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2011

J. J. Gómez-Navarro, J. P. Montávez, S. Jerez, P. Jiménez-Guerrero, R. Lorente-Plazas, J. F. GonzÃlez-Rouco, and E. Zorita. 2011. A regional climate simulation over the Iberian Peninsula for the last millennium. Climate of the Past 7, 451.

Smerdon J.E., Kaplan A., Zorita E., González-Rouco J.F., and Evans M.H. (2011). Spatial Performance of Four Climate Field Reconstruction Methods Targeting the Common Era. Geophys. Res. Lett., in press.

J. Luterbacher, R. García-Herrera, A. R. Allan, M.C. Álvarez-Castro, G. Benito, J. Booth, U. Büntgen, D. Colombaroli, B. Davis, J. Esper, T. Felis, D. Fleitmann, D. Frank, D. Gallego, E. García-Bustamante, F.J. González-Rouco, H. Goosse, T. Kiefer, M.G. Macklin, S.W. Manning, P. Montagna, L. Newman, M.J. Power, V. Rath, P. Ribera, N. Roberts, S. Silenzi, W. Tinner, P.C. Tzedakis, B. Valero-Garces, G. van der Schrier, B. Vannière, H. Wanner, J.P. Werner, G. Willett, E. Xoplaki, C.S. Zerefos, E. Zorita. A Review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean. In: Lionello et al. (eds.), (2011). The Mediterranean Climate: from past to future. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in press.

Gagen, M., E. Zorita, D. McCarroll, G.H.F. Young, H. Grudd, R. Jalkanen, N.J. Loader, I. Robertson, and A. Kirchhefer, 2011. Cloud response to summer temperatures in Fennoscandia over the last thousand years. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L05701, doi:10.1029/2010GL046216.

2010

Frank, D., J. Esper, E. Zorita, R. Wilson, 2010. A noodle, hockey stick, and spaghetti plate: a perspective on high-resolution paleoclimatology. WIRe Climate Change 1, 507-516, doi: 10.1002/wcc.53.

Zorita, E., A. Moberg, L. Leijonhufvud, R. Wilson, R. Brázdil, P. Dobrovolný, J. Luterbacher, R. Böhm, Ch. Pfister, R. Glaser, J. Söderberg, F. González-Rouco, 2010. European temperature records of the past five centuries based on documentary information compared to climate simulations. Climatic Change 101, 143-168, doi: 10.1007/s10584-010-9824-7.

Brázdil, R., P. Dobrovolný, J. Luterbacher, A. Moberg, C. Pfister, D. Wheeler, E. Zorita, 2010. European climate of the last 500 years: new challanges for historical climatology. Climatic Change 101, 7-40, doi: 10.1007/s10584-009-9783-z.

Luterbacher, J., Xoplaki, E., Küttel, M., Rutishauser, T., Stössel, M., Wanner, H., Gonzalez-Rouco, F.J., Zorita, E., Wibig, J., Przybylak, R., and Jones, P.D., 2010. In: R. Przybylak et al. (eds.), The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview; doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-3167-9_1, 3-39.

Luterbacher, J., S.J. Koenig, J. Franke, G. van der Schrier, P.M. Della-Marta, J. Jacobeit, M. Küttel,F.J. González-Rouco, E. Zorita, E. Xoplaki, M. Stössel, T. Rutishauser, H. Wanner, C. Pfister, R. Brázdil, P. Dobrovolný, D. Camuffo, C. Bertolin, A. Moberg, L. Leijonhufvud, J. Soderberg, R. Allan, R. Wilson, D. Wheeler, M. Barriendos, R. Glaser, D. Riemann, O. Nordli, D. Limanówka, A. van Engelen, C.S. Zerefos, 2010. Circulation dynamics and its influence on European and Mediterranean January-April climate over the past half millennium: Results and insights from instrumental data, documentary proxy evidence and coupled climate models. Climatic Change 101, 201-234, doi: 10.1007/s10584-009-9782-0.

Tol, R.S.J. and S. Wagner, 2010. Climate changes and violent conflict in Europe over the last millennium. Climatic Change 99, 65-79, doi: 10.1007/s10584-009-9659-2.

