DEUTSCH

Klaus Fraedrich

Department Climate Physics
Group Climate Physics Coordination
Position Guest
phone +49 40 41173-382
Email klaus.fraedrich@mpimet.mpg.de
Room S 1.01

Biography and Research

Klaus Fraedrich

is guest scientist at the Max Planck Insitute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany.

His prior affiliations include: Professor at University of Hamburg, Freie Universität Berlin, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (all in Germany); visiting Professor at the Universities of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), Washington (Seattle, USA), Wisconsin (Madison, USA), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (China), Head of Long-Range Weather Forecasting Research, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (Melbourne, Australia); and Postdoc at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, USA), visiting researcher in South America (Venezuela) and in Africa (East African Meteorology Department in Nairobi, Kenya).

He has received awards including the Lewis Frey Richardson Medal (European Geophysical Union), Alfred Wegener Medal (Germany), Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize (France-Germany), Max Planck Research Prize (Germany), Max Planck Fellowship (Germany), Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Hamburg).

His research interests span across regional climates, nonlinear systems analysis and predictability, weather dynamics of tropics and extratropics, building of a user-friendly and open access GCM hierarchy, and climate dynamics and variability, attribution and causality.

Publications

  • Feng, Y., Du, S., Fraedrich, K., Zhang, X., Du, M. & Cheng, W. (2024). Local climate regionalization of the Tibetan Plateau: A data-driven scale-dependent analysis. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. doi:10.1007/s00704-024-04916-8
  • Xu, J., Wu, H., Zhi, X., Koldunov , N., Zhang, X., Xu, Y., Zhang, Y., Guo, M., Kong, L. & Fraedrich, K. (2024). Validation of multisource altimeter SWH measurements for climate data analysis in China's offshore waters. Remote Sensing, 16: 2162. doi:10.3390/rs16122162 [publisher-version]
  • Zhao, Y., Feng, Y., Du, M. & Fraedrich, K. (2024). Annual and seasonal dynamics of CO2 emissions in major cities of China (2019-2022). ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information / International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 13: 181. doi:10.3390/ijgi13060181 [publisher-version]
  • Cai , D., Fraedrich, K., Sielmann, F., Zhu, S. & Yu, L. (2023). Attribution and causality analyses of regional climate variability. Land, 12: 817. doi:10.3390/land12040817 [publisher-version]
  • Cao, C., Sun, R., Wu, Z., Chen, B., Yang, C., Li, Q. & Fraedrich, K. (2023). Streamflow response to climate and land-use changes in a tropical island basin. Sustainability. doi:10.3390/su151813941 [publisher-version]
  • Deng, R., Guan, Y., Cai, D., Yang, T., Fraedrich, K., Zhang, C., Tang, J., Liao, Z., Wei, Z. & Guo, S. (2023). Supervised versus semi-supervised urban functional area prediction: uncertainty, robustness and sensitivity. Remote Sensing, 15: 341. doi:10.3390/rs15020341 [publisher-version]
  • Dong, F., Zhi, X., Zhu, S., Zhang, L., Ge, F., Fan, Y., Lyu, Y., Wang, J. & Fraedrich, K. (2023). Principal modes of diurnal cycle of rainfall over South China during the presummer rainy season. Journal of Climate, 36, 2457-2470. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0284.1 [publisher-version]
  • Fang, X., Li, Z., Cheng, C., Fraedrich, K., Wang, A., Chen, Y., Xu, Y. & Lyu, S. (2023). Response of freezing/thawing indexes to the wetting trend under warming climate conditions over the Qinghai -Tibetan Plateau during 1961–2010: A numerical simulation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 40, 211-222. doi:10.1007/s00376-022-2109-z [publisher-version]
  • Fang, X., Chen, Y., Cheng, C., Wang, Z., Lyu, S. & Fraedrich, K. (2023). Changes of timing and duration of the ground surface freeze on the Tibetan Plateau in the highly wetting period from 1998 to 2021. Climatic Change, 176: 59. doi:10.1007/s10584-023-03541-0
