Publications

Latest publications

Stucki, P., L. Pfister, Y. Brugnara, R. Varga, C. Hari and S. Brönnimann (2024): Dynamical downscaling and data assimilation for a cold-air outbreak in the European Alps during the Year Without a Summer of 1816, Clim. Past, 20, 2327–2348, doi: 10.5194/cp-20-2327-2024.

Burger, M., M. Gubler, A. Holtmann and S. Brönnimann (2024): Spoilt for choice-Intercomparison of four different urban climate models. Urban Climate, 58, 102166. doi: 10.1016/j.uclim.2024.102166

Brönnimann, S. (2024): Topografie und Klima. In: Institut für Kulturforschung Graubünden und Staatsarchiv Kanton Graubünden (Hrsg) Atlas zur Geschichte Graubündens 1524–2024, hier und jetzt, Zürich, S. 18-21, open access: https://kulturforschung.ch/storage/atlasgr/seiten/02_topografie_klima.pdf.

Pfister, C., S. Brönnimann, A. Altwegg, R. Brázdil, L. Litzenburger, D. Lorusso and T. Pliemon (2024): 600 years of wine must quality and April to August temperatures in Western Europe 1420–2019. Clim. Past, 20, 1387–1399. doi: 10.5194/cp-20-1387-2024.

Brönnimann S., Y. Brugnara, A. Burgdorf, J. Franke, R. Hand, L. Lipfert, E. Lundstad, E. Samakinwa and V. Valler (2024): A palaeo-reanalysis of global monthly 3D climate since 1421 CE. PAGES News, 32(1), 42-43, doi:10.22498/pages.32.1.42.

Brönnimann, S. (2024): Licht-Blicke. Hundert Jahre Messung der Ozonschicht. Physik in unserer Zeit, 55, 116-121, doi: 10.1002/piuz.202470301.

Brönnimann, S., Y. Brugnara and C. Wilkinson (2024): Early 20th century Southern Hemisphere cooling. Clim. Past, 20, 757–767, doi: 10.5194/cp-20-757-2024.

Nussbaumer, S.U., and H.J. Zumbühl (2023): The Glacier Views of Jean-Antoine Linck – A Milestone for the Mont Blanc Glacier History from the 18th to the 19th Century. Journal of Alpine Research 111-2, doi: 10.4000/rga.12235

Nussbaumer, S.U., and H.J. Zumbühl (2024): L’iconographie des fluctuations glaciaires dans les Alpes occidentales et centrales au XVIIIe siècle. La Météorologie 124, 24-34. doi: 10.37053/lameteorologie-2024-0010 (not open access)

Luterbacher, J., R. Allan, C. Wilkinson, E. Hawkins, P. Teleti, D. Lorrey, P. Hechler and S. Brönnimann (2024): The importance and scientific value of long weather and climate records; the example of global historical marine data. Climate, 12, 39. doi: 10.3390/cli12030039

Lipfert, L., R. Hand and S. Brönnimann (2024): A global assessment of heatwaves since 1850 in different observational and model data sets. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106212. doi: 10.1029/2023GL106212 

Wellinger, N., M. Gubler, F. Müller, Flurina and S. Brönnimann, (2024): GIS-based revision of a WUDAPT Local Climate Zones map of Bern, Switzerland. City and Environment Interactions, 21, doi: 10.1016/j.cacint.2023.100135

Burger, M., M. Gubler and S. Brönnimann (2024): High- resolution dataset of nocturnal air temperatures in Bern, Switzerland (2007–2022). Geoscience Data Journal, 00, 1–15. doi: 10.1002/gdj3.237.

Brugnara, Y. and S. Brönnimann (2023): Revisiting the early instrumental temperature records of Basel and Geneva. Meteorol. Z., 32, 513-527, doi: 10.1127/metz/2023/1191.

Brönnimann, S. (2023): Die Berner Geographische Gesellschaft feiert. GeoAgenda 2023/4, pp. 36-41.