Hünicke, B, 2010. Contribution of regional climate drivers on future winter sea-level changes in the Baltic Sea estimated by statistical methods and simulations of climate models. Int J Earth Sci 99, 1721-1730, doi: 10.1007/s00531-009-0470-0.

2009

Matulla, C., E. Watson, S. Wagner and W. Schöner, 2009. Downscaled GCM projections of winter and summer mass balance for Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Canada (2000-2100) from ensemble simulations with ECHAM5-MPIOM. Int J Climatol 29, 1550-1559, doi: 10.1002/joc.1796.

Ganzedo, U., E. Zorita, A. P. Solari, G. Chust, A. Santana del Pino, J. Polanco and J. J. Castro, 2009. What drives the tuna capture between the XVI (1525) and XVII (1756) centuries in Southern Europe? ICES J. Mar Sci 66, 1595 - 1604.

Zorita, E., F. González-Rouco, H. von Storch, (2009). Relationships between Northern Hemisphere mean temperature, wind-stress and tropical sea-surface temperature in a climate simulation of the past millennium. ICES J of Mar Sci, in press.

González-Rouco, J.F., H. Beltrami, E. Zorita, and M. B. Stevens, 2009. Borehole climatology: a discussion based on contributions from climate modeling. Clim Past 5, 97-127, doi: 10.5194/cp-5-97-2009.

von Storch, H., E. Zorita and F. González-Rouco, 2009. Assessement of three temperature reconstruction methods in the virtual reality of a climate simulation. Int J Earth Sci 98, 67-82.

Liu, J., B. Wang, Q. Ding, X. Kuang, W. Soon and E. Zorita, 2009. Centennial variations of the global monsoon precipitation in the last millennium: Results from ECHO-G model. J Clim 22, 2356-2371, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2353.1.

2008

Zorita, E., T. Stocker and H. von Storch, 2008. How unusual is the recent series of warm years?. Geophys Res Let 35 (24), L24706, doi:10.1029/2008GL036228.

von Storch, H., E. Zorita and F. González-Rouco, 2008. Relationships between global mean sea-level and global mean temperature and heat-flux in a climate simulation of the past millennium. Ocean Dynamics 58, 227-236, doi: 10.1007/s10236-088-0142-9.

González-Rouco, J.F., H. Beltrami, E. Zorita, and M. B. Steven, 2008. Borehole climatology: a discussion based on contributions from climate modeling. Clim Past Discuss 4, 1-80, doi: 10.5194/cpd-4-1-2008.

Smerdon, J., F. González-Rouco and E. Zorita, 2008. Comment on 'Robustness of proxy-based climate field reconstructions methods' by Mann et al. J Geophys Res 113, D18106, doi:10.1029/2007JD00954.

Meyer, I. and S. Wagner, 2008. The Little Ice Age in southern Patagonia -Comparison between paleo-ecological reconstructions and downscaled model output of a GCM simulation. PAGES News, Vol. 16 No. 2.

Hünicke, B., J. Luterbacher, A. Pauling and E. Zorita, 2008. Regional differences in winter sea-level variations in the Baltic Sea for the past 200 years. Tellus 60A (2), 384-393, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00298.x.

Matulla, C., X. Zhang, X.L.Wang, J.Wang, E. Zorita, S.Wagner and H. von Storch, 2008. Influence of similarity measures on performance of downscaling precipitation by the analog method for downscaling precipitation. Clim Dyn 30 (2-3), 133-144, doi: 10.1007/s00382-007-0277-2.

Hünicke, B. and E. Zorita, 2008. Trends in the amplitude of Baltic Sea level annual cycle. Tellus 60A, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00277.x.

2007

Hünicke, B. and E. Zorita, 2007. Estimation of the influence of regional climate on the recent past and future sea-level changes in the Baltic Sea with statistical methods and simulations of climate models. In: SINCOS -Sinking Coasts. Geosphere, Ecosphere and Anthroposphere of the Holocene Southern Baltic Sea. Berichte der RGK 88, 219-240.

Küttel, M., J. Luterbacher, E. Zorita, E. Xoplaki, N. Riedwyl and H. Wanner, 2007. Testing a European winter surface temperature reconstruction in a surrogate climate. Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L07710, doi:101029/2006GL027907.

