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Klaus Fraedrich

Klaus Fraedrich

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
72
Citations
15918
World Ranking
1519
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Klaus Fraedrich is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and related subfields such as Oceanography, Soil Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of Fraedrich's work include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, cryospheric studies and observations, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate change and permafrost, and climate change impacts on agriculture.

Frequent publication venues for Fraedrich include:

  • Theoretical and Applied Climatology
  • Remote Sensing
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Climatic Change
  • International Journal of Modern Physics C

Coauthors who have collaborated frequently with Fraedrich include Fei Ge, Xiefei Zhi, Shoupeng Zhu, Frank Sielmann, and Xiuhua Zhu.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Klaus Fraedrich feature topics on climate and atmospheric science across various respected journals:

  • Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), 2020, Monthly Weather Review
  • Conspicuous temperature extremes over Southeast Asia: seasonal variations under 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming, 2020, Climatic Change
  • Driving mechanisms of urbanization: Evidence from geographical, climatic, social-economic and nighttime light data, 2023, Ecological Indicators
  • Added value of the regionally coupled model ROM in the East Asian summer monsoon modeling, 2020, Theoretical and Applied Climatology
  • How Striking Is the Intergenerational Difference in Exposure to Compound Heatwaves Over Southeast Asia?, 2023, Earth's Future

In addition to journal articles, Klaus Fraedrich has contributed to scientific literature through book publications. A notable work includes the book titled Weather Dynamics, published by World Scientific in 2023.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Estimating the Dimensions of Weather and Climate Attractors

    Klaus Fraedrich

  • 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

  • The Planet Simulator: Towards a user friendly model

    Klaus Fraedrich;Heiko Jansen;Edilbert Kirk;Ute Luksch

  • Scaling of atmosphere and ocean temperature correlations in observations and climate models.

    Klaus Fraedrich;Richard Blender

  • Climate anomalies in Europe associated with ENSO extremes

    Klaus Fraedrich;Klaus Müller

  • Identification of cyclone-track regimes in the North Atlantic

    R. Blender;K. Fraedrich;F. Lunkeit

  • Global climatology of Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) and Convective Inhibition (CIN) in ERA-40 reanalysis

    Kathrin Riemann-Campe;Klaus Fraedrich;Frank Lunkeit

  • A green planet versus a desert world: estimating the maximum effect of vegetation on the land surface climate.

    Axel Kleidon;Klaus Fraedrich;Martin Heimann

  • An ENSO impact on Europe

    Klaus Fraedrich

  • Welt im Wandel: Strategien zur Bewältigung globaler Umweltrisiken. Jahresgutachten 1998

    Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen Wbgu;F. Beese;K. Fraedrich;P. Klemmer

  • Scaling regimes of composite rainfall time series

    Klaus Fraedrich;Chris Larnder

  • Precipitation climate of Central Asia and the large-scale atmospheric circulation

    Oliver Bothe;Klaus F. Fraedrich;Xiuhua Zhu

  • Large-Scale Flow and the Long-Lasting Blocking High over Russia: Summer 2010

    Andrea Schneidereit;Silke Schubert;Pavel Vargin;Frank Lunkeit

  • Observed drought and wetness trends in Europe: an update

    I. Bordi;K. Fraedrich;A. Sutera

  • Variability of temperature in the Tibetan Plateau based on homogenized surface stations and reanalysis data

    Qinglong You;Qinglong You;Qinglong You;Klaus Fraedrich;Guoyu Ren;Nick Pepin

  • Spatio-temporal variability of dry and wet periods in eastern China

    I. Bordi;K. Fraedrich;J.-M. Jiang;A. Sutera

  • Uncertainty dynamics and predictability in chaotic systems

    Leonard A. Smith;C. Ziehmann;K. Fraedrich

  • Recent climate change in the North Atlantic/European sector

    Peter C. Werner;Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe;Klaus Fraedrich;Hermann Oesterle

  • Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)

    Stephanie Fiedler;Traute Crueger;Roberta D’Agostino;Karsten Peters

  • East Asian warm season temperature variations over the past two millennia.

    Huan Zhang;Johannes P. Werner;Elena García-Bustamante;Fidel González-Rouco

Frequent Co-Authors

Qinglong You
Qinglong You Fudan University
Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Christoph C. Raible
Christoph C. Raible University of Bern
Lance M. Leslie
Lance M. Leslie University of Technology Sydney
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Ortwin Renn
Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart
Guoyu Ren
Guoyu Ren China University of Geosciences
Axel Kleidon
Axel Kleidon Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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