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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
74
Citations
30069
World Ranking
1315
National Ranking
89

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2013 - Polish Academy of Science

Overview

Hans von Storch is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research in Germany. Their research spans key areas in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular focus on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science. Additional subfields include Earth-Surface Processes and Sociology and Political Science.

The topics of their research cover a range of climate and environmental phenomena, such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Their recent published papers include:

  • German Bight storm activity, 1897-2018, 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • Limits of reproducibility and hydrodynamic noise in atmospheric regional modelling, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • The effect of tides on internal variability in the Bohai and Yellow Sea, 2022, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
  • Is greenhouse gas forcing a plausible explanation for the observed warming in the Baltic Sea catchment area?, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Link between the internal variability and the baroclinic instability in the Bohai and Yellow Sea, 2023, Ocean Dynamics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hans von Storch include:

  • Carl Friedrich Gethmann
  • Michèle Knodt
  • Wolfgang Kröger
  • C. Streffer
  • Thomas Ziesemer

The scientist has published in several recurring venues such as:

  • Oceanologia
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
  • Ocean science

Hans von Storch is also an author of books published by WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks and Springer Nature. Notable titles include:

  • Statistics and Modeling of Regional Climate Variability in China (2023)
  • Science in Society (2022)
  • Global Energy Supply and Emissions (2020)

They have been recognized with the Polish Academy of Science award in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Statistical Analysis in Climate Research

    Robert B. Lund;Hans von Storch;Francis W. Zwiers

  • Statistical Analysis in Climate Research

    Hans von Storch;Francis W. Zwiers

  • The Analog Method as a Simple Statistical Downscaling Technique: Comparison with More Complicated Methods

    Eduardo Zorita;Hans von Storch

  • A Spectral Nudging Technique for Dynamical Downscaling Purposes

    Hans von Storch;Heike Langenberg;Frauke Feser

  • Downscaling of Global Climate Change Estimates to Regional Scales: An Application to Iberian Rainfall in Wintertime

    Hans von Storch;Eduardo Zorita;Ulrich Cubasch

  • Historical Climatology in Europe - the State of the Art

    Rudolf Brázdil;Christian Pfister;Heinz Wanner;Hans von Storch

  • Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events

    Peter A. Stott;Nikolaos Christidis;Friederike E. L. Otto;Ying Sun

  • Misuses of Statistical Analysis in Climate Research

    Hans von Storch

  • Analysis of climate variability : applications of statistical techniques

    H. v. Storch;A. Navarra

  • On the structure and evolution of ENSO‐related climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Lessons from TOGA

    J. M. Wallace;E. M. Rasmusson;T. P. Mitchell;V. E. Kousky

  • Regional climate models add value to global model data, A Review and Selected Examples

    Frauke Feser;Burkhardt Rockel;Hans von Storch;Joerg Winterfeldt

  • Reconstructing Past Climate from Noisy Data

    Hans von Storch;Eduardo Zorita;Julie M. Jones;Yegor Dimitriev

  • Analysis of Climate Variability

    Hans von Storch;Antonio Navarra

  • Taking Serial Correlation into Account in Tests of the Mean

    Francis W. Zwiers;Hans von Storch

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

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

  • The Atmospheric Circulation and Sea Surface Temperature in the North Atlantic Area in Winter: Their Interaction and Relevance for Iberian Precipitation

    Eduardo Zorita;Viacheslav Kharin;Hans von Storch

  • Monte Carlo experiments on the effect of serial correlation on the Mann-Kendall test of trend

    Ashwini Kulkarni;Hans von Storch

  • On the Use of “Inflation” in Statistical Downscaling

    Hans von Storch

  • Stochastic characterization of regional circulation patterns for climate model diagnosis and estimation of local precipitation

    Eduardo Zorita;James P. Hughes;Dennis P. Lettemaier;Hans von Storch

  • Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change

    Peter Stott;Nikolaos Christidis;Friederike Otto;Ying Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Eduardo Zorita
Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Francis W. Zwiers
Francis W. Zwiers University of Victoria
Ulrich Cubasch
Ulrich Cubasch Freie Universität Berlin
Burkhardt Rockel
Burkhardt Rockel Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Klaus Hasselmann
Klaus Hasselmann Max Planck Society
Anders Omstedt
Anders Omstedt University of Gothenburg
Martin Heimann
Martin Heimann Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Silvio Gualdi
Silvio Gualdi Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
Gabriele C. Hegerl
Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

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