Prof. Dr. Jakob Zscheischler
Deparment Head
Department of Compound Environmental Risks
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 341 6025 1885
Research Interests
I am an Earth system scientist with a background in mathematics, biogeochemistry and climate science. My research focus are compound weather and climate events, that is, combinations of climatic drivers that contribute to environmental and societal risk. I chaired the European COST Action DAMOCLES (Understanding and modeling compound climate and weather events, 2018-2023), which created a new community of climate scientists, engineers, social scientists, impact modellers and decision-makers to advance our understanding of compound events. In a review we proposed four different types of compound events, with the goal to aid in compound event analysis. I’m also a Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at TU Dresden.
I’m head of the Department of Compound Environmental Risks (CER) at UFZ. In CER we analyse different types of compound events in present and future climate, and we use machine learning to identify compounding meteorological drivers of extreme impacts such as floods, vegetation mortality and crop failure.
Currently I am consulting editor of a Special Issue on "Compounding effects as drivers of extreme events in socio-ecological systems” in the Cell Press journal iScience (Link). Previously I edited an Inter-journal Special Issue on compound weather and climate events and related impacts in the EGU journals BG, ESD, HESS, NHESS
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Career
| 1/2024- | Department head, Department of Compound Environmental Risks (CER) - UFZ |
| 3/2023- | Professor (W3) for Data Analytics in Hydro Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, TU Dresden |
| 10/2020-12/2023 | Group Leader, Department of Computational Hydrosystems – UFZ |
| 11/2018-6/2021 | Ambizione Fellow, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 2/2015-10/2018 | Postdoc, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 6/2014-12/2014 | Postdoc, Department Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany |
| 10/2010-6/2014 | PhD student, Department Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany |
Education
| 6/2014 | PhD, Environmental System Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 10/2010 | Diploma, Mathematics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
Funding
| 2021-2026 | eXtreme events: Artificial Intelligence for Detection and Attribution ( XAIDA ) (WP leader, 430k€ out of 6M€) |
| 2020-2026 | Helmholtz Young Investigator Grant COMPOUNDX, (PI, 1.8M€) |
| Completed | |
| 2021-2024 | Identifying causal drivers of floods (CausalFlood) (Co-PI, Helmholtz AI, 200k€ out of 400k€) |
| 2019-2023 | Compound events in the ocean (co-PI, Alfred Bretsched Fund, ~185k€) |
| 2020-2023 | Risk assessment of critical ecological thresholds in Amazonia and Cerrado (PI, SNSF, ~230k€) |
| 2020-2022 | Machine learning for detecting compound climate drivers of extreme impacts (PI, SNSF, ~170k€) |
| 2018-2022 | New metrics for constraining multiple drivers of hazard and compound hazards (PI, SNSF Ambizione grant, ~757k€) |
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2026 (4)
- Bevacqua, E., Fischer, E., Sillmann, J., Zscheischler, J. (2026):
Moderate global warming does not rule out extreme global climate outcomes
Nature 651 (8107), 946 - 953
10.1038/s41586-026-10237-9 - Feng, S., Zscheischler, J., Hao, Z., Jägermeyr, J., Müller, C., Bevacqua, E. (2026):
The influence of spatial correlations in crop production on global crop failures in model simulations
Agric. For. Meteorol. 379 , art. 111021
10.1016/j.agrformet.2026.111021 - Li, J., Zscheischler, J., Bevacqua, E. (2026):
Global record-shattering breadbasket droughts emerge from moderately extreme regional events
Nat. Commun. 17 , art. 2577
10.1038/s41467-026-70700-z - Spuler, F.R., Wessel, J.B., Jebeile, J., Zscheischler, J., Shepherd, T.G. (2026):
Bias adjustment and the question of usable climate information: methodological assumptions and value judgements
Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 107 (1), E79 - E102
10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0022.1
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2025 (21)
- Bevacqua, E., Schleussner, C.-F., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20 yr period that will exceed the Paris Agreement limit
Nat. Clim. Chang. 15 (3), 262 - 265
10.1038/s41558-025-02246-9 - Brett, L., White, C.J., Domeisen, D.I.V., van den Hurk, B., Ward, P., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Review article: The growth in compound weather and climate event research in the decade since SREX
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (8), 2591 - 2611
10.5194/nhess-25-2591-2025 - Cache, T., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J., Müller-Thomy, H., Peleg, N. (2025):
