Publications
In Preparation
Steinfeld, D., Martius, O., Brönnimann, S.: Estimating past and present fire weather danger over Switzerland with statistical modelling.
Steinfeld, D., Hauser, S., Teubler, F.: The many different circulation patterns and pyhsical processes in atmospheric blocking
Articles (peer-reviewed)
Koh, J., Steinfeld, D., Martius O., 2025 : Using spatial extreme-value theory with machine learning to model and understand spatially compounding weather extremes, Proceedings of the Royal Society A
Herrmann, M., Weber, H., Martius, O., Brönnimann, S, Steinfeld, D., 2025: Atmospheric Blocks Increase the Odds of Extreme Wildfire Danger at High Latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, Geophysical Research Letters
Xi X., Steinfeld D., Cavallo S.M., Wang J., Chen J., Zulpykharov K., Henebry G.M., 2023: What caused the unseasonal extreme dust storm in Uzbekistan during November 2021?, Environmental Research Letters
Tuel A., Steinfeld D., Ali M., Sprenger M., Martius O., 2022: Large-scale drivers of persistent extreme weather during early summer 2021 in Europe, Geophysical Research Letters
Steinfeld D., Sprenger M., Beyerle U., Pfahl S., 2022: Response of moist and dry processes in atmospheric blocking to climate change, Environmental Research Letters
Steinfeld D., Peter A., Martius O., Brönnimann S., 2022: Assessing the performance of various fire weather indices for wildfire occurrence in Northern Switzerland, preprint, submitted to Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Miralles O., Steinfeld D., Martius O., Davison A., 2022: Downscaling of historical wind fields over Switzerland using Generative Adversarial Networks, Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems
Cheng Y., Tjernstörm M., Devasthale M., Steinfeld D., 2022: The role of atmospheric blocking in regulating Arctic warming, Geophysical Research Letters
Steinfeld D., Böttcher M., Forbes R., Pfahl S., 2020: The sensitivity of atmospheric blocking to upstream latent heating – numerical experiments, Weather and Climate Dynamics
Steinfeld D. and Pfahl S., 2019: The role of diabatic processes in atmospheric blocking dynamics – a climatological analysis, Climate Dynamics
Heggli M., Köchle B., Matzl M., Pinzer B.R., Riche F., Steiner S., Steinfeld D., Schneebeli M., 2011: Measuring snow in 3-D using X-ray tomography: assessment of visualization techniques, Annals of Glaciology
Reports
- Contributed to Rodwell, M., Forbes, R., Wernli, H., 2018: Why warm conveyor belts matter in NWP, ECMWF newsletter
PhD Thesis
- Steinfeld D., 2019: The role of latent heating in atmospheric blocking: climatology and numerical experiments, ETH Zurich