Christoph Schär
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Prof. em. 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) 44 632 81 85 Fax: +41 (0) 44 632 13 11 E-mail: schaer(at)env.ethz.ch URL Institution: www.iac.ethz.ch/ Personal URL: link Phone: +41 (0) 44 632 81 99 Phone2: +41 (0) 44 632 81 85 Fax: +41 (0) 44 632 13 11 E-mail: schaer(at)env.ethz.ch URL Institution: www.iac.ethz.ch/ Personal URL: link |
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 | ||
| IPCC-AR5-2013 | lead author |
Key Publications of Christoph Schär (up to ten) :
Ban N., J. Schmidli and C. Schär, 2015: Heavy precipitation in a changing climate: Does short-term summer precipitation increase faster? Geophys. Res. Lett., 42 (4), 1165–1172
Fischer, E.M. and C. Schär, 2010: Consistent geographical patterns of changes in high-impact European heatwaves. Nature Geoscience, 3 (6), 398-403
Frei, C., and C. Schär, 2001. Detection probability of trends in rare events: Theory and application to heavy precipitation in the Alpine region. J. Climate, 14, 1568-1584
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
Rajczak, J., P. Pall, C. Schär, 2013: Projections of extreme precipitation events in regional climate simulations for Europe and the Alpine region. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 3610–3626
Schär, C., 1993. A Generalization of Bernoulli's Theorem. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1437-1443
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
Schlemmer, L., C. Hohenegger, J. Schmidli, C. Schär, 2012: Diurnal equilibrium convection and land surface-atmosphere interactions in an idealized cloud-resolving model. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 138 (667), 1526-1539
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 |
| Scope | Process Studies |
| Causes of Change | |
| Impact of Change | |
| Topic Atmosphere | Meteorology |
| Climate | |
| Global Warming | |
| Topic Hydrosphere | Precipitation / Runoff |
| Spatial Scale | Global / Hemispheric |
| 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, numerical methods, extreme events
Last update: 6/4/24
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