Simulating realistic design storms: a joint return period approach
Water Resour. Res. 61 (7), e2024WR039739
10.1029/2024WR039739 - Fang, B., Rakovec, O., Bevacqua, E., Kumar, R., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Diverging trends in large floods across Europe in a warming climate
Commun. Earth Environ. 6 , art. 717
10.1038/s43247-025-02734-y - Feng, S., Zscheischler, J., Hao, Z., Bevacqua, E. (2025):
Growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in regional weekly fire extremes
npj Clim. Atmos. Sci. 8 , art. 152
10.1038/s41612-025-01021-z - Ferreira, V., Buras, A., Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M., Rammig, A. (2025):
Evaluating the 2023–2024 record dry-hot conditions in the Amazon in the context of historical compound extremes
Environ. Res. Lett. 20 (8), art. 084055
10.1088/1748-9326/ade550 - Fu, J., Wang, C., Qin, Y., Lesk, C., Müller, C., Zscheischler, J., Liu, X., Liang, H., Jiang, Y., Wang, X., Zhou, F. (2025):
Regionally variable responses of maize and soybean yield to rainfall events in China
Agric. For. Meteorol. 364 , art. 110458
10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110458 - Guan, Y., Gu, X., Dai, A., Zhou, T., Yuan, X., Mishra, A.K., Zscheischler, J., Pokhrel, Y., Wang, L., Li, J., Huang, S., Luo, S., Li, L., Kong, D., Zhang, X. (2025):
Anthropogenic enhancement of subsurface soil moisture droughts
Nat. Clim. Chang. 15 (12), 1355 - 1362
10.1038/s41558-025-02458-z - Guo, Y., Beyerle, U., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., Mittermeier, M., Fu, Z., Fischer, E. (2025):
European compound flood-heat-flood events associated with Omega patterns cannot be easily reproduced by a fully coupled model
Commun. Earth Environ. 6 , art. 491
10.1038/s43247-025-02481-0 - Klotz, D., Miersch, P., do Nascimento, T.V.M., Fenicia, F., Gauch, M., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
EARLS: A runoff reconstruction dataset for Europe
Earth System Science Data Discussions
10.5194/essd-2024-450 - Klotz, D., Miersch, P., do Nascimento, T.V.M., Fenicia, F., Gauch, M., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
EARLS: European aggregated reconstruction for large-sample studies (v0.3) [Data set]
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.15506211 - Li, J., Zhang, Y., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J., Keenan, T.F., Lian, X., Zhou, S., Zhang, H., He, M., Piao, S. (2025):
Author correction: Future increase in compound soil drought-heat extremes exacerbated by vegetation greening (vol 15, 10875, 2024)
Nat. Commun. 16 , art. 623
10.1038/s41467-025-55979-8 - Marques, E.Q., Silvério, D.V., Ribeiro, A.F.S., Zscheischler, J., Seneviratne, S.I., Marra, D.D., Rebelatto, B.F., Rattis, L., Brando, P.M. (2025):
Vertical forest dynamics: the influence of windthrows and extreme weather events on Southern Amazon canopy height
Environ. Res. Commun. 7 (12), art. 125010
10.1088/2515-7620/ae24cb - Meng, Y., Schmidt, J., Zscheischler, J., Bevacqua, E. (2025):
Climate-driven compounding effects and historical trends in renewable electricity droughts in Europe
Appl. Energy 401, Part B , art. 126623
10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.126623 - Miersch, P., Günther, W., Runge, J., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Evaluating the robustness of PCMCI+ for causal discovery of flood drivers
Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems (AIES) 4 (4), e240114
10.1175/AIES-D-24-0114.1 - Pasche, O.C., Wider, J., Zhang, Z., Zscheischler, J., Engelke, S. (2025):
Validating deep-learning weather forecast models on recent high-impact extreme events
Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems (AIES) 4 , e240033
10.1175/AIES-D-24-0033.1 - Richardson, D., Ribeiro, A.F.S., Batibeniz, F., Quilcaille, Y., Taschetto, A.S., Pitman, A.J., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Increasing fire weather season overlap between North America and Australia challenges firefighting cooperation
Earth Future 13 (4), e2024EF005030
10.1029/2024EF005030 - Sweet, L.-B., Athanasiadis, I.N., van Bree, R., Castellano, A., Martre, P., Paudel, D., Ruane, A.C., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning
One Earth 8 (4), art. 101233
10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101233 - Woolway, R.I., Zhang, Y., Jennings, E., Zohary, T., Jane, S.F., Jansen, J., Weyhenmeyer, G.A., Long, D., Fleischmann, A., Feng, L., Qin, B., Shi, K., Shi, H., Wang, W., Tong, Y., Zhang, G., Zscheischler, J., Ren, Z., Jeppesen, E. (2025):
Extreme and compound events in lakes
Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 6 (9), 593 - 611
10.1038/s43017-025-00710-w - Yao, L., Leng, G., Yu, L., Li, H., Tang, Q., Python, A., Hall, J.W., Liao, X., Li, J., Qiu, J., Quaas, J., Huang, S., Jin, Y., Zscheischler, J., Peng, J. (2025):
