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Overview

Hans-F. Graf is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans key areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the understanding of atmospheric and oceanographic processes related to climate variability.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their work delves deeper into subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography

The primary topics covered by their research highlight important aspects of climate science:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Climate change and permafrost

Hans-F. Graf has published multiple papers in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Journal of Climate
  • Earth Systems and Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hans-F. Graf include:

  • Potential Impact of Preceding Aleutian Low Variation on El Niño-Southern Oscillation during the Following Winter (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • Enhanced impact of the Aleutian Low on increasing the Central Pacific ENSO in recent decades (2023, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science)
  • Strengthened impact of boreal winter North Pacific Oscillation on ENSO development in warming climate (2024, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science)
  • A Review of El Niño Southern Oscillation Linkage to Strong Volcanic Eruptions and Post-Volcanic Winter Warming (2022, Earth Systems and Environment)
  • Atlantic multidecadal variability controls Arctic-ENSO connection (2025, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Wen Chen
  • Shangfeng Chen
  • Renguang Wu
  • Bin Yu
  • Zhibiao Wang

Best Publications

  • Radiative forcing from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption

    Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Ingo Kirchner;Alan Robock;Hans-F. Graf

  • The annual volcanic gas input into the atmosphere, in particular into the stratosphere: a global data set for the past 100 years

    Martina M. Halmer;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke;H.-F. Graf

  • The interannual variability of East Asian Winter Monsoon and its relation to the summer monsoon

    Chen Wen;Hans F. Graf;Huang Ronghui

  • Recent land cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau: a review

    Xuefeng Cui;Xuefeng Cui;Hans-F. Graf

  • Volcanic sulfur emissions: Estimates of source strength and its contribution to the global sulfate distribution

    Hans-F. Graf;Johann Feichter;Bärbel Langmann

  • Climate model simulation of winter warming and summer cooling following the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption

    Ingo Kirchner;Georgiy Lvovich Stenchikov;Hans F. Graf;Alan Robock

  • Arctic Oscillation response to volcanic eruptions in the IPCC AR4 climate models

    Georgiy Stenchikov;Kevin Hamilton;Ronald J. Stouffer;Alan Robock

  • Pinatubo eruption winter climate effects: model versus observations

    Hans—F. Graf;Ingo Kirchner;Alan Robock;Ingrid Schult

  • Tambora 1815 as a test case for high impact volcanic eruptions: Earth system effects.

    Christoph C. Raible;Stefan Bronnimann;Renate Auchmann;Philip Brohan

  • Central pacific El Niño, the "subtropical bridge," and Eurasian climate

    Hans-F. Graf;Davide Zanchettin

  • Injection of gases into the stratosphere by explosive volcanic eruptions

    Christiane Textor;Hans F. Graf;Michael Herzog;J. M. Oberhuber

  • Snow cover model for global climate simulations

    Bettina Loth;Hans F. Graf;Josef Maximilian Oberhuber

  • Climate Change and the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Nathan P. Gillett;Hans F. Graf;Tim J. Osborn

  • Aerosol size confines climate response to volcanic super-eruptions

    Claudia Timmreck;Hans-F. Graf;Stephan J. Lorenz;Ulrike Niemeier

  • Volcanic plume simulation on large scales

    Josef M. Oberhuber;Michael Herzog;Hans-F. Graf;Karsten Schwanke

  • Initial fate of fine ash and sulfur from large volcanic eruptions

    U. Niemeier;C. Timmreck;H.-F. Graf;S. Kinne

  • Interannual variations of stationary planetary wave activity in the northern winter troposphere and stratosphere and their relations to NAM and SST

    Wen Chen;Masaaki Takahashi;Hans-F. Graf

  • The effect of phase changes of water on the development of volcanic plumes

    Michael Herzog;Hans-F. Graf;Christiane Textor;Josef M. Oberhuber

  • Volcanic particle aggregation in explosive eruption columns. Part I: Parameterization of the microphysics of hydrometeors and ash

    C. Textor;Hans-F. Graf;Michael Herzog;Josef M. Oberhuber

  • Emissions from volcanoes

    C. Textor;H.-F. Graf;Claudia Timmreck

  • Synchronous volcanic eruptions and abrupt climate change ∼17.7 ka plausibly linked by stratospheric ozone depletion

    Joseph R. McConnell;Andrea Burke;Nelia W. Dunbar;Peter Köhler

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Timmreck
Claudia Timmreck Max Planck Society
Johann Feichter
Johann Feichter Max Planck Society
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Thomas Foken
Thomas Foken University of Bayreuth
Judith Perlwitz
Judith Perlwitz National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Alan Robock
Alan Robock Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Xingliang Xu
Xingliang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen

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