Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schemm

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Publications high-resolution modeling:

• Toward eliminating the decades‐old “too zonal and too equatorward” storm‐track bias in climate models
  Schemm, S.
  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2022MS003482, doi: 10.1029/2022MS003482. [Editor Highlight; EOS.org]

• Quantifying the circulation induced by convective clouds in kilometer‐scale simulations
  A. Oertel, and S. Schemm.
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 147, 1752–1766, doi: 10.1002/qj.3992. [Featured Article]

Publications on storm tracks and seasonal variability:

• Storm track response to uniform global warming downstream of an idealized sea surface temperature front
  Schemm, S., L. Papritz; G. Rivière
  Weather and Climate Dynamics, 3, 601–623, doi: 10.5194/wcd-2-55-2021

• The storm-track suppression over the western North Pacific from a cyclone life-cycle perspective
  Schemm, S., H. Wernli, and H. Binder.
  Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2, 55–69, doi: 10.5194/wcd-2-55-2021

• On the efficiency of baroclinic eddy groth and how it reduces the North Pacific storm track intensity in midwinter.
  Schemm, S., and G. Rivière.
  Journal of Climate, 32, 8373–8398, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-0115.1.

• Extratropical cyclogenesis changes in connection with tropospheric ENSO teleconnections to the North Atlantic: Role of stationary and transient waves.
  Schemm, S., G. Rivière. L. M. Ciasto, and C. Li (2018)
  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 75, 3943–3964, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0340.1.
  [ENSO North Atlantic Teleconnection: Jet anomalies, synoptic cyclones, extratropical cyclogenesis anomalies]

• Eddy lifetime, number, and diffusivity and the suppression of eddy kinetic energy in midwinter
  Schemm, S., and T. Schneider (2018)
  Journal of Climate, 31, 5649–5665, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-17-0644.1.
  [Storm track perspectives: EKE, cyclone frequencies and jet stream]

• Influence of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature on the genesis of Gulf Stream cyclones
  Schemm, S., L. M. Ciasto, C. Li, and N. Kvamstø (2016)
  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, 4203–4214, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-16-0072.1

Publications on extratropical cyclones:

• The life cycle of upper-level troughs and ridges: a novel detectionmethod, climatologies and Lagrangian characteristics
  Schemm, S., S. Rüdisühli and M. Sprenger (2020)
  Weather and Climate Dynamics, 1, 459–479, 2020., doi:10.5194/wcd-1-459-2020.

• The Role of Secondary Cyclones and Cyclone Families for the North Atlantic Storm Track and Clustering over Western Europe
  Priestley, M.D.K, H. F. Dacre, L. C. Shaffrey, S. Schemm, and J. G. Pinto (2020)
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146: 1184–1205., doi:10.1002/qj.3733.

• Regional trends in weather systems help explain Antarctic sea ice trends
  Schemm, S. (2018)
  Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 7165–7175, doi:10.1029/2018GL079109.
  [GRL Cover]

• When during their life cycle are extratropical cyclones attended by fronts?
  Schemm, S., M. Sprenger, and H. Wernli (2018)
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99, 149–165, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0261.1.
  [BAMS Cover]

• The Linkage between the Warm and the Cold Conveyor Belts in an Idealized Extratropical Cyclone
  Schemm, S., and H. Wernli (2014)
  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, 1443–1459, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0177.1.
  [Animation][Schematic]

• Warm Conveyor Belts in Idealized Moist Baroclinic Wave Simulations
  Schemm, S., H. Wernli, and L. Papritz (2013)
  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 627–652, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0147.1.
  [Animation]

Publications on weather fronts:

• Assigning precipitation to mid-latitudes fronts on sub-daily scales in the North Atlantic and European sector: Climatology and trends
  Riccardo, H., R. Alexandre, S. Schemm, C. Gouveia, and M. Liberato (2018)
  International Journal of Climatology, accepted, doi:10.1002/joc.5808.

• Increase in the number of extremely strong fronts over Europe? A study based on ERA-Interim reanalysis (1979–2014)
  Schemm, S., M. Sprenger, O. Martius, H. Wernli and M. Zimmer (2017)
  Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 553–561, doi:10.1002/2016GL071451.
  [Research Highlight Nature Climate Change][SNF Horizonte 113]

• On the link between cold fronts and hail in Switzerland
  Schemm, S., L. Nisi, A. Martynov, D. Leuenberger, and O. Martius (2016)
  Atmospheric Science Letters, 17, 315–325, doi:10.1002/asl.660 .

• Extratropical fronts in the lower troposphere–global perspectives obtained from two automated methods
  Schemm, S., I. Rudeva, and I. Simmonds (2015)
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141, 1686–1698, doi:10.1002/qj.2471.

• Frontal-wave cyclogenesis in the North Atlantic -a climatological characterisation
  Schemm, S., and M. Sprenger (2015)
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141, 2989–3005, doi:10.1002/qj.2584.

Other peer-reviewed publications:

• A severe hail storm in complex topography in Switzerland - Observations and processes
  S. Trefalt, A. Martynov, H. Barras, N. Besic, A. M. Hering, S. Lenggenhager, P. Noti, M. Röthlisberger, S. Schemm, U. Germann, O. Martius (2018)
  Atmospheric Research, 209, 76–94, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.03.007.

• Nowcasting Foehn Wind Events Using the AdaBoost Machine Learning Algorithm
  Sprenger, M., S. Schemm, R. Oechslin, and J. Jenkner (2017)
  Weather and Forecasting, 32, 1079–1099, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-16-0208.1.

• Global climatologies of Eulerian and Lagrangian flow features based on ERA-Interim reanalyses
  Sprenger, M., G. Fragkoulidis, H. Binder, M. Croci-Maspoli, P. Graf, C.M. Grams, P. Knippertz, E. Madonna, S. Schemm, B. Škerlak, and H. Wernli (2017)
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98, 1739–1748, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00299.1.

• Development of an idealised downstream cyclone: Eulerian and Lagrangian perspective on the kinetic energy
  L. Papritz and S. Schemm (2013)
  Tellus A, 65, doi:10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.19539.

• The role of upper-level dynamics and surface processes for the Pakistan flood of July 2010
  O. Martius, H. Sodemann, H. Joos, S. Pfahl, A. Winschall, M. Croci-Maspoli, M. Graf, E. Madonna, B. Mueller, S. Schemm, J. Sedláček, M. Sprenger, and H. Wernli (2012)
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 139, 553–561, doi:10.1002/qj.2082.

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