Emergent constraints on global soil moisture projections under climate change
Commun. Earth Environ. 6 , art. 39
10.1038/s43247-025-02024-7 - Zscheischler, J., Raymond, C., Chen, Y., Le Grix, N., Libonati, R., Rogers, C.D.W., White, C.J., Wolski, P. (2025):
Compound weather and climate events in 2024
Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 6 (4), 240 - 242
10.1038/s43017-025-00657-y
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2024 (25)
- Anand, M., Bohn, F.J., Camps-Valls, G., Fischer, R., Huth, A., Sweet, L.-B., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Identifying compound weather drivers of forest biomass loss with generative deep learning
Environ. Data Sci. 3 , e4
10.1017/eds.2024.2 - Anand, M., Hamed, R., Linscheid, N., Silva, P.S., Andre, J., Zscheischler, J., Garry, F.K., Bastos, A. (2024):
Winter climate preconditioning of summer vegetation extremes in the Northern Hemisphere
Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (9), art. 094045
10.1088/1748-9326/ad627d - Bevacqua, E., Rakovec, O., Schumacher, D.L., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Seneviratne, S.I., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought
Nat. Geosci. 17 (11), 1100 - 1107
10.1038/s41561-024-01559-2 - Fang, B., Bevacqua, E., Rakovec, O., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 28 (16), 3755 - 3775
10.5194/hess-28-3755-2024 - Gimeno-Sotelo, L., Bevacqua, E., Fernández-Alvarez, J.C., Barriopedro, D., Zscheischler, J., Gimeno, L. (2024):
Projected changes in extreme daily precipitation linked to changes in precipitable water and vertical velocity in CMIP6 models
Atmos. Res. 304 , art. 107413
10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107413 - Guo, X., Gao, Y., Zhang, S., Cai, W., Chen, D., Leung, L.R., Zscheischler, J., Thompson, L., Davis, K., Qu, B., Gao, H., Wu, L. (2024):
Intensification of future subsurface marine heatwaves in an eddy-resolving model
Nat. Commun. 15 , art. 10777
10.1038/s41467-024-54946-z - Guo, X., Gao, Y., Zhang, S., Cai, W., Leung, L.R., Lu, J., Chen, X., Zscheischler, J., Thompson, L., Guan, B., Rutz, J., Guo, C., Kou, W., Cheng, W., Gao, H., Wu, L. (2024):
More high-impact atmospheric river-induced extreme precipitation events under warming in a high-resolution model
One Earth 7 (12), 2223 - 2234
10.1016/j.oneear.2024.11.009 - Jézéquel, A., Bastos, A., Wilson, A.M., Ramos, A.M., Shepherd, T.G., Stuart-Smith, R., Kimutai, J., Moemken, J., Zscheischler, J., Faranda, D., Lehner, F., Le Grix, N., Sippel, S., Bevacqua, E., Rufat, S., D'Andrea, F., Lloyd, E.A., Van Loon, A.F. (2024):
Broadening the scope of anthropogenic influence in extreme event attribution
Environ. Res. Clim. 3 (4), art. 042003
10.1088/2752-5295/ad7527 - Jiang, S., Sweet, L.-B., Blougouras, G., Brenning, A., Li, W., Reichstein, M., Denzler, J., Shangguan, W., Yu, G., Huang, F., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
How interpretable machine learning can benefit process understanding in the geosciences
Earth Future 12 (7), e2024EF004540
10.1029/2024EF004540 - Jiang, S., Tarasova, L., Yu, G., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Compounding effects in flood drivers challenge estimates of extreme river floods
Sci. Adv. 10 (13), eadl4005
10.1126/sciadv.adl4005 - Klotz, D., Gauch, M., Kratzert, F., Nearing, G., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Technical Note: The divide and measure nonconformity – how metrics can mislead when we evaluate on different data partitions
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 28 (15), 3665 - 3673
10.5194/hess-28-3665-2024 - Lee, R., White, C.J., Adnan, M.S.G., Douglas, J., Mahecha, M.D., O'Loughlin, F.E., Patelli, E., Ramos, A.M., Roberts, M.J., Martius, O., Tubaldi, E., van den Hurk, B., Ward, P.J., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Reclassifying historical disasters: From single to multi-hazards
Sci. Total Environ. 912 , art. 169120
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169120 - Li, D., Zscheischler, J., Chen, Y., Yin, B., Feng, J., Freund, M., Qi, J., Zhu, Y., Bevacqua, E. (2024):
Intensification and poleward shift of compound wind and precipitation extremes in a warmer climate
Geophys. Res. Lett. 51 (11), e2024GL110135
10.1029/2024GL110135 - Li, J., Zhang, Y., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J., Keenan, T.F., Lian, X., Zhou, S., Zhang, H., He, M., Piao, S. (2024):
Future increase in compound soil drought-heat extremes exacerbated by vegetation greening
Nat. Commun. 15 , art. 10875
10.1038/s41467-024-55175-0 - Li, N., Zahra, S., de Brito, M.M., Flynn, C.M., Görnerup, O., Worou, K., Kurfalı, M., Meng, C., Thiery, W., Zscheischler, J., Messori, G., Nivre, J. (2024):
Using LLMs to build a database of climate extreme impacts
In: Stammbach, D., Ni, J., Schimanski, T., Dutia, K., Singh, A., Bingler, J., Christiaen, C., Kushwaha, N., Muccione, V., Vaghefi, S.A., Leippold, M. (eds.)
