Dr Stefan Lange

I obtained a diploma in physics at TU Dresden in 2011. As a member of the IRTG 1740 I then studied for my PhD in theoretical physics at PIK, INPE and HU Berlin. From 2015 to 2022 I worked as a PostDoc at PIK. Since 2022 I have been a guest scientist at the institute.

Articles

• F. Zhao, S. Lange, B. Goswami, and K. Frieler (2024) "Frequency Bias Causes Overestimation of Climate Change Impacts on Global Flood Occurrence," Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2024GL108855
• L. Murken, J. Tomalka, D. Abigaba, A.-B. Amoah, J. A. Amougou, M. Anaba, P. Arumugam et al. (2024) "The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: lessons learned from the AGRICA project," Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad50eb
• S. Galmarini, E. Solazzo, R. Ferrise, A. Kumar Srivastava, M. Ahmed, S. Asseng, A. J. Cannon et al. (2024) "Assessing the impact on crop modelling of multi- and uni-variate climate model bias adjustments," Agricultural Systems, doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103846
• K. Frieler, J. Volkholz, S. Lange, J. Schewe, M. Mengel, M. d. R. Rivas López, C. Otto et al. (2024) "Scenario setup and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a)," Geoscientific Model Development, doi: 10.5194/gmd-17-1-2024
• M. Kotz, S. Lange, L. Wenz, and A. Levermann (2023) "Constraining the pattern and magnitude of projected extreme precipitation change in a multi-model ensemble," Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0492.1
• L. S. Schröder, L. Rasche, K. Jantke, G. Mishra, S. Lange, A. Eschenbach, and U. A. Schneider (2023) "Combined effects of climate change and agricultural intensification on soil erosion in uphill shifting cultivation in Northeast India," Land Degradation & Development, doi: 10.1002/ldr.4944
• P. Hess, S. Lange, C. Schötz, and N. Boers (2023) "Deep Learning for Bias-Correcting CMIP6-Class Earth System Models," Earth's Future, doi: 10.1029/2023EF004002
• D. N. Karger, S. Lange, C. Hari, C. P. O. Reyer, O. Conrad, N. E. Zimmermann, and K. Frieler (2023) "CHELSA-W5E5: daily 1 km meteorological forcing data for climate impact studies," Earth System Science Data, doi: 10.5194/essd-15-2445-2023
• B. O. Nyawanda, A. Beloconi, S. Khagayi, G. Bigogo, D. Obor, N. A. Otieno, S. Lange et al. (2023) "The relative effect of climate variability on malaria incidence after scale-up of interventions in western Kenya: A time-series analysis of monthly incidence data from 2008 to 2019," Parasite Epidemiology and Control, doi: 10.1016/j.parepi.2023.e00297
• T. Schaffhauser, S. Lange, Y. Tuo, and M. Disse (2023) "Shifted discharge and drier soils: Hydrological projections for a Central Asian catchment," Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, doi: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101338
• A. Gädeke, M. Wortmann, C. Menz, A. K. M. Saiful Islam, M. Masood, V. Krysanova, S. Lange, and F. F. Hattermann (2022) "Climate impact emergence and flood peak synchronization projections in the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna basins under CMIP5 and CMIP6 scenarios," Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac8ca1
• M. R. Rivas-López, S. Liersch, C. Menz, S. Lange, and F. F. Hattermann (2022) "Potential hydro-meteorological impacts over Burundi from climate change," Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, doi: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101130
• V. Huber, C. P. Ortiz, D. G. Puyol, S. Lange, and F. Sera (2022) "Evidence of rapid adaptation integrated into projections of temperature-related excess mortality," Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5dee
• J. Jägermeyr, C. Müller, A. C. Ruane., J. Elliott, J. Balkovic, O. Castillo, B. Faye et al. (2021) "Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models," Nature Food, doi: 10.1038/s43016-021-00400-y
• W. Thiery, S. Lange, J. Rogelj, C.-F. Schleussner, L. Gudmundsson, S. I. Seneviratne, M. Andrijevic et al. (2021) "Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes," Science, doi: 10.1126/science.abi7339
