Kai Kornhuber

Biographic Data

ID6822002
NAMEKai Kornhuber
GIVEN NAMESKai
FAMILY NAMEKornhuber
SIGNATUREKORNHUBER K
AFFILIATIONSInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
ORCID0000-0001-5466-2059
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Amplified agricultural impacts from more frequent and intense sequential heat events

    Open AccessRaed Hamed, Carmen B Steinmann et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    As the climate warms, interacting weather extremes such as sequential heat events pose complex risks to societies. Regarding global agriculture, laboratory experiments suggest that early crop exposure to heat may either confer tolerance or enhance vulnerability to subsequent heat during the critical crop flowering stage. We show that warm early-seasons improve crop yield potential, particularly for soybean and maize, but also increase the impacts…

  • Temporal connections between extreme precipitation and humid heat

    Open AccessSophie Johnson, Casey Ivanovich et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Individually, extreme humid heat and extreme precipitation events can trigger widespread socioeconomic impacts which disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. These impacts might become greater when both events occur in close temporal proximity, for example if emergency responses to heat stress casualties are hindered by flooded roads. Improved understanding of the probabilities and physical mechanisms associated with these events’ tempor…

  • Reply to Comment on ‘Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern’

    Open AccessKai Kornhuber, Dim Coumou et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Circumglobal teleconnections from wave-like patterns in the mid-latitude jets can lead to synchronized weather extremes in the mid-latitudes of Northern and Southern hemispheres. The simultaneous occurrence of record breaking and persistent northern hemisphere temperature anomalies in Summer 2018 were previously discussed in the context of a persistent zonally elongated wave-7 pattern that stretched over large parts of the northern hemisphere ove…

  • Increasing spatiotemporal proximity of heat and precipitation extremes in a warming world quantified by a large model ensemble

    Open AccessColin Raymond, Laura Suárez‐Gutiérrez et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Increases in climate hazards and their impacts mark one of the major challenges of climate change. Situations in which hazards occur close enough to one another to result in amplified impacts, because systems are insufficiently resilient or because hazards themselves are made more severe, are of special concern. We consider projected changes in such compounding hazards using the Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble under a moderate (RCP4.5) emissi…

  • Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern

    Open AccessKai Kornhuber, Scott Osprey et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    The summer of 2018 witnessed a number of extreme weather events such as heatwaves in North America, Western Europe and the Caspian Sea region, and rainfall extremes in South-East Europe and Japan that occurred near-simultaneously. Here we show that some of these extremes were connected by an amplified hemisphere-wide wavenumber 7 circulation pattern. We show that this pattern constitutes an important teleconnection in Northern Hemisphere summer a…