Gouirand, I., V. Moron, E. Zorita, 2007. Teleconnections between ENSO and North Atlantic in an ECHO-G simulation of the 1000-1990 period. Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L06706, doi:10.1029/2006GL028852.

Fischer, E., J. Luterbacher, E. Zorita, S. Tett , C. Casty , H. Wanner, 2007. European climate response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the last half millennium. Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L05707 doi: 10.1029/2006GL027992.

Matulla, C., S. Schmutz, A. Melcher, T. Gerersdorfer and P. Haas, 2007. Climatic Change impact on fish fauna for an Inner-Alpine River based on a transient AOGCM simulation. Int J Biometeorology, doi:10.1007/s00484-007-0107-6.

Zorita, E., F. González-Rouco and H. von Storch, 2007. Comment to "Testing the fidelity of methods used in proxy-based reconstructions of past climate" by Mann et al. J. Climate, 20, 3693-3698, doi: 10.1175/JCLI14171.1.

Fernández, J., J.P Montávez, J. Sáenz, J.F. González-Rouco, and E. Zorita, 2007. Sensitivity of the MM5 mesoscale model to physical parametrizations for regional climate studies: annual cycle. J Geophys Res 112, D04101, doi:10.1029/2005JD006649.

Wagner, S., M. Widmann, J. Jones, T. Haberzettl, A. Lücke, C. Mayr, C. Ohlendorf, F. Schäbitz and B. Zolitschka, 2007. Transient simulations, empirical reconstructions and forcing mechanisms for the Mid-Holocene hydrological climate in Southern Patagonia. Clim Dyn 29, 333-355, doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0229-x.

Widmann, M., N. Groll and J.M. Jones, 2007: Simulated teleconnections during the Eemian, the last glacial inception and the preindustrial period. In Sirocko, F., T. Litt and M. Claussen (eds.): The climate of past interglacials, Elsevier, ISSN 1571-0866, 622pp.

Gouirand, I. A. Moberg and E. Zorita, 2007. Climate variability in Scandinavia for the past millennium simulated by an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. Tellus 59A, 30-49, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.000207.x.

Hegerl, G., T. Crowley, M. Allen, W. Hyde, H. Pollack, J. Smerdon and E. Zorita, 2007. Detection of human influence on a new, validated 1500-year temperature reconstruction. J Climate 20 (4), 650-666, doi: 10.1175/JCLI4011.1.

2006

Crueger, T., H. Kuhnert, J. Paetzold, E. Zorita, 2006. Calibrations of Bermuda corals against large-scale SST- and SLP-pattern time series and implications for climate reconstructions. J Geophys Res, 111, D23103, doi:10.1029/2005JD006903.

Cubasch, U., F. Kaspar, E. Zorita, K. Prömmel, H. von Storch and F. Gonzáles-Rouco, 2006. Simulation of the role of solar forcing and orbital forcing on climate, J. Adv. Space Physics 37, 1629-1634.

Frías, D., E. Zorita, J. Fernández, C. Rodríguez-Puebla, 2006. Testing statistical downscaling methods in simulated climates. Geophys Res Lett 33, L19807.

Gonzalez-Rouco, J. F., H. Beltrami, E. Zorita, H. von Storch, 2006. Simulation and inversion of borehole temperature profiles in simulated climates: Spatial distribution and surface coupling.
Geophys Res Lett 33, L01703.

Groll, N. and M. Widmann, 2006. Sensitivity of temperature teleconnections to orbital changes in AO-GCM simulations. Geophys Res Lett 13 (12), L12705.

Hünicke, B. and E. Zorita, 2006. Influence of temperature and precipitation on decadal Baltic Sea level variations in 20th century. Tellus, 58A, 141-153.

