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Katja Frieler is a researcher affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular emphasis on global and planetary change. The scientist's contributions span various subfields, including atmospheric science, sociology and political science, oceanography, and soil science.

Their research topics cover several key areas such as flood risk assessment and management, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, climate variability and models, disaster management and resilience, hydrology and watershed management studies, hydrology and drought analysis, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Frieler has co-authored extensively with several researchers, including Jacob Schewe, Matthias Mengel, Christian Otto, Stefan Lange, and Christopher Reyer, reflecting significant collaborative engagement in the climate impacts domain.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes" (2021, Science)
  • "Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales" (2020, Earth s Future)
  • "ATTRICI v1.1 - counterfactual climate for impact attribution" (2021, Geoscientific model development)
  • "A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector" (2022, Geoscientific model development)
  • "Contribution of climate change to the spatial expansion of West Nile virus in Europe" (2024, Nature Communications)

Katja Frieler frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, Geoscientific model development, Environmental Research Letters, and Earth system science data.

Best Publications

  • Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C

    Malte Meinshausen;Nicolai Meinshausen;William Hare;Sarah C. B. Raper

  • Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change

    Jacob Schewe;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Dieter Gerten;Ingjerd Haddeland

  • The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP): project framework.

    Lila Warszawski;Katja Frieler;Veronika Huber;Franziska Piontek

  • A trend-preserving bias correction – The ISI-MIP approach

    S. Hempel;K. Frieler;L. Warszawski;J. Schewe

  • Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

    Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Christoph Müller;Katja Frieler

  • Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal

    Carl Friedrich Schleussner;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Michiel Schaeffer;Tabea Lissner

  • The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields

    Elisabeth Vogel;Markus G. Donat;Markus G. Donat;Lisa Victoria Alexander;Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen

  • Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 °C and 2 °C

    Carl-Friedrich Schleussner;Tabea Katharina Lissner;Erich M. Fischer;Jan Wohland

  • Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming

    Francesco Dottori;Wojciech Szewczyk;Juan Carlos Ciscar;Fang Zhao

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Limiting global warming to 2 °C is unlikely to save most coral reefs

    K. Frieler;M. Meinshausen;M. Meinshausen;A. Golly;M. Mengel

  • Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models

    Bernhard Schauberger;Sotirios Archontoulis;Almut Arneth;Juraj Balkovic

  • Increased record-breaking precipitation events under global warming

    Jascha Lehmann;Jascha Lehmann;Dim Coumou;Katja Frieler

  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes

    Wim Thiery;Stefan Lange;Joeri Rogelj;Carl Friedrich Schleussner

  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • Future sea level rise constrained by observations and long-term commitment

    Matthias Mengel;Matthias Mengel;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Katja Frieler;Alexander James Robinson;Alexander James Robinson

  • Estimating the near-surface permafrost-carbon feedback on global warming

    T. Schneider von Deimling;M. Meinshausen;M. Meinshausen;A. Levermann;A. Levermann;V. Huber

  • Consistent increase in Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability across CMIP-5 models

    A. Menon;A. Menon;A. Levermann;A. Levermann;J. Schewe;J. Lehmann;J. Lehmann

  • Turn down the heat : Why a 4°c warmer world must be avoided

    H.J. Schellnhuber;W. Hare;O. Serdeczny;S. Adams

  • Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world

    Franziska Piontek;Christoph Müller;Thomas A.M. Pugh;Douglas B. Clark

  • Turn down the heat: climate extremes, regional impacts, and the case for resilience.

    H. J. Schellnhuber;B. Hare;O. Serdeczny;M. Schaeffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Levermann
Anders Levermann Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Malte Meinshausen
Malte Meinshausen University of Melbourne
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Markus Rex
Markus Rex Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Dim Coumou
Dim Coumou Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Simon N. Gosling
Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham
Ricarda Winkelmann
Ricarda Winkelmann University of Potsdam
Michiel Schaeffer
Michiel Schaeffer Wageningen University & Research
Christian Folberth
Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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