Umweltmeteorologie Publikationen / Environmental meteorology publications¶
Prof. Dr. Sabine Undorf¶
P. Aglas-Leitner, Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Lukas Brunner, Sabine Undorf, F. Aglas- Leitner, Erich Fischer, and Daithi A. Stone. Recent extreme heatwaves are no match for future events. Nature Communications, 2026.
Audrey Brouillet, Matthias Menguel, and Sabine Undorf. Constructing damip-based detrended reanalyses for event attribution: design of the attrici-damip dataset. 2026. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-11290.
Asya Dimitrova, Rahel Laudien, Anna Dimitrova, Sabine Undorf, Jillian Waid, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Christoph Gornott, and Sabine Gabrysch. Attributing child undernutrition in burkina faso to climate change-induced crop yield losses. 2026. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8563300/v1.
Ulrike Proske, Lukas Brunner, Svenja Fischer, Lieke A. Melsen, Sabine Undorf, and Frida Bender. Which model do you choose? effects and drivers of climate model selection. 2026. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-3397.
Andreia Ribeiro, Kirsten Thonicke, Maik Billing, Werner von Bloh, Jakob Wessel, Sabine Undorf, Matthias Forkel, and Jakob Zscheischler. Sampling extreme wildfire events from lpjml-spitfire large ensemble simulations. 2026. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-10291.
Andreia F. S. Ribeiro, Maik Biling, Kirsten Thonicke, Werner von Bloh, Jakob Wessel, Sabine Undorf, Matthias Forkel, and Jakob Zscheischler. Ensemble-based global fire modeling as a tool to characterize extreme wildfire events. 2026. doi:10.5194/egusphere-2026-2952.
Paula Romanovska, Mark New, Christoph Gornott, Audrey Brouillet, and Sabine Undorf. Source attribution: from national emissions to global loss in working hours due to climate-change increased heat. 2026. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-21503.
Margaret Shanafield, Thorsten Wagener, Sabine Undorf, and Andy Baker. Seasonality in groundwater recharge - observational evaluation of earth system model realism. 2026. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-11189.
Sabine Undorf. Defining events and extremes in climate change impact attribution. 2026. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-21133.
Sabine Undorf, Thomas deVera, Audrey Brouillet, Simon Tett, Andreia Ribeiro, Dánnell Quesada-Chacón, Vedaste Iyakaremye, and Christoph Gornott. Large-ensemble climate model data for impact attribution and projections. 2026. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-19985.
Sabine Undorf, Asya Dimitrova, Luke J. Harrington, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Aglaé Jézéquel, Joyce Kimutai, Y. T. Eunice Lo, Matthias Mengel, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Rosa Pietroiusti, Izidine Pinto, Andrew Schurer, Paolo Scussolini, Sebastian Sippel, Dáithí Stone, Rupert Stuart-Smith, Lukas Gudmundsson, Veronika Huber, Felipe J. Colón-González, Simon Dellicour, Diana Erazo, Erich Fischer, Katja Frieler, Christoph Gornott, Ed Hawkins, Petra Holden, Gerbrand Koren, Seppe Lampe, Dann Mitchell, Lisa Murken, Mark New, Albert Nkwasa, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Michael Wehner, and Wim Thiery. Approaches, challenges and applications of climate change impact attribution. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 7(7):469–488, 2026. doi:10.1038/s43017-026-00798-8.
Asya Dimitrova, Rahel Laudien, Anna Dimitrova, Sabine Undorf, and Jillian Waid. Attributing child undernutrition from agricultural shocks to climate change in burkina faso. 2025. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-19145.
K. L. Ebi, A. Haines, R. F. S. Andrade, C. Åström, M. L. Barreto, A. Bonell, K. Bowen, N. Brink, C. Caminade, C. J. Carlson, R. Carter, P. Chua, G. Cissé, F. J. Colón-González, S. Dasgupta, L. A. Galvao, M. Garrido Zornoza, A. Gasparrini, G. Gordon-Strachan, S. Hajat, S. Harper, L. J. Harrington, M. Hashizume, J. Hess, J. Hilly, V. Ingole, L. V. Jacobson, T. Kapwata, C. Keeler, S. A. Kidd, E. W. Kimani-Murage, R. K. Kolli, S. Kovats, S. Li, R. Lowe, D. Mitchell, K. Murray, M. New, O. E. Ogunniyi, S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, J. Pescarini, B. L. Pineda Restrepo, S. T. R. Pinho, V. Prescott, N. Redvers, S. J. Ryan, B. D. Santer, C. F. Schleussner, J. C. Semenza, M. Taylor, L. Temple, S. Thiam, W. Thiery, A. M. Tompkins, S. Undorf, A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera, K. Wan, R. Warren, C. Webster, A. Woodward, C. Y. Wright, and R. F. Stuart-Smith. The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: transdisciplinary practical guidance. Climatic Change, 2025. doi:10.1007/s10584-025-03976-7.