  • Fang, X., Wang, A., Lyu, S. & Fraedrich, K. (2023). Dynamics of freezing/thawing indices and frozen ground from 1961 to 2010 on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing, 15: 3478. doi:10.3390/rs15143478 [publisher-version]
  • Huang, S., Yu, L., Cai, D., Zhu, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, Z., Nie, Y. & Fraedrich, K. (2023). Driving mechanisms of urbanization: Evidence from geographical, climatic, social-economic and nighttime light data. Ecological Indicators, 148: 110046. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110046 [publisher-version]
  • Roca-Flores, E., Naumis, G., Madrigal-Solis, E., Fraedrich, K. & Torres, E. (2023). Hurricane season complexity: The case of North-Atlantic tropical cyclones. International Journal of Modern Physics C: 2350151. doi:10.1142/S0129183123501516
  • Sun, X., Ge, F., Chen, Q., Fraedrich, K. & Li, X. (2023). How striking Is the intergenerational difference in exposure to compound heatwaves over Southeast Asia?. Earth's Future, 11: e2022EF003179. doi:10.1029/2022EF003179 [publisher-version]
  • Xu, J., Wu, H., Xu, Y., Koldunov, N., Zhang, X., Kong, L., Xu, M., Fraedrich, K. & Zhi, X. (2023). Validation of Nadir SWH and its variance characteristics from CFOSAT in China’s offshore waters. Remote Sensing, 15: 1005. doi:10.3390/rs15041005 [publisher-version]
  • Xu, J., Zhi, X., Sein, D., Cabos, W., Luo, Y., Zhang, L., Dong, F., Fraedrich, K. & Jacob, D. (2023). Predictability of coastal boundary layer jets in South China using atmosphere–ocean coupling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128: e2023JD039184. doi:10.1029/2023JD039184
  • Cai, D., Yu, L., Zhu, J., Fraedrich, K., Guan, Y., Sielmann, F., Zhang, C. & Yu, M. (2022). The shrinkage of Lake Lop Nur in the twentieth century: A comprehensive ecohydrological analysis. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 23, 1245-1255. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-21-0217.1 [publisher-version]
  • Feng, Y., Du, S., Fraedrich, K. & Zhang, X. (2022). Fine-grained climate classification for the Qaidam Basin. Atmosphere, 13: 913. doi:10.3390/atmos13060913 [publisher-version]
  • Roca-Flores, E., Naumis, G., Madrigal-Solis, E. & Fraedrich, K. (2022). Typhoon complexity: Northwest Pacific tropical cyclone season complex systems analysis. International Journal of Modern Physics C: available online. doi:10.1142/S0129183123500456
  • Zhang, L., Shi, R., Fraedrich, K. & Zhu, X. (2022). Enhanced joint effects of ENSO and IOD on Southeast China winter precipitation after 1980s. Climate Dynamics, 58, 277-297. doi:10.1007/s00382-021-05907-5
  • Ge, F., Zhu, S., Sielmann, F., Fraedrich, K., Zhu, X., Zhang, L., Zhi, X. & Wang, H. (2021). Precipitation over Indochina during the monsoon transition: modulation by Indian Ocean and ENSO regimes. Climate Dynamics, 57, 2491-2504. doi:10.1007/s00382-021-05817-6
  • Shao, Y., Fraedrich, K. & Ishizuka, M. (2021). Modelling soil moisture in hyper-arid conditions. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 179, 169-186. doi:10.1007/s10546-020-00596-9 [publisher-version]
  • Sun, R., Wu, Z., Lan, G., Yang, C. & Fraedrich, K. (2021). Effects of rubber plantations on soil physicochemical properties on Hainan Island, China. Journal of Environmental Quality, 50, 1351-1363. doi:10.1002/jeq2.20282 [publisher-version]
  • Sun, R., Zhang, X., Fraedrich, K. & You, Q. (2021). CMIP5 climate projections for the Yamzhog Yumco Basin: an environmental testbed for alpine lakes. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 143, 795-808. doi:10.1007/s00704-020-03451-6
  • Fiedler, S., Crueger, T., D'Agostino, R., Peters, K., Becker, T., Leutwyler, D., Paccini, L., Burdanowitz, J., Buehler, S., Uribe, A., Dauhut, T., Dommenget, D., Fraedrich, K., Jungandreas, L., Maher, N., Naumann, A., Rugenstein, M., Sakradzija, M., Schmidt, H., Sielmann, F., Stephan, C., Timmreck, C., Zhu , X. & Stevens, B. (2020). Simulated tropical precipitation assessed across three major phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Monthly Weather Review, 148, 3653-3680. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-19-0404.1 [publisher-version][supplementary-material]
