Dr. Christina Schnadt Poberaj

Head of Center for Climate Systems Modeling

ETH Zürich

Universitätstrasse 16

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Tina studied meteorology at the Universities of Cologne (DE), Reading (UK), and Purdue University (USA), and received a diploma in Meteorology from the University of Cologne in 1996. She completed her PhD in 2001 at the German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen/Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where she used a global coupled chemistry-climate model to investigate interactions between stratospheric ozone hole and climate change. After her first postdoc at DLR, she joined the Atmospheric Chemistry group of Thomas Peter at IAC in 2004, working together with Johannes Staehelin, where she evaluated global chemistry-climate models, and analysed measurement data to study long-term ozone trends. In 2010 she was awarded an SNF Marie Heim-Vögtlin grant to investigate methane emissions and variability using a global Lagrangian transport model at Empa. From 2013-2015 she managed the EU FP7 project BACCHUS in the Atmospheric Physics group of Ulrike Lohmann at IAC. Since June 2016, she has been Executive Director at C2SM.

I studied meteorology at the Universities of Cologne (DE), Reading (UK), and Purdue University (USA), and received a diploma in Meteorology from the University of Cologne in 1996. I then completed my PhD in 2001 at the German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen/Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where I used a global coupled chemistry-climate model to investigate interactions between stratospheric ozone hole and climate change. After my postdoc at DLR, I joined the Atmospheric Chemistry group of Thomas Peter at IAC in 2004, working together with Johannes Staehelin, where I evaluated global chemistry-climate models and analysed measurement data to study long-term ozone trends. In 2010 I was awarded an SNF Marie Heim-Vögtlin grant to investigate methane emissions and variability using a global Lagrangian transport model at Empa. From 2013-2015 I managed the EU FP7 project BACCHUS in the Atmospheric Physics group of Ulrike Lohmann at IAC. Since June 2016, I have been Executive Director at C2SM.

Interests

I'm interested in the atmospheric sciences, in particular in the modelling of the atmosphere. As Executive Director of C2SM, I am no longer actively pursuing my own research, but I am still involved in different research activities of the center, specifically weather and climate modelling, high performance computing, Swiss climate change scenarios, and connecting weather/climate modelling with impact research. My past research comprised differing research topics such as stratospheric and UTLS ozone trends and variability and the interaction with climate change, atmospheric methane variability and trends, as well as interactions of tropical cyclones with the extratropics and the Saharan Air Layer. As research tools, I used global atmospheric models, meteorological analyses, as well as trace gas measurements.

Schools and Courses

Führungskurs (ETH, 2020)
Führungsseminar für Frauen (FHNW, 2016)
Konfliktmanagement für Führungskräfte (ETH, 2015)
Project Management Leadership Skill (ETH, 2013)
Project Management for Researchers (Empa, 2013)
Mentee "Women into Industry" Program (Novartis, 2010-2011)
European Research Course on Atmospheres (Grenoble, 1998)

Fellowships

SNF Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) grant 2013-2015
Student scholarship Purdue University 1996

Memberships

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie SGM (Co-President since 2020)
Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft DMG
Schweizerische Vereinigung der Ingenieurinnen SVIN

Publications

Stevens, B., et al., Earth Virtualization Engines (EVE), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 2113–2122, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2113-2024, 2024.

Fischer, A.M., K.M. Strassmann, M. Croci-Maspoli, A.M. Hama, R. Knutti, S. Kotlarski, C. Schär, C. Schnadt Poberaj, N. Ban, M. Bavay, U. Beyerle, D.N. Bresch, S. Brönnimann, P. Burlando, A. Casanueva, S. Fatichi, I. Feigenwinter, E.M. Fischer, M. Hirschi, M.A. Liniger, C. Marty, I. Medhaug, N. Peleg, M. Pickl, C.C. Raible, J. Rajczak, O. Rössler, S.C. Scherrer, C. Schwierz, S.I. Seneviratne, M. Skelton, S.L. Sørland, C. Spirig, F. Tschurr, J. Zeder, E.M. Zubler, Climate Scenarios for Switzerland CH2018 – Approach and Implications, Climate Services, Volume 26, 100288, ISSN 2405-8807, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100288, 2022