Lennart Jansen, Sabine Undorf, and Christoph Gornott. Attributed and projected climate change impacts on maize yield in cameroon as mediated by heat-tolerance adaptation. 2025. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-1910.
Lennart Jansen, Sabine Undorf, and Christoph Gornott. Current and future adaptation potential of heat-tolerant maize in cameroon: a combined attribution and adaptation study. Environmental Research Letters, 20(2):024027, 2025. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ada459.
Jorge Sebastian Moraga, Sabine Undorf, Peter Uhe, Natalie Lord, and Nans Addor. Bias correction of smiles: a bulk approach to preserve internal variability. 2025. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-10602.
Paula Romanovska, Sabine Undorf, Bernhard Schauberger, Aigerim Duisenbekova, and Christoph Gornott. Human-induced climate change has decreased wheat production in northern kazakhstan. 2025. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-1917.
Sabine Undorf and Monika Undorf. Increased climate change mitigation and adaptation intentions through learning about an event attribution result for the 2021 european floods. 2025. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-5601.
Philipp Aglas-Leitner and Sabine Undorf. How bad is it if adaptation decisions are influenced by typical climate attribution results? on the link between time of emergence and the crossing of adaptation-relevant hazard thresholds. 2024. doi:10.5194/dkt-13-55.
Frida A.-M. Bender, Tobias Lord, Anna Staffansdotter, Verena Jung, and Sabine Undorf. Machine learning approach to investigating the relative importance of meteorological and aerosol-related parameters in determining cloud microphysical properties. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 2024. doi:10.16993/tellusb.1868.
Carla Cronauer, Chiara Sophia Weituschat, Anna Hampf, Sabine Undorf, Stephanie Gleixner, Jillian Waid, and Lisa Murken. Climate risk analysis for adaptation planning in madagascar's agricultural sector. Technical Report, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany, 2024. doi:10.48485/PIK.2024.005.
Lennart Jansen, Sabine Undorf, and Christoph Gornott. Attributed and projected climate change impacts on maize yield in cameroon as mediated by heat-tolerance adaptation. 2024. doi:10.5194/dkt-13-72.
Lisa Murken, Julia Tomalka, David Abigaba, Antwi-Bosiako Amoah, Joseph Armathé Amougou, Muriel Anaba, Ponraj Arumugam, Eres Awori, Hye-Rin Léa Baek, Till Below, Matti Cartsburg, Abel Chemura, Carla Cronauer, Iulii Didovets, Adefires Worku Gizaw, Stephanie Gleixner, Nele Gloy, Enrico Grams, Lemlem Habtemariam, Anna Hampf, Ylva Hauf, Tim Heckmann, Boubacar Ibrahim, Lennart Jansen, Francis Jarawura, Timothée Kagonbé, Juliane Kaufmann, Priscilla Kephe, Lena Klockemann, Stefan Lange, Rahel Laudien, Stefan Liersch, Naima Lipka, Sophia Lüttringhaus, Sibylla Neer, Oblé Neya, Steffen Noleppa, Sebastian Ostberg, Jonas Pollig, Paula Romanovska, Felicitas Röhrig, Bernhard Schauberger, Roopam Shukla, Lina Staubach, Mesmin Tchindjang, Sabine Undorf, Regina Vetter, Sophie von Loeben, Christoph von Stechow, Katarina von Witzke, Chiara Sophia Weituschat, Michel Wortmann, Amsalu Woldie Yalew, Isabella Zouh, and Christoph Gornott. The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the agrica project. Environmental Research Letters, 19(6):062001, 2024. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad50eb.
Paula Romanovska, Sabine Undorf, Bernhard Schauberger, Aigerim Duisenbekova, and Christoph Gornott. Human-induced climate change has decreased wheat production in northern kazakhstan. Environmental Research: Climate, 3(3):031005, 2024. doi:10.1088/2752-5295/ad53f7.
Paula Romanovska, Sabine Undorf, Bernhard Schauberger, Christoph Gornott, and Aigerim Duisenbekova. Human-induced climate change has decreased wheat production in northern kazakhstan. 2024. doi:10.5194/dkt-13-23.
Sabine Undorf and Monika Undorf. Scientific attribution matters: learning about extreme weather event attribution increases climate change engagement. 2024. doi:10.5194/dkt-13-26.
