Publications

I have published 19 peer-reviewed articles, which have been cited more than 1000 times according to Google Scholar. My h-index is 15. 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

• Brunner L., Ghosh R., Haimberger L., Hohenegger C., Putrasahan D., Rackow T., Knutti R., and Voigt A. (in preparation): Toward Digital Twins of Earth: Tracing three decades of climate model improvements
• Nguyen V., Vorogushyn S., Nissen K., Brunner L., and Merz B. (under review): A non-stationary climate-informed weather generator for assessing of future flood risks, Adv. Stat. Climatol. Meteorol. Oceanogr.
• Sobolowski S. et al. including Brunner L. (under review): EURO-CORDEX CMIP6 GCM Selection & Ensemble Design: Best Practices and Recommendations, BAMS

Peer-reviewed

• 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

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