Dr. Martin Wegmann

Scientific Staff

Climatology and Climate Impact Research

Phone
+41 31 684 88 68
E-Mail
martin.wegmann@unibe.ch
Postal Address
University of Bern
Institute of Geography
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Bern
  • Large-scale circulation changes
  • Seasonal prediction
  • Machine learning for climate reconstruction
  • Data Steward & Scientific Collaborator
    • Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
    • University of Bern
    • 2023 - present
  • Scientific Collaborator & Data Scientist
    • Limnology Center
    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
    • 2022 - 2023
  • SNSF Funded Researcher
    • Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
    • University of Bern
    • 2020 - 2022
  • Junior Professional Officer
    • World Weather Research Division
    • World Meteorological Organization, United Nations, Geneva
    • 2019 - 2020
  • PostDoc
    • Paleoclimate Dynamics, Climate Science Division
    • Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
    • 2018 - 2019
  • PostDoc
    • Institute for Environmental Geosciences (formerly LGGE, now IGE)
    • University of Grenoble
    • 2016 - 2017
  • PhD
    • Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
    • University of Bern
    • 2012 - 2015
  • Student Assistant
    • Institute of Geography, Climatology Group
    • University of Bern
    • 2011 - 2012
  • Master of Science
    • Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
    • University of Bern
    • 2010 - 2012
  • Student Assistant
    • Leibniz Institute of Economics Research (RWI), Essen
    • 2009 - 2010

Thöle, Lena M. and M. Wegmann (2024): Open climate science is brave climate science. Environ. Res. Lett. 19, 122001. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad893f.

Wegmann, M. & Broennimann, S. (2024). The potential of low-complexity data-driven seasonal climate prediction learned from Single Model Initial-condition Large Ensembles. In Preparation: Environmental Data Science

Wegmann, M., Wiersma, P., Bouffard, D., Pasche-Tofield, N., Runnalls, J. & Mariethoz, G. (2024). Filling gaps in high-resolution limnological time series: Applying QuickSampling to LéXPLORE data. In Preparation: Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Burgdorf, A., Wegmann, M., Broennimann, S. & Orsolini, Y. (2024). A 175-year perspective of interannual variability of the Indian summer monsoon onset in Mumbai and its drivers. In Preparation: Climate of the Past

Dufour, A., Wegmann, M., Zolina, O. & Gulev, S. (2023). Evidence of water cycle intensification over Siberia from a joint analysis of moisture transport and land hydrology. In Review: Environmental Research Letters

Ai, X., Thoele, L., Auderset, A., Schmitt, M., Moretti, S., Studer, A., Michel, E., Wegmann, M., Mazaud, A., Bijl, P., Sigman, D., Martinez-Garcia, A., and Jaccard, S.L. (2024): The southward migration of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current enhanced oceanic degassing of carbon dioxide during the last two deglaciations. Communications Earth & Environment 5, 58.

Wegmann, M. & Jaume-Santero, F. (2023). Artificial intelligence achieves easy-to-adapt nonlinear global temperature reconstructions using minimal local data. Communications Earth & Environment 4, 217.

Churakova, O.V., Porter, T.J., Zharkov, M.S., Fonti, M.V., Barinov, V.V., Tainyk, A.V., Kirdyanov, A.V., Knorre, A.A., Wegmann, M., Myglan, V.S., Siegwolf, R.T.W. & Saurer, M. (2023). Climate impacts on tree-ring stable isotopes across the Northern Hemispheric boreal zone. Science of the Total Environment, 870, 161644.

Sasgen, I., Salles, A., Wegmann, M., Wouters, B., Fettweis, X., Noel, B. & Beck, C. (2022). Arctic glaciers record wavier circumpolar winds. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 249-255.

Wegmann, M., Orsolini, Y., Weisheimer, A., Van den Hurk, B., & Lohmann, G. (2021). Impact of Eurasian autumn snow on the winter North Atlantic Oscillation in seasonal forecasts of the 20th century. Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 1245-1261.

Balting, D., Ionita, M., Wegmann, M., Helle, G., Schleser, G., Rimbu, N., Freund, M., Heinrich, I., Caldarescu, D. & Lohmann, G. (2021). Large-scale climate signals of a European oxygen isotope network from tree rings. Clim. Past, 17, 1005-1023.

Wegmann, M., Rohrer, M., Santolaria-Otin, M. & Lohmann, G. (2020). Eurasian autumn snow link to winter North Atlantic Oscillation strongest for Arctic warming periods. Earth Syst. Dynam., 11, 509-524.

Orsolini, Y., Wegmann, M., Dutra, E., Liu, B., Balsamo, G., Yang, K., de Rosnay, P., Zhu, C., Wang, W., & Senan, R. (2019). Evaluation of snow depth and snow-cover over the Tibetan Plateau in global reanalyses using in-situ and satellite remote sensing observations. The Cryosphere, 13, 2221-2239.

Wegmann, M., Dutra, E., Jacobi, H.W. & Zolina, O. (2018). Spring snow albedo feedback over Northern Eurasia: Comparing in-situ measurements with reanalysis products. The Cryosphere, 12(6), 1887-1898

Wegmann, M., Orsolini, Y. & Zolina, O. (2018). Warm Arctic - cold Siberia: comparing the recent and the early 20th-century Arctic warmings. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 025009.

Wegmann, M., Orsolini, Y., Dutra, E., Bulygina, O., Sterin, A. & Broennimann, S. (2017). Eurasian snow depth in long-term climate reanalyses. The Cryosphere, 11(2), 923-935.

Wegmann, M., Broennimann, S. & Compo, G.P. (2017). Tropospheric circulation during the early twentieth century Arctic warming. Climate Dynamics, 48, 2405.

Broennimann, S., Malik, A., Stickler, A., Wegmann, M., Raible, C. C., Muthers, … & Schmutz, W. (2016). Multidecadal variations of the effects of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on the climate system. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 15529-15543.

Raible, C. C., Broennimann, S., Auchmann, R., Brohan, P., Froelicher, T. L., Graf, … & Wegmann, M. (2016). Tambora 1815 as a test case for high impact volcanic eruptions. Earth system effects. WIREs Clim Change, 7, 569-589.

Wegmann, M., Orsolini, Y., Vazquez, M., Gimeno, L., Nieto, R., Bulygina, O., Jaiser, R., Handorf, D., Rinke, A, Dethloff, K. & Broennimann, S. (2015). Arctic moisture source for Eurasian snow cover variations in autumn. Environmental Research Letters, 10(5), 054015.

Wegmann, M., Broennimann, S., Bhend, J., Franke, J., Folini, D., Wild, M., & Luterbacher, J. (2014). Volcanic Influence on European Summer Precipitation through Monsoons: Possible Cause for Years without Summer. Journal of Climate, 27(10), 3683-3691.

Auchmann, R., Arfeuille, F., Wegmann, M., Franke, J., Barriendos, M., Prohom, M., … & Broennimann, S. (2013). Impact of volcanic stratospheric aerosols on diurnal temperature range in Europe over the past 200 years: Observations versus model simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118(16), 9064-9077.