  • Lei, Y., Zhang, F., Miao, L., Yu, Q.-R., Duan, M., Fraedrich, K. & Yu, Z. (2020). Potential impacts of future reduced aerosols on internal dynamics characteristics of precipitation based on model simulations over southern China. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications: Art.-No. 123808. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.123808
  • Sun, R., Wu, Z., Chen, B., Yang, C., Qi, D., Lan, G. & Fraedrich, K. (2020). Effects of land-use change on eco-environmental quality in Hainan Island, China. Ecological Indicators, 109: 105777. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105777
  • Zhu, S., Remedio, A., Sein, D., Sielmann, F., Ge, F., Xu, J., Peng, T., Jacob, D., Fraedrich, K. & Zhi, X. (2020). Added value of the regionally coupled model ROM in the East Asian summer monsoon modeling. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 140, 375-387. doi:10.1007/s00704-020-03093-8
  • Zhu, S., Ge, F., Fan, Y., Zhang, L., Sielmann, F., Fraedrich, K. & Zhi, X. (2020). Conspicuous temperature extremes over Southeast Asia: seasonal variations under 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming. Climatic Change, 160, 343-360. doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02640-1
  • Cai, D., Fraedrich, K., Guan, Y., Guo, S., Zhang, C. & Zhu, X. (2019). Urbanization and climate change: Insights from eco-hydrological diagnostics. Science of the Total Environment, 647, 29-36. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.319
  • Cai, D., Fraedrich, K., Guan, Y., Guo, S., Zhang, C., Carvalho, L. & Zhu, X. (2019). Causality of biodiversity loss: Climate, vegetation, and urbanization in China and America. Sensors, 19: 4499. doi:10.3390/s19204499 [publisher-version]
  • Cai, D., Fraedrich, K., Guan, Y., Guo, S., Zhang, C., Sun, R. & Wu, Z. (2019). Remote sensing greenness and urbanization in ecohydrological model analysis: Asia and Australasia (1982-2015). Sensors, 19: 4693. doi:10.3390/s19214693 [publisher-version]
  • Ge, F., Peng, T., Fraedrich, K., Sielmann, F., Zhu, X., Zhi, X., Liu, X., Tang, W. & Zhao, P. (2019). Assessment of trends and variability in surface air temperature on multiple high-resolution datasets over the Indochina Peninsula. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 135, 1609-1627. doi:10.1007/s00704-018-2457-x
  • Ge, F., Zhu , S., Peng, T., Zhao, Y., Sielmann, F., Fraedrich, K., Zhi, X., Liu, X., Tang, W. & Ji, L. (2019). Risks of precipitation extremes over Southeast Asia: does 1.5 degrees °C or 2 degrees °C global warming make a difference?. Environmental Research Letters, 14: 044015. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aaff7e [publisher-version]
  • Ji, L., Zhi, X., Zhu, S. & Fraedrich, K. (2019). Probabilistic precipitation forecasting over East Asia using Bayesian model averaging. Weather and Forecasting, 34, 377-392. doi:10.1175/WAF-D-18-0093.1 [publisher-version]
  • Song, B., Zhi, X., Pan, M., Hou, M., He, C. & Fraedrich, K. (2019). Turbulent heat flux reconstruction in the north Pacific from 1921 to 2014. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 97, 893-911. doi:10.2151/jmsj.2019-050 [publisher-version]
  • Xu , J., Koldunov, N., Remedio, A., Sein, D., Rechid, D., Zhi, X., Jiang, X., Xu, M., Zhu, X., Fraedrich, K. & Jacob, D. (2019). Downstream effect of Hengduan Mountains on East China in the REMO regional climate model. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 135, 1641-1658. doi:10.1007/s00704-018-2721-0
  • Holden, P., Edwards, N., Ridgwell, A., Wilkinson, R., Fraedrich, K., Lunkeit, F., Pollitt, H., Mercure, J.-F., Salas, P., Lam, A., Knobloch, F., Chewpreecha, U. & Viñuales, J. (2018). Climate–carbon cycle uncertainties and the Paris Agreement. Nature Climate Change, 8, 609-613. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0197-7
  • Mikolajewicz, U., Ziemen, F., Cioni, G., Claussen, M., Fraedrich, K., Heidkamp, M., Hohenegger, C., Jiménez de la Cuesta, D., Kapsch, M.-L., Lemburg, A., Mauritsen, T., Meraner, K., Röber, N., Schmidt, H., Six, K., Stemmler, I., Tamarin-Brodsky, T., Winkler, A., Zhu, X. & Stevens, B. (2018). The climate of a retrograde rotating earth. Earth System Dynamics, 9, 1191-1215. doi:10.5194/esd-9-1191-2018 [publisher-version]