Rybski, D., A. Bunde, S. Havlin,and H. von Storch, 2006. Long-term persistence in climate and the detection problem. Geophys Res Lett 33, L06718, doi:10.1029/2005GL025591.

von Storch, H., 2006. Models of global and regional climate. M.G. Anderson (Ed): Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences, Part 3. Meteorology and Climatology, Chapter 32, ISBN: 0 471-49103-9, p 478-490 doi: 10.1002/0470848944.hsa035.

von Storch, H., E. Zorita, J. Jones, F. González-Rouco and S.F.B. Tett, 2006. Response to the comment by Wahl, Ritson and Amman "Reconstruction of century scale temperature variations". Science 312, 529.

von Storch, H., E. Zorita, J. Jones, F. González-Rouco and S.F.B. Tett, 2006. Response to "Testing climate reconstructions by Rahmstorf". Science, 312, 1872-1873. This comment and our answer are not peer-reviewed. It is included in this list for the interested reader.

2005

Brázdil, R., C. Pfister, H. Wanner, H. von Storch, J. Luterbacher, 2005. Historical climatology in Europe - The state of the art. Climatic Change, 70, 363-430.

Cubasch, U., G. Bürger, I. Fast, T. Spangehl and S. Wagner, 2005. The direct solar influence on climate: Modeling the lower atmosphere. Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana, 76, 810-819.

Fischer-Bruns, I., H. von Storch, J.F. González-Rouco and E. Zorita, 2005: Modelling the variability of Midlatitude Storm Activity on Decadal to Century Time Scales. Clim Dyn, 25, 461-476.

Goosse, H., T. Crowley, E. Zorita, C. Amman, H. Renssen and E. Driesschaert, 2005. Modelling the climate of the last millennium. What causes the differences between models?. Geophys Res Lett 32, L06710.

Groll, N., M. Widmann, J. M. Jones, F. Kaspar, and S. Lorenz 2005. Simulated relationships between regional temperatures and large-scale circulation during hte early Eemian interglacial (125kyr BP) and the pre-industrial period. J Climate, 18, 2785-2792.

Liu, J., H. von Storch, X. Chen, E. Zorita, J. Zheng, and S. Wang, 2005. Simulated and reconstructed temperature in the eastern China during the last millennium. Chinese Science Bulletin, 50 (24): 2872-2877 (in Chinese. 50(20):2251-2255)

Renssen, H., P. Bracconot, S.F.B. Tett, H. von Storch and S.L. Weber, 2005. Recent developments in Holocene climate modelling. In: Battarbee R.W., Gasse F., and Stickley C.E. (eds), Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. xxiv, 638pp.

von Storch, H., and E. Zorita, 2005. Comment on "Hockey sticks, principal components and spurious significance" by S. McIntyre and R. McKitrick. Geophys Res Lett 32, L20701.

Wagner, S., and E. Zorita, 2005. The influence of volcanic, solar and CO2 forcing on the temperatures in the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830): a model study. Clim Dyn 25, 205-218.

Wagner, S., S. Legutke and E. Zorita, 2005. European winter temperature variability in a long coupled model simulation: the contribution of ocean dynamics. Clim Dyn 25, 37-50.

Widmann, M., 2005. One-dimensional CCA and SVD and their relationship to regression maps. J. Climate 18, 2785-2792.

Zorita, E., F. González-Rouco, H. von Storch, J.P. Montavez and F. Valero, 2005. Natural and anthropogenic modes of surface temperature variations in the last thousand years. Geophys Res Lett 32, L08707.

2004-2002

Bärring, L. and H. von Storch, 2004. Northern European Storminess since about 1800. Geophys Res Lett 31, L20202, doi:10.1029/2004GL020441.

Crüger, T., H. Fischer and H. von Storch, 2004. What do accumulation records of single ice cores in Greenland represent? J Geophys Res 109, D21110, doi:10.1029/2004JD005014.

Jones, J. M. and M. Widmann, 2004. Early peak in Antarctic Oscillation index. Nature 432, 290-291.

Jones, J. M. and M. Widmann, 2004. Reconstructing large-scale variability from palaeoclimatic evidence by means of Data Assimilation Through Upscaling and Nudging (DATUN). In: H. Fischer, T. Kumke,
G. Lohmann, G. Flöser, H. Miller, H. von Storch and J. F. W. Negendank (eds.), 2004: The KIHZ project: towards a synthesis of Holocene proxy data and climate models. Springer, Heidelberg, Berlin, New York. ISSN 1437-028X, p171-193.