Gina Maskell, Sarah Murabula Achola, Sabine Undorf, Paula Romanovska, and Christoph Gornott. Cross-geography adaptation to climate change in coffee-growing regions: is it risk-specific or generalized? 2023. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6850.
G Persad, B H Samset, L J Wilcox, Robert J Allen, Massimo A Bollasina, Ben B B Booth, Céline Bonfils, Tom Crocker, Manoj Joshi, Marianne T Lund, Kate Marvel, Joonas Merikanto, Kalle Nordling, Sabine Undorf, Detlef P van Vuuren, Daniel M Westervelt, and Alcide Zhao. Rapidly evolving aerosol emissions are a dangerous omission from near-term climate risk assessments. Environmental Research: Climate, 2(3):032001, 2023. doi:10.1088/2752-5295/acd6af.
Sabine Undorf. ISIMIP3BASD-LE. Computer software, 2023. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.10377116.
Sabine Undorf. Nachweis und Attributionvon Änderungen in Klima und Wetter, pages 373–382. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2023. URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-66696-8, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-66696-8_28.
Sabine Undorf, Lennart Jansen, Paula Romanovska, Bernhard Schauberger, and Christoph Gornott. Attribution of the impacts of climate change on agriculture caused by extreme events and concurring other climatic influences, pages 61–65. Flagship report by the FAO. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 2023. doi:10.4060/cc7900en.
Laura J. Wilcox, Robert J. Allen, Bjørn H. Samset, Massimo A. Bollasina, Paul T. Griffiths, James Keeble, Marianne T. Lund, Risto Makkonen, Joonas Merikanto, Declan O'Donnell, David J. Paynter, Geeta G. Persad, Steven T. Rumbold, Toshihiko Takemura, Kostas Tsigaridis, Sabine Undorf, and Daniel M. Westervelt. The regional aerosol model intercomparison project (ramip). Geoscientific Model Development, 16(15):4451–4479, 2023. doi:10.5194/gmd-16-4451-2023.
Karoliina Pulkkinen, Sabine Undorf, Frida Bender, Per Wikman-Svahn, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Clare Flynn, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Aiden Jönsson, Gah-Kai Leung, Joe Roussos, Theodore G. Shepherd, and Erica Thompson. The value of values in climate science. Nature Climate Change, 12(1):4–6, 2022. doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01238-9.
Karoliina Pulkkinen, Sabine Undorf, and Frida A.-M. Bender. Values in climate modelling: testing the practical applicability of the moral imagination ideal. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2022. doi:10.1007/s13194-022-00488-4.
Sabine Undorf, Karoliina Pulkkinen, Per Wikman Svahn, and Frida Bender. The role of values in climate science. 2022. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-12732.
Sabine Undorf, Karoliina Pulkkinen, Per Wikman-Svahn, and Frida A.-M. Bender. How do value-judgements enter model-based assessments of climate sensitivity? Climatic Change, 2022. doi:10.1007/s10584-022-03435-7.
Sabine Undorf, Bernhard Schauberger, and Christoph Gornott. Attributing observed climate change impacts in agriculture using observationally-derived counterfactual climate data and statistical crop-yield modelling. 2022. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4326.
W. Kahlenborn, L. Porst, M. Voß, L. Hölscher, Sabine Undorf, M. Wolf, K. Schönthaler, A. Crespi, K. Renner, M. Zebisch, U. Fritsch, and I. Schauser. Klimawirkungsund Risikoanalyse 2021 für Deutschland. Technical Report Teilbericht 6: Integrierte Auswertung – Klimarisiken,Handlungserfordernisse und Forschungsbedarfe, Umweltbundesamt, 2021. URL: https://www.uba.de/n87140de.
Sabine Undorf and Frida Bender. Modelling choices with regard to aerosol-cloud interactions and their impact on effective climate sensitivity in the noresm2 model. 2021. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6471.
Sabine Undorf, Karoliina Pulkkinen, Frida Bender, and Per Wikman Svahn. Values in (climate) science: what model-based assessments of climate sensitivity teach us about value-judgements and demands on norms thereon. 2021. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6285.
Lukas Brunner, Carol McSweeney, Andrew P. Ballinger, Daniel J. Befort, Marianna Benassi, Ben Booth, Erika Coppola, Hylke de Vries, Glen Harris, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Reto Knutti, Geert Lenderink, Jason Lowe, Rita Nogherotto, Chris O’Reilly, Saïd Qasmi, Aurélien Ribes, Paolo Stocchi, and Sabine Undorf. Comparing methods to constrain future european climate projections using a consistent framework. Journal of Climate, 33(20):8671–8692, 2020. doi:10.1175/jcli-d-19-0953.1.
