Welcome to CAS

 

I left NCAR and started a position at MeteoSwiss in Zurich Switzerland in mid-May 2008. NEW CONTACT INFORMATION:

Simon Scherrer
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss
Scientist, Climate Services
Kraehbuehlstrasse 58
CH-8044 Zurich
Switzerland

phone: +41 44 256 9253 (direct)
email: [my_firstname][dot][my_lastname][at]meteoswiss[dot]ch

Curriculum Vitae

Full CV and publications (PDF file)

Research and personal information

I was a postdoctoral visitor in the Climate Analysis Section within the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at NCAR Boulder CO, USA until April 2, 2008. I was sponsered and worked for TML Wigley. My research interests include:

• Atmospheric predictability in the 10 day to seasonal range
• Snow variability and prediction in the European Alpine region
• Climate variability in observations and climate change scenario runs
• Dynamics and physics of the atmosphere in general
• Statistical techniques in climate research

To accomplish most data processing and graphical needs, I use R and NCL, both interpreted languages similar to IDL or MATLAB.

Visit my private website: http://simon.skygate.ch

Peer-reviewed publications and book chapters

For a complete list of my ISI Web Of Science publications, please visit my researcherID.com site at http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-8547-2008.

S. C. Scherrer, Contributing author of the IPCC 4th assessment report (Chapter 4: Changes in snow, ice and frozen ground); http://www.ipcc.ch

Scherrer, S. C., M. A. Liniger, and C. Appenzeller, 2008: Distribution changes of seasonal mean temperature in observations and climate change scenarios. In: Climate variability and extremes during the past 100 years, S. Brönnimann, J. Luterbacher, T. Ewen, Henry F. Diaz, R. S. Stolarski and U. Neu, Eds., Springer, Volume 33 in the Advances in Global Change Research Book Series, 364p, ISBN: 978-1-4020-6765-5.

Appenzeller C., M. Begert, E. Zenklusen, and S. C. Scherrer, 2008: Monitoring climate at the high-est permanently manned meteorological station in Europe, Science of the Total Environment, 391, 262-268, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.10.005. (abstract)

Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., and S. C. Scherrer, 2008: Freezing of lakes on the Swiss Plateau in the period 1901-2006. International Journal of Climatology, 28, 421-433, doi:10.1002/joc.1553. (abstract)

Kunz, H., S. C. Scherrer, M. A. Liniger and C. Appenzeller, 2007: 2 m Temperatures and Total Ozone in the Alpine Region: An intercomparison of ERA-40 data and observed Swiss time series. Met. Z., 16(2), 171-181, doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0183. (abstract)

Scherrer, S. C., and C. Appenzeller, 2006: Swiss Alpine snow pack variability: major patterns and links to local climate and large-scale flow. Climate Research, 32, 187-199. (freely available here)

Scherrer, S. C., M. Croci-Maspoli, C. Schwierz, and C. Appenzeller, 2006: Two dimensional indices of atmospheric blocking and their statistical relationship with winter climate patterns in the Euro-Atlantic region, Int. J. Climatol., 26, 233-249, doi:10.1002/joc.1250. (abstract)

Scherrer, S. C., C. Appenzeller, and M. A. Liniger, 2006: Recent temperature trends in Switzerland and Europe: Implications for climate normals, Int. J. Climatol., 26, 565-580, doi:10.1002/joc.1270. (abstract)

Scherrer, S. C., C. Appenzeller, M. A. Liniger, and C. Schär 2005: European temperature distribution changes in observations and climate change scenarios, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L19705, doi:10.1029/2005GL024108. (abstract)

Scherrer, S. C., C. Appenzeller, and M. Laternser, 2004: Trends in Swiss Alpine,snow days: The role of local- and large-scale climate variability, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L13215, doi:10.1029/2004GL020255. (abstract)

Scherrer, S. C., C. Appenzeller, P. Eckert, and D. Cattani, 2004: Analysis of the Spread-Skill Relations Using the ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System Over Europe. Wea. Forecasting, 19(3), 552-565. (abstract)

Wild, M., P. Calanca, S. C. Scherrer, and A. Ohmura, 2003: Effects of polar ice sheets on sea-level in high resolution greenhouse scenarios. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D5), doi:10.1029/2002JD002451. (abstract)

Publications submitted or in preparation

S. C. Scherrer, and M. B. Baettig, 2008: Inter-model scatter in CMIP3 as seen by the Climate Change Index (CCI). Submitted to Environmental Research Letters.

S. C. Scherrer, et al. 2008: How well do CMIP3 models represent present-day month-to-month and interannual variability of surface variables? In preparation.

S. C. Scherrer, and C. Appenzeller, 2008: Simple estimates of future Swiss Alpine snow pack inferred from observed temperature and precipitation sensitivities. To be submitted.

Theses

Scherrer, S. C., 2006: Interannual climate variability in the European and Alpine region. PhD thesis No. 16338, Eidgenössisch Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, 120pp (download).

Scherrer, S. C., 2002: Skill prediction for medium-range weather forecasts. Diploma thesis (MSc equiv.), Eidgenössisch Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, 78pp (download).

Scherrer, S. C., 2000: Neue Schmelzberechnungen auf Grönland für heute und 2CO2 Szenarien auf hochaufgelöster Topographie. Student thesis, Eidgenössisch Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, 78pp (download).

last modified by Simon Scherrer: Wed, 9 April 2008