  • Xu , J., Koldunov, N., Remedio, A., Sein, D., Zhi, X., Jiang, X., Xu, M., Zhu, X., Fraedrich, K. & Jacob, D. (2018). On the role of horizontal resolution over the Tibetan Plateau in the REMO regional climate model. Climate Dynamics, 51, 4525-4542. doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4085-7
  • Zhang, H., Werner, J., García-Bustamante, E., González-Rouco, F., Wagner, S., Zorita, E., Fraedrich, K., Jungclaus, J., Ljungqvist, F., Zhu, X., Xoplaki, E., Chen, F., Duan, J., Ge, Q., Hao, Z., Ivanov, M., Schneider, L., Talento, S., Wang, J., Yang, B. & Luterbacher, J. (2018). East Asian warm season temperature variations over the past two millennia. Scientific Reports, 8: 7702. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-26038-8 [publisher-version]
  • Zhang, X., Guo, S., Guan, Y., Cai, D., Zhang, C., Fraedrich, K., Xiao, H. & Tian, Z. (2018). Urbanization and spillover effect for three megaregions in China: Evidence from DMSP/OLS nighttime lights. Remote Sensing, 10: 1888. doi:10.3390/rs10121888 [publisher-version]
  • Cai, D., Fraedrich, K., Guan, Y., Guo, R. & Zhang, C. (2017). Urbanization and the thermal environment of Chinese and US-American cities. Science of the Total Environment, 589, 200-211. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.148
  • Cai, D., You, Q., Fraedrich, K. & Guan, Y. (2017). Spatiotemporal temperature variability over the Tibetan Plateau: Altitudinal dependence associated with the global warming hiatus. Journal of Climate, 30, 969-984. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0343.1 [publisher-version]
  • Ge, F., Sielmann, F., Zhu, X., Fraedrich, K., Zhi, X., Peng, T. & Wang, L. (2017). The link between Tibetan Plateau monsoon and Indian summer precipitation: a linear diagnostic perspective. Climate Dynamics, 49, 4201-4215. doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3585-1 [publisher-version]
  • Tao, H., Fischer, T., Su, B., Mao, W., Jiang, T. & Fraedrich, K. (2017). Observed changes in maximum and minimum temperatures in Xinjiang autonomous region, China. International Journal of Climatology, 37, 5120-5128. doi:10.1002/joc.5149
  • Zhang , L., Sielmann, F., Fraedrich, K. & Zhi, X. (2017). Atmospheric response to Indian Ocean dipole forcing: changes of Southeast China winter precipitation under global warming. Climate Dynamics, 48, 1467-1482. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3152-1
  • Zhang, F., Yang, P., Fraedrich, K., Zhou, X., Wang, G. & Li, J. (2017). Reconstruction of driving forces from nonstationary time series including stationary regions and application to climate change. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 473, 337-343. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2016.12.088
  • Zhang, F., Lei, Y., Yu, Q.-R., Fraedrich, K. & Iwabuchi, H. (2017). Causality of the drought in the southwestern United States based on observations. Journal of Climate, 30, 4891-4896. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0601.1 [publisher-version]
  • Bordi, I., Zhu, X. & Fraedrich, K. (2016). Precipitable water vapor and its relationship with the Standardized Precipitation Index: ground-based GPS measurements and reanalysis data. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 123, 263-275. doi:10.1007/s00704-014-1355-0
  • Borth, H., Tao, H., Fraedrich, K., Schneidereit, A. & Zhu, X. (2016). Hydrological extremes in the Aksu-Tarim River Basin : Mid-latitude dynamics. Climate Dynamics, 46, 2039-2050. doi:10.1007/s00382-015-2650-x [publisher-version]
  • Cai, D., Fraedrich, K., Sielmann, F., Guan, Y. & Guo, S. (2016). Land-cover characterization and aridity changes of South America (1982–2006): An attribution by ecohydrological diagnostics. Journal of Climate, 29, 8175-8189. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0024.1
  • Holden, P., Edwards, N., Fraedrich, K., Kirk, E., Lunkeit, F. & Zhu , X. (2016). PLASIM-GENIE v1.0: A new intermediate complexity AOGCM. Geoscientific Model Development, 9, 3347-3361. doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3347-2016 [publisher-version]
  • Lin, H., You, Q., Zhang, Y., Jiao, Y. & Fraedrich, K. (2016). Impact of large-scale circulation on the water vapour balance of the Tibetan Plateau in summer. International Journal of Climatology, 36, 4213-4221. doi:10.1002/joc.4626
