Hermann Österle

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed century-long daily temperature and precipitation records for stations in Europe west of 60°E and defined a set of climatic indices derived from the daily series, mainly focusing on extremes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconstructed annual precipitation for the last 2,500 years in northeastern Qinghai from living and archaeological juniper trees, and found that a dominant feature of the precipitation of this area is a high degree of variability in mean rainfall at annual, decadal, and centennial scales, with many wet and dry periods that are corroborated by other paleoclimatic indicators.

TL;DR: In this article, the first German-wide impact assessment of water fluxes dynamics under climate change is presented in a spatially and temporally distributed manner using the state-of-the-art regional climate model, Statistical Regional (STAR) model and the semi-distributed process-based eco-hydrological model, soil and water integrated model (SWIM).

TL;DR: This paper used a coarse-resolution pollen record from Lake Biwa to reconstruct glacial-interglacial climate dynamics in central Japan since ~438kyr and compared it to the earlier reconstruction based on a less representative reference dataset.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze and discuss possible climate change impacts on flood damages in Germany and conclude that a considerable increase in flood related losses can be expected in Germany in future, warmer, climate.