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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Laxenburg, AT

2024-05-15 to present | Theme Lead for Weather Extremes and Climate Dynamics (RS3) (Energy, Climate and Environment (ECE))
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Dr. Kai Kornhuber

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Sparkill, US

2022-03-16 to present | Adjunct Associate Research Scientist (Ocean and Climate Physics)
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Dr. Kai Kornhuber

Columbia University in the City of New York: New York, US

2022-03-15 to present | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Climate (Columbia Climate School)
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Dr. Kai Kornhuber

Climate Analytics: Berlin, DE

2023-04-15 to 2024-05-15 | Team Lead for Climate Extremes and Climate Modelling (Science Team)
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Dr. Kai Kornhuber

DGAP: Berlin, DE

2022-03-16 to 2023-12-01 | Senior Research Fellow (Center for Climate and Foreign Policy)
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Dr. Kai Kornhuber

Columbia University: New York, NY, US

2019-05-28 to 2022-02-15 | Earth Institute Postdoctoral Researcher (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory / Earth Institute)
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Dr. Kai Kornhuber

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2018-07-01 to 2019-05-28 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics)
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Dr. Kai Kornhuber

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): Potsdam, Brandenburg, DE

2013-09-01 to 2018-06-30 | Research Assistant (Earth System Analysis (RDI))
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Climate Analytics: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2018-02 to 2018-05 | Climate Scientist (Science Team)
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): Potsdam, Brandenburg, DE

2013-01-01 to 2013-08-31 | Research Assistant (Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities (RDII))
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Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Energy: Berlin, DE

2011-01-01 to 2012-06-30 | Student Research Assistant (Heterogenous Material Systems )
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Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE

2008-04-18 to 2011-12-31 | Tutor (Physics)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Universität Potsdam: Potsdam, Brandenburg, DE

2014-05-01 to 2018-05-25 | Ph.D (Physics)
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Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE

2005-10-17 to 2012-07-13 | Diploma (Master) (Physics)
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Travel Grant for a research stay at U Melbourne/Australian-German Climate & Energy College

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Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Bonn, DE)
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Works (50 of 62)

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Large-scale atmospheric circulation as a source of uncertainty in western European heat extreme projections 

2025-03-18 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-14873
Contributors: Shutong Liu; Yinglin Tian; Kai Kornhuber
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Nonlinear interactions amplify the most extreme midlatitude heatwaves 

2025-03-18 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-1850
Contributors: Yinglin Tian; Jiangong Liu; Yu Huang; Pierre Gentine; Kai Kornhuber
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Amplified agricultural impacts from increasingly sequential heat extremes

2025-03-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-19545
Contributors: Raed Hamed; Carmen B. Steinmann; Qiyun Ma; Daniel Balanzategui; Ellie Broadman; Corey Lesk; Kai Kornhuber
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Assessing the financial impacts from drought and heat induced crop yield losses

2025-03-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-17797
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Yi-Ling Hwong; Corey Lesk
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Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated artificial intelligence

Nature Communications
2025-03-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57640-w
Contributors: Markus Reichstein; Vitus Benson; Jan Blunk; Gustau Camps-Valls; Felix Creutzig; Carina J. Fearnley; Boran Han; Kai Kornhuber; Nasim Rahaman; Bernhard Schölkopf et al.
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Global risks of renewable energy droughts under climate change

2025-03-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-15821
Contributors: Colin Lenoble; Céline Guivarch; Kai Kornhuber; Pauline Rivoire; Jonas Schmitt; Kevin Schwarzwald; Mathias Valla; Améline Vallet
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Physical drivers and statistical properties of high impact climate extremes 

2025-03-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-16597
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber
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CETD, a global compound events detection and visualisation toolbox and dataset

Scientific Data
2025-02-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04530-x
Contributors: Cong Yin; Mingfang Ting; Kai Kornhuber; Radley M. Horton; Yaping Yang; Yelin Jiang
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Concurrent Heat Extremes in Relation to Global Warming, High Atmospheric Pressure and Low Soil Moisture in the Northern Hemisphere

Earth's Future
2025-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2024EF005256
Contributors: Dalai Nasong; Sha Zhou; Kai Kornhuber; Bofu Yu
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Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model projections

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-3164
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Samuel Bartusek; Richard Seager; Mingfang Ting
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Usable Compound Event Research

2025-01-20 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-3151
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber
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Reply to Comment on ‘Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern’

Environmental Research Letters
2025-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad95a5
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Dim Coumou; Stefan Petri; Scott Osprey; Stefan Rahmstorf
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Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-12-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2411258121
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Samuel Bartusek; Richard Seager; Hans Joachim Schellnhuber; Mingfang Ting
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Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model projections

