Publications
For a summary of my activity as reviewer you can have a look at Web of Science.
Preprint
Merrifield A. L., Brunner L., Lorenz R., Humphrey V., and Knutti R. (in review): CMIP subselection by performance, independence, and climatic mean state change spread for regional applicationse, Geosci. Model Dev. Diss., PDF
Palmer T. E., McSweeney C.F., Booth B. B. B., Priestley M. D. K., Davini P., Brunner L., Borchert L., and Menary M. B. (accepted): Performance based sub-selection of CMIP6 models for impact assessments in Europe, Earth Syst. Dynam. Diss., PDF
Brunner L. and Sippel S. (in review): Separation of climate models and observations based on daily output using machine learning, submitted to Env. Data Sci. / available on EarthArXiv, PDF
Peer-reviewed
Uncertainties in future climate
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
Atmospheric blocking and temperature extremes
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
Supervision
- Horat, N. (2021): Why does interannual precipitation variability change in a warming climate? - spatial structure and underlying mechanisms (Master’s thesis; co-supervision with Flavio Lehner)
- Gimmi, L. (2020): Assessing climate model uncertainties – an encounter with CMIP6 (Bachelor thesis)
- Hirsig, A. (2019): Changes in northern hemisphere blocking occurrence under 2×CO2 based on CESM (Bachelor thesis)