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List of works by Christoph Schär

A Case Study in Modeling Low-Lying Inversions and Stratocumulus Cloud Cover in the Bay of Biscay

A gridded hourly precipitation dataset for Switzerland using rain-gauge analysis and radar-based disaggregation

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An Improved Snow Scheme for the ECMWF Land Surface Model: Description and Offline Validation

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An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate

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Analysis of ERA40-driven CLM simulations for Europe

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Analysis of seasonal terrestrial water storage variations in regional climate simulations over Europe

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CH2018 – National climate scenarios for Switzerland: How to construct consistent multi-model projections from ensembles of opportunity

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Climate Variability-Observations, Reconstructions, and Model Simulations for the Atlantic-European and Alpine Region from 1500-2100 AD

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Climate change in Switzerland: a review of physical, institutional, and political aspects

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Climate change: hot news from summer 2003.

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Enhanced summer convective rainfall at Alpine high elevations in response to climate warming

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Evaluation of the convection-resolving regional climate modeling approach in decade-long simulations

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Exploring Perturbed Physics Ensembles in a Regional Climate Model

Extraction and Visual Analysis of Potential Vorticity Banners around the Alps

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Frequent floods in the European Alps coincide with cooler periods of the past 2500 years

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Future changes in daily summer temperature variability: driving processes and role for temperature extremes

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

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Heavy precipitation in a changing climate: Does short-term summer precipitation increase faster?

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Impact of Scale and Aggregation on the Terrestrial Water Exchange: Integrating Land Surface Models and Rhône Catchment Observations

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Inferring Changes in Terrestrial Water Storage Using ERA-40 Reanalysis Data: The Mississippi River Basin

article by Sonia I. Seneviratne et al published June 2004 in Journal of Climate

Land-atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe

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Land-atmosphere coupling associated with snow cover

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

scholarly article by Mathias W. Rotach et al published September 2009 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Modelling European winter wind storm losses in current and future climate

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Modelling daily temperature extremes: recent climate and future changes over Europe

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Objective Calibration of Regional Climate Models: Application over Europe and North America

On the relationship between the Indian summer monsoon and river flow in the Aral Sea basin

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Pan-European climate at convection-permitting scale: a model intercomparison study

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Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events

scholarly article by Christoph Schär et al published 5 April 2016 in Climatic Change

Seasonal Variations in Terrestrial Water Storage for Major Midlatitude River Basins

Seasonality and Interannual Variability of the Westerly Jet in the Tibetan Plateau Region*

Separating climate change signals into thermodynamic, lapse-rate and circulation effects: theory and application to the European summer climate

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Snow cover sensitivity to horizontal resolution, parameterizations, and atmospheric forcing in a land surface model

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Snowfall in the Alps: Evaluation and Projections based on the EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Models

scientific article published in 2016

Soil Control on Runoff Response to Climate Change in Regional Climate Model Simulations

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Statistical Analysis of Aerosol Effects on Simulated Mixed-Phase Clouds and Precipitation in the Alps

Supplement to MAP D-PHASE: Real-Time Demonstration of Weather Forecast Quality in the Alpine Region: Additional Applications of the D-Phase Datasets

article published in 2009

The Continental-Scale Soil-Moisture Precipitation Feedback in Europe with Parameterized and Explicit Convection

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The cloud-free global energy balance and inferred cloud radiative effects: an assessment based on direct observations and climate models.

scientific article published on 21 August 2018

The energy balance over land and oceans: an assessment based on direct observations and CMIP5 climate models

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The precipitation climate of Central Asia—intercomparison of observational and numerical data sources in a remote semiarid region

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The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves

scientific article published on 11 January 2004

The worst heat waves to come

Towards European-scale convection-resolving climate simulations with GPUs: a study with COSMO 4.19

scientific article published in 2016