  • Tao, H., Fischer, T., Zeng, Y. & Fraedrich, K. (2016). Evaluation of TRMM 3B43 precipitation data for drought monitoring in Jiangsu Province, China. Water (Switzerland), 8: 221. doi:10.3390/w8060221 [publisher-version]
  • You, Q., Jiang, Z., Bao, Y., Pepin, N. & Fraedrich, K. (2016). Trends in upper tropospheric water vapour over the Tibetan Plateau from remote sensing. International Journal of Climatology, 36, 4862-4872. doi:10.1002/joc.4674
  • Zhang, C., Cai, D., Guo, S., Guan, Y., Fraedrich, K., Nie, Y., Liu, X. & Bian, X. (2016). Spatial-temporal dynamics of China's terrestrial biodiversity: A dynamic habitat index diagnostic. Remote Sensing, 8: 227. doi:10.3390/rs8030227 [publisher-version]
  • Zhu, X., Bye, J., Fraedrich, K. & Bordi, I. (2016). Statistical structure of intrinsic climate variability under global warming. Journal of Climate, 29, 5935-5947. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0505.1 [publisher-version]
  • Bordi, I., De Boris, R., Fraedrich, K. & Sutera, A. (2015). Interannual variability patterns of the world’s total column water content: Amazon River basin. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 122, 441-455. doi:10.1007/s00704-014-1304-y
  • Cai, D., Fraedrich, K., Sielmann, F., Zhang, L., Zhu, X., Guo, S. & Guan, Y. (2015). Vegetation dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau (1982 to 2006): An attribution by eco-hydrological diagnostics. Journal of Climate, 28, 4576-4584. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00692.1 [publisher-version]
  • Fraedrich, K., Sielmann, F., Cai , D., Zhang , L. & Zhu, X. (2015). Validation of an ideal rainfall-runoff chain in a GCM environment. Water Resources Management, 29, 313-324. doi:10.1007/s11269-014-0703-2
  • Fraedrich, K. (2015). A minimalist model of terminal lakes: Qinghai Lake (China) and Lake Chad (N Africa). Hydrology Research, 46, 222-231. doi:10.2166/nh.2013.015
  • He, C., Zhi, X., You, Q., Song, B. & Fraedrich, K. (2015). Multi-model ensemble forecasts of tropical cyclones in 2010 and 2011 based on the Kalman Filter method. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 127, 467-479. doi:10.1007/s00703-015-0377-1
  • Hertwig, E., Lunkeit, F. & Fraedrich, K. (2015). Low-frequency climate variability of an aquaplanet. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 121, 459-478. doi:10.1007/s00704-014-1226-8
  • Orsolini, Y., Zhang, L., Peters, D., Fraedrich, K., Zhu, X., Schneidereit, A. & van den Hurk, B. (2015). Extreme precipitation events over north China in August 2010 and their link to eastward-propagating wave-trains across Eurasia: Observations and monthly forecasting. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141, 3097-3105. doi:10.1002/qj.2594
  • Tao, H., Borth, H., Fraedrich, K., Schneidereit, A. & Zhu, X. (2015). Hydrological extremes in the Aksu-Tarim River Basin and midlatitude atmospheric circulation: climatology and regime shift. Climate Dynamics, 46, 2029-2037. doi:10.1007/s00382-015-2649-3 [publisher-version]
  • Zhang, L., Fraedrich, K., Zhu, X., Sielmann, F. & Zhi, X. (2015). Interannual variability of winter precipitation in Southeast China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 119, 229-238. doi:10.1007/s00704-014-1111-5
  • Zhang Ling, L., Sielmann, F., Fraedrich, K., Zhu, X. & Zhi , X. (2015). Variability of winter extreme precipitation in Southeast China: contributions of SST anomalies. Climate Dynamics, 45, 2557-2570. doi:10.1007/s00382-015-2492-6
  • Zhang, W., Leung, Y. & Fraedrich, K. (2015). Different El Nino types and intense typhoons in the Western North Pacific. Climate Dynamics, 44, 2965-2977. doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2446-4
  • Barbini, L., Bordi, I. & Fraedrich, K. (2014). Stochastic resonance in the Benard system. The European Physical Journal Plus, 129: 190. doi:10.1140/epjp/i2014-14190-3
  • Blessing, S., Kaminski, T., Lunkeit, F., Matei, I., Giering, R., Köhl, A., Scholze, M., Herrmann, P., Fraedrich, K. & Stammer, D. (2014). Testing variational estimation of process parameters and initial conditions of an earth system model. Tellus Series A-Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 66: 22606. doi: 10.3402/tellusa.v66.22606 [publisher-version]
