Publications
- Hanf, F. S., Ament, F., Boettcher, M., Burgemeister, F., Gaslikova, L., Hoffmann, P., et al (2025): Towards a socio-ecological system understanding of urban flood risk and barriers to climate change adaptation using causal loop diagrams. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 17(1), 69–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2025.2474399
- Heinrich, P., Hagemann, S. & Weisse, R. (2025): Automated classification of atmospheric circulation types for compound flood risk assessment: CMIP6 model analysis utilising a deep learning ensemble. Environ. Res. Lett. 20, 074018. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adddcb
- Krieger, D., Weisse, R., Baehr, J., & Borchert, L.F. (2025): Machine learning-driven skillful decadal predictions of German Bight storm surges. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111558, doi:10.1029/2024GL111558
2017 - 2024
- Bernier, N.B., Hemer, M., Nobuhito, M., Appendini, C.M., Breivik, O., de Camargo, R., Casas-Prat, M., Duong, T.M., Haigh, I.D., Howard, T., Hernaman, V., Huizy, O., Irish, J.L., Kirezci, E., Kohno, N., Lee, J.-W., McInnes, K.L., Meyer, E.M.I., Marcos, M., Marsooli, R., Oliva, A.M., Menendez, M., Moghimi, S., Muis, S., Polton, J.A., Pringle, W.J., Ranasinghe, R., Saillour, T., Smith, G., Tadesse, M.G., Swail, V., Tomoya, S., Voukouvalas, E., Wahl, T., Wang, P., Weisse, R., Westerink, J.J., Young, I., & Zhang, Y.J. (2024): Storm Surges and Extreme Sea Levels: Review, Establishment of Model Intercomparison and Coordination of Surge Climate Projection Efforts (SurgeMIP). Weather and Climate Extremes, 100689, doi:10.1016/j.wace.2024.100689
- Bormann, H., Berkenbrink, C., Karrasch, L., Massmann, G., Ratter, B., Wessels, A., & Weisse, R. (2024): Wasser an den Küsten Ostfrieslands (WAKOS): maßgeschneiderte Klimaservices für die Anpassung. Notfallvorsorge 1/2024, S. 17-25
- Bormann, H., Kebschull, J., Gaslikova, L., & Weisse, R. (2024): Model-based assessment of climate change impact on inland flood risk at the German North Sea coast caused by compounding storm tide and precipitation events. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 2559–2576, doi:10.5194/nhess-24-2559-2024
- Enayatighadikolaei, H., Suzuki, T., Soltanpour, M., & Thilakarathne, S. (2024): Application of the Bruun rule in evaluating the effect of water level fall on the Caspian Sea profile evolution. Coastal Engineering Journal, 1–15, doi:10.1080/21664250.2024.2422167
- Feser, F., van Garderen, L., & Hansen, F. (2024): The Summer Heatwave 2022 over Western Europe: An Attribution to Anthropogenic Climate Change. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 105, E2175–E2179, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0017.1
- Gregory, C. H., Artana, C., Lama, S., León-FonFay, D., Sala, J., Xiao, F., Xu, T., Capotondi, A., Martinez-Villalobos, C., & Holbrook, N.J. (2024): Global marine heatwaves under different flavors of ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110399, doi:10.1029/2024GL110399
- Krieger, D., Brune, S., Baehr, J., & Weisse, R. (2024): Improving seasonal predictions of German Bight storm activity. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 1539–1554, doi:10.5194/nhess-24-1539-2024
- León-FonFay, D., Barkhordarian, A., Feser, F., & Baehr, J. (2024): Sensitivity of Arctic marine heatwaves to half-a-degree increase in global warming: 10-fold frequency increase and 15-fold extreme intensity likelihood. Environ. Res. Lett. Vol 20, 014049, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ada029