KIHZ-Consortium: J. Zinke, H. von Storch, B. Müller, E. Zorita, B. Rein, H. B. Mieding, H. Miller, A. Lücke, G.H. Schleser, M.J. Schwab, J.F.W. Negendank, U. Kienel, J.F. González-Ruoco, C. Dullo and A. Eisenhauser, 2003: Evidence for the climate during the Late Maunder Minimum from proxy data available within KIHZ. In H. Fischer, T. Kumke, G. Lohmann, G. Flöser, H. Miller, H von Storch und J. F. W. Negendank (Eds.): The KIHZ project: towards a synthesis of Holocene proxy data and climate models, Springer Verlag, Berlin - Heidelberg - New York, 478pp.

Mueller-Navarra, D. M. Brett, S. Park, S. Chandra, A. Ballantyne, E. Zorita and C. Goldman, 2004. Seston unsaturated fatty acid content and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes. Nature 427, 69-72.

Penlap E. K., C. Matulla, H. von Storch, and F. M. Kamga, 2004: Downscaling of GCM scenarios to assess precipitation changes in the little rainy season (March-June) in Cameroon. Clim Res 26, 85-96.

von Storch, H., 2004: A discourse about quasi-realistic climate models and their applications in palaeoclimatic studies, In H. Fischer, T. Kumke, G. Lohmann, G. Flöser, H. Miller, H von Storch und J. F. W. Negendank (Eds.): The Climate in Historical Times. twoards a Synthesis of Holocene Prxy Data and Climate Models, Springer Verlag, Berlin - Heidelberg - New York, 487 pp., ISBN 3-540-20601-9, 43-56

von Storch, H., E. Zorita, J. M. Jones, Y. Dmitriev. F. González and S. F. B. Tett, 2004: Reconstructing past climate from noisy data. Science 306, 679-682.

Zorita, E., H. von Storch, J. F. González-Rouco, U. Cubasch, J. Luterbacher, S. Legutke, I. Fischer-Bruns and U. Schlese. Climate evolution in the last five centuries simulated by an atmosphere-ocean model: global temperatures, the North Atlantic Oscillation adn the Late Maunder Minimum. Meteorologische Zeitschrift 13, 271-289.

Zwiers, F.W., and H. von Storch, 2004: On the role of statistics in climate research. Int J Climatol 24, 665–680.

Fernandez, J., J. Saenz, and E. Zorita, 2003. Analysis of the wintertime atmosphere moisture transport and its variability over the Mediterranean Basin. Clim Res 23, 195-215.

Feser, F., H. v. Storch, R. Weisse and E. Zorita, 2003. Aliasing in power spectra: comment on "Improved global maps and 54-year history of wind-work on ocean inertial motions" by M. H. Alford.
Geophys Res Lett 22, 2165.

Gonzalez-Rouco, F., H. von Storch and E. Zorita, 2003. Deep soil temperature as proxy for surface air-temperature in a coupled model simulation of the last thousand years. Geophys Res Lett 30, 2116-9.

Jones, J. M. and M. Widmann, 2003: Instrument- and tree-ring-based estimates for the Antarctic Oscillation. J Climate, 16, 3511-3524.

Matulla C, Penlap EK, Haas P, Formayer H, 2003. Comparative analysis of spatial and seasonal variability: Austrian precipitation during the 20th century. Int J Climatol, 23, 1577-1588.

Summer, G. N., N. Romero, V. Homar, C. Ramis, S. Alonso and E. Zorita, 2003. An estimate of the effects of climate change on the rainfall of Mediterranean Spain by the late 21st century. Clim Dyn 20, 789-805.

Widmann, M., C. S. Bretherton, and E. P. Salathé Jr., 2003. Statistical precipitation downscaling over the Northwestern United States using numerically simulated precipitation as a predictor. J Climate 16, 799-816.

Zorita, E., F. González-Rouco and S. Legutke, 2003. Testing the Mann et al. (1998) Approach to Paleoclimate Reconstructions in the Context of a 1000-Yr Control Simulation with the ECHO-G Coupled Climate Model. J Climate 16, 1378-1390.

Crüger, T., and H. von Storch, 2002. Creation of "Artificial Ice Core" Accumulation from Large-Scale GCM Data: Description of the Downscaling Method and Application to One North Greenland Ice Core. Clim Res 20, 141-151.