Brugnara, Y., S. Brönnimann, S. Grab, J. Steinkopf, A.-M. Burgdorf, C. Wilkinson and R. Allan (2023): South African extreme weather during the 1877-78 El Niño. Weather 78, 286-293. doi: 10.1002/wea.4468  

Lundstad, E., Y. Brugnara, D. Pappert, J. Kopp, A. Hürzeler, A. Andersson, B. Chimani, R. Cornes, G. Demarée, J. Filipiak, L. Gates, G.L. Ives, J.M. Jones, S. Jourdain, A. Kiss, S.E. Nicholson, R. Przybylak, P. Jones, D. Rousseau, B. Tinz, F.S. Rodrigo, S. Grab, F. Domínguez-Castro, V. Slonosky, J. Cooper, M. Brunet and S. Brönnimann (2023): Global historical climate database - HCLIM. Scientific Data, 10, 44 (2023). doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01919-w             

Brönnimann, S. (2023): Zollikofen, 1000 m ü. M. In: Klauser, F., S. Landolt, M. Müller und I. Schoepfer (Hrsg.), In 30 Tagen durch die Schweiz. Helvetiq, Basel, pp. 35-39.

Erdmann, D. and S. Brönnimann (2023): Humboldts Wetterwerkstatt. Die Anfänge der modernen Klimaforschung. Haupt, Bern. 240 pp. (Open Access: https://www.haupt.ch/apps-e-books/e-books/humboldts-wetterwerkstatt-open-access-ausgabe.html)

Hand, R., E. Samakinwa, L. Lipfert, and S. Brönnimann (2023) ModE-Sim – A medium size AGCM ensemble to study climate variability during the past 600 years. Geoscientific Model Development, 16, 4853–4866. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4853-2023

Brönnimann, S. and Y. Brugnara (2023): The weather diaries of the Kirch family: Leipzig, Guben, and Berlin, 1677-1774. Climate of the Past, 19, 1435-1445. doi: 10.5194/cp-19-1435-2023

Brönnimann, S. and M. Claussen (2023): Zur Aktualität von Humboldts Klimaforschung. Geleitwort. In: Nehrlich, T., and M. Strobl (Eds.) Ueber die Hauptursachen der Temperatur-Verschiedenheit auf dem Erdkörper. Schriften zum Klima. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, pp. 9-28

Brönnimann, S. (2023): The weather diary of Georg Christoph Eimmart for Nuremberg, 1695-1704. Climate of the Past, 19, 1345–1357. doi: 10.5194/cp-19-1345-2023

Burgdorf, A.-M., Brönnimann, S., Adamson, G., Amano, T., Aono, Y., Barriopedro, D., Bullon, T., Camenisch, C., Camuffo, D., Daux, V., del Rosario Prieto, M., Dobrovolny, P., Gallego, D.,  Garcia-Herrera, R., Gergis, J., Grab, S., Hannaford, M. J., Holopainen, J., Kelso, C., Kern, Z., Kiss, A., Lin Kuan-Hui, E., Loader, N. J., Mozny, M., Nash, D., Nicholson, S. E., Pfister, C., Rodrigo, F. S., Rutishauser, T., Sharma, S., Takacs, K., Vargas, E. T. and Vega, I. (2023): DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions. Scientific Data, 10, 402, doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02303-y, data link: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/207

Wegmann, M. and Jaume-Santero, F. (2023): Artificial intelligence achieves easy-to-adapt nonlinear global temperature reconstructions using minimal local data. Commun Earth Environ 4, 217. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00872-9

Wilson, N., Valler, V., Cassidy, M., Boyd, M., Mani, L. and Brönnimann, S. (2023): Impact of the Tambora Volcanic Eruption of 1815 on Islands and Relevance to Future Sunlight-Blocking Catastrophes. Scientific Reports, 13, 3649, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-30729-2.

Buchmann, M., Resch, G., Begert, M., Brönnimann, S., Chimani, B., Schöner, W., and Marty, C. (2023): The benefits of homogenising snow depth series – Impacts on decadal trends and extremes for Switzerland, The Cryosphere, 17, 653–671, doi: 10.5194/tc-17-653-2023

Brönnimann, S. (2022): Wetter „made“ in Aarau. FOKUS - Mitteilungen der Aargauischen Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 2/2022, 28-35. https://scnat.ch/de/uuid/i/6c669f00-d504-5da8-984f-a5371584906a-ANG_Fokus_22022

Brönnimann, S. (2023): Evolution of total column ozone prior to the era of ozone depletion. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1079510, doi:10.3389/feart.2023.1079510.