  • Cai, D., Fraedrich, K., Sielmann, F., Guan, Y., Guo, S., Zhang, L. & Zhu, X. (2014). Climate and vegetation: An ERA-Interim and GIMMS NDVI analysis. Journal of Climate, 27, 5111-5118. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00674.1
  • Cai, D., Guan , Y., Guo , S., Zhang , C. & Fraedrich, K. (2014). Mapping plant functional types over broad mountainous regions. Remote Sensing, 6, 3511-3532. doi:10.3390/rs6043511 [publisher-version]
  • Holden, P., Edwards, N., Garthwaite, P., Fraedrich, K., Lunkeit, F., Kirk, E., Labriet, M., Kanudia, A. & Babonneau, F. (2014). PLASIM-ENTSem v1.0: a spatio-temporal emulator of future climate change for impacts assessment. Geoscientific Model Development, 7, 433-451. doi:10.5194/gmd-7-433-2014 [publisher-version]
  • Tao, H., Fraedrich, K., Menz, C. & Zhai, J. (2014). Trends in extreme temperature indices in the Poyang Lake Basin, China. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 28, 1543-1553. doi:10.1007/s00477-014-0863-x
  • You , Q., Fraedrich, K., Min, J., Kang, S., Zhu, X., Pepin, N. & Zhang, L. (2014). Observed surface wind speed in the Tibetan Plateau since 1980 and its physical causes. International Journal of Climatology, 34, 1873-1882. doi:10.1002/joc.3807
  • You , Q., Fraedrich, K., Sielmann, F., Min, J., Kang, S., Ji, S., Zhu, X. & Ren, G. (2014). Present and projected degree days in China from observation, reanalysis and simulations. Climate Dynamics, 43, 1449-1462. doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1960-0
  • You, Q., Min, J., Fraedrich, K., Zhang, W., Kang, S., Zhang, L. & Meng, X. (2014). Projected trends in mean, maximum, and minimum surface temperature in China from simulations. Global and Planetary Change, 112 , 53-63. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.11.006
  • Zhang, L., Zhu, X., Fraedrich, K., Sielmann, F. & Zhi, X. (2014). Interdecadal variability of winter precipitation in Southeast China. Climate Dynamics, 43, 2239-2248. doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2048-1 [publisher-version]
  • Barbini, L., Bordi, I., Fraedrich, K. & Sutera, A. (2013). The stochastic resonance in a system of gradient type. The European Physical Journal C, 128. doi:10.1140/epjp/i2013-13013-5
  • Bathiany, S., Claussen, M. & Fraedrich, K. (2013). Detecting hotspots of atmosphere-vegetation interaction via slowing down. Part 1: A stochastic approach. Earth System Dynamics, 4, 63-78. doi:10.5194/esd-4-63-2013 [publisher-version]
  • Bathiany, S., Claussen, M. & Fraedrich, K. (2013). Detecting hotspots of atmosphere-vegetation interaction via slowing-down. Part 2: Applications to a global climate model. Earth System Dynamics, 4, 79-83. doi:10.5194/esd-4-79-2013 [publisher-version]
  • Bordi, I., Fraedrich, K., Sutera, A. & Zhu, X. (2013). Ground-based GPS measurements: time behavior from half-hour to years. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 115, 615-625. doi:10.1007/s00704-013-0923-z
  • Bordi, I., Fraedrich, K., Sutera, A. & Zhu, X. (2013). On the effect of decreasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Climate Dynamics, 40(3-4), 651-662. doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1581-z
  • Bye, J., Fraedrich, K., Schubert, S. & Zhu, X. (2013). The Changing Length of the Warming Period of the Annual Temperature Cycle in the High Latitudes Under Global Warming. Atmosphere-Ocean, 51, 309-318. doi:10.1080/07055900.2013.793594
  • Li, S., Xingyao, R., Yun, L., Zhengyu, L. & Fraedrich, K. (2013). Dynamic analogue initialization for ensemble forecasting. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 30, 1406-1420. doi:10.1007/s00376-012-2244-z
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This textbook gives a thorough introduction to the dynamics of weather. It provides readers with a basic understanding of the complex phenomena and their underlying processes. A rigorous mathematical derivation of all results and numerous figures are also included in the book to help illustrate and interpret weather maps, weather forecasts, atmospheric data and the output of atmospheric models.