Luterbacher, J., E. Xoplaki, D. Dietrich, P.D. Jones, T.D. Davies, D. Portis, J.F. González-Rouco, H. von Storch, D. Gyalistras, C. Casty and H. Wanner, 2002. Extending North Atlantic Oscillation reconstructions back to 1500. Atmos Sci Lett 2, 114-124; doi:10.1006/asle.2001.0044.

Matulla, C., N. Groll, H., Kromp-Koch, H. Scheifinger, M. Lexer, and M. Widmann, 2002. Climate Change Scenarios at Austrian National Forest Inventory Sites. Clim Res 22, 161-173 .

Zorita E. and F. González-Rouco, 2002. Are temperature-sensitive proxies adequate for North Atlanctic Oscillation reconstructions? Geophys Res Lett 29 (14), 48-1 -48-4.

Zorita, E. and F. Tilya, 2002. Rainfall variability in North Tanzania in the March-May season (long rains) and its links to large-scale climate forcing. Clim Res 20, 31-40.

2001-1999

Giorgi, F., P.H. Whetton, R.G. Jones, J.H. Christensen, L.O. Mearns, B. Hewitson, H. von Storch, R. Fransico and C. Jack, 2001. Emerging patterns of simulated regional climatic changes for the 21st century due to anthropogenic forcings. Geophys Res Lett 28 (17), 3317-3320.

Giorgi, F., B. Hewitson, J. Christensen, M. Hulme, H. von Storch, P. Whetton, R. Jones, L. Mearns and C. Fu, 2001. Regional climate information - evaluation and projections. In J.T. Houghton et al (eds.): Climate Change 2001. The Scientific Basis, Cambridge University Press, 583-638.

Gonzalez-Rouco, F., J. Luis Jimenez, V. Quesada, and F. Valero, 2001. Quality Control and Homogeneity of Precipitation Data in the Southwest of Europe. Journal of Climate, 14, 964-978.

Mann, M.E., R.S. Bradley, K.R. Briffa, J. Cole, M.K. Hughes, J.M. Jones, J.T. Overpeck, H. von Storch, H. Wanner, S.L. Weber, M. Widmann, 2001: Reconstructing the climate of the late Holocene. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union.

Petersen, W., L. Bertino, U. Callies and E. Zorita, 2001. Process Identification by Statistical Analysis of Water-Quality Data, Ecological Modeling 138, 193-213.

Pfizenmayer, A. and H. von Storch, 2001. Anthropogenic climate change shown by local wave conditions in the North Sea. Climate Research 19, p15-23.

von Storch, H., J.-S. von Storch, and P. Müller, 2001. Noise in the Climate System - Ubiquitous, Constitutive and Concealing. In B. Engquist and W. Schmid (eds.) Mathematics Unlimited - 2001 and Beyond. Part II. Springer Verlag, 1179-1194

González-Rouco, J. F., H. Heyen, E. Zorita, and F. Valero, 2000. Agreement between observed rainfall trends and climate change simulations in Southwestern Europe. J. Climate, 13, pp. 3057-3065.

Jones, J.M. and T. D. Davies, 2000. The influence of climate on air and precipitation chemistry over Europe and downscaling applications to future acidic deposition, Climate Research, 14, 7-24.

Montoya, M., H. von Storch and T.J. Crowley, 2000. Climate simulation for 125,000 years ago with a coupled ocean-atmosphere General Circulation Model. J. Climate, 13, 1057-107

Zorita, E. and J. F. González-Rouco, 2000. Disagreement in North Atlantic Oscillation predictions and implications for global warming. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27(12), 1755-1758

Zorita, E. and A. Laine, 2000. Dependence of salinity and oxygen concentrations in the Baltic Sea on the large-scale atmospheric circulation. Climate Research, 14, 25-41.

Biau, G., E. Zorita, H. von Storch and H. Wackernagel, 1999. Estimation of precipitation by kriging in EOF space. J. Climate, 12, 1070-1085.

Bretherton, C.S., M. Widmann, V. P. Dymnikov, J. M. Wallace, and I. Blade, 1999: Effective number od degrees of freedom of a spatial field. J. Climate, 12, 1990-2009.

