Publications

Latest publications

Franke, J., Valler, V., Brönnimann, S., Neukom, R., and Jaume-Santero, F. (2020): The importance of input data quality and quantity in climate field reconstructions – results from the assimilation of various tree-ring collections, Clim. Past, 16, 1061–1074,doi: 10.5194/cp-16-1061-2020

Kupper, T., Häni, C., Neftel, A., Kincaid, C., Bühler, M., Amon, B., and VanderZaag, A. (2020). Ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from slurry storage - A review. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 300, 106963. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2020.106963

Lhotka, O., Brönnimann, S. (2020) Possible Increase of Vegetation Exposure to Spring Frost under Climate Change in Switzerland. Atmosphere, 11, 391, doi: 10.3390/atmos11040391.

Geographisches Institut der Universität Bern (2020) Klima und Planung 79. Tagung am Geographischen Institut der Universität Bern (GIUB) 19./20. September 1979. Geographica Bernensia P5

Geographisches Institut der Universität Bern (2020) Informationen und Beiträge zur Klimaforschung / Contributions à la recherche climatologique (1970-1987). Geographica Bernensia G95/1–21

Brönnimann, S. (2020) Preface. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Series. Geographica Bernensia G96, p. 5.

Brönnimann, S., C. Rohr, Y. Brugnara, and F. A. Isotta, (2020) A Collection of Early Swiss Meteorological Series. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Series. Geographica Bernensia G96, p. 7–15, doi: 10.4480/GB2020.G96.01. 

Brugnara, Y., J. Flückiger, and S. Brönnimann (2020) Instruments, Procedures, Processing, and Analyses. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Series. Geographica Bernensia G96, p. 17–32, doi: 10.4480/GB2020.G96.02. 

Häderli, S., S. Pfister, L. Villiger, Y. Brugnara, and S. Brönnimann (2020) Two Meteorological Series from Geneva, 1782–1791. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Series. Geographica Bernensia G96, p. 33–46, doi: 10.4480/GB2020.G96.03. 

Brönnimann, S., M. Bühler, and Y. Brugnara (2020) The Series from Geneva, 1798–1863. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Series. Geographica Bernensia G96, p. 47–59, doi: 10.4480/GB2020.G96.04. 

Faden, M., L. Villiger, Y. Brugnara, and S. Brönnimann (2020) The Meteorological Series from Aarau, 1807–1865. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Series. Geographica Bernensia G96, p. 61–72, doi: 10.4480/GB2020.G96.05. 

Weber, J., Y. Brugnara, and S. Brönnimann (2020) Two Meteorological Series from Herisau, 1821–1844. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Series. Geographica Bernensia G96, p. 73–85, doi: 10.4480/GB2020.G96.06. 

Hürzeler A., Y. Brugnara, and S. Brönnimann (2020) The Meteorological Record from St. Gall, 1812–1853. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Series. Geographica Bernensia G96, p. 87–95, doi: 10.4480/GB2020.G96.07. 

Flückiger, J., A.-M. Burgdorf, Y. Brugnara, and S. Brönnimann (2020) Two Meteorological Series from Bern from Trechsel, 1826–1849, and Benoit, 1837–1853. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Series. Geographica Bernensia G96, p. 97–108, doi: 10.4480/GB2020.G96.09. 

Gubler, M., Brügger, A., Eyer, M. (2019) Adolescents’ Perceptions of the Psychological Distance to Climate Change, Its Relevance for Building Concern About It, and the Potential for Education. In: Climate Change and the Role of Education. Climate Change Management (S. 129-147). Cham: Springer 10.1007/978-3-030-32898-6_8

Rohrer, M., Martius, O., Raible, C. C., and Brönnimann, S. (2020) Sensitivity of Blocks and Cyclones in ERA5 to Spatial Resolution and Definition. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL085582. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085582

Pfister, L., Brönnimann, S., Schwander, M., Isotta, F. A., Horton, P., and Rohr, C. (2020) Statistical reconstruction of daily precipitation and temperature fields in Switzerland back to 1864. Clim. Past, 16, 663–678, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-663-2020

Stucki, P., Froidevaux, P., Zamuriano, M., Isotta, F. A., Messmer, M. and Martynov, A. (2020) Simulations of the 2005, 1910, and 1876 Vb cyclones over the Alps - sensitivity to model physics and cyclonic moisture flux, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20(1), 35–57. doi:10.5194/nhess-20-35-2020, 2020

Probst, Matthias; Gubler, Moritz (2019). Klimawandel und Klimapolitik [Textbook] . éducation21

Probst, Matthias; Gubler, Moritz (2019). Klimawandel und Klimapolitik. Informationen für Lehrpersonen [Textbook] . éducation21 