- Matte, D., Christensen, J.H., Drews, M., Sobolowski, S., Paquin, D., Lynch, A., Bremer, S., Engholm, I., Brunet, N.D., Kolstad, E.W., Kettleborough, H., Thompson, V., Bevacqua, E., Heinrich, D., Pryor, S.C., Böhnisch, A., Feser, F., Prein, A.F., Fischer, E., & Leduc, M. (2024): How to engage and adapt to unprecedented extremes. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0138.1
- Meyer, E.M.I., & Gaslikova, L. (2024): Investigation of historical severe storms and storm tides in the German Bight with century reanalysis data. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 481–499, doi:10.5194/nhess-24-481-2024
- Meyer, E.M.I., Gaslikova, L., Groll, N., & Weisse, R. (2024): The Baltic storm surges of 1872 and 2023 – what do they have in common? Die Küste, 94 - Online First, doi:10.18171/1.094106
- Pinto, J.G., Feser, F., Ludwig, P., & Reyers, M. (2024): Der Klimawandel: Auswirkungen auf Winde und Zyklonen. In: Brasseur, G.P., Jacob, D., Schuck-Zöller, S. (eds): Klimawandel in Deutschland. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-66696-8_8
- Ratter, B., Anke Wessels, A., Bormann, H., & Weisse, R. (2024): Risikoregion hinter den Deichen - Umgang mit Extremereignisbündeln als transdisziplinäre Herausforderung an der Küste. In: RaumPlanung 227 / 3/4-2024, S. 13-18
- Teutsch, I., & Groll, N. (2024): Seegangsbetrachtung zum Untergang der MS “MELANIE SCHULTE” im Jahr 1952. Die Küste, 93, doi:10.18171/1.093104
- Teutsch, I., Weisse, R., & Wahls, S. (2024): Brief communication: Implications of outstanding solitons for the occurrence of rogue waves at two additional sites in the North Sea. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 2065–2069, doi:10.5194/nhess-24-2065-2024
- Thissen, L., Greskowiak, J., Gaslikova, L., & Massmann, G. (2024): Climate change impact on barrier island freshwater lenses and their transition zones: a multi-parameter study. Hydrogeol J (2024), doi:10.1007/s10040-024-02800-3
- von Storch, H., Feser, F., Blender, R., Camargo, S., Cavicchia, L., Di Luca, A., Fu, G., Gozzo, L., Koks, E., Messmer, M., Mori, N., Priestley, M., Roy, T., Schultz, D., Watanabe, S., & Weisse, R. (2024): Storms as Forming and Threatening Factors for Coasts. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.853
- Weisse, R., Gaslikova, L., Hagemann, S., Heinrich, P., Berkenbrink, C., Chen, J., Bormann, H., Kebschull, J., Ley, A., Massmann, G., Greskowiak, J., Thissen, L., Karrasch, L., Schoppe, A., Ratter, B., & Wessels, A. (2024): Zusammenwirken von Naturgefahren im Klimawandel ist für die Nordseeküste zunehmend eine Herausforderung. Wasser und Abfall 26 (5), S. 38–45, doi:10.1007/s35152-024-1854-y
- Weisse, R., & Meinke, I. (2024): Mittlerer Meeresspiegelanstieg und Sturmfluten. In: Brasseur, G.P., Jacob, D., Schuck-Zöller, S. (eds): Klimawandel in Deutschland. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-66696-8_9
- Heinrich, P., Hagemann, S., Weisse, R., & Gaslikova, L. (2023): Changes in compound flood event frequency in northern and central Europe under climate change. Front. Clim. 5:1227613, doi:10.3389/fclim.2023.1227613
- Heinrich, P., Hagemann, S., Weisse, R., Schrum, C., Daewel, U., & Gaslikova, L. (2023): Compound flood events: analysing the joint occurrence of extreme river discharge events and storm surges in northern and central Europe. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 1967–1985, doi:10.5194/nhess-23-1967-2023
- Liu, X., Köhl, A., & Stammer, D. (2023): Causes for Atlantic freshwater content variability in the GECCO3 ocean synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128, e2022JC018796, doi:10.1029/2022JC018796
