Nathalie Schaller

PhD student in the climate physics group.

Research interests

• Global climate change
• Temperature-precipitation relationship in climate models
• Intensification of the hydrological cycle
• Changes in the meridional overturning circulation

Publications

(peer-reviewed)

• Wu, P., L. Jackson, A. K. Pardaens and N. Schaller (2011): Extended warming of the northern high latitudes due to an overshoot of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L24704, doi:10.1029/2011GL049998.
• Schaller, N., I. Mahlstein, J. Cermak and R. Knutti (2011): Analyzing precipitation projections: A comparison of different approaches to climate model evaluation, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D10118, doi:10.1029/2010JD014963.

(others)

• Schaller, N., 2009. How well do current climate models simulate the precipitation mean, trends and variability? Master thesis
• Schaller, N., Griesser, T., Fischer, A.M., Stickler, A. and S. Brönnimann, 2009. Climate effects of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption: Historical and present perspectives. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 154, 31-40.
• Schaller, N., 2007. Klimaauswirkungen des Krakatau Ausbruchs. Bachelor thesis

Oral presentations

• 9th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, 2011. "The response of the hydrological cycle to different forcing agents".
• Chemistry & Climate Processes group meeting, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, USA, 2011. "Idealized simulations of global warming and subsequent cooling in climate models".
• WCRP Open Science Conference, Denver, USA, 2011. "The linear additivity of the forcings' responses in the energy and water cycles".
• Climate seminar, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK, 2011. "Precipitation changes under global warming in climate models".
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2011. "The sensitivity of the surface energy budget and hydrological cycle to different forcing agents".
• 11th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Edinburgh, UK, 2010. "Model evaluation of the hydrological cycle in the present and future climate".

Poster presentations

• Swiss Global Change Day, Bern, Switzerland, 2011. "The response of surface energy balance components and precipitation to climate forcings". Poster Award (WCRP)
• WAVACS-COST Winter School, Venice, Italy, 2011. "The response of surface energy balance components and precipitation to climate forcings". pdf
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2010. "How well do climate models simulate precipitation?". YSOPP Award (HS)
• 7th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2009. "Ambiguity in quantifying climate model performance".
• 8th International NCCR Climate Summer School, Grindelwald, Switzerland, 2009. "Understanding the temperature-precipitation relationship in climate models".

Teaching assistance

• Herbstsemester 2009, 2010: Beobachtungsnetze
• Frühlingssemester 2010, 2011: Inter-annual phenomena and their prediction
• Herbstsemester 2010, 2011: Bachelor seminar