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Overview

Sven Kotlarski is affiliated with the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Subfields connected to their work include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's scholarly contributions frequently address topics such as Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate variability and models, and Climate change and permafrost. Additionally, their work covers Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Landslides and related hazards, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Notable recent papers by Sven Kotlarski include the following:

  • Climate Changes and Their Elevational Patterns in the Mountains of the World, 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • Convection-permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps, 2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Observed snow depth trends in the European Alps: 1971 to 2019, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • 21st Century alpine climate change, 2022, Climate Dynamics

Their frequent coauthors include Christoph Marty, Samuel Morin, Simon C. Scherrer, Stefanie Gubler, and Claudia Notarnicola. Sven Kotlarski's research appears predominantly in publication venues such as Climate Services, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Cryosphere, Regional Environmental Change, and Climate Dynamics.

Best Publications

  • EURO-CORDEX : new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research

    Daniela Jacob;Juliane Petersen;Bastian Eggert;Antoinette Alias

  • 21st century climate change in the European Alps--a review.

    Andreas Gobiet;Sven Kotlarski;Martin Beniston;Georg Heinrich

  • Regional climate modeling on European scales: a joint standard evaluation of the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble

    S. Kotlarski;K. Keuler;O. B. Christensen;A. Colette

  • Climate Changes and Their Elevational Patterns in the Mountains of the World

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  • The impact of climate change on photovoltaic power generation in Europe

    Sandra Jerez;Isabelle Tobin;Robert Vautard;Juan Pedro Montavez

  • The simulation of European heat waves from an ensemble of regional climate models within the EURO-CORDEX project

    Robert Vautard;Andreas Gobiet;Daniela Jacob;Michal Belda

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • Quantifying uncertainty sources in an ensemble of hydrological climate-impact projections

    T. Bosshard;M. Carambia;K. Goergen;S. Kotlarski

  • An intercomparison of a large ensemble of statistical downscaling methods over Europe: Results from the VALUE perfect predictor cross-validation experiment

    J. M. Gutiérrez;D. Maraun;M. Widmann;R. Huth;R. Huth

  • Convection-permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

    Philippe Lucas-Picher;Daniel Argüeso;Erwan Brisson;Yves Tramblay

  • High mountain areas

    Regine Hock;Golam Rasul;Carolina Adler;Bolivar Cáceres

  • VALUE: A framework to validate downscaling approaches for climate change studies

    Douglas Maraun;Martin Widmann;José M. Gutiérrez;Sven Kotlarski

  • Klimaauswirkungen und Anpassung in Deutschland - Phase 1: Erstellung regionaler Klimaszenarien für Deutschland

    D. Jacob;H. Goettel;S. Kotlarski;P. Lorenz

  • Observed snow depth trends in the European Alps: 1971 to 2019

    Michael Matiu;Alice Crespi;Giacomo Bertoldi;Carlo Maria Carmagnola

  • 21st Century alpine climate change

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  • Overview of Existing Heat-Health Warning Systems in Europe.

    Ana Casanueva;Ana Casanueva;Annkatrin Burgstall;Sven Kotlarski;Alessandro Messeri

  • Climate change impacts on the power generation potential of a European mid-century wind farms scenario

    Isabelle Tobin;Sonia Jerez;Robert Vautard;Françoise Thais

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

    Sven Kotlarski;Péter Szabó;Sixto Herrera;Olle Räty

  • Spectral representation of the annual cycle in the climate change signal

    T. Bosshard;S. Kotlarski;T. Ewen;T. Ewen;C. Schär

  • Alpine snow cover in a changing climate: a regional climate model perspective

    Christian Steger;Sven Kotlarski;Tobias Jonas;Christoph Schär

  • 21st Century Climate Change in the European Alps

    Andreas Gobiet;Sven Kotlarski;Markus Stoffel;Georg Heinrich

  • Observed snow depth trends in the European Alps 1971 to 2019

    Michael Matiu;Alice Crespi;Giacomo Bertoldi;Carlo Maria Carmagnola

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela Jacob
Daniela Jacob Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Daniel Lüthi
Daniel Lüthi ETH Zurich
Mark A. Liniger
Mark A. Liniger Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Claas Teichmann
Claas Teichmann Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
José M. Gutiérrez
José M. Gutiérrez Spanish National Research Council
Douglas Maraun
Douglas Maraun University of Graz
Andreas Gobiet
Andreas Gobiet Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics
Robert Vautard
Robert Vautard École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Radan Huth
Radan Huth Charles University

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