- Olonscheck, D., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., Milinski, S., Beobide-Arsuaga, G., Baehr, J., Fröb, F., Ilyina, T., Kadow, C., Krieger, D., Li, H., Marotzke, J., Plésiat, E., Schupfner, M., Wachsmann, F., Wallberg, L., Wieners, K.-H., & Brune, S. (2023): The New Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble with CMIP6 forcing and high-frequency model output. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, doi:10.1029/2023MS003790
- Teutsch, I., Brühl, M., Weisse, R., & Wahls, S. (2023): Contribution of solitons to enhanced rogue wave occurrence in shallow depths: a case study in the southern North Sea. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 2053–2073, doi:10.5194/nhess-23-2053-2023
- Erikson, L., Morim, J., Hemer, M., Young, I., Wang, X.L., Mentaschi, L., Mori, N., Semedo, A., Stopa, J., Grigorieva, V., Gulev, S., Aarnes, O., Bidlot, J.-R., Breivik, Ø., Bricheno, L., Shimura, T., Menendez, M.,Markina, M., Sharmar, V., Trenham, C., Wolf, J., Appendini, C., Caires, S., Groll, N., & Webb, A. (2022): Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble. Commun Earth Environ 3, 320, doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00654-9
- Krieger, D., Brune, S., Pieper, P., Weisse, R., & Baehr, J. (2022): Skillful decadal prediction of German Bight storm activity. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 3993–4009, doi:10.5194/nhess-22-3993-2022
- Liu, X., Meinke, I., & Weisse, R. (2022): Still normal? Near-real-time evaluation of storm surge events in the context of climate change. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 97–116, doi:10.5194/nhess-22-97-2022
- Meier, H.E.M., Kniebusch, M., Dieterich, C., Gröger, M., Zorita, E., Elmgren, R., Myrberg, K., Ahola, M.P., Bartosova, A., Bonsdorff, E., Börgel, F., Capell, R., Carlén, I., Carlund, T., Carstensen, J., Christensen, O.B., Dierschke, V., Frauen, C., Frederiksen, M., Gaget, E., Galatius, A., Haapala, J. J., Halkka, A., Hugelius, G., Hünicke, B., Jaagus, J., Jüssi, M., Käyhkö, J., Kirchner, N., Kjellström, E., Kulinski, K., Lehmann, A., Lindström, G., May, W., Miller, P.A., Mohrholz, V., Müller-Karulis, B., Pavón-Jordán, D., Quante, M., Reckermann, M., Rutgersson, A., Savchuk, O.P., Stendel, M., Tuomi, L., Viitasalo, M., Weisse, R., & Zhang, W. (2022): Climate change in the Baltic Sea region: a summary. Earth Syst. Dynam., 13, 457–593, doi:10.5194/esd-13-457-2022
- Meyer, E.M.I., Weisse, R., Grabemann, I., Tinz, B., & Scholz, R. (2022): Reconstruction of wind and surge of the 1906 storm tide at the German North Sea coast. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 2419–2432, doi:10.5194/nhess-22-2419-2022
- Teutsch, I., & Weisse, R. (2022): Rogue Waves in the Southern North Sea - The Role of Modulational Instability. Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-22-0059.1
- Feser, F., Krueger, O., Woth, K., & van Garderen, L. (2021): North Atlantic winter storm activity in modern reanalyses and pressure-based observations. Journal of Climate, 1-45, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0529.1
- Jensen, J., Ebener, A., Jänicke, L., Arns, A., Hubert, K., Wurpts, A., Berkenbrink, C., Weisse, R., Yi, X., & Meyer, E. (2021): Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Tidedynamik an der deutschen Nordseeküste (ALADYN). Die Küste, 89, doi:10.18171/1.089105
- Krieger, D., Krueger, O., Feser, F., Weisse, R., Tinz, B., & von Storch, H. (2021): German Bight storm activity, 1897–2018. Int J Climatol., 41 (Suppl. 1), E2159– E2177, doi:10.1002/joc.6837