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, August 16, 2024
Association for Computational Linguistics, Kerrville, p. 93 - 110
10.18653/v1/2024.climatenlp-1.7 - Mahecha, M.D., Bastos, A., Bohn, F.J., Eisenhauer, N., Feilhauer, H., Hickler, T., Kalesse-Los, H., Migliavacca, M., Otto, F.E.L., Peng, J., Sippel, S., Tegen, I., Weigelt, A., Wendisch, M., Wirth, C., Al-Halbouni, D., Deneke, H.M., Doktor, D., Dunker, S., Duveiller, G., Ehrlich, A., Foth, A., García-García, A., Guerra, C.A., Guimarães- Steinicke, C., Hartmann, H., Henning, S., Herrmann, H., Hu, P., Ji, C., Kattenborn, T., Kolleck, N., Kretschmer, M., Kühn, I., Luttkus, M.L., Maahn, M., Mönks, M., Mora, K., Pöhlker, M., Reichstein, M., Rüger, N., Sánchez-Parra, B., Schäfer, M., Stratmann, F., Tesche, M., Wehner, B., Wieneke, S., Winkler, A.J., Wolf, S., Zaehle, S., Zscheischler, J., Quaas, J. (2024):
Biodiversity and climate extremes: known interactions and research gaps
Earth Future 12 (6), e2023EF003963
10.1029/2023EF003963 - Mithal, V., Sillmann, J., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Linking regional economic impacts of temperature-related disasters to underlying climatic hazards
Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (12), art. 124010
10.1088/1748-9326/ad89de - Muheki, D., Deijns, A.A.J., Bevacqua, E., Messori, G., Zscheischler, J., Thiery, W. (2024):
VUB-HYDR/co_occurring_climate_extremes_in_east_africa (v.1.0.0)
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.10970524 - Muheki, D., Deijns, A.A.J., Bevacqua, E., Messori, G., Zscheischler, J., Thiery, W. (2024):
The perfect storm? Co-occurring climate extremes in East Africa
Earth Syst. Dynam. 15 (2), 429 - 466
10.5194/esd-15-429-2024 - Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S.E., Alexander, L.V., King, A.D., Kew, S.F., Philip, S.Y., Barnes, C., Maraun, D., Stuart-Smith, R.F., Jézéquel, A., Bevacqua, E., Burgess, S., Fischer, E., Hegerl, G.C., Kimutai, J., Koren, G., Lawal, K.A., Min, S.-K., New, M., Odoulami, R.C., Patricola, C.M., Pinto, I., Ribes, A., Shaw, T.A., Thiery, W., Trewin, B., Vautard, R., Wehner, M., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Frontiers in attributing climate extremes and associated impacts
Front. Clim. 6 , art. 1455023
10.3389/fclim.2024.1455023 - Ribeiro, A.F.S., Santos, L., Randerson, J.T., Uribe, M.R., Alencar, A.A.C., Macedo, M.N., Morton, D.C., Zscheischler, J., Silvestrini, R.A., Rattis, L., Seneviratne, S.I., Brando, P.M. (2024):
Dataset of time-lagged fractions of burned area associated with land-use transitions and the number of years since transition [Data set]
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.10497344 - Ribeiro, A.F.S., Santos, L., Randerson, J.T., Uribe, M.R., Alencar, A.A.C., Macedo, M.N., Morton, D.C., Zscheischler, J., Silvestrini, R.A., Rattis, L., Seneviratne, S.I., Brando, P.M. (2024):
The time since land-use transition drives changes in fire activity in the Amazon-Cerrado region
Commun. Earth Environ. 5 , art. 96
10.1038/s43247-024-01248-3 - Sivaraj, S., Zscheischler, J., Buzan, J.R., Martius, O., Brönnimann, S., Vicedo-Cabrera, A.M. (2024):
Heat, humidity and health impacts: how causal diagrams can help tell the complex story
Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (7), art. 074069
10.1088/1748-9326/ad5a25 - Tian, Y., Kleidon, A., Lesk, C., Zhou, S., Luo, X., Ghausi, S.A., Wang, G., Zhong, D., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget
Commun. Earth Environ. 5 , art. 617
10.1038/s43247-024-01784-y - Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Compound events in the coupled climate and socio-ecological system
iScience 27 (9), art. 110805
10.1016/j.isci.2024.110805
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2023 (22)
- Anand, M., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
200,000 years of weather and quasi-stationary tree dynamics simulation for beech, pine, and spruce forests (1.0.0) [Data set]
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.7708544 - Bastos, A., Sippel, S., Frank, D., Mahecha, M.D., Zaehle, S., Zscheischler, J., Reichstein, M. (2023):
A joint framework for studying compound ecoclimatic events
Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 4 (5), 333 - 350
10.1038/s43017-023-00410-3 - Bevacqua, E., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., Jézéquel, A., Lehner, F., Vrac, M., Yiou, P., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
Advancing research on compound weather and climate events via large ensemble model simulations
Nat. Commun. 14 , art. 2145