Brönnimann, S., R. Allan, L. Ashcroft, S. Baer, M. Barriendos, R. Brázdil, Y. Brugnara, M. Brunet, M. Brunetti, B. Chimani, R. Cornes, F. Domínguez-Castro, J. Filipiak, D. Founda, R. García Herrera, J. Gergis, S. Grab, L. Hannak, H. Huhtamaa, K. S. Jacobsen, P. Jones, S. Jourdain, A. Kiss, K. E. Lin, A. Lorrey, E. Lundstad, J. Luterbacher, F. Mauelshagen, M. Maugeri, N. Maughan, A. Moberg, R. Neukom, S. Nicholson, S. Noone, Ø. Nordli, K. B. Ólafsdóttir, P. R. Pearce, L. Pfister, K. Pribyl, R. Przybylak, C. Pudmenzky, D. Rasol, D. Reichenbach, L. Řezníčková, F. S. Rodrigo, R. Rohde, C. Rohr, O. Skrynyk, V. Slonosky, P. Thorne, M. A. Valente, J. M. Vaquero, N. E. Westcottt, F. Williamson, P. Wyszyński (2019) Unlocking pre-1850 instrumental meteorological records: A global inventory. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 100, ES389–ES413. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0040.1

Hegerl, G. C., Brönnimann, S., Cowan, T., Friedman, A. R., Hawkins, E., Iles, C., Müller, W., Schurer, A., and Undorf, S. (2019) Causes of climate change over the historical record. Environmental Research Letters 14, 123006. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab4557

Squintu, AA., van der Schrier, G., Brugnara, Y., and Klein Tank, A. (2019) Homogenization of daily temperature series in the European Climate Assessment & Dataset. Int J Climatol., 39, 1243– 1261. doi:10.1002/joc.5874

Brönnimann, S. (2019) Climate of the free troposphere and mountain peaks. Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change (accepted).

Schurer, A. P., Hegerl, G. C., Luterbacher, J., Brönnimann, S., Cowan, T., Tett, S., Zanchettin, D., and Timmreck, C. (2019) Disentangling the causes of the European year without a Summer of 1816. Environmental Research Letters, 14, 094019. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab3a10

Zamuriano, M., Froidevaux, P., Moreno, I., Vuille, M., and Brönnimann, S. (2019) Synoptic and Mesoscale atmospheric features associated with an extreme Snowstorm over the Central Andes in August 2013. Nat Haz. Earth Sys. Sci. Disc., doi:10.5194/nhess-2019-286

Pfister, L., Brönnimann, S., Schwander, M., Isotta, F. A., Horton, P., and Rohr, C. (2019) Statistical Reconstruction of Daily Precipitation and Temperature Fields in Switzerland back to 1864. Clim. Past Disc., doi:10.5194/cp-2019-124

Brönnimann, S. (2019) Der Ausbruch des Tambora und das „Jahr ohne Sommer“ 1816 – The Tambora eruption and the “Year Without a Summer” of 1816, Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft DMG (Eds.) Meteorologischer Kalender 2020: Wetter, Klima, Vulkane Klima.

Brugnara, Y., Auchmann, R., Rutishauser, T., Gehrig, R., Pietragalla, B., Begert, M., Sigg, C., Knechtl, V., Konzelmann, T., Calpini, B., and Brönnimann, S. (2019) Homogeneity Assessment of Phenological Records from the Swiss Phenology Network. International Journal of Biometeorology, doi:10.1007/s00484-019-01794-y

Brönnimann, S., Franke J., Nussbaumer S. U., Zumbühl H. J., Steiner D., Trachsel M., Hegerl G. C., Schurer A., Worni M., Malik A., Flückiger J., and Raible C. C. (2019) Last phase of the Little Ice Age forced by volcanic eruptions. Nature Geoscience, 12, 650-656. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0402-y

Neukom R., Barboza L. A., Erb M. P., Shi F., Emile-Geay J., Evans M. N., Franke J., Kaufman D., Lücke L., Rehfeld K., Schurer A., Valler V., Zhu F., Brönnimann S., Hakim G. J., Henley B. J., Ljungqvist F. C., McKay N., and von Gunten L. (2019) Consistent multidecadal variability in global temperature reconstructions and simulations over the Common Era. Nature Geoscience, 12, 643-649, doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0400-0

Hemming D. L., Garforth J., Park T., Richardson A. D., Rutishauser T., Sparks T. H., Thackeray S. J., and Myneni R. (2019) Phenology of primary producers, State of the Climate in 2018. Chapter 2: Global Climate, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Rutishauser, T., Jeanneret, F., Brügger, R., Brugnara, Y., Röthlisberger, C., Bernasconi, A., Bangerter, P., Portenier, C., Villiger, L., Lehmann, D., Meyer, L., Messerli, B., and Brönnimann, S.: The BernClim plant phenological data set from the canton of Bern (Switzerland) 1970–2018, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1645–1654, doi:10.5194/essd-11-1645-2019

