Christoph Schär
Impact in
- Atmospheric Science top 0.02%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Climate variability and models
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Papers in
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- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 158
- Cryospheric studies and observations 41
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 19
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- Climate variability and models 185
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 32
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds 26
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 25
- Co-authors
- Daniel LüthiChristoph FreiErich FischerSonia I. SeneviratnePier Luigi VidaleNikolina BanMark A. LinigerChristof Appenzeller
- Journals
- Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (20 papers)Journal of Climate (16 papers)Climate Dynamics (16 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (16 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (12 papers)
- Partner nations
- SwitzerlandUnited StatesGermany
In The Last Decade
Christoph Schär
229 papers receiving 21.6k citations
Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 162
- Atmospheric Science 15.8k
- Global and Planetary Change 17.8k
- Water Science and Technology 2.7k
- Environmental Engineering 2.5k
- Oceanography 1.4k
Countries citing papers authored by Christoph Schär
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Fields of papers citing papers by Christoph Schär
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Christoph Schär, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025 | 3 | |
| 2 | 2024 | 1 | |
| 3 | 2024 | 1 | |
| 4 | 2024 | 6 | |
| 5 | 2023 | 29 | |
| 6 | 2021 | 1 | |
| 7 | 2019 | 26 | |
| 8 | 2019 | 148 | |
| 9 | 2018 | 51 | |
| 10 | 2018 | 27 | |
| 11 | Scaling and Intensification of Extreme Precipitation in High-Resolution Climate Change Simulations | 2017 | 1 |
| 12 | 2017 | 105 | |
| 13 | Regional climate models reduce biases of global models and project smaller European summer warming | 2017 | 2 |
| 14 | Verification of ECMWF monthly forecasts for the use in hydrological predictions | 2016 | 1 |
| 15 | Earth radiation balance as observed and represented in CMIP5 models | 2014 | 1 |
| 16 | The energy balance over land and sea: An assessment based on direct observations and CMIP5 models | 2014 | 3 |
| 17 | Towards Cloud-Resolving European-Scale Climate Simulations using a fully GPU-enabled Prototype of the COSMO Regional Model | 2014 | 1 |
| 18 | The Earth’s radiation balance and its representation in CMIP5 models | 2013 | 1 |
| 19 | The Evolution of Mountain Permafrost in Switzerland | 2013 | 1 |
| 20 | Evaluation of the Cloud-resolving climate simulation driven by the ERA-Interim | 2012 | 1 |
About Christoph Schär
Christoph Schär is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Oceanography and Environmental Engineering, having authored 231 papers that have together received 22.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (185 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (158 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (41 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (32 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (26 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (25 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (23 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (15.8k citations), Global and Planetary Change (17.8k citations), Water Science and Technology (2.7k citations), Environmental Engineering (2.5k citations) and Oceanography (1.4k citations). Christoph Schär has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Daniel Lüthi, Christoph Frei, Erich Fischer, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Pier Luigi Vidale, Nikolina Ban, Mark A. Liniger, Christof Appenzeller, Sven Kotlarski and Cathy Hohenegger. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.
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