2024-06-09 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31223/X5N111
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Samuel Bartusek; Richard Seager; Hans Schellnhuber; Mingfang Ting
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Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated artificial intelligence

2024-04-17 | Preprint
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4248340/v1
Contributors: Markus Reichstein; Dorothea Frank; Vitus Benson; Gustau Camps-Valls; Joachim Denzler; Kai Kornhuber; Bernhard Schoelkopf; Ricardo Vinuesa; Boran Han; Carina Fearnley et al.
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Author Correction: Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia

Nature Communications
2023-07-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40267-0
Contributors: Efi Rousi; Kai Kornhuber; Goratz Beobide-Arsuaga; Fei Luo; Dim Coumou
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Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections

Nature Communications
2023-07-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38906-7
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Corey Lesk; Carl F. Schleussner; Jonas Jägermeyr; Peter Pfleiderer; Radley M. Horton
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Projected changes on quasi-resonant amplification by CMIP5 and CMIP6 toward the persistence in extreme summer weather events

2023-05-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15986
Contributors: Sullyandro Oliveira Guimarães; Michael E. Mann; Stefan Rahmstorf; Stefan Petri; Kai Kornhuber; Dim Coumou; Byron A. Steinman; Daniel Brouillette; Shannon Christiansen
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2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions

Nature Climate Change
2022-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01520-4
Contributors: Samuel Bartusek; Kai Kornhuber; Mingfang Ting
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Land‐Atmosphere Cascade Fueled the 2020 Siberian Heatwave

AGU Advances
2022-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2021AV000619
Contributors: L. Gloege; K. Kornhuber; O. Skulovich; I. Pal; S. Zhou; P. Ciais; P. Gentine
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Heat Extremes Driven by Amplification of Phase‐Locked Circumglobal Waves Forced by Topography in an Idealized Atmospheric Model

Geophysical Research Letters
2022-11-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2021GL096337
Contributors: B. Jiménez‐Esteve; K. Kornhuber; D. I. V. Domeisen
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Recurrent Rossby waves and south-eastern Australian heatwaves

Weather and Climate Dynamics
2022-10-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/wcd-3-1139-2022
Contributors: S. Mubashshir Ali; Matthias Röthlisberger; Tess Parker; Kai Kornhuber; Olivia Martius
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An effective clean energy transition must anticipate growing climate disruptions

Environmental Research: Climate
2022-09-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/2752-5295/ac76db
Contributors: Corey Lesk; Kai Kornhuber
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Summertime Rossby waves in climate models: substantial biases in surface imprint associated with small biases in upper-level circulation

Weather and Climate Dynamics
2022-08-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/wcd-3-905-2022
Contributors: Fei Luo; Frank Selten; Kathrin Wehrli; Kai Kornhuber; Philippe Le Sager; Wilhelm May; Thomas Reerink; Sonia I. Seneviratne; Hideo Shiogama; Daisuke Tokuda et al.
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Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia

Nature Communications
2022-07-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31432-y
Contributors: Efi Rousi; Kai Kornhuber; Goratz Beobide-Arsuaga; Fei Luo; Dim Coumou
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A recurrent pan-Atlantic wave pattern driving concurrent wintertime extremes

2022-06-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/ems2022-5
Contributors: Gabriele Messori; Kai Kornhuber
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2021 North American Heat Wave Fueled by Climate-Change-Driven Nonlinear Interactions

2022-03-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10405
Contributors: Samuel Bartusek; Kai Kornhuber; Mingfang Ting
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Systemic risk from the perspective of climate, environmental and disaster risk science and practice

2022-03-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10250
Contributors: Jana Sillmann; Ingrid Christensen; Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler; Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann; Sirkku K. Juhola; Kai Kornhuber; Miguel Mahecha; Reinhard Mechler; Markus Reichstein; Alex C. Ruane et al.
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Compounding Wet and Cold-Extremes driven by an increasing Pan-Atlantic wave-4-pattern 

2022-03-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-6351
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Gabriele Messori
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Jet waveguides - links to persistent surface weather and sub-seasonal predictability

2022-03-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-1142
Contributors: Olivia Romppainen-Martius; Kai Kornhuber; Alexandre Tuel; Kathrin Wehrli; Rachel White; Volkmar Wirth
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Preferred rossby waves and risks of synchronized heatwaves and harvest failures in observations and model projections

2022-03-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-6300
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Corey Lesk; Carl Schleussner; Jonas Jägermeyer; Peter Pfleiderer; Radley Horton
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Increasing spatiotemporal proximity of heat and precipitation extremes in a warming world quantified by a large model ensemble