Slivinski, L. C., Compo G. P., Whitaker J. S., Sardeshmukh P. D., Giese B., McColl C., Brohan P., Allan R., Yin X., Vose R., Titchner H., Kennedy J., Rayner N., Spencer L. J., Ashcroft L., Brönnimann S., Brunet M., Camuffo D., Cornes R., Cram T. A., Crouthamel R., Domínguez-Castro F., Freeman J. E., Gergis J., Hawkins E., Jones P. D., Jourdain S., Kaplan A., Kubota H., Le Blancq F., Lee T. C., Lorrey A., Luterbacher J., Maugeri M., Mock C. J., Kent Moore G. W., Przybylak R., Pudmenzky C., Reason C., Slonosky V. C., Smith C., Tinz B., Trewin B., Valente M. A., Wang X. L., Wilkinson C., Wood K., and Wyszynski P. (2019) Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system. Q J R Meteorol Soc. 2019, 145, 2876– 2908. doi:10.1002/qj.3598

Brugnara, Y, and Maugeri, M. (2019) Daily precipitation variability in the southern Alps since the late 19th century. Int J Climatol. 2019; 39: 3492– 3504. doi:10.1002/joc.6034

Martius, O., Brönnimann, S., and Scherrer, S. (2019) Standpunkt: Schweizer Städte im Klima der Zukunft. focus 3/19, Schweizer Städteverband, p. 1.

Brönnimann, S. (2019) Meinung: Klimawandel: Was erwartet uns? WOHNEN, Juni 2019, p. 11.

Brönnimann, S. (2019) Dem Empiriker über die Schulter geschaut. Messen, Sammeln, Ordnen, Darstellen: Humboldts Umgang mit Klimadaten. GeoAgenda 2019/2, 22-25.

Brönnimann, S., Stucki, P., and Zischg, A. (2019) Simulation des Hochwassers von 1868 und Lehren für die Zukunft. In: Lernen aus Extremereignissen. Forum für Wissen 2019, Heft 78, WSL Birmensdorf, pp. 13-20.

Graf, M., Scherrer, S. C., Schwierz, C., Begert, M., Martius, O., Raible, C. C., and Brönnimann, S. (2019) Near‐surface mean wind in Switzerland: Climatology, climate model evaluation and future scenarios. Int J Climatol. 2019, 39, 4798– 4810. doi:10.1002/joc.6108

Fessehaye, M., Brugnara, Y., Savage, M. J., and Brönnimann, S. (2019) A note on air temperature and precipitation variability and extremes over Asmara: 1914–2015. International Journal of Climatology, doi:10.1002/joc.6134

Rohrer, M., Brönnimann, S., Martius, O., Raible, C. C., and Wild, M. (2019) Decadal variations of blocking and storm tracks in centennial reanalyses. Tellus A, 71, 1586236, doi:10.1080/16000870.2019.1586236

Lenggenhager, S., Croci-Maspoli, M., Brönnimann, S., and Martius, O. (2019) On the dynamical coupling between atmospheric blocks and heavy precipitation events: A discussion of the southern Alpine flood in October 2000. Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc. 145, 530–545, doi:10.1002/qj.3449

Pfister, L., Hupfer, F., Brugnara, Y., Munz, L., Villiger, L., Meyer, L., Schwander, M., Isotta, F. A., Rohr, C., and Brönnimann, S. (2019) Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Measurements. Climate of the Past 15, 1345-1361, doi:10.5194/cp-15-1345-2019

Imfeld, N., Barreto Schuler, C., Milagros Correa Marrou, K., Sedlmeier, K., Gubler, S., Jacques-Coper, M., and Brönnimann, S. (2019) Summertime precipitation deficits in the Peruvian Highlands since 1964. Int. J. Climatol., doi:10.1002/joc.6087, accepted

Zamuriano, M., Martynov, A., Panziera, L., and Brönnimann, S. (2019) Characteristics of a Hailstorm over the Andean La Paz Valley. Nat Haz. Earth Sys. Sci., doi:10.5194/nhess-2019-27, in review

Brönnimann, S., Frigerio, L., Schwander, M., Rohrer, M., Stucki, P., and Franke, J. (2019) Causes for increased flood frequency in central Europe in the 19th century. Climate of the Past, 15, 1395–1409, doi:10.5194/cp-15-1395-2019

