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995
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Gabriele C. Hegerl is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their work focuses predominantly on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong emphasis on understanding climate variability, atmospheric phenomena, and geophysical processes.

Their research spans multiple subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, geophysics, and mechanics of materials. Topics frequently addressed in their studies cover climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, geophysics and gravity measurements, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, as well as climate change and health impacts.

Gabriele C. Hegerl has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence" (2020), published in Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period" (2021), published in Nature Climate Change
  • "The most at-risk regions in the world for high-impact heatwaves" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "Towards advancing scientific knowledge of climate change impacts on short-duration rainfall extremes" (2021), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Comparing Methods to Constrain Future European Climate Projections Using a Consistent Framework" (2020), published in Journal of Climate

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Andrew Ballinger
  • Andrew Schurer
  • Aurélien Ribes
  • Lukas Brunner
  • Ben Booth

Gabriele C. Hegerl's work is often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, and Climate of the Past.

Their academic contributions have been recognized with fellowships from various scholarly societies, including the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2013), the American Geophysical Union (2016), and the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2017).

Best Publications

  • Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes

    Seung-Ki Min;Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Francis W. Zwiers;Gabriele C. Hegerl

  • Indices for monitoring changes in extremes based on daily temperature and precipitation data

    Xuebin Zhang;Lisa Alexander;Gabriele C. Hegerl;Philip D. Jones;Philip D. Jones

  • Trends in Intense Precipitation in the Climate Record

    Pavel Ya Groisman;Richard W. Knight;David R. Easterling;Thomas R. Karl

  • Annular Modes in the Extratropical Circulation. Part II: Trends

    David W. J. Thompson;John M. Wallace;Gabriele C. Hegerl

  • Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the IPCC ensemble of global coupled model simulations

    Viatcheslav V. Kharin;Francis W. Zwiers;Xuebin Zhang;Gabriele C. Hegerl

  • Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends

    Xuebin Zhang;Francis W. Zwiers;Gabriele C. Hegerl;F. Hugo Lambert

  • Understanding and Attributing Climate Change

    Gabriele Hegerl;Francis Zwiers;Pascale Braconnot;N.P. Gillett

  • An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

    S C Sherwood;M J Webb;J D Annan;K C Armour

  • Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful?

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa M. Goddard;James Murphy;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional

    NL Bindoff;PA Stott;M AchutaRao;Allen

  • The equilibrium sensitivity of the Earth's temperature to radiation changes

    Reto Knutti;Gabriele C. Hegerl

  • Avoiding Inhomogeneity in Percentile-Based Indices of Temperature Extremes

    Xuebin Zhang;Gabriele Hegerl;Francis W. Zwiers;Jesse Kenyon

  • The Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP v1.0)contribution to CMIP6

    Nathan P. Gillett;Hideo Shiogama;Bernd Funke;Gabriele Hegerl

  • Climate sensitivity constrained by temperature reconstructions over the past seven centuries

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Thomas J. Crowley;William T. Hyde;David J. Frame

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • Detecting greenhouse-gas-induced climate change with an optimal fingerprint method

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Hans von Storch;Klaus Hasselmann;Benjamin D. Santer

  • Detection and attribution of climate change: a regional perspective.

    Peter A. Stott;Nathan P. Gillett;Gabriele C. Hegerl;David J. Karoly

  • Multi-fingerprint detection and attribution analysis of greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas-plus-aerosol and solar forced climate change

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Klaus Hasselmann;Ulrich Cubasch;John F. B. Mitchell

  • A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments

    L. Goddard;A. Kumar;A. Solomon;D. Smith

  • Understanding, modeling and predicting weather and climate extremes: Challenges and opportunities

    Jana Sillmann;Thordis Thorarinsdottir;Noel Keenlyside;Nathalie Schaller

  • Spatial and seasonal patterns in climate change, temperatures, and precipitation across the United States

    Robert W. Portmann;Susan Solomon;Gabriele C. Hegerl

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office
Francis W. Zwiers
Francis W. Zwiers University of Victoria
Simon F. B. Tett
Simon F. B. Tett University of Edinburgh
Tim Cowan
Tim Cowan University of Southern Queensland
Xuebin Zhang
Xuebin Zhang University of Victoria
Nathan P. Gillett
Nathan P. Gillett University of Victoria
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich
Ulrich Cubasch
Ulrich Cubasch Freie Universität Berlin

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