10.1038/s41467-023-37847-5 - Bustamante, M., Roy, J., Ospina, D., Achakulwisut, P., Aggarwal, A., Bastos, A., Broadgate, W., Canadell, J.G., Carr, E.R., Chen, D., Cleugh, H.A., Ebi, K.L., Edwards, C., Farbotko, C., Fernández-Martínez, M., Frölicher, T.L., Fuss, S., Geden, O., Gruber, N., Harrington, L.J., Hauck, J., Hausfather, Z., Hebden, S., Hebinck, A., Huq, S., Huss, M., Jamero, M.L.P., Juhola, S., Kumarasinghe, N., Lwasa, S., Mallick, B., Martin, M., McGreevy, S., Mirazo, P., Mukherji, A., Muttitt, G., Nemet, G.F., Obura, D., Okereke, C., Oliver, T., Orlove, B., Ouedraogo, N.S., Patra, P.K., Pelling, M., Pereira, L.M., Persson, Å., Pongratz, J., Prakash, A., Rammig, A., Raymond, C., Redman, A., Reveco, C., Rockström, J., Rodrigues, R., Rounce, D.R., Schipper, E.L.F., Schlosser, P., Selomane, O., Semieniuk, G., Shin, Y.-J., Siddiqui, T.A., Singh, V., Sioen, G.B., Sokona, Y., Stammer, D., Steinert, N.J., Suk, S., Sutton, R., Thalheimer, L., Thompson, V., Trencher, G., van der Geest, K., Werners, S.E., Wübbelmann, T., Wunderling, N., Yin, J., Zickfeld, K., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
Ten new insights in climate science 2023/2024
Glob. Sustain. 7 , e19
10.1017/sus.2023.25 - Fan, X., Miao, C., Zscheischler, J., Slater, L., Wu, Y., Chai, Y., AghaKouchak, A. (2023):
Escalating hot-dry extremes amplify compound fire weather risk
Earth Future 11 (11), e2023EF003976
10.1029/2023EF003976 - Fu, J., Jiang, Y., Wang, X., Li, L., Ciais, P., Zscheischler, J., Wang, Y., Tang, Y., Müller, C., Webber, H., Yang, B., Wu, Y., Wang, Q., Cui, X., Huang, W., Liu, Y., Zhao, P., Piao, S., Zhou, F. (2023):
Extreme rainfall reduces one-twelfth of China’s rice yield over the last two decades
Nat. Food 4 (5), 416 - 426
10.1038/s43016-023-00753-6 - Gampe, D., Zscheischler, J., Reichstein, M., O’Sullivan, M., Smith, W.K., Sitch, S., Buermann, W. (2023):
Publisher Correction: Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades
Nat. Clim. Chang. 13 (11), art. 1272
10.1038/s41558-023-01731-3 - García-García, A., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Miralles, D.G., Mahecha, M., Quaas, J., Reichstein, M., Zscheischler, J., Peng, J. (2023):
Soil heat extremes can outpace air temperature extremes
Nat. Clim. Chang. 13 (11), 1237 - 1241
10.1038/s41558-023-01812-3 - Gu, L., Gentine, P., Wang, H.-M., Slater, L.J., Sullivan, S.C., Chen, J., Zscheischler, J., Guo, S. (2023):
Large anomalies in future extreme precipitation sensitivity driven by atmospheric dynamics
Nat. Commun. 14 , art. 3197
10.1038/s41467-023-39039-7 - Le Grix, N., Cheung, W.L., Reygondeau, G., Zscheischler, J., Frölicher, T.L. (2023):
Extreme and compound ocean events are key drivers of projected low pelagic fish biomass
Glob. Change Biol. 29 (23), 6478 - 6492
10.1111/gcb.16968 - Li, J., Bevacqua, E., Wang, Z., Sitch, S., Arora, V., Arneth, A., Jain, A.K., Goll, D., Tian, H., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
Hydroclimatic extremes contribute to asymmetric trends in ecosystem productivity loss
Commun. Earth Environ. 4 , art. 197
10.1038/s43247-023-00869-4 - Li, X., Piao, S., Huntingford, C., Peñuelas, J., Yang, H., Xu, H., Chen, A., Friedlingstein, P., Keenan, T.F., Sitch, S., Wang, X., Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M.D. (2023):
Global variations in critical drought thresholds that impact vegetation
Natl. Sci. Rev. 10 (5), nwad049
10.1093/nsr/nwad049 - Lo, Y.T.E., Mitchell, D.M., Buzan, J.R., Zscheischler, J., Schneider, R., Mistry, M.N., Kyselý, J., Lavigne, É., Pereira da Silva, S., Royé, D., Urban, A., Armstrong, B., Gasparrini, A., Vicedo-Cabrera, A.M. (2023):
Optimal heat stress metric for modelling heat-related mortality varies from country to country
Int. J. Climatol. 43 (12), 5553 - 5568
10.1002/joc.8160 - Mukherjee, S., Mishra, A.K., Zscheischler, J., Entekhabi, D. (2023):
Interaction between dry and hot extremes at a global scale using a cascade modeling framework
Nat. Commun. 14 , art. 277
10.1038/s41467-022-35748-7 - Qian, C., Ye, Y., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
Human influences on spatially compounding flooding and heatwave events in China and future increasing risks
Weather Clim. Extremes 42 , art. 100616
10.1016/j.wace.2023.100616 - Richards, J., Huser, R., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
Insights into the drivers and spatiotemporal trends of extreme Mediterranean wildfires with statistical deep learning
Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems (AIES) 2 (4), e220095
10.1175/AIES-D-22-0095.1 - Sweet, L.-B., Müller, C., Anand, M., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
Cross-validation strategy impacts the performance and interpretation of machine learning models
Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems (AIES) 2 (4), e230026
10.1175/AIES-D-23-0026.1 - Tschumi, E., Lienert, S., Bastos, A., Ciais, P., Gregor, K., Joos, F., Knauer, J., Papastefanou, P., Rammig, A., van der Wiel, K., Williams, K., Xu, Y., Zaehle, S., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
Large variability in simulated response of vegetation composition and carbon dynamics to variations in drought-heat occurrence
J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeosci. 128 (4), e2022JG007332
10.1029/2022JG007332 - van den Hurk, B.J.J.M., White, J.C., Ramos, A.M., Ward, P.J., Martius, O., Olbert, I., Roscoe, K., Goulart, H.M.D., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