• H. Shi, H. Tian, S. Lange, J. Yang, S. Pan, B. Fu, and C. P. O. Reyer (2021) "Terrestrial biodiversity threatened by increasing global aridity velocity under high-level warming," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2015552118
• M. Mengel, S. Treu, S. Lange, and K. Frieler (2021) "ATTRICI v1.1 – counterfactual climate for impact attribution," Geoscientific Model Development, doi: 10.5194/gmd-14-5269-2021
• S. Lange and C. Timm (2021) "Random-matrix theory for the Lindblad master equation," Chaos, doi: 10.1063/5.0033486
• S. Lange, J. Volkholz, T. Geiger, F. Zhao, I. Vega, T. Veldkamp, C. P. O. Reyer et al. (2020) "Projecting exposure to extreme climate impact events across six event categories and three spatial scales," Earth's Future, doi: 10.1029/2020EF001616
• M. Cucchi, G. P. Weedon, A. Amici, N. Bellouin, S. Lange, H. Müller Schmied, H. Hersbach, and C. Buontempo (2020) "WFDE5: bias adjusted ERA5 reanalysis data for impact studies," Earth System Science Data, doi: 10.5194/essd-12-2097-2020
• C. P. O. Reyer, R. S. Gonzalez, K. Dolos, F. Hartig, Y. Hauf, M. Noack , P. Lasch-Born et al. (2020) "The PROFOUND database for evaluating vegetation models and simulating climate impacts on forests," Earth System Science Data, doi: 10.5194/essd-12-1295-2020
• A. Casanueva, S. Herrera, M. Iturbide, S. Lange, M. Jury, A. Dosio, D. Maraun, and J. M. Gutiérrez (2020) "Testing bias adjustment methods for regional climate change applications under observational uncertainty and resolution mismatch," Atmospheric Science Letters, doi: 10.1002/asl.978
• V. Huber, L. Krummenauer, C. Peña-Ortiz, S. Lange, A. Gasparrini, A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera, R. Garcia-Herrera, and K. Frieler (2020) "Temperature-related excess mortality in German cities at 2°C and higher degrees of global warming," Environmental Research, doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109447
• F. Ueckerdt, K. Frieler, S. Lange, L. Wenz, G. Luderer, and A. Levermann (2019) "The economically optimal warming limit of the planet," Earth System Dynamics, doi: 10.5194/esd-10-741-2019
• S. Lange (2019) "Trend-preserving bias adjustment and statistical downscaling with ISIMIP3BASD (v1.0)," Geoscientific Model Development, doi: 10.5194/gmd-12-3055-2019
• S. Galmarini, A. J. Cannon, A. Ceglar, O. B. Christensen, N. de Noblet-Ducoudré, F. Dentener, F. J. Doblas-Reyes et al. (2019) "Adjusting climate model bias for agricultural impact assessment: How to cut the mustard," Climate Services, doi: 10.1016/j.cliser.2019.01.004
• J. Zscheischler, E. M. Fischer, and S. Lange (2019) "The effect of bias adjustment on impact modeling," Earth System Dynamics, doi: 10.5194/esd-10-31-2019
• M. Rückamp, U. Falk, K. Frieler, S. Lange, and A. Humbert (2018) "The effect of overshooting 1.5 °C global warming on the mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet," Earth System Dynamics, doi: 10.5194/esd-9-1169-2018
• S. Lange (2018) "Bias correction of surface downwelling longwave and shortwave radiation for the EWEMBI dataset," Earth System Dynamics, doi: 10.5194/esd-9-627-2018
• K. Frieler, S. Lange, F. Piontek, C. P. O. Reyer, J. Schewe, L. Warszawski, F. Zhao et al. (2017) "Assessing the impacts of 1.5°C global warming – simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)," Geoscientific Model Development, doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-4321-2017
• S. Lange, J. F. Donges, J. Volkholz, and J. Kurths (2015) "Local difference measures between complex networks for dynamical system model evaluation," PLoS ONE, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118088
• S. Lange, B. Rockel, J. Volkholz, and B. Bookhagen (2015) "Regional climate model sensitivities to parametrizations of convection and non-precipitating subgrid-scale clouds over South America," Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2199-0
• J. H. Feldhoff, S. Lange, J. Volkholz, J. F. Donges, J. Kurths, and F.-W. Gerstengarbe (2015) "Complex networks for climate model evaluation with application to statistical versus dynamical modeling of South American climate," Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2182-9

