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Gregor C. Leckebusch is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research topics focus mainly on climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, ocean waves and remote sensing, hydrology and drought analysis, hydrology and watershed management studies, as well as cryospheric studies and observations.

Gregor C. Leckebusch has authored numerous papers, among which the recent publications include:

  • Large-scale circulation patterns and their influence on European winter windstorm predictions (2022) in Climate Dynamics
  • On the Dependency of Atlantic Hurricane and European Windstorm Hazards (2020) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • A new view on the risk of typhoon occurrence in the western North Pacific (2021) in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Assessment of mudflow risk in Uzbekistan using CMIP5 models (2021) in Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Objective identification of potentially damaging tropical cyclones over the Western North Pacific (2020) in Environmental Research Communications

Frequent co-authors working alongside Gregor C. Leckebusch include:

  • Kelvin S. Ng
  • Michael Angus
  • Kevin I. Hodges
  • Lisa Degenhardt
  • Adam A. Scaife

The scientist's publications appear regularly in notable venues such as:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Best Publications

  • IMILAST: A Community Effort to Intercompare Extratropical Cyclone Detection and Tracking Algorithms

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmu S. Benestad

  • Extra-tropical cyclones in the present and future climate: a review

    U. Ulbrich;G. C. Leckebusch;Joaquim G Pinto

  • The 2003 European summer heatwaves and drought - synoptic diagnosis and impacts

    Andreas H. Fink;Tim Brücher;Andreas Krüger;Gregor C. Leckebusch

  • IMILAST – a community effort to intercompare extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms: assessing method-related uncertainties

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmus Benestad

  • Factors contributing to the development of extreme North Atlantic cyclones and their relationship with the NAO

    Joaquim G. Pinto;Stefan Zacharias;Andreas H. Fink;Gregor C. Leckebusch

  • Changing Northern Hemisphere Storm Tracks in an Ensemble of IPCC Climate Change Simulations

    U. Ulbrich;Joaquim G Pinto;H. Kupfer;G. C. Leckebusch

  • The central European floods of August 2002: Part 1 - Rainfall periods and flood development

    Uwe Ulbrich;Tim Brücher;Andreas H. Fink;Gregor C. Leckebusch

  • Changes in storm track and cyclone activity in three SRES ensemble experiments with the ECHAM5/MPI-OM1 GCM

    Joaquim G Pinto;U. Ulbrich;G. C. Leckebusch;T. Spangehl

  • Summer Floods in Central Europe – Climate Change Track?

    Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Uwe Ulbrich;Tim brücher;Dariusz Graczyk

  • On the relationship between cyclones and extreme windstorm events over Europe under climate change

    Gregor C. Leckebusch;Uwe Ulbrich

  • Factors contributing to the development of extreme North Atlantic cyclones and their relationship with the NAO

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  • Cyclones causing wind storms in the Mediterranean: characteristics, trends and links to large-scale patterns

    K. M. Nissen;G. C. Leckebusch;Joaquim G Pinto;D. Renggli

  • Climate of the Mediterranean: Synoptic Patterns, Temperature, Precipitation, Winds, and Their Extremes

    Uwe Ulbrich;Piero Lionello;Danijel Belušić;Jucundus Jacobeit

  • The central European floods of August 2002: Part 2 –Synoptic causes and considerations with respect to climatic change

    Uwe Ulbrich;Tim Brücher;Andreas H. Fink;Gregor C. Leckebusch

  • Property loss potentials for European midlatitude storms in a changing climate

    Gregor C. Leckebusch;Uwe Ulbrich;Luise Fröhlich;Luise Fröhlich;Joaquim G. Pinto

  • Examination of wind storms over Central Europe with respect to circulation weather types and NAO phases

    Markus G. Donat;Gregor C. Leckebusch;Joaquim G. Pinto;Uwe Ulbrich

  • Future changes in European winter storm losses and extreme wind speeds inferred from GCM and RCM multi-model simulations

    M. G. Donat;M. G. Donat;G. C. Leckebusch;S. Wild;U. Ulbrich

  • Analysis of frequency and intensity of European winter storm events from a multi-model perspective, at synoptic and regional scales

    Gregor C. Leckebusch;Brigitte Koffi;Uwe Ulbrich;Joaquim G. Pinto

  • Reanalysis suggests long‐term upward trends in European storminess since 1871

    M. G. Donat;M. G. Donat;D. Renggli;D. Renggli;S. Wild;L. V. Alexander

  • Development and application of an objective storm severity measure for the Northeast Atlantic region

    Gregor C. Leckebusch;Dominik Renggli;Uwe Ulbrich

  • Changing European storm loss potentials under modified climate conditions according to ensemble simulations of the ECHAM5/MPI-OM1 GCM

    Joaquim G Pinto;E. L. Fröhlich;E. L. Fröhlich;G. C. Leckebusch;U. Ulbrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Uwe Ulbrich
Uwe Ulbrich Freie Universität Berlin
Joaquim G. Pinto
Joaquim G. Pinto Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Markus G. Donat
Markus G. Donat Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Piero Lionello
Piero Lionello University of Salento
Ian Simmonds
Ian Simmonds University of Melbourne
Christoph C. Raible
Christoph C. Raible University of Bern
Andreas H. Fink
Andreas H. Fink Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ulrich Cubasch
Ulrich Cubasch Freie Universität Berlin
Antje Weisheimer
Antje Weisheimer University of Oxford
Andrea Toreti
Andrea Toreti University of Giessen

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