate and environmental dynamics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Recent publications by Flavio Lehner include:

  • "Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects" (2020) published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models" (2020) published in Science Advances
  • "Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6" (2020) published in Earth System Dynamics
  • "Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction" (2020) published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change" (2021) published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences

Frequent coauthors working with Lehner include:

  • Angeline G. Pendergrass
  • Reto Knutti
  • Isla R. Simpson
  • Clara Deser
  • Sloan Coats

Publications by Lehner appear regularly in a variety of scientific journals. The most frequent venues include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Earth System Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

    Clara Deser;Flavio Lehner;Keith B. Rodgers;Toby R. Ault

  • Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models

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

  • Precipitation variability increases in a warmer climate

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Reto Knutti;Reto Knutti;Flavio Lehner;Clara Deser

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

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

  • Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America

    Keith N. Musselman;Flavio Lehner;Kyoko Ikeda;Martyn P. Clark

  • Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Gerald A. Meehl;Roger Pulwarty;Mike Hobbins;Mike Hobbins

  • Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

    Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Folmer Krikken;Sophie Lewis;Nicholas J. Leach

  • Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events

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  • A model-tested North Atlantic Oscillation reconstruction for the past millennium

    Pablo Ortega;Flavio Lehner;Didier Swingedouw;Valerie Masson-Delmotte

  • Projected drought risk in 1.5°C and 2°C warmer climates

    Flavio Lehner;Sloan John Coats;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker;Angeline G. Pendergrass

  • Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada in June 2021

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  • Reduced global warming from CMIP6 projections when weighting models by performance and independence

    Lukas Brunner;Angeline G. Pendergrass;Angeline G. Pendergrass;Flavio Lehner;Anna L. Merrifield

  • Anthropogenic influence on the drivers of the Western Cape drought 2015–2017

    Friederike E L Otto;Piotr Wolski;Flavio Lehner;Claudia Tebaldi

  • Rapidly declining remarkability of temperature anomalies may obscure public perception of climate change

    Frances C. Moore;Nick Obradovich;Flavio Lehner;Patrick Baylis

  • Community climate simulations to assess avoided impacts in 1.5 and 2 °C futures

    Benjamin M. Sanderson;Yangyang Xu;Claudia Tebaldi;Michael Wehner

  • Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

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  • Twenty-first century hydroclimate: A continually changing baseline, with more frequent extremes

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  • Does extreme precipitation intensity depend on the emissions scenario

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Flavio Lehner;Benjamin M. Sanderson;Yangyang Xu

  • Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

    Jason E. Smerdon;Jurg Luterbacher;Steven J. Phipps;Kevin J. Anchukaitis

  • Isolating the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases: A New CESM1 Large Ensemble Community Resource

    Clara Deser;Adam S. Phillips;Isla R. Simpson;Nan Rosenbloom

  • The potential to reduce uncertainty in regional runoff projections from climate models

    Flavio Lehner;Flavio Lehner;Andrew W. Wood;Julie A. Vano;David M. Lawrence

  • Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence

    Andrew Ciavarella;Daniel Cotterill;Peter Stott;Sarah Kew

  • Toward a New Estimate of “Time of Emergence” of Anthropogenic Warming: Insights from Dynamical Adjustment and a Large Initial-Condition Model Ensemble

    Flavio Lehner;Clara Deser;Laurent Terray

  • Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heatwave on the Pacific Coast of the US and Canada June 2021

    Sjoukje Y. Philip;Sarah F. Kew;Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Faron S. Anslow

  • Continental-scale temperature variability in PMIP3 simulations and PAGES 2k regional temperature reconstructions over the past millennium

    O. Bothe;Meg Evans;L. Fernández Donado;E. Garcia Bustamante

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph C. Raible
Christoph C. Raible University of Bern
Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Clara Deser
Clara Deser National Center for Atmospheric Research
Andrew W. Wood
Andrew W. Wood National Center for Atmospheric Research
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Benjamin M. Sanderson
Benjamin M. Sanderson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Isla R. Simpson
Isla R. Simpson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

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