Burgdorf, A.-M., Brönnimann, S. and Franke, J. (2019) Two types of North American droughts related to different atmospheric circulation patterns, Climate of the Past, 15(6), 2053–2065, doi:10.5194/cp-15-2053-2019

Labbé, T., Pfister, C., Brönnimann, S., Rousseau, D., Franke, J., and Bois, B. (2019) The longest homogeneous series of grape harvest dates, Beaune 1354–2018, and its significance for the understanding of past and present climate, Clim. Past., 15, 1485-1501, doi:10.5194/cp-15-1485-2019

Malik, A., Nowack, P. J., Haigh, J. D., Cao, L., Atique, L., and Plancherel, Y. (2019) Tropical Pacific Climate Variability under Solar Geoengineering: Impacts on ENSO Extremes, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., doi:10.5194/acp-2018-1312, in review

Valler, V., Franke, J., and Brönnimann, S. (2019) Impact of different estimations of the background-error covariance matrix on climate reconstructions based on data assimilation, Clim. Past, 15, 1427-1441, doi:10.5194/cp-15-1427-2019

Brönnimann, Stefan; Wintzer, Jeannine (2019) Climate Data Empathy. WIREs Climate Change, 10, e559, doi:10.1002/wcc.559

Brönnimann, Stefan; Brugnara, Yuri; Allan, Rob J.; Brunet, Manola; Compo, Gilbert P.; Crouthamel, Richard I.; Jones, Philip D.; Jourdain, Sylvie; Luterbacher, Jürg; Siegmund, Peter; Valente, Maria Antónia; Wilkinson, Clive W. (2018) A roadmap to climate data rescue services. Geoscience Data Journal, 5(1), pp. 28-39. Royal Meteorological Society, doi:10.1002/gdj3.56

Brugnara, Y., Good, E., Squintu, A. A., Schrier, G. and Brönnimann, S. (2019) The EUSTACE global land station daily air temperature dataset. Geoscience Data Journal, 6(2), S. 189-204. Royal Meteorological Society, doi: 10.1002/gdj3.81

Delaygue, G., Brönnimann, S., Jones, P., Blanchet, J., and Schwander, M. (2019) Reconstruction of Lamb weather type series back to the 18th century. Clim. Dyn., 52, 6131-6148. doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4506-7

Stucki, Peter; Bandhauer, Moritz; Heikkilä, Ulla; Rössler, Ole Kristen; Zappa, Massimiliano; Pfister, Lucas Martin; Salvisberg, Melanie; Froidevaux, Paul Arnaud; Romppainen-Martius, Olivia; Panziera, Luca; Brönnimann, Stefan (2018) Reconstruction and simulation of an extreme flood event in the Lago Maggiore catchment in 1868. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18(10), pp. 2717-2739, doi:10.5194/nhess-18-2717-2018

Auchmann, R., Y. Brugnara, T. Rutishauser, S. Brönnimann, R. Gehrig, B. Pietragalla, M. Begert, C. Sigg, V. Knechtl, B. Calpini and T. Konzelmann (2018) Quality Analysis and Classification of Data Series from the Swiss Phenology Network, Technical Report MeteoSwiss, 271, 77 pp.

Brönnimann, Stefan; Martius, Olivia; Rohr, Christian; Bresch, David N.; Lin, Kuan‐Hui Elaine (2019) Historical weather data for climate risk assessment. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1436, 121-137, doi:10.1111/nyas.13966

Oberlack, C., S. Boillat, S. Brönnimann, J.-D. Gerber, A. Heinimann, P. Messerli, S. Rist, C. Ifejika Speranza, U. Wiesmann (2018) Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems. Ecology & Society, 23(10), 16, doi:10.5751/ES-09902-230116

Horton, P., and S. Brönnimann (2019) Impact of global atmospheric reanalyses on statistical precipitation downscaling. Climate Dynamics, 52, 5189-5211. doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4442-6

Brönnimann, S., C. Rohr, P. Stucki, S. Summermatter, M. Bandhauer, Y. Barton, A. Fischer, P. Froidevaux, U. Germann, M. Grosjean, F. Hupfer, K. Ingold, F. Isotta, M. Keiler, O. Martius, M. Messmer, R. Mülchi, L. Panziera, L. Pfister, C. C. Raible, T. Reist, O. Rössler, V. Röthlisberger, S. Scherrer, R. Weingartner, M. Zappa, M. Zimmermann, A. P. Zischg (2018) 1868 – das Hochwasser, das die Schweiz veränderte. Ursachen, Folgen und Lehren für die Zukunft. Geographica Bernensia G94, 52. S., doi:10.4480/GB2018.G94.01

