Publications
I have published 22 peer-reviewed articles, which have been cited more than 1500 times according to Google Scholar. My h-index is 17. I have over 50 verified peer-reviews on Web of Science, including for Nature, Science Advances, Geophysical Research Letters, Environmental Research Letters, and Journal of Climate.
Coming up
- Nicola M., Phillips A. S., Deser C., Jnglin Wills R. C., Lehner F., Fasullo J., Caron J. M., Brunner L., and Beyerle U. (in review): The updated Multi-Model Large Ensemble Archive and the Climate Variability Diagnostics Package: New tools for the study of climate variability and change, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss.
- Segura H. et al. including Brunner L. (in review): nextGEMS: entering the era of kilometer-scale Earth system modeling, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss.
- Brunner L., Ghosh R., Haimberger L., Hohenegger C., Putrasahan D., Rackow T., Knutti R., and Voigt A. (in preparation): Three decades of simulating global temperatures with coupled climate models
Peer-reviewed
Brunner, L., Poschlod B., Dutra E., Fischer E., Martius O., and Sillmann J. (2025): A global perspective on the spatial representation of climate extremes from km-scale models, Environ. Res. Lett., PDF, Supplement
Sobolowski S., Somot S., Fernandez J., Evin G., Brands S., Maraun D., Kotlarski S., Jury M., Benestad R. E., Teichmann C., Christensen, O. B., Bülow K., Buonomo E., Katragkou E., Steger C., Sørland S., Nikulin G., McSweeney C., Dobler A., Palmer T., Wilcke R., Boé J., Brunner L., Ribes A., Qasmi S., Nabat P., Sevault F., Oudar T. (2025): GCM Selection & Ensemble Design: Best Practices and Recommendations from the EURO-CORDEX Community, BAMS
Nguyen V., Vorogushyn S., Nissen K., Brunner L., and Merz B. (2024): A non-stationary climate-informed weather generator for assessing future flood risks, Adv. Stat. Climatol. Meteorol. Oceanogr., PDF, Supplement
O’Reilly C., Brunner L., Qasmi S., Nogherotto R., Ballinger A., Booth B., Befort D., Knutti R., Schurer A., Ribes A., Weisheimer A., Coppola E., and McSweeney C. (2024): Assessing observational constraints on future European climate in an out-of-sample framework, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, PDF, Supplement
Brunner L. and Voigt A. (2024): Pitfalls in diagnosing temperature extremes, Nature Communications, PDF, Supplement, Review files
Merrifield A. L., Brunner L., Lorenz R., Humphrey V., and Knutti R. (2023): Climate model Selection by Independence, Performance, and Spread (ClimSIPS v1.0.1) for regional applications, Geosci. Model Dev., PDF, Supplement
Brunner L. and Sippel S. (2023): Identifying climate models based on their daily output using machine learning, Env. Data Sci., PDF, Supplement
Palmer T. E., McSweeney C.F., Booth B. B. B., Priestley M. D. K., Davini P., Brunner L., Borchert L., and Menary M. B. (2023): Performance based sub-selection of CMIP6 models for impact assessments in Europe, Earth Syst. Dynam., PDF
Gründemann G. J, van de Giesen N., Brunner L., and van der Ent R. (2022): Rarest rainfall events will see the greatest relative increase in magnitude under future climate change, communications earth & environment PDF
Befort D. J., Brunner L., Borchert L. F., O’Reilly C. H., Mignot J., Ballinger A. P., Hegerl G. C., Murphy J. M. (2022): Combination of decadal predictions and climate projections in time: Challenges and potential solutions, Geophys. Res. Lett., PDF
Hegerl G. C., Ballinger A. P., Booth B. B. B., Borchert L. F., Brunner L., Donat M. G., Doblas-Reyes F., Harris G., Lowe J., Mahmood R., Mignot J., Murphy J., Swingedouw D., and Weisheimer A. (2021): Toward Consistent Observational Constraints in Climate Predictions and Projections, Front. Clim., PDF
Sperna Weiland F. C., Visser R. D., Greve P., Bisselink B., Brunner L., and Weerts A. H. (2021): Estimating Regionalized Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change Over Europe by Performance-Based Weighting of CORDEX Projections, Front. Water, PDF
Brunner L., Pendergrass A. G., Lehner F., Merrifield A. L., Lorenz R., and Knutti R. (2020): Reduced global warming from CMIP6 projections when weighting models by performance and independence, Earth Syst. Dynam., PDF
Brunner L., McSweeney C., Ballinger A. P., Befort D. J., Benassi M., Booth B. B. B., Coppola E., de Vries H., Harris G., Hegerl G. C., Knutti R., Lenderink G., Lowe J., Nogherotto R., O’Reilly C., Qasmi S., Ribes A., Stocchi P., and Undorf S. (2020): Comparing methods to constrain future European climate projections using a consistent framework, J. Climate, PDF
Merrifield A. L., Brunner L., Lorenz R., Medhaug I., and Knutti R. (2020): An investigation of weighting schemes suitable for incorporating large ensembles into multi-model ensembles, Earth Syst. Dynam., PDF
Lehner F., Deser C., Maher N., Marotzke J., Fischer E. M., Brunner L., Knutti R., and Hawkins E. (2020): Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple Large Ensembles and CMIP5/6, Earth Syst. Dynam., PDF
Brunner L., Lorenz R., Zumwald M., and Knutti R. (2019): Quantifying uncertainty in European climate projections using combined performance-independence weighting, Eniron. Res. Lett., PDF
Brunner L., Schaller N., Anstey J., Sillmann J., and Steiner A. K. (2018): Dependence of present and future European temperature extremes on the location of atmospheric, Geophys. Res. Lett., PDF
Unterberger C., Brunner L., Nabernegg S., Steininger K., Steiner A. K., Stabentheiner E., Monschein S., and Truhetz H. (2018): Spring frost risk for regional apple production under a warmer climate, PLoS ONE, PDF
Brunner L. and Steiner A. K. (2017): A global perspective on atmospheric blocking using GPS radio occultation - one decade of observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., PDF
Brunner L., Hegerl G. C., and Steiner A. K. (2017): Connecting atmospheric blocking to European temperature extremes in spring, J. Climate, PDF
Brunner L., Steiner A. K., Scherllin-Pirscher B., and Jury M. W. (2016): Exploring atmospheric blocking with GPS radio occultation observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., PDF
Other
Brunner L., Hauser M., Lorenz R., and Beyerle U. (2020): The ETH Zurich CMIP6 next generation archive: technical documentation, PDF
Brunner L. (2018): A new perspective on atmopsheric blocking from observations – detection, analysis, and impacts (PhD thesis), Wegener Center Verlag Graz, PDF
Mohankumar S. E. P., Mintz-Woo K., Damert M., Brunner L., and Eise J. (2018): Blogging Climate Change: A Case Study, In: Addressing the Challenges in Communication Climate Change Across Various Audiences, PDF
Brunner L. (2014): Stratospheric ozone and temperature evolution over the past decades (Master’s thesis), Wegener Center Verlag Graz, PDF