   

Datasets

• A. Tilloy, D. Paprotny, L. Feyen, S. Grimaldi, G. Gomes, H. Beck, S. Lange et al. (2024) "HERA: a high-resolution pan-European hydrological reanalysis (1950-2020)," European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), pid: a605a675-9444-4017-8b34-d66be5b18c95
• S. Lange, M. Mengel, S. Treu, and M. Büchner (2022) "ISIMIP3a atmospheric climate input data," v1.0, ISIMIP Repository, doi: 10.48364/ISIMIP.982724
• D. N. Karger, S. Lange, C. Hari, C. P. O. Reyer, and N. E. Zimmermann (2022) "CHELSA-W5E5 v1.0: W5E5 v1.0 downscaled with CHELSA v2.0," v1.0.3, ISIMIP Repository, doi: 10.48364/ISIMIP.836809.3
• S. Lange and M. Büchner (2022) "Secondary ISIMIP3b bias-adjusted atmospheric climate input data," v1.1, ISIMIP Repository, doi: 10.48364/ISIMIP.581124.1
• S. Lange and M. Büchner (2021) "ISIMIP3b bias-adjusted atmospheric climate input data," v1.1, ISIMIP Repository, doi: 10.48364/ISIMIP.842396.1
• S. Lange and M. Büchner (2020) "ISIMIP2a atmospheric climate input data," v1.0, ISIMIP Repository, doi: 10.48364/ISIMIP.886955
• S. Lange, C. Menz, S. Gleixner, M. Cucchi, G. P. Weedon, A. Amici, N. Bellouin, H. Müller Schmied, H. Hersbach, C. Buontempo, and C. Cagnazzo (2021) "WFDE5 over land merged with ERA5 over the ocean (W5E5)," v2.0, ISIMIP Repository, doi: 10.48364/ISIMIP.342217
• D. N. Karger, B. Dabaghchian, S. Lange, W. Thuiller, N. E. Zimmermann, and C. H. Graham (2020) "High resolution climate data for Europe," EnviDat, doi: 10.16904/envidat.150
• C. P. O. Reyer, R. S. Gonzalez, K. Dolos, F. Hartig, Y. Hauf, M. Noack , P. Lasch-Born et al. (2020) "The PROFOUND database for evaluating vegetation models and simulating climate impacts on European forests," v0.3, GFZ Data Services, doi: 10.5880/PIK.2020.006
• S. Lange (2019) "WFDE5 over land merged with ERA5 over the ocean (W5E5)," v1.0, GFZ Data Services, doi: 10.5880/pik.2019.023
• S. Lange (2019) "EartH2Observe, WFDEI and ERA-Interim data Merged and Bias-corrected for ISIMIP (EWEMBI)," v1.1, GFZ Data Services, doi: 10.5880/pik.2019.004
• S. Lange and M. Büchner (2017) "ISIMIP2b bias-adjusted atmospheric climate input data," v1.0, ISIMIP Repository, doi: 10.48364/ISIMIP.208515
  

   

Code

• S. Lange (2019–2022) "ISIMIP3BASD," Zenodo, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2549631
• S. Lange (2017) "ISIMIP2b Bias-Correction Code," Zenodo, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1069050
  

   

PhD thesis

• S. Lange (2015) "On the evaluation of regional climate model simulations over South America," supervised by Jürgen Kurths, Jan Volkholz, Sin Chan Chou, and Celso von Randow, Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, urn: nbn:de:kobv:11-100233175
  

   

Diploma thesis

• S. Lange (2011) "Zufallsmatrixtheorie für die Lindblad-Mastergleichung," supervised by Carsten Timm and Werner Timmermann, Technical University Dresden, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, urn: nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-380809

• ISIMIP (2015–2022)
• CC&H (2020–2022)
• QUIDIC (2020–2022)
• AGRICA (2019–2020)
• OptAKlim (2018–2020)
• CRESCENDO (2015–2020)
• IRTG1740 (2012–2015)