Brönnimann, S., C. Rohr, P. Stucki, S. Summermatter, M. Bandhauer, Y. Barton, A. Fischer, P. Froidevaux, U. Germann, M. Grosjean, F. Hupfer, K. Ingold, F. Isotta, M. Keiler, O. Martius, M. Messmer, R. Mülchi, L. Panziera, L. Pfister, C. C. Raible, T. Reist, O. Rössler, V. Röthlisberger, S. Scherrer, R. Weingartner, M. Zappa, M. Zimmermann, A. P. Zischg (2018) 1868 – L’alluvione che cambiò la Svizzera: Cause, conseguenze e insegnamenti per il futuro. Geographica Bernensia G94, 52. pp., doi:10.4480/GB2018.G94.02

Brönnimann, S., and C. Pfister (2018) Archives of Nature and Archives of Societies, in: White, S., C. Pfister, and F. Mauelshagen (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 27-36. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-43020-5

Brönnimann, S., S. White, and V. Slonosky (2018) Climate from 1800 to 1970 in North America and Europe, in: White, S., C. Pfister, and F. Mauelshagen (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 309-320. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-43020-5

Brönnimann, S. (2018) Global Warming (1970-present), in: White, S., C. Pfister, and F. Mauelshagen (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 321-328. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-43020-5

Brönnimann, S., (2018) Nützliche historische Wetterdaten. GeoAgenda, 2018/3, pp. 8-12.

Hemming, D.L., R. Abernethy, C. Armitage, K. Bolmgren, R. Myneni, T. Park, A. D. Richardson, T. Rutishauser, T. H. Sparks, and S. J. Thackeray, 2018: Phenology of terrestrial and freshwater primary producers [in “State of the Climate in 2017”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), S63–S66, doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

Gubler, M., P. D. Henne, C. Schwörer, P. Boltshauser-Kaltenrieder, A. F. Lotter, S. Brönnimann, W. Tinner (2018). Microclimatic gradients provide evidence for the northernmost glacial refuge for temperate trees south of the Alps. Journal of Biogeography, 45, 2564–2575.

Ballesteros-Cánovas, J. A., M. Stoffel, M. Rohrer, G. Benito, M. Beniston, S. Brönnimann (2019). On the extraordinary winter flood episode over the North Atlantic Basin in 1936. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1436, 206-216, doi:10.1111/nyas.13911

Brázdil, R., P. Stucki, P. Szabó, L. Řezníčková, L. Dolák, P. Dobrovolný, R. Tolasz, O. Kotyza, K. Chromá, S. Suchánková (2018). Windstorms and forest disturbances in the Czech Lands: 1801–2015. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 250-251, S. 47-63. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.11.036

Wang, H., J. Dai, T. Rutishauser, A. Gonsamo, C. Wu, Q. Ge (2018). Trends and Variability in Temperature Sensitivity of Lilac Flowering Phenology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123(3), S. 807-817. doi:10.1002/2017JG004181

Gaudard A., C. Weber, TJ. Alexander, S. Hunziker, M. Schmid. Impacts of using lakes and rivers for extraction and disposal of heat. WIREs Water. 2018;e1295. doi:10.1002/wat2.1295

Laloyaux, P., E. de Boisseson, M. Balmaseda, J. Bidlot, S. Brönnimann, R. Buizza, P. Dalhgren, D. Dee, L. Haimberger, H. Hersbach, Y. Kosaka, M. Martin, P. Poli, N. Rayner, E. Rustemeier, D. Schepers (2018). CERA-20C: A coupled reanalysis of the Twentieth Century. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10, 1172-1195, doi:10.1029/2018MS001273

Hegerl, Gabriele C., S. Brönnimann, A. Schurer, T. Cowan (2018). The early 20th century warming: Anomalies, causes, and consequences. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 9, e522. doi:10.1002/wcc.522

Buizza, R., P. Poli, M. Rixen, M. Alonso-Balmaseda, M. G Bosilovich, S. Brönnimann, G. P. Compo, D. Dee, F. Desiato, M. Doutriaux-Boucher, M. Fujiwara, A. K. Kaiser-Weiss, S. Kobayashi, Z. Liu, S. Masina; P.-P. Mathieu, N. Rayner, C. Richter, S. I. Seneviratne, A. J. Simmons, J.-N. Thepaut, J. D. Auger, M. Bechtold, E. Berntell, B. Dong, M. Kozubek, K. Sharif, C. Thomas, S. Schimanke, A. Storto, M. Tuma, I. Välisuo, and A. Vaselali (2018) Advancing Global & Regional Reanalyses. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 99, 1003-1014, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0312.1

Brönnimann, S., R. Allan, C. Atkinson, R. Buizza, O. Bulygina, P. Dahlgren, D. Dee, R. Dunn, P. Gomes, V. John, S. Jourdain, L. Haimberger, H. Hersbach, J. Kennedy, P. Poli, J. Pulliainen, N. Rayner, R. Saunders, J. Schulz, A. Sterin, A. Stickler, H. Titchner, M. A. Valente, C. Ventura, C. Wilkinson (2018) Observations for Reanalyses. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 99, 1651-1866,  doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0229.1

Wegmann, M., Y. Orsolini, O. Zolina (2018). Warm Arctic−cold Siberia: comparing the recent and the early 20th-century Arctic warmings. Environmental Research Letters, 13(2), 025009. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aaa0b7.

