Dr. Stefan Hunziker

Function

Scientific data quality specialist

Forest Dynamics

Ecosystem Ecology

Contact

stefan.hunziker(at)wslto make life hard for spam bots.ch

+41 44 739 27 25+41 44 739 27 25

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Site

Birmensdorf Bi HL D 21

CV

2018-present	Quality assurance/control, homogenization, and analysis of meteorological observations and forest condition assessments, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
2014-2017	Ph.D. in Climate Sciences, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research and Institute of Geography, University of Bern
2011-2013	Scientific Assistant, University of Bern and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Eawag
2005-2010	M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Geography, University of Zürich

FURTHER INFORMATION

Publications

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Gaudard, A., Weber, C., Alexander, T. J., Hunziker, S., and Schmid, M.: Impacts of using lakes and rivers for extraction and disposal of heat, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, e1295, doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1295, 2018.

Hunziker, S., Brönnimann, S., Calle, J., Moreno, I., Andrade, M., Ticona, L., Huerta, A., and Lavado, W.: Effects of undetected data quality issues on climatological analyses, Climate of the Past, 14, 1-20, doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1-2018, 2018.

Hunziker, S., Gubler, S., Calle, J., Moreno, I., Andrade, M., Velarde, F., Ticona, L., Carrasco, G., Castellón, Y., Oria, C., Croci-Maspoli, M., Konzelmann, T., Rohrer, M., and Brönnimann, S.: Identifying, attributing, and overcoming common data quality issues of manned station observations, International Journal of Climatology, 37, 4131-4145, doi.org/10.1002/joc.5037, 2017.

Gubler, S., Hunziker, S., Begert, M., Croci-Maspoli, M., Konzelmann, T., Brönnimann, S., Schwierz, C., Oria, C., and Rosas, G.: The influence of station density on climate data homogenization, International Journal of Climatology, 37, 4670-4683, doi.org/10.1002/joc.5114, 2017.

Schmid, M., Hunziker, S., and Wüest, A.: Lake surface temperatures in a changing climate: a global sensitivity analysis, Climatic Change, 124, 301-315, doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1087-2, 2014.

Saunders, K. M., Kamenik, C., Hodgson, D. A., Hunziker, S., Siffert, L., Fischer, D., Fujak, M., Gibson, J. A. E., and Grosjean, M.: Late Holocene changes in precipitation in northwest Tasmania and their potential links to shifts in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds, Global and Planetary Change, 92, 82-91, doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.04.005, 2012.

Further scientific publications

Andrade, M. F., Moreno, I., Calle, J. M., Ticona, L., Blacutt, L., Lavado-Casimiro, W., Sabino, E., Huerta, A., Aybar C., Hunziker, S., and Brönnimann, S.: Atlas - Clima y eventos extremos del Altiplano Central perú-boliviano / Climate and extreme events from the Central Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia / 1981-2010. Geographica Bernensia, 188 pp., doi.org/10.4480/GB2018.N01, 2018.

Zamuriano, M., Imfeld, N., Hunziker, S., Peier, R., and Santi, G.: Reanalysis of a Cold Surge in Brazil in 1953. In: Brönnimann, S. (Ed.) Historical Weather Extremes in Reanalyses, Geographica Bernensia G92, 81-89, doi.org/10.4480/GB2017.G92.07, 2017.

Hunziker, S., Wüest, A.: Thermal pollution and its impacts on lakes and rivers: a review, KLIMBO - Klimawandel am Bodensee, www.igkb.org/aktuelles/klimbo-klimawandel-am-bodensee/forschungsergebnisse, 2011.

Apps, Science communication, and Teaching materials

Brugnara, Y., Gilabert, A., Ventura, C., and Hunziker, S.: dataresqc: C3S quality control tools for historical climate data, R package version 0.1.0., 2019.

Brönnimann, S., Giesche, A., Hunziker, S., and Jacques-Coper, M.: CLIMANDES Climate science e-learning course, Geographica Bernensia U27, doi.org/10.4480/GB2015.U27, 2015.

Hunziker, S., Franke, J., Rutishauser, T., Brönnimann, S., Amstutz, T., and Seiler, Y.: The Great Climate Poker, Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, www.climatepoker.unibe.ch, 2014.