Consideration of compound drivers and impacts in the disaster risk reduction cycle
iScience 26 (3), art. 106030
10.1016/j.isci.2023.106030 - Westra, S., Zscheischler, J. (2023):
Accounting for systemic complexity in the assessment of climate risk
One Earth 6 (6), 645 - 655
10.1016/j.oneear.2023.05.005 - Yang, H., Munson, S.M., Huntingford, C., Carvalhais, N., Knapp, A.K., Li, X., Peñuelas, J., Zscheischler, J., Chen, A. (2023):
The detection and attribution of extreme reductions in vegetation growth across the global land surface
Glob. Change Biol. 29 (8), 2351 - 2362
10.1111/gcb.16595 - Zhang, B., Wang, S., Zscheischler, J., Moradkhani, H. (2023):
Higher exposure of poorer people to emerging weather whiplash in a warmer world
Geophys. Res. Lett. 50 (21), e2023GL105640
10.1029/2023GL105640
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2022 (14)
- Bevacqua, E., Zappa, G., Lehner, F., Zscheischler, J. (2022):
Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events
Nat. Clim. Chang. 12 (4), 350 - 355
10.1038/s41558-022-01309-5 - Boulaguiem, Y., Zscheischler, J., Vignotto, E., van der Wiel, K., Engelke, S. (2022):
Modeling and simulating spatial extremes by combining extreme value theory with generative adversarial networks
Environ. Data Sci. 1 , e5
10.1017/eds.2022.4 - Guo, X., Gao, Y., Zhang, S., Wu, L., Chang, P., Cai, W., Zscheischler, J., Leung, L.R., Small, J., Danabasoglu, G., Thompson, L., Gao, H. (2022):
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model
Nat. Clim. Chang. 12 (2), 179 - 186
10.1038/s41558-021-01266-5 - Jiang, S., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J. (2022):
River flooding mechanisms and their changes in Europe revealed by explainable machine learning
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (24), 6339 - 6359
10.5194/hess-26-6339-2022 - Le Grix, N., Zscheischler, J., Rodgers, K.B., Yamaguchi, R., Frölicher, T.L. (2022):
Hotspots and drivers of compound marine heatwaves and low net primary production extremes
Biogeosciences 19 (24), 5807 - 5835
10.5194/bg-19-5807-2022 - Li, J., Bevacqua, E., Chen, C., Wang, Z., Chen, X., Myneni, R.B., Wu, X., Xu, C.-Y., Zhang, Z., Zscheischler, J. (2022):
Regional asymmetry in the response of global vegetation growth to springtime compound climate events
Commun. Earth Environ. 3 , art. 123
10.1038/s43247-022-00455-0 - Marcolongo, A., Vladymyrov, M., Lienert, S., Peleg, N., Haug, S., Zscheischler, J. (2022):
Predicting years with extremely low gross primary production from daily weather data using Convolutional Neural Networks
Environ. Data Sci. 1 , e2
10.1017/eds.2022.1 - Orth, R., O, S., Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M.D., Reichstein, M. (2022):
Contrasting biophysical and societal impacts of hydro-meteorological extremes
Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (1), art. 014044
10.1088/1748-9326/ac4139 - Ribeiro, A.F.S., Brando, P.M., Santos, L., Rattis, L., Hirschi, M., Hauser, M., Seneviratne, S.I., Zscheischler, J. (2022):
A compound event-oriented framework to tropical fire risk assessment in a changing climate
Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (6), art. 065015
10.1088/1748-9326/ac7342 - Tschumi, E., Lienert, S., van der Wiel, K., Joos, F., Zscheischler, J. (2022):
The effects of varying drought-heat signatures on terrestrial carbon dynamics and vegetation composition
Biogeosciences 19 (7), 1979 - 1993
10.5194/bg-19-1979-2022 - Tschumi, E., Lienert, S., van der Wiel, K., Joos, F., Zscheischler, J. (2022):
A climate database with varying drought-heat signatures for climate impact modelling
Geosci. Data J. 9 (1), 154 - 166
10.1002/gdj3.129 - Tuel, A., Schaefli, B., Zscheischler, J., Martius, O. (2022):
On the links between sub-seasonal clustering of extreme precipitation and high discharge in Switzerland and Europe
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (10), 2649 - 2669
10.5194/hess-26-2649-2022 - Zscheischler, J., Lehner, F. (2022):
Attributing compound events to anthropogenic climate change
Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 103 (3), E936 - E953
10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0116.1 - Zscheischler, J., Sillmann, J., Alexander, L. (2022):
Introduction to the special issue: Compound weather and climate events
Weather Clim. Extremes 35 , art. 100381
10.1016/j.wace.2021.100381
2021 (14)
- Bevacqua, E., De Michele, C., Manning, C., Couasnon, A., Ribeiro, A.F.S., Ramos, A.M., Vignotto, E., Bastos, A., Blesić, S., Durante, F., Hillier, J., Oliveira, S.C., Pinto, J.G., Ragno, E., Rivoire, P., Saunders, K., van der Wiel, K., Wu, W., Zhang, T., Zscheischler, J. (2021):
Guidelines for studying diverse types of compound weather and climate events
Earth Future 9 (11), e2021EF002340
10.1029/2021EF002340 - Gampe, D., Zscheischler, J., Reichstein, M., O’Sullivan, M., Smith, W.K., Sitch, S., Buermann, W. (2021):
Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades
Nat. Clim. Chang. 11 (9), 772 - 779