Brönnimann, S., J. Rajczak, E.M. Fischer, C.C. Raible, M. Rohrer, C. Schär (2018). Changing seasonality of moderate and extreme precipitation events in the Alps, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 2047-2056, doi:10.5194/nhess-2018-55.

Brönnimann, Stefan; Wintzer, Jeannine (2018). Use imprint of society and history on climate data to inform climate services. Nature, 554, 423, doi:10.1038/d41586-018-02201-z.

Brönnimann, Stefan (2018). Klimatologie. utb Basics, Haupt Verlag, Bern, 320 S.

Rössler, O., and S. Brönnimann (2018) The effect of the Tambora eruption on Swiss flood generation in 1816 / 1817. Science of the Total Environment, 627, 1218-1227. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.254.

Lehmann, D., E. Wyss, T. Rutishauser, and S. Brönnimann (2018) Citizen Science: Pflanzenphänologische Daten erfüllen wissenschaftliche Kriterien. Geographica Bernensia G93, 4 pp., doi:10.4480/GB2017.G93.

Andrade, M. F., I. Moreno, J. M. Calle, L. Ticona, L. Blacutt, W. Lavado-Casimiro, E. Sabino, A. Huerta, C. Aybar, S. Hunziker, and S. Brönnimann (2018) Atlas - Clima y eventos extremos del Altiplano Central perú-boliviano / Climate and extreme events from the Central Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia / 1981-2010. Geographica Bernensia, 188 pp., doi:10.4480/GB2018.N01.

Zamuriano, M. (2018) Precipitaciones extremas en La Paz / Extreme precipitation in La Paz, in: Andrade, M. F., et al. (Eds). Atlas - Clima y eventos extremos del Altiplano Central perú-boliviano / Climate and extreme events from the Central Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia / 1981-2010. Geographica Bernensia, p. 80-81., doi:10.4480/GB2018.N01.

Imfeld, N., A. Huerta, and W. Lavado (2018) La sequía de 1982-83 en el Altiplano / The 1982-83 drought in the Altiplano, in: Andrade, M. F., et al. (Eds). Atlas - Clima y eventos extremos del Altiplano Central perú-boliviano / Climate and extreme events from the Central Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia / 1981-2010. Geographica Bernensia, p. 74-75., doi:10.4480/GB2018.N01.

Hunziker S. (2018) Tendencias climáticas recientes en el Altiplano / Recent climatic trends in the Altiplano, in: Andrade, M. F., et al. (Eds). Atlas - Clima y eventos extremos del Altiplano Central perú-boliviano / Climate and extreme events from the Central Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia / 1981-2010. Geographica Bernensia, p. 104-105., doi:10.4480/GB2018.N01.

Henne P. D., M. Bigalke, U. Büntgen, D. Colombaroli, M. Conedera, U. Feller, D. Frank, J. F. Fuhrer, M. Grosjean, O. Heiri, J. Luterbacher, A. Mestrot, A. Rigling, O. Rössler, C. Rohr, T. Rutishauser, M. Schwikowski, A. Stampfli, S. Szidat, J.-P. Theurillat, R. Weingartner, W. Wilcke, and W. Tinner (2018) An empirical perspective for understanding climate change impacts in Switzerland. Regional Environmental Change, 18, 205-221. doi:10.1007/s10113-017-1182-9.

Rohrer, M., S. Brönnimann, O. Martius, C. C. Raible, M. Wild, G. P. Compo (2018) Representation of cyclones, blocking anticyclones, and circulation types in multiple reanalyses and model simulations. J. Climate, 31, 3009–3031. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0350.1.

Hunziker, S., S. Brönnimann, J. Calle, I. Moreno, M. Andrade, L. Ticona, W. Lavado, A. Huerta (2018) Effects of undetected data quality issues on climatological analyses. Clim. Past, 14, 1-20. doi:10.5194/cp-14-1-2018.

