Lorenz, Ruth

ETH Zürich Ruth Lorenz Institut f. Atmosphäre und Klima CHN N 17.2 Universitätstrasse 16 8092 Zürich Phone: +41 44 632 91 38 E-Mail:

Research Interests

• Land-climate feedbacks
• Extreme events, especially heat waves and droughts
• Climate modelling (mostly using COSMO-CLM²)

Publications

• Lorenz, R., Jaeger, E.B., and Seneviratne, S.I., 2010. Persistence of heat waves and its link to soil moisture memory. Geophy. Res. Lett., 37, L09703, doi:10.1029/2010GL042764.

Presentations and Posters

• European Geophysical Union (EGU), April 2011, Vienna, Austria
  Detailed vegetation processes within a regional climate model impact representation of land-atmosphere feedbacks (poster 1.5MB)
• WCRP Drought Workshop, March 2011, Barcelona, Spain
  Biosphere-climate feedbacks during heat waves and droughts (poster)
• ESA-iLEAPS-EGU joint Conference on Earth Observation for Land-Atmosphere Interaction Science, November 2010, Frascati, Italy
  Influence of soil moisture-climate and vegetation-climate interactions on European summer climate (poster)
• COSMO User Workshop 2010, December 2010, Zurich, Switzerland
  Land-climate interactions in COSMO-CLM² compared to COSMO-CLM (oral presentation)
• European Geophysical Union (EGU), Mai 2010, Vienna, Austria
  Persistence of heat waves and its link to soil moisture memory (oral presentation)
  Influence of soil moisture-climate and vegetation-climate interactions on European summer climate in regional climate model simulations (poster)
• Swiss global change day, April 2010, Bern, Switzerland
  Persistence of heat waves and its link to soil moisture memory (poster)

Links

• COSMO-CLM²: coupled atmosphere-biosphere regional climate model