- Weisse, R., Dailidienė, I., Hünicke, B., Kahma, K., Madsen, K., Omstedt, A., Parnell, K., Schöne, T., Soomere, T., Zhang, W., & Zorita, E. (2021): Sea level dynamics and coastal erosion in the Baltic Sea region. Earth Syst. Dynam., 12, 871–898, doi:10.5194/esd-12-871-2021
- Yi, X., & Weisse, R. (2021): Modellgestütze Untersuchungen zum Einfluss großräumiger Faktoren auf die Tidedynamik in der Deutschen Bucht. Karlsruhe: Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau, doi:10.18171/1.089107
- Grabemann, I., Gaslikova, L., Brodhagen, T., & Rudolph, E. (2020): Extreme storm tides in the German Bight (North Sea) and their potential for amplification, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 1985–2000, doi:10.5194/nhess-20-1985-2020
- Merz, B., Kuhlicke, C., Kunz, M., Pittore, M., Babeyko, A., Bresch, D.N., Domeisen, D.I.V., Feser, F., Koszalka, I., Kreibich, H., Pantillon, F., Parolai, S., Pinto, J.G., Punge, H.J., Rivalta, E., Schröter, K., Strehlow, K., Weisse, R., & Wurpts, A. (2020): Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards. Reviews of Geophysics, 58, e2020RG000704, doi:10.1029/2020RG000704
- Teutsch, I., Weisse, R., Moeller, J., & Krueger, O. (2020): A statistical analysis of rogue waves in the southern North Sea. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 2665–2680, doi:10.5194/nhess-20-2665-2020
- Weisse, R., & Hünicke, B. (2019): Baltic Sea Level. Past, Present, and Future. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.693
- Krueger, O., Feser, F., & Weisse, R. (2019): Northeast Atlantic Storm Activity and its Uncertainty from the late 19th to the 21st Century. J. Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0505.1
- Weisse, R., Gaslikova, L., Geyer, B., Groll, N. & Meyer, E. (2018): coastDat: Modelldaten für Wissenschaft und Industrie, Die Küste, 86, 5-19
- Weisse, R. (2018): Sturmfluten und Seegang. In: Lozán, J.L., Breckle, S.-W., Graßl, H., Kasang, D., & Weisse, R. (Hsg.): Warnsignal Klima: Extremereignisse, www.klima-warnsignale.uni-hamburg.de/wetterextreme/
- Teich, T., Groll, N., & Weisse, R. (2018): Long-term statistics of potentially hazardous sea states in the North Sea 1958–2014. Ocean Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s10236-018-1210-4
- Ganske, A., Fery, N., Gaslikova, L., Grabemann, I., Weisse, R., & Tinz, B. (2018): Identification of extreme storm surges with high-impact potential along the German North Sea coastline. Ocean Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s10236-018-1190-4
- Kappenberg, J., Berendt, M., Ohle, N., Riethmüller, R., Schuster, D., & Strotmann, Th. (2018): Variation of Hydrodynamics and Water Constituents in the Mouth of the Elbe Estuary, Germany. Civil Eng Res J, 4(4): 555643, doi:10.19080/CERJ.2018.04.555643
- Horsburgh, K., Losada, I., Vousdoukas, M., Weisse, R., & Wolf, J. (2017): Hydrological risk: wave action, storm surge and coastal flooding. In: Poljanšek, K. (Hg.): Science for disaster risk management 2017. Knowing better and losing less. [S. l.]: European Commission (EUR, 28034 EN), S. 219-227, doi:10.2788/842809
- Callies, U., Groll, N., Horstmann, J., Kapitza, H., Klein, H., Maßmann, S., and Schwichtenberg, F. (2017): Surface drifters in the German Bight: Model validation considering windage and Stokes drift. Ocean Science. DOI:10.5194/os-13-799-2017
- Groll, N. and Weisse, R.: A multi-decadal wind-wave hindcast for the North Sea 1949–2014: coastDat2, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., DOI:10.5194/essd-9-955-2017
- Weisse Ralf & Hendrik Weidemann (2017): Baltic Sea extreme sea levels 1948-2011: Contributions from atmospheric forcing. Procedia IUTAM, Volume 25, Pages 65-69
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