10.1038/s41558-021-01112-8 - Le Grix, N., Zscheischler, J., Laufkötter, C., Rousseaux, C.S., Frölicher, T.L. (2021):
Compound high-temperature and low-chlorophyll extremes in the ocean over the satellite period
Biogeosciences 18 (6), 2119 - 2137
10.5194/bg-18-2119-2021 - Lesk, C., Coffel, E., Winter, J., Ray, D., Zscheischler, J., Seneviratne, S.I., Horton, R. (2021):
Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields
Nat. Food 2 (9), 683 - 691
10.1038/s43016-021-00341-6 - Li, J., Wang, Z., Wu, X., Zscheischler, J., Guo, S., Chen, X. (2021):
A standardized index for assessing sub-monthly compound dry and hot conditions with application in China
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (3), 1587 - 1601
10.5194/hess-25-1587-2021 - Messori, G., Bevacqua, E., Caballero, R., Coumou, D., De Luca, P., Faranda, D., Kornhuber, K., Martius, O., Pons, F., Raymond, C., Ye, K., Yiou, P., Zscheischler, J. (2021):
Compound climate events and extremes in the midlatitudes: Dynamics, simulation, and statistical characterization
Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 102 (4), E774 - E781
10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0289.1 - Sillmann, J., Shepherd, T.G., van den Hurk, B., Hazeleger, W., Martius, O., Slingo, J., Zscheischler, J. (2021):
Event‐based storylines to address climate risk
Earth Future 9 (2), e2020EF001783
10.1029/2020EF001783 - Van de Walle, J., Thiery, W., Brogli, R., Martius, O., Zscheischler, J., van Lipzig, N.P.M. (2021):
Future intensification of precipitation and wind gust associated thunderstorms over Lake Victoria
Weather Clim. Extremes 34 , art. 100391
10.1016/j.wace.2021.100391 - Vignotto, E., Engelke, S., Zscheischler, J. (2021):
Clustering bivariate dependencies of compound precipitation and wind extremes over Great Britain and Ireland
Weather Clim. Extremes 32 , art. 100318
10.1016/j.wace.2021.100318 - Villalobos-Herrera, R., Bevacqua, E., Ribeiro, A.F.S., Auld, G., Crocetti, L., Mircheva, B., Ha, M., Zscheischler, J., De Michele, C. (2021):
Towards a compound-event-oriented climate model evaluation: a decomposition of the underlying biases in multivariate fire and heat stress hazards
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 21 (6), 1867 - 1885
10.5194/nhess-21-1867-2021 - Vogel, J., Rivoire, P., Deidda, C., Rahimi, L., Sauter, C.A., Tschumi, E., van der Wiel, K., Zhang, T., Zscheischler, J. (2021):
Identifying meteorological drivers of extreme impacts: an application to simulated crop yields
Earth Syst. Dynam. 12 (1), 151 - 172
10.5194/esd-12-151-2021 - Whan, K., Zscheischler, J., Jordan, A.I., Ziegel, J.F. (2021):
Novel multivariate quantile mapping methods for ensemble post-processing of medium-range forecasts
Weather Clim. Extremes 32 , art. 100310
10.1016/j.wace.2021.100310 - Woolway, R.I., Kraemer, B.M., Zscheischler, J., Albergel, C. (2021):
Compound hot temperature and high chlorophyll extreme events in global lakes
Environ. Res. Lett. 16 (12), art. 124066
10.1088/1748-9326/ac3d5a - Zscheischler, J., Naveau, P., Martius, O., Engelke, S., Raible, C.C. (2021):
Evaluating the dependence structure of compound precipitation and wind speed extremes
Earth Syst. Dynam. 12 (1), 1 - 16
10.5194/esd-12-1-2021
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2025 (21)
- Bevacqua, E., Schleussner, C.-F., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20 yr period that will exceed the Paris Agreement limit
Nat. Clim. Chang. 15 (3), 262 - 265
10.1038/s41558-025-02246-9 - Brett, L., White, C.J., Domeisen, D.I.V., van den Hurk, B., Ward, P., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Review article: The growth in compound weather and climate event research in the decade since SREX
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (8), 2591 - 2611
10.5194/nhess-25-2591-2025 - Cache, T., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J., Müller-Thomy, H., Peleg, N. (2025):
Simulating realistic design storms: a joint return period approach
Water Resour. Res. 61 (7), e2024WR039739
10.1029/2024WR039739 - Fang, B., Rakovec, O., Bevacqua, E., Kumar, R., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Diverging trends in large floods across Europe in a warming climate
Commun. Earth Environ. 6 , art. 717
10.1038/s43247-025-02734-y - Feng, S., Zscheischler, J., Hao, Z., Bevacqua, E. (2025):
Growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in regional weekly fire extremes
npj Clim. Atmos. Sci. 8 , art. 152
10.1038/s41612-025-01021-z - Ferreira, V., Buras, A., Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M., Rammig, A. (2025):
Evaluating the 2023–2024 record dry-hot conditions in the Amazon in the context of historical compound extremes
Environ. Res. Lett. 20 (8), art. 084055
10.1088/1748-9326/ade550 - Fu, J., Wang, C., Qin, Y., Lesk, C., Müller, C., Zscheischler, J., Liu, X., Liang, H., Jiang, Y., Wang, X., Zhou, F. (2025):
Regionally variable responses of maize and soybean yield to rainfall events in China
Agric. For. Meteorol. 364 , art. 110458
