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Stefan Pieter Sobolowski

Research Professor

stso@norceresearch.no
+47 56 10 75 54
+47 911 78 962
Jahnebakken 5, 5007 Bergen, Norway

I am a Research Professor (Forsker I) at NORCE Climate. I obtained my PhD from Columbia University in 2010. After a year of postdoctoral study at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill I moved to Bergen, where I have resided since. I am a member of the Regional Climate and Climate Services group and I lead a research theme on Regional Climate Impacts and Modeling.

Currently my research activities flow along three interwoven and complementary strands. One is an evolution of my interests in the large scale circulation to address challenges involving prediction, representation of key features and responses of the system to external forcing. The second zooms in to local and regional scales and works to improve our understanding of physical drivers of climate impacts in places where they are most acutely experienced. The third strand aims to distill basic and applied research into useful climate information knowledge and services. This last has resulted in many fruitful collaborations with researchers and practitioners with backgrounds in Social Sciences and Humanities as well as industry and public sector professionals.

These interests result in a diverse research portfolio. I am a coordinator of the WCRP Euro-CORDEX initiative and lead projects on understanding sources of errors in our models (EMULATE) and pioneering work with so-called convection permitting models (CORDEX-FPSCONV). I also have lead roles in the Climate Futures SFI, CONFER and the Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE).

Selected publications

  • Euro-CORDEX webpage
    EURO-CORDEX is the European branch of the international CORDEX initiative, which is a program sponsored by the World Climate Research Program (WRCP) to organize an internationally coordinated framework to produce improved regional climate change projections for all land regions world-wide.
  • CORDEX-FPS on Convective Phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean
    This ground breaking initiative has established the first large multi-model ensemble of climate simulations at convection permitting scales. This allows an unprecedented view into projected changes in extreme events and their impacts.

Projects

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Publications
Regional water cycle sensitivity to afforestation: synthetic numerical experiments for tropical Africa – Frontiers in Climate 2023
Future projections of wind energy potentials in the arctic for the 21st century under the RCP8.5 scenario from regional climate models (Arctic-CORDEX) – Anthropocene 2023
Subselection of seasonal ensemble precipitation predictions for East Africa – Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2023
Behaviourally modern humans in coastal southern Africa experienced an increasingly continental climate during the transition from Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4 – Frontiers in Earth Science 2023
The impact of lateral boundary forcing in the CORDEX-Africa ensemble over southern Africa – Geoscientific Model Development 2023
Investigating the representation of heatwaves from an ensemble of km-scale regional climate simulations within CORDEX-FPS convection – Climate Dynamics 2023
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise – Nature Geoscience 2023
Sensitivity of coastal southern African climate to changes in coastline position and associated land extent over the last glacial – Quaternary Science Reviews 2023
Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling – Weather and Climate Dynamics (WCD) 2023
Precipitation frequency in Med-CORDEX and EURO-CORDEX ensembles from 0.44° to convection-permitting resolution: impact of model resolution and convection representation – Climate Dynamics 2022
The added value of km-scale simulations to describe temperature over complex orography: the CORDEX FPS-Convection multi-model ensemble runs over the Alps – Climate Dynamics 2022
Towards ensemble-based kilometer-scale climate simulations over the third pole region – Climate Dynamics 2022
Tracking the impacts of precipitation phase changes through the hydrologic cycle in snowy regions: From precipitation to reservoir storage – Frontiers in Earth Science 2022
Precipitation over southern Africa: is there consensus among global climate models (GCMs), regional climate models (RCMs) and observational data? – Geoscientific Model Development 2022
Extreme wind projections over Europe from the Euro-CORDEX regional climate models – Weather and Climate Extremes 2021
Resampling of ENSO teleconnections: accounting for cold-season evolution reduces uncertainty in the North Atlantic – Weather and Climate Dynamics (WCD) 2021
North Atlantic Oscillation in winter is largely insensitive to autumn Barents-Kara sea ice variability – Science Advances 2021
The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation – Climate Dynamics 2021
The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitation – Climate Dynamics 2021
Physical processes driving intensification of future precipitation in the mid- to high latitudes – Environmental Research Letters 2021
Mass balance and hydrological modeling of the Hardangerjøkulen ice cap in south-central Norway – Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) 2021
The impact of initial conditions on convection-permitting simulations of a flood event over complex mountainous terrain – Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) 2020
Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community – Regional Environmental Change 2020
Impact of quasi‐idealized future land cover scenarios at high latitudes in complex terrain – Earth's Future 2020
Designing and evaluating regional climate simulations for high latitude land use land cover change studies – Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 2020
Intermittency of Arctic–mid-latitude teleconnections: stratospheric pathway between autumn sea ice and the winter North Atlantic Oscillation – Weather and Climate Dynamics (WCD) 2020
Internal variability versus multi-physics uncertainty in a regional climate model – International Journal of Climatology 2020
The Change in the ENSO Teleconnection under a Low Global Warming Scenario and the Uncertainty due to Internal Variability – Journal of Climate 2020
Future projections of cyclone activity in the Arctic for the 21st century from regional climate models (Arctic-CORDEX) – Global and Planetary Change 2019
A physically based precipitation separation algorithm for convection‐permitting models over complex topography – Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2019
The impact of initial conditions on convection-permitting simulations of flood events – Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions (HESSD) 2019
Trends of intense cyclone activity in the Arctic from reanalyses data and regional climate models (Arctic-CORDEX) – IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES) 2019
Large‐scale regional model biases in the extratropical North Atlantic storm track and impacts on downstream precipitation – Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2019
Trials, errors and improvements in co-production of climate services – Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS) 2019
Toward a multi-faceted conception of co-production of climate services – Climate Services 2019
A first-of-its-kind multi-model convection permitting ensemble for investigating convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean – Climate Dynamics 2018
Improving the Reliability and Added Value of Dynamical Downscaling via Correction of Large-Scale Errors: A Norwegian Perspective – Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres 2018
Convective processes in high resolution models: Impact of the lead time of the simulation – Acta de las Jornadas Científicas de la Asociación Meteorológica Española 2018
Climate Impacts in Europe Under +1.5°C Global Warming – Earth's Future 2018
An Evolving Framework for Advancing Climate Services in Norway – EOS 2018
Cyclone Activity in the Arctic From an Ensemble of Regional Climate Models (Arctic CORDEX) – Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres 2018
Importance of late fall ENSO teleconnection in the Euro-Atlantic sector – Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS) 2018
How long can we keep doing this? Sustainability as a strictly temporal concept – Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 2017
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