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Overview

Mark A. Liniger is affiliated with the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental and earth sciences, with a particular focus on climate variability, modeling, and related atmospheric phenomena.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics and appear in various recognized scientific venues:

  • Escalating environmental summer heat exposure-a future threat for the European workforce, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • Climate Scenarios for Switzerland CH2018 - Approach and Implications, 2022, Climate Services
  • CH2018 - National climate scenarios for Switzerland: How to construct consistent multi-model projections from ensembles of opportunity, 2020, Climate Services
  • How to create an operational multi-model of seasonal forecasts?, 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • Twinning SENAMHI and MeteoSwiss to co-develop climate services for the agricultural sector in Peru, 2020, Climate Services

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Sven Kotlarski
  • Andreas M. Fischer
  • Cornelia Schwierz
  • Jan Rajczak
  • Ana Casanueva

Mark A. Liniger's work is published most frequently in the following venues:

  • Climate Services
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Regional Environmental Change
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Subfields of focus highlight specialties such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientific topics frequently addressed in their work span:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Model Reduction and Neural Networks
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Best Publications

  • The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves

    Christoph Schär;Pier Luigi Vidale;Daniel Lüthi;Christoph Frei

  • Risks of Model Weighting in Multimodel Climate Projections

    Andreas P. Weigel;Reto Knutti;Mark A. Liniger;Christof Appenzeller

  • Can multi-model combination really enhance the prediction skill of probabilistic ensemble forecasts?

    A. P. Weigel;M. A. Liniger;C. Appenzeller

  • Dynamical aspects of the life cycle of the winter storm ‘Lothar’ (24–26 December 1999)

    Heini Wernli;Sebastien Dirren;Mark A. Liniger;Matthias Zillig

  • The discrete brier and ranked probability skill scores

    Andreas P. Weigel;Mark A. Liniger;Christof Appenzeller

  • Exceptional European warmth of autumn 2006 and winter 2007: Historical context, the underlying dynamics, and its phenological impacts

    Jiirg Luterbacher;Mark A. Liniger;Annette Menzel;Nicole Estrella

  • A New Perspective of Stratosphere–Troposphere Exchange

    Andreas Stohl;Heini Wernli;Paul James;Michel Bourqui

  • The return period of wind storms over Europe

    Paul M. Della-Marta;Hubert Mathis;Christoph Frei;Mark A. Liniger

  • Observational uncertainty and regional climate model evaluation: A pan-European perspective

    Sven Kotlarski;Péter Szabó;Sixto Herrera;Olle Räty

  • MAP D-PHASE: Real-Time Demonstration of Weather Forecast Quality in the Alpine region

    Mathias W. Rotach;Paolo Ambrosetti;Felix Ament;Christof Appenzeller

  • Emerging trends in heavy precipitation and hot temperature extremes in Switzerland

    S. C. Scherrer;E. M. Fischer;R. Posselt;M. A. Liniger

  • A Debiased Ranked Probability Skill Score to Evaluate Probabilistic Ensemble Forecasts with Small Ensemble Sizes

    W. A. Müller;C. Appenzeller;F. J. Doblas-Reyes;M. A. Liniger

  • A global reanalysis of vegetation phenology

    R. Stöckli;T. Rutishauser;I. Baker;M. A. Liniger

  • Future snowfall in the Alps: projections based on the EURO-CORDEX regional climate models

    Prisco Frei;Sven Kotlarski;Mark A. Liniger;Christoph Schär

  • Climate change projections for Switzerland based on a Bayesian multi‐model approach

    A. M. Fischer;A. P. Weigel;C. M. Buser;R. Knutti

  • European temperature distribution changes in observations and climate change scenarios

    Simon C. Scherrer;Christof Appenzeller;Mark A. Liniger;Christoph Schär

  • Landsliding and sediment flux in the Central Swiss Alps: A photogrammetric study of the Schimbrig landslide Entlebuch

    Marco Schwab;Dirk Rieke-Zapp;Heinz Schneider;Markus Liniger

  • Early to mid Tertiary crustal extension in the Central Alps: The Turba Mylonite Zone (Eastern Switzerland)

    Peter Nievergelt;Markus Liniger;Nikolaus Froitzheim;Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann

  • Seasonal Ensemble Forecasts: Are Recalibrated Single Models Better than Multimodels?

    Andreas P. Weigel;Mark A. Liniger;Christof Appenzeller

  • Projected changes in precipitation intensity and frequency in Switzerland: a multi-model perspective

    A. M. Fischer;D. E. Keller;D. E. Keller;M. A. Liniger;M. A. Liniger;J. Rajczak

  • Observational uncertainty and regional climate model evaluation: A pan-European perspective

    Sven Kotlarski;Péter Szabó;Sixto Herrera;Olle Räty

  • Application of long-range weather forecasts to agricultural decision problems in Europe

    P. Calanca;D. Bolius;A. P. Weigel;M. A. Liniger

  • Probabilistic Verification of Monthly Temperature Forecasts

    Andreas P. Weigel;Daniel Baggenstos;Mark A. Liniger;Frédéric Vitart

  • Climate Change Projections for Switzerland based on a Bayesian Multi-Model Approach

    A. Fischer;A. P. Weigel;C. Buser;R. Knutti

Frequent Co-Authors

Christof Appenzeller
Christof Appenzeller Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Sven Kotlarski
Sven Kotlarski Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Christoph Spirig
Christoph Spirig MeteoSwiss Regional Center
Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich
Christoph Frei
Christoph Frei Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Wolfgang A. Müller
Wolfgang A. Müller Max Planck Society
José M. Gutiérrez
José M. Gutiérrez Spanish National Research Council
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Heini Wernli
Heini Wernli ETH Zurich

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