10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110458 - Guan, Y., Gu, X., Dai, A., Zhou, T., Yuan, X., Mishra, A.K., Zscheischler, J., Pokhrel, Y., Wang, L., Li, J., Huang, S., Luo, S., Li, L., Kong, D., Zhang, X. (2025):
Anthropogenic enhancement of subsurface soil moisture droughts
Nat. Clim. Chang. 15 (12), 1355 - 1362
10.1038/s41558-025-02458-z - Guo, Y., Beyerle, U., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., Mittermeier, M., Fu, Z., Fischer, E. (2025):
European compound flood-heat-flood events associated with Omega patterns cannot be easily reproduced by a fully coupled model
Commun. Earth Environ. 6 , art. 491
10.1038/s43247-025-02481-0 - Klotz, D., Miersch, P., do Nascimento, T.V.M., Fenicia, F., Gauch, M., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
EARLS: A runoff reconstruction dataset for Europe
Earth System Science Data Discussions
10.5194/essd-2024-450 - Klotz, D., Miersch, P., do Nascimento, T.V.M., Fenicia, F., Gauch, M., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
EARLS: European aggregated reconstruction for large-sample studies (v0.3) [Data set]
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.15506211 - Li, J., Zhang, Y., Bevacqua, E., Zscheischler, J., Keenan, T.F., Lian, X., Zhou, S., Zhang, H., He, M., Piao, S. (2025):
Author correction: Future increase in compound soil drought-heat extremes exacerbated by vegetation greening (vol 15, 10875, 2024)
Nat. Commun. 16 , art. 623
10.1038/s41467-025-55979-8 - Marques, E.Q., Silvério, D.V., Ribeiro, A.F.S., Zscheischler, J., Seneviratne, S.I., Marra, D.D., Rebelatto, B.F., Rattis, L., Brando, P.M. (2025):
Vertical forest dynamics: the influence of windthrows and extreme weather events on Southern Amazon canopy height
Environ. Res. Commun. 7 (12), art. 125010
10.1088/2515-7620/ae24cb - Meng, Y., Schmidt, J., Zscheischler, J., Bevacqua, E. (2025):
Climate-driven compounding effects and historical trends in renewable electricity droughts in Europe
Appl. Energy 401, Part B , art. 126623
10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.126623 - Miersch, P., Günther, W., Runge, J., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Evaluating the robustness of PCMCI+ for causal discovery of flood drivers
Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems (AIES) 4 (4), e240114
10.1175/AIES-D-24-0114.1 - Pasche, O.C., Wider, J., Zhang, Z., Zscheischler, J., Engelke, S. (2025):
Validating deep-learning weather forecast models on recent high-impact extreme events
Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems (AIES) 4 , e240033
10.1175/AIES-D-24-0033.1 - Richardson, D., Ribeiro, A.F.S., Batibeniz, F., Quilcaille, Y., Taschetto, A.S., Pitman, A.J., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Increasing fire weather season overlap between North America and Australia challenges firefighting cooperation
Earth Future 13 (4), e2024EF005030
10.1029/2024EF005030 - Sweet, L.-B., Athanasiadis, I.N., van Bree, R., Castellano, A., Martre, P., Paudel, D., Ruane, A.C., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning
One Earth 8 (4), art. 101233
10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101233 - Woolway, R.I., Zhang, Y., Jennings, E., Zohary, T., Jane, S.F., Jansen, J., Weyhenmeyer, G.A., Long, D., Fleischmann, A., Feng, L., Qin, B., Shi, K., Shi, H., Wang, W., Tong, Y., Zhang, G., Zscheischler, J., Ren, Z., Jeppesen, E. (2025):
Extreme and compound events in lakes
Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 6 (9), 593 - 611
10.1038/s43017-025-00710-w - Yao, L., Leng, G., Yu, L., Li, H., Tang, Q., Python, A., Hall, J.W., Liao, X., Li, J., Qiu, J., Quaas, J., Huang, S., Jin, Y., Zscheischler, J., Peng, J. (2025):
Emergent constraints on global soil moisture projections under climate change
Commun. Earth Environ. 6 , art. 39
10.1038/s43247-025-02024-7 - Zscheischler, J., Raymond, C., Chen, Y., Le Grix, N., Libonati, R., Rogers, C.D.W., White, C.J., Wolski, P. (2025):
Compound weather and climate events in 2024
Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 6 (4), 240 - 242
10.1038/s43017-025-00657-y
Honours
| 2025- | Lead Author, Chapter 3 in Working Group 1 of the IPCC AR7 |
| 2025 | Highly Cited Researcher, Geosciences (Web of Science / Thomson Reuters, top 1% cited papers) |
| 2024 | Highly Cited Researcher, Geosciences (Web of Science / Thomson Reuters, top 1% cited papers) |
| 2023 | Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field (Web of Science / Thomson Reuters, top 1% cited papers) |
| 2022 | Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field (Web of Science / Thomson Reuters, top 1% cited papers) |
| 2022 | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists, European Geosciences Union |
| 2021 | Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field (Web of Science / Thomson Reuters, top 1% cited papers) |
| 2015 | Vladimir Peter Köppen Award, Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction“ (CliSAP) |
| 2014 |
Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society |