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Gunilla Svensson

Gunilla Svensson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
8139
World Ranking
8528
National Ranking
164

Overview

Gunilla Svensson is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional work in Ocean Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost

Svensson's frequent publication venues include:

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geoscientific model development

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Svensson cover topics related to Arctic weather and climate dynamics:

  • "The winter central Arctic surface energy budget: A model evaluation using observations from the MOSAiC campaign", 2023, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Central Arctic weather forecasting: Confronting the ECMWF IFS with observations from the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition", 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Interaction between Atlantic cyclones and Eurasian atmospheric blocking drives wintertime warm extremes in the high Arctic", 2022, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • "Warm air intrusions reaching the MOSAiC expedition in April 2020-The YOPP targeted observing period (TOP)", 2023, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Overview: quasi-Lagrangian observations of Arctic air mass transformations - introduction and initial results of the HALO-( ) ³ aircraft campaign", 2024, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent collaborators of Svensson include:

  • Jonathan J. Day
  • B. Mehlig
  • Éric Bazile
  • Michael Tjernström
  • Gaetano Sardina

Best Publications

  • Vertical structure of recent Arctic warming

    Rune G. Graversen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Michael Tjernström;Erland Källén

  • Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers and Diurnal Cycles: Challenges for Weather and Climate Models

    A. A. M. Holtslag;Gunilla Svensson;P. Baas;S. Basu

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition—Atmosphere

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  • Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions

    Hugues Goosse;Jennifer E. Kay;Kyle C. Armour;Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo

  • Single-Column Model Intercomparison for a Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    J Cuxart;A A M Holtslag;R J Beare;E Bazile

  • Advancing Polar Prediction Capabilities on Daily to Seasonal Time Scales

    Thomas Jung;Neil D. Gordon;Peter Bauer;David H. Bromwich

  • Future climate change: Modeling and scenarios for the Arctic

    Vladimir M. Kattsov;Erland Källén;Howard P. Cattle;Jens Christensen

  • Large‐scale circulation associated with moisture intrusions into the Arctic during winter

    Cian Woods;Rodrigo Caballero;Gunilla Svensson

  • Evaluation of the Diurnal Cycle in the atmospheric boundary layer over land as represented by a variety of single-column models: The second GABLS Experiment

    Gunilla Svensson;A. A. M. Holtslag;V. Kumar;T. Mauritsen

  • Review of wave-turbulence interactions in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

    Jielun Sun;Carmen J. Nappo;Larry Mahrt;Danijel Belušić

  • Modelling the arctic boundary layer: An evaluation of six arcmip regional-scale models using data from the Sheba project

    Michael Tjernström;Mark Zagar;Gunilla Svensson;John J. Cassano

  • A Total Turbulent Energy Closure Model for Neutrally and Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layers

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Gunilla Svensson;Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Igor Esau

  • Arctic climate change in 21st century CMIP5 simulations with EC-Earth

    Torben Koenigk;Laurent Brodeau;Rune Grand Graversen;Johannes Karlsson

  • Melt onset over Arctic sea ice controlled by atmospheric moisture transport

    Jonas Mortin;Gunilla Svensson;Rune G. Graversen;Marie-Luise Kapsch

  • Role of air-mass transformations in exchange between the Arctic and mid-latitudes

    Felix Pithan;Gunilla Svensson;Rodrigo Caballero;Dmitry Chechin;Dmitry Chechin

  • Evaluation of Limited-Area Models for the Representation of the Diurnal Cycle and Contrasting Nights in CASES-99

    G. J. Steeneveld;Thorsten Mauritsen;E.I.F. de Bruijn;J. Vilà-Guerau de Arellano

  • Observations of Stably Stratified Shear-Driven Atmospheric Turbulence at Low and High Richardson Numbers

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Gunilla Svensson

  • Consequences of poor representation of Arctic sea‐ice albedo and cloud‐radiation interactions in the CMIP5 model ensemble

    Johannes Karlsson;Gunilla Svensson

  • Global distribution and seasonal variability of coastal low-level jets derived from ERA-Interim reanalysis

    Raza Ranjha;Gunilla Svensson;Michael Tjernström;Alvaro Semedo

  • The diurnal temperature range in the CMIP5 models

    Jenny Lindvall;Gunilla Svensson

  • The Third GABLS Intercomparison Case for Evaluation Studies of Boundary-Layer Models. Part B: Results and Process Understanding

    Fred C. Bosveld;Peter Baas;Gert-Jan Steeneveld;Albert A. M. Holtslag

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tjernström
Michael Tjernström Stockholm University
Axel Brandenburg
Axel Brandenburg Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics
Albert A. M. Holtslag
Albert A. M. Holtslag Wageningen University & Research
Thorsten Mauritsen
Thorsten Mauritsen Stockholm University
Gert-Jan Steeneveld
Gert-Jan Steeneveld Wageningen University & Research
Rodrigo Caballero
Rodrigo Caballero Stockholm University
Thomas Jung
Thomas Jung Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Wayne M. Angevine
Wayne M. Angevine University of Colorado Boulder
Ian A. Renfrew
Ian A. Renfrew University of East Anglia
Peter Bauer
Peter Bauer European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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