Malik, A., and S. Brönnimann (2017) Factors Affecting the Inter-annual to Centennial Timescale Variability of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall. Climate Dynamics, 52, 5189-5211. doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3879-3

Buizza, R., S. Brönnimann, L. Haimberger, P. Laloyaux, M. J. Martin, M. Fuentes, M. Alonso-Balmaseda, A. Becker, M. Blaschek, P. Dahlgren, E. de Boisseson, D. Dee, F. Xiangbo, K. Haines, S. Jourdain, Y. Kosaka, D. Lea, M. Mayer, P. Messina, C. Perruche, P. Peylin, J. Pullainen, N. Rayner, E. Rustemeier, D. Schepers, J. Schulz, A. Sterin, S. Stichelberger, A. Storto, C.-E. Testut, M. A. Valente, A. Vidard, N. Vuichard, A. Weaver, J. While, M. Ziese (2018) The EU-FP7 ERA-CLIM2 project contribution to advancing science and production of Earth-system climate reanalyses. B. Amer. Metetorol. Soc., 99, 1003-1014. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0199.1

Hunziker, S., S. Gubler, J. M. Calle Fernandez, I. Moreno, M. F. Andrade, F. velarde, G. Carrasco, Y. Castellón, M. Croci-Maspoli, T. Konzelmann, M. Rohrer, and S. Brönnimann (2017) Identifying, attributing, and overcoming common data quality issues of manned station observations. Int. J. Climatol., 37, 4131-4143, doi: 10.1002/joc.5037.

Schwander, M., M. Rohrer, S. Brönnimann (2017) Influence of solar variability on the occurrence of central European weather types from 1763 to 2009. Clim. Past, 13, 1199-1212, Clim. Past Discuss., doi:10.5194/cp-13-1199-2017

Ernst, J., N. Glaus, M. Schwander, and M. Graf (2017) Reanalysis of the “Märzorkan” of 1876. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 23-34, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.02.

Villiger, L., M. Schwander, L. Schürch, L. Stanisic, and S. Brönnimann (2017) The “Royal Charter” Storm of 1859. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 35-45, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.03.

Burkart, K. and A.-M. Wyss (2017) The ”Great Appalachian Storm” of 1950 in Reanalyses and Historical Weather Charts. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 47-58, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.04.

Franke J., L. Di Marco, M. Pickl, C. Mock, K. Wood, and S. Brönnimann (2017) The “Sitka Hurricane” in south-eastern Alaska in the year 1880. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 59-67, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.05.

Stucki, P., A. Baumann, and D. Bucher (2017) The 1978 heavy precipitation and flood event in Switzerland. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 69-80, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.06.

Zamuriano, M., N. Imfeld, S. Hunziker, R. Peier, and G. Santi (2017) Reanalysis of a Cold Surge in Brazil in 1953. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 81-89, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.07.

Meyer, L., R. Hunziker, J. Weber, and A. Zürcher (2017) An Analysis of the “Great Gale of October 1881“ using the Twentieth Century Reanalysis. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 91-100, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.10.

Dizerens, C., S. Lenggenhager, M. Schwander, A. Buck, and S. Foffa (2017) The 1956 Cold Wave in Western Europe. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 101-111, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.09.

Baumann, T. and L. Reichen (2017) The Iberian Storm of 1941 in the Twentieth Century Reanalysis. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 113-122, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.10.

Gassner, S., L. Frigerio, M. Schwander, and C. Dizerens (2017) The “Great White Storm” of 1913. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses. Geographica Bernensia G92, p. 123-131, doi:10.4480/GB2017.G92.11.

Brugnara, Y., S. Brönnimann, M. Zamuriano, J. Schild, C. Rohr and D. Segesser (2017) Los reanálisis arrojan luz sobre el desastre de los aludes de 1916. Tiempo y Clima, 58, 16-20.

Brönnimann, S., M. Jacques Coper, A. Fischer (2017) Regnerischere Südseeinseln wegen Ozonloch. Physik in unserer Zeit 48, 215-216. doi:10.1002/piuz.201770505.

Malik, A., S. Brönnimann, P. Perona (2017) Statistical link between external climate forcings and modes of ocean variability. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3832-5.

Flückiger, S., S. Brönnimann A. Holzkämper, J. Fuhrer, D. Krämer, C. Pfister, C. Rohr (2017) Simulating crop yield losses in Switzerland for historical and present Tambora climate scenarios. Environ. Res. Lett., 12, 074026, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa7246.

Franke, J., S. Brönnimann, J. Bhend, Y. Brugnara (2017) A monthly global paleo-reanalysis of the atmosphere from 1600 to 2005 for studying past climatic variations. Scientific Data 4, 170076. doi:10.1038/sdata.2017.76.

