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Christoph Schär

Prof. Christoph Schär Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima (IAC) ETH Zürich ETH Zentrum, CHN 12.1 Universitätstr. 16 CH-8092 Zürich Switzerland Phone: +41 (0) 44 632 81 99 Phone2: +41 (0) 44 633 27 55 Fax: +41 (0) 44 632 13 11 E-mail: christoph.schaer(at)env.ethz.ch URL Institution: www.iac.ethz.ch/ Personal URL: link Phone: +41 (0) 44 632 81 99 Phone2: +41 (0) 44 633 27 55 Fax: +41 (0) 44 632 13 11 E-mail: christoph.schaer(at)env.ethz.ch URL Institution: www.iac.ethz.ch/ Personal URL: link

with involvement of Christoph Schär

Programs in which Christoph Schär holds an official function:

C2SM	chair scientific steering committee	2008 -
IPCC-AR3-2001	author
IPCC-AR4-2007	author
IPCC-AR5-2013	lead author
NCCR-Climate	board of project leaders	2001 -

... on Global Environmental Change
...the list may contain publications from other authors with same last name and first name initial.

Key Publications of Christoph Schär (up to five) :
Fischer, E.M. and C. Schär, 2010: Consistent geographical patterns of changes in high-impact European heatwaves. Nature Geoscience, 3 (6), 398-403

Hohenegger, C., P. Brockhaus, C.S. Bretherton and C. Schär, 2009: The soil moisture-precipitation feedback in simulations with explicit and parameterized convection. J. Clim., 22 (19), 5003–5020

Langhans, W., J. Schmidli and C. Schär, 2012: Bulk convergence of kilometer-scale simulations of moist convection over complex terrain, J. Atmos. Sci., 69 (7), 2207-2228

Schär, C., P.L. Vidale, D. Lüthi, C. Frei, C. Häberli, M.A. Liniger and C. Appenzeller, 2004: The role of increasing temperature variability for European summer heat waves. Nature, 427, 332-336

Seneviratne, S.I., D. Lüthi, M. Litschi and C. Schär, 2006: Land-atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe, Nature, 443, 205-209


Expertise of Christoph Schär:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic Atmosphere	Meteorology
	Climate
	Global Warming
Topic Hydrosphere	Precipitation / Runoff
Scope	Impact of Change
Spatial Scale	Continental
	Regional
Time Frame	Recent / Today
	Future
Statistical Focus	Extreme Events
	Mean Change / Trends
	Variability
Methods	Data Analysis
	Literature Study
	Modeling

Specialties of Christoph Schär:
Climate change and the hydrological cycle, regional climate modeling

Last update: 5/3/13

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