Zorita, E. and H. von Storch, 1999. The analog method - a simple statistical downscaling technique: comparison with more complicated methods. J. Climate, 12, 2474-2489.

Theses

Schenk, F. 2008. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) since 1500 A.D. and its Impact on Climate and Human Affairs in Europe. Diploma Thesis, University of Stuttgart.

Hünicke, B. 2008. Atmospheric forcing of decadal Baltic Sea level variability in the last 200 years: A statistical analysis. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, Department of Earth Sciences, published as Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2008/4.

Prömmel, K. 2008. Analysis of a high-resolution regional climate simulation for Alpine temperature: Validation and influence of the NAO. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, Department of Earth Sciences, published as Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2008/3.

Groll, N. 2006. Sensitivity of the Large-to Meso-Scale Atmospheric Relationship to Orbital Forcing: A Model Based Study. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, Department of Earth Sciences, published as Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2007/4.

Pflüger, B. 2005. Die Eisverhältnisse and er Südspitze Grönlands 1777-2002. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, Department of Earth Sciences; published as: Das Meereis um Südgrönland 1777-2002, Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg, Band 97.

Wagner, S. 2004. The role of different forcings on the historical climate variability, with special consideration of the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830): A model study. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, Department of Earth Sciences, published as Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2004/13.

Penlap, E.E.K. 2003. Downscaling of Gerenal Circulation Models (GCMs) output to local scale for climate studies: Case of the little rainy season (March -June) in Cameroon.

Crüger, T. 2002. Ice Core Accumulation in Greenland Described by Large-Scale Atmospheric Fields: Development of Regression Models and Estimation of "Artificial Ice Core" accumulation from O-AGCM Output. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, Department of Earth Sciences, published as Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2002/17.

Wagner, S. 2000. Dekadische atmosphärische und ozeanische Variabilität in einer Kontrollsimulation mit dem Klimamodell ECHO-G. Diploma Thesis, University of Würzburg, Geographical Institute.

Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Reports

Hünicke, B., E. Zorita and S. Haeseler. 2010. Baltic Holocene Climate and sea-level change -a statistical analysis of observations, reconstructions and simulations within present and past as analogues for future changes. Final report of the DFG research unit SINCOS-2, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2010/2.

Thees, B., L. Kutzbach, M. Wilmking and E. Zorita. 2009. Ein Bewertungsmass für die amplitudentreue regressive Abbildung von verrauschten Daten im Rahmen einer iterativen "Errors in Variables" (EVM) Modellierung. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2009/8.

Hünicke, B. 2008. Atmospheric forcing of decadal Baltic Sea level variability in the last 200 years: A statistical analysis. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2008/4.

Prömmel, K. 2008. Analysis of a high-resolution regional climate simulation for Alpine temperature: Validation and influence of the NAO. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2008/3.

Groll, N. 2006. Sensitivity of the Large-to Meso-Scale Atmospheric Relationship to Orbital Forcing: A Model Based Study. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2007/4.

Matulla, C., I. Auer, R. Boehm, M. Ungersboeck, W. Schoene, S. Wagner, E. Zorita, 2005. Outstanding past decadal-scale climate events in the Greater Alpine Region analysed by 250 years data and model runs. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2005/5.

Matulla, C., P. Haas, S. Wagner, E. Zorita, H. Formayer, H. Kromp-Kolb, 2004. Anwendung der Analog-Methode in komplexem Terrain: Klimaaenderungsszenarien auf Tagesbasis fuer Oesterreich. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2004/11.

Matulla, C. and P. Haas, 2003. Predictor-optimized downscaling combined with weather generators: seasonal and daily climate change scenarios for topographically complex regions (German). Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report, 2003/24.

Matulla, E., D. Bray and C. Matulla, 2003. A comparison of conventional and ecological agriculture in Schleswig-Holstein (German). Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2003/6.

Wagner, S. 2004. The role of different forcings on the historical climate variability, with special consideration of the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830): A model study. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2004/13.

Crüger, T. 2002. Ice Core Accumulation in Greenland Described by Large-Scale Atmospheric Fields: Development of Regression Models and Estimation of "Artificial Ice Core" accumulation from O-AGCM Output. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht report 2002/17.