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Michael Sprenger

Michael Sprenger

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
10678
World Ranking
4242
National Ranking
110

Overview

Michael Sprenger is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and works primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research focuses on various aspects of atmospheric science and climate dynamics.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies

Within the subfields of study, their contributions span:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology

Michael Sprenger's recent publications showcase a range of topics related to environmental and atmospheric processes:

  • "Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Potential vorticity structure of embedded convection in a warm conveyor belt and its relevance for large-scale dynamics," 2020, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • "The Role of Cyclones in Moisture Transport into the Arctic," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "How an uncertain short-wave perturbation on the North Atlantic wave guide affects the forecast of an intense Mediterranean cyclone (Medicane Zorbas)," 2020, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • "The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica 'Heat' Wave. Part I: Observations and Meteorological Drivers," 2023, Journal of Climate

Frequent coauthors contributing to joint research efforts with Michael Sprenger include:

  • Heini Wernli
  • Hanna Joos
  • Lukas Jansing
  • Maxi Boettcher
  • Hanin Binder

Michael Sprenger publishes regularly in several journals, with the most frequent publication venues being:

  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

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

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

  • Stratosphere-troposphere exchange: A review, and what we have learned from STACCATO

    A. Stohl;P. Bonasoni;P. Cristofanelli;W. Collins

  • The LAGRANTO Lagrangian analysis tool – version 2.0

    Michael Sprenger;Heini Wernli

  • 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

  • A global climatology of stratosphere–troposphere exchange using the ERA-Interim data set from 1979 to 2011

    Bojan Škerlak;Michael Sprenger;Heini Wernli

  • Atmospheric Brown Clouds in the Himalayas: first two years of continuous observations at the Nepal Climate Observatory-Pyramid (5079 m)

    P. Bonasoni;Paolo Laj;A. Marinoni;M. Sprenger

  • Kilometer-scale climate models: Prospects and challenges

    Christoph Schär;Oliver Fuhrer;Andrea Arteaga;Nikolina Ban

  • A northern hemispheric climatology of cross‐tropopause exchange for the ERA15 time period (1979–1993)

    Michael Sprenger;Heini Wernli

  • Identification and ERA-15 Climatology of Potential Vorticity Streamers and Cutoffs near the Extratropical Tropopause

    Heini Wernli;Michael Sprenger

  • Tropopause folds and cross-tropopause exchange: A global investigation based upon ECMWF analyses for the time period March 2000 to February 2001

    Michael Sprenger;Mischa Croci Maspoli;Heini Wernli

  • Global Climatologies of Eulerian and Lagrangian Flow Features based on ERA-Interim

    Michael Sprenger;Georgios Fragkoulidis;Hanin Binder;Mischa Croci-Maspoli

  • A New Perspective of Stratosphere–Troposphere Exchange

    Andreas Stohl;Heini Wernli;Paul James;Michel Bourqui

  • Light‐absorbing impurities enhance glacier albedo reduction in the southeastern Tibetan plateau

    Yulan Zhang;Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Zhiyuan Cong;Zhiyuan Cong;Julia Schmale

  • The role of upper-level dynamics and surface processes for the Pakistan flood of July 2010

    Olivia Martius;Olivia Martius;H. Sodemann;H. Joos;S. Pfahl

  • Tropospheric ozone variations at the Nepal Climate Observatory-Pyramid (Himalayas, 5079 m a.s.l.) and influence of deep stratospheric intrusion events

    Paolo Cristofanelli;A. Bracci;A. Bracci;Michael Sprenger;Angela Marinoni

  • Black carbon and mineral dust in snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau

    Yulan Zhang;Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Michael Sprenger;Zhiyuan Cong

  • Tropopause folds in ERA‐Interim: Global climatology and relation to extreme weather events

    Bojan Škerlak;Michael Sprenger;Stephan Pfahl;Evangelos Tyrlis

  • Detection and climatology of fronts in a high-resolution model reanalysis over the Alps

    J. Jenkner;J. Jenkner;M. Sprenger;I. Schwenk;C. Schwierz;C. Schwierz

  • The ABC-Pyramid Atmospheric Research Observatory in Himalaya for aerosol, ozone and halocarbon measurements.

    P. Bonasoni;P. Laj;F. Angelini;J. Arduini

  • Empirical Estimate of Forestation-Induced Precipitation Changes in Europe

    Ronny Meier;Jonas Schwaab;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Michael Sprenger

  • Stratosphere–Troposphere Exchange and Its Relation to Potential Vorticity Streamers and Cutoffs near the Extratropical Tropopause

    Michael Sprenger;Heini Wernli;Michel Bourqui

Frequent Co-Authors

Heini Wernli
Heini Wernli ETH Zurich
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Olivia Martius
Olivia Martius University of Bern
Jos Lelieveld
Jos Lelieveld Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Thomas Trickl
Thomas Trickl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Paolo Bonasoni
Paolo Bonasoni Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Paolo Laj
Paolo Laj Grenoble Alpes University
Stephan Pfahl
Stephan Pfahl Freie Universität Berlin
Andreas Stohl
Andreas Stohl University of Vienna

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