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Christoph Schär
portrait Prof. Christoph Schär

Klima & Wasserkreislauf
Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima (IAC)
ETH Zürich
ETH Zentrum, CHN
Universitätsstr. 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@env.ethz.ch
URL: www.iac.ethz.ch/
Vitae: link

with involvement of Christoph Schär

Programs in which Christoph Schär holds an official function:
C2SMchair scientific steering committee2008 -
IPCC-AR3-2001author
IPCC-AR4-2007author
IPCC-AR5-2013lead author
MAPmember
NCCR-Climateboard of project leaders2001 -


... 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., S.I. Seneviratne, D. Lüthi and C. Schär, 2007: Contribution of land–atmosphere coupling to recent European summer heatwaves. Geophys. Res. Letters, 34, Art. No. L06707

Schär, C., D. Lüthi, U. Beyerle and E. Heise, 1999: The Soil-Precipitation Feedback: A Process Study with a Regional Climate Model. J. Climate, 12, 722-741

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

Vidale P.L., D. Lüthi, R. Wegmann, C. Schär, 2007: European summer climate variability in a heterogeneous multi-model ensemble. Clim. Change, 81, 209–232


Expertise of Christoph Schär:
Expertise Category Specific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Topic AtmosphereMeteorology
Climate
Global Warming
Topic HydrospherePrecipitation / Runoff
ScopeImpact of Change
Spatial ScaleContinental
Regional
Time FrameRecent / Today
Future
Statistical FocusExtreme Events
Mean Change / Trends
Variability
Time ScaleSeasonal / Annual
Decadal / Centennial
MethodsData Analysis
Literature Study
Modeling

Additional Specialties:
Impact of climate change on the hydrological cycle and associated extremes on European to Alpine scales

Last update: 25.6.2010

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