Environmental Research Letters
2022-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5712
Contributors: Colin Raymond; Laura Suarez-Gutierrez; Kai Kornhuber; Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell; Jana Sillmann; Duane E Waliser
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Recurrent Rossby waves during Southeast Australian heatwaves and links to quasi-resonant amplification and atmospheric blocks

2022-01-14 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/wcd-2022-1
Contributors: S. Mubashshir Ali; Matthias Röthlisberger; Tess Parker; Kai Kornhuber; Olivia Martius
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Drivers behind the summer 2010 wave train leading to Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
2021-11-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41612-021-00211-9
Contributors: G. Di Capua; S. Sparrow; K. Kornhuber; E. Rousi; S. Osprey; D. Wallom; B. van den Hurk; D. Coumou
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Recent Increases in Exposure to Extreme Humid‐Heat Events Disproportionately Affect Populated Regions

Geophysical Research Letters
2021-10-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2021GL094183
Contributors: Cassandra D. W. Rogers; Mingfang Ting; Cuihua Li; Kai Kornhuber; Ethan D. Coffel; Radley M. Horton; Colin Raymond; Deepti Singh
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Summertime circumglobal Rossby waves in climate models: Small biases in upper-level circulation create substantial biases in surface imprint

2021-08-06 | Preprint
DOI: 10.5194/wcd-2021-48
Contributors: Fei Luo; Frank Selten; Kathrin Wehrli; Kai Kornhuber; Philippe Le Sager; Wilhelm May; Thomas Reerink; Sonia I. Seneviratne; Hideo Shiogama; Daisuke Tokuda et al.
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Aligning compound extreme events as defined from climate science and sectoral impact perspectives

2021-03-04 | Other
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15761
Contributors: Radley Horton; Victoria Keener; Kai Kornhuber; Corey Lesk; John Walsh
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Can climate models capture the high amplitudes circumglobal waves and their surface imprints?  

2021-03-04 | Other
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9013
Contributors: Fei Luo; Kai Kornhuber; Frank Selten; Dim Coumou
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Increased frequency of Eurasian double jets linked to summer heat extremes in Europe

2021-03-04 | Other
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10104
Contributors: Efi Rousi; Kai Kornhuber; Goratz Beobide Arsuaga; Fei Luo; Dim Coumou
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Drivers and future changes in simultaneous extremes and their implications for global food security

2021-03-03 | Other
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2720
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Corey Lesk; Peter Pfleiderer; Jonas Jägermeyer; Carl-Friedrich Schleussner; Radley Horton
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Future Changes in Northern Hemisphere Summer Weather Persistence Linked to Projected Arctic Warming

Geophysical Research Letters
2021-02-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2020GL091603
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Talia Tamarin‐Brodsky
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Future changes in Northern Hemisphere summer weather persistence linked to projected Arctic warming.

2020-12-17 | Other
DOI: 10.31223/X5PG6Q
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Talia Tamarin-Brodsky
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Understanding and managing connected extreme events

Nature Climate Change
2020-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0790-4
Contributors: Colin Raymond; Radley M. Horton; Jakob Zscheischler; Olivia Martius; Amir AghaKouchak; Jennifer Balch; Steven G. Bowen; Suzana J. Camargo; Jeremy Hess; Kai Kornhuber et al.
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The projected slow-down of mid-latitude temperature anomalies

2020-03-23 | Other
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-11811
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Talia Tamarin-Brodsky
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Wave-resonance fingerprint in the 2010 summer: a modelling experiment

2020-03-23 | Other
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-16003
Contributors: Giorgia Di Capua; Kai Kornhuber; Eftychia Rousi; Sarah Sparrow; David Wallom; Dim Coumou
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Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions

Nature Climate Change
2020-01-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0637-z
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Dim Coumou; Elisabeth Vogel; Corey Lesk; Jonathan F. Donges; Jascha Lehmann; Radley M. Horton
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Disentangling Dynamic Contributions to Summer 2018 Anomalous Weather Over Europe

Geophysical Research Letters
2019-11-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2019GL084601
Contributors: Marie Drouard; Kai Kornhuber; Tim Woollings
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Summer weather becomes more persistent in a 2 °C world

Nature Climate Change
2019-09-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0555-0
Contributors: Peter Pfleiderer; Carl-Friedrich Schleussner; Kai Kornhuber; Dim Coumou
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Assessing changes in risk of amplified planetary waves in a warming world

Atmospheric Science Letters
2019-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/asl.929
Contributors: Chris Huntingford; Dann Mitchell; Kai Kornhuber; Dim Coumou; Scott Osprey; Myles Allen
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Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern

Environmental Research Letters
2019-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab13bf
Contributors: Kai Kornhuber; Scott Osprey; Dim Coumou; Stefan Petri; Vladimir Petoukhov; Stefan Rahmstorf; Lesley Gray
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