Tim Cowan, Sabine Undorf, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Luke J. Harrington, and Friederike E. L. Otto. Present-day greenhouse gases could cause more frequent and longer dust bowl heatwaves. Nature Climate Change, 10(6):505–510, 2020. doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0771-7.
Ivonne M García-Martínez, Massimo A Bollasina, and Sabine Undorf. Strong large-scale climate response to north american sulphate aerosols in cesm. Environmental Research Letters, 15(11):114051, 2020. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abbe45.
S Undorf, K Allen, J Hagg, S Li, F C Lott, M J Metzger, S N Sparrow, and S F B Tett. Learning from the 2018 heatwave in the context of climate change: are high-temperature extremes important for adaptation in scotland? Environmental Research Letters, 15(3):034051, 2020. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab6999.
Sabine Undorf, Tim Cowan, Gabi Hegerl, Luke Harrington, and Friederike Otto. The influence of greenhouse gases on the 1930s dust bowl heat waves across central united states. 2020. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6177.
Sabine Undorf, Simon F. B. Tett, Joseph Hagg, Marc J. Metzger, Chris Wilson, Graham Edmond, Miranda Jacques-Turner, Stuart Forrest, and Marion Shoote. Understanding interdependent climate change risks using a serious game. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(8):E1279–E1300, 2020. doi:10.1175/bams-d-19-0177.1.
Laura J. Wilcox, Zhen Liu, Bjørn H. Samset, Ed Hawkins, Marianne T. Lund, Kalle Nordling, Sabine Undorf, Massimo Bollasina, Annica M. L. Ekman, Srinath Krishnan, Joonas Merikanto, and Andrew G. Turner. Accelerated increases in global and asian summer monsoon precipitation from future aerosol reductions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(20):11955–11977, 2020. doi:10.5194/acp-20-11955-2020.
Laura J. Wilcox, Zhen Liu, Bjørn H. Samset, Ed Hawkins, Marianne T. Lund, Kalle Nordling, Sabine Undorf, Massimo Bollasina, Annica M. L. Ekman, Srinath Krishnan, Joonas Merikanto, and Andrew G. Turner. Accelerated increases in global and asian summer monsoon precipitation from future aerosol reductions. 2020. doi:10.5194/acp-2019-1188.
Laura J. Wilcox, Zhen Liu, Bjørn H. Samset, Ed Hawkins, Marianne T. Lund, Kalle Nordling, Sabine Undorf, Massimo Bollasina, Annica M. L. Ekman, Srinath Krishnan, Joonas Merikanto, and Andrew G. Turner. Supplementary material to "accelerated increases in global and asian summer monsoon precipitation from future aerosol reductions". 2020. doi:10.5194/acp-2019-1188-supplement.
Matthias Bücker, Adrián Flores Orozco, Sabine Undorf, and Andreas Kemna. On the role of stern‐ and diffuse‐layer polarization mechanisms in porous media. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(6):5656–5677, 2019. doi:10.1029/2019jb017679.
Matthias Bücker, Sabine Undorf, Adrián Flores Orozco, and Andreas Kemna. Electrochemical polarization around metallic particles — part 2: the role of diffuse surface charge. Geophysics, 84(2):E57–E73, 2019. doi:10.1190/geo2018-0150.1.
Gabriele C Hegerl, Stefan Brönnimann, Tim Cowan, Andrew R Friedman, Ed Hawkins, Carley Iles, Wolfgang Müller, Andrew Schurer, and Sabine Undorf. Causes of climate change over the historical record. Environmental Research Letters, 14(12):123006, 2019. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab4557.
S. Undorf, M. A. Bollasina, B. B. B. Booth, and G. C. Hegerl. Contrasting the effects of the 1850-1975 increase in sulphate aerosols from north america and europe on the atlantic in the cesm. Geophysical Research Letters, 2018. doi:10.1029/2018gl079970.
S. Undorf, M. A. Bollasina, and G. C. Hegerl. Impacts of the 1900–74 increase in anthropogenic aerosol emissions from north america and europe on eurasian summer climate. Journal of Climate, 31(20):8381–8399, 2018. doi:10.1175/jcli-d-17-0850.1.
S. Undorf, D. Polson, M. A. Bollasina, Y. Ming, A. Schurer, and G. C. Hegerl. Detectable impact of local and remote anthropogenic aerosols on the 20th century changes of west african and south asian monsoon precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(10):4871–4889, 2018. doi:10.1029/2017jd027711.