Brázdil, R., P. Stucki, P. Szabó, P. Dobrovolný, L. Řezníčková, O. Kotyza, H. Valášek, L. Dolák, P. Zahradníček, S. Suchánková (2018) The second most disastrous windstorm of the nineteenth century in the Czech Lands, 26-27 October 1870. Theor. Appl. Climatology, 132, 1201-1216. doi:10.1007/s00704-017-2146-1

Brázdil, R., P. Stucki, P. Szabó, P. Dobrovolný, L. Řezníčková, O. Kotyza, H. Valášek, M. Melo, S. Suchánková, L. Dolák, K. Chromá (2017) The extraordinary windstorm of 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands and its central European context. Int. J. Climatol., 37, 14-29. doi:10.1002/joc.4973

Brönnimann, Stefan; Jacques-Coper, Martín; Rozanov, Eugene; Fischer, Andreas M.; Morgenstern, Olaf; Zeng, Guang; Akiyoshi, Hideharu; Yamashita, Yousuke (2017) Tropical circulation and precipitation response to ozone depletion and recovery. Environ. Res. Lett., 12, 064011, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa7416.

Gubler, S., S. Hunziker, M. Begert, M. Croci-Maspoli, T. Konzelmann, S. Brönnimann, C. Schwierz, C. Oria, and G. Rosas, G. (2017) The influence of station density on climate data homogenization. Int. J. Climatol., 37, 4670–4683. doi:10.1002/joc.5114.

Rohrer, M., M. Croci-Maspoli, and C. Appenzeller (2017) Climate change and circulation types in the Alpine region. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 26(1), 83-92, doi:10.1127/metz/2016/0681.

Hersbach, H., S. Brönnimann, L. Haimberger, M. Mayer, L. Villiger, J. Comeaux, A. Simmons, D. Dee, S. Jourdain, C. Peubey, P. Poli, N. Rayner, A. Sterin, A. Stickler, M. A. Valente, and S. Worley (2017) The potential value of early (1939-1967) upper-air data in atmospheric climate reanalysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 143, 1197–1210, doi:10.1002/qj.3040.

Thorne, P.W., R.J. Allan, L. Ashcroft, P. Brohan, R.J. Dunn, M.J. Menne, P.R. Pearce, J. Picas, K.M. Willett, M. Benoy, S. Bronnimann, P.O. Canziani, J. Coll, R. Crouthamel, G.P. Compo, D. Cuppett, M. Curley, C. Duffy, I. Gillespie, J. Guijarro, S. Jourdain, E.C. Kent, H. Kubota, T.P. Legg, Q. Li, J. Matsumoto, C. Murphy, N.A. Rayner, J.J. Rennie, E. Rustemeier, L.C. Slivinski, V. Slonosky, A. Squintu, B. Tinz, M.A. Valente, S. Walsh, X.L. Wang, N. Westcott, K. Wood, S.D. Woodruff, and S.J. Worley (2017) Toward an Integrated Set of Surface Meteorological Observations for Climate Science and Applications. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98, 2689–2702. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0165.1.

Wegmann, M., Y. Orsolini, E. Dutra, O. Bulygina, A. Sterin and S. Brönnimann (2017) Eurasian snow depth in long-term climate reanalyses. The Cryosphere 11, 923-935, doi:10.5194/tc-11-923-2017.

Brugnara, Y., S. Brönnimann, M. Zamuriano, J. Schild, C. Rohr and D. Segesser (2017) Reanalysis sheds light on 1916 avalanche disaster. ECMWF Newsletter 151, 28-34.

Wang, H., T. Rutishauser, Z. Tao, S. Zhong, Q. Ge, J. Dai (2017) Impacts of global warming on phenology of spring leaf unfolding remain stable in the long run. International Journal of Biometeorology, 61(2), 287-292, doi:10.1007/s00484-016-1210-3.

Schwander, M., S. Brönnimann, G. Delaygue, M. Rohrer, R. Auchmann, and Y. Brugnara (2017) Reconstruction of Central European daily weather types back to 1763. Int. J. Climatol. 37, 30-44. doi:10.1002/joc.4974.

Malik, A., S. Brönnimann, A. Stickler, C. C. Raible, S. Muthers, J. Anet, E. Rozanov, W. Schmutz (2017) Decadal to Multi-decadal Scale Variability of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Chemistry Climate Model SOCOL-MPIOM. Climate Dynamics (online first), doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3529-9.

Samartin, S., O. Heiri, F. Joos, H. Renssen, J. Franke, S. Brönnimann, W. Tinner (2017). Warm Mediterranean mid-Holocene summers inferred from fossil midge assemblages. Nature Geoscience, 10, 207-212. Nature Publishing Group, doi:10.1038/ngeo2891.