Schnadt Poberaj, C., B. Enz, C. Horat, and U. Lohmann, When does the Saharan Air Layer impede the development of tropical cyclones? J. Clim, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0854.1, 2020

Bretl, S., P. Reutter, C.C. Raible, S. Ferrachat, C. Schnadt Poberaj, L.E. Revell, and U. Lohmann, The influence of absorbed solar radiation by Saharan dust on hurricane genesis, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 1902-1917, doi:10.1002/2014JD022441, 2015

Schnadt Poberaj, C., J. Staehelin, and D. Brunner, Missing Stratospheric Ozone Decrease at Southern Hemisphere Middle Latitudes after Mt. Pinatubo: A Dynamical Perspective, J. Atmos. Sci., 68, 1922–1945, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-10-05004.1, 2011

Schnadt Poberaj, C., J. Staehelin, D. Brunner, V. Thouret, H. De Backer, and R. Stübi, Long-term changes in UT/LS ozone between the late 1970s and the 1990s deduced from the GASP and MOZAIC aircraft programmes and from ozonesondes, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 5343-5369, 2009

Hoor, P., J. Borken-Kleefeld, D. Caro, O. Dessens, O. Endresen, M. Gauss, V. Grewe, D. Hauglustaine, I. S. A. Isaksen, P. Jöckel, J. Lelieveld, G. Myhre, E. Meijer, D. Olivie, M. Prather, C. Schnadt Poberaj, K. P. Shine, J. Staehelin, Q. Tang, J. van Aardenne, P. van Velthoven, and R. Sausen, The impact of traffic emissions on atmospheric ozone and OH: results from QUANTIFY, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 3113-3136, 2009

Fischer, A.M., M. Schraner, E. Rozanov, P. Kenzelmann, C. Schnadt Poberaj, D. Brunner, A. Lustenberger, B. P. Luo, G. E. Bodeker, T. Egorova, W. Schmutz, T. Peter, and S. Brönnimann, Interannual-to-decadal variability of the stratosphere during the 20th century: ensemble simulations with a chemistry-climate model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 7755-7777, 2008

Schraner, M., E. Rozanov, C. Schnadt Poberaj, P. Kenzelmann, A.M. Fischer, V. Zubov, B. P. Luo, C.R. Hoyle, T. Egorova, S. Fueglistaler, S. Brönnimann, W. Schmutz, and T. Peter, Technical Note: Chemistry-climate model SOCOL: version 2.0 with improved transport and chemistry/-microphysics schemes, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 5957-5974, 2008

Staehelin, J. and C. Schnadt Poberaj, Long-Term Tropospheric Ozone Trends: A critical Review, in: Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 years, Editors: S. Brönnimann, J. Luterbacher, T. Ewen, H.F. Diaz, R. Stolarski, and U. Neu, Adv. Global Change Res., 33, 271-282, 2008

Schnadt Poberaj, C., J. Staehelin, D. Brunner, V. Thouret, and V. Mohnen, A UT/LS ozone climatology of the nineteen seventies deduced from the GASP aircraft measurement program, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 1-19, 2007

Steinbrecht, W., B. Haßler, C. Brühl, M. Dameris, M.A. Giorgetta, V. Grewe, E. Manzini, S. Matthes, C. Schnadt, B. Steil, and P. Winkler, Interannual variation patterns of total ozone and lower stratospheric temperature in observations and model simulations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 349-374, 2006

Dameris, M., V. Grewe, M. Ponater, R. Deckert, V. Eyring, F. Mager, S. Matthes, C. Schnadt, A. Stenke, B. Steil, C. Brühl, and M.A. Giorgetta, Long-term changes and variability in a transient simulation with a chemistry-climate model employing realistic forcing, Atmos. Chem. Phys., , 2121-2145, 2005

Rozanov, E., M. Schraner, C. Schnadt, T. Egorova, M. Wild, A. Ohmura, V. Zubov, W. Schmutz, and T. Peter, Assessment of the ozone and temperature variability during 1979-1993 with the chemistry-climate model SOCOL, Adv. Space Res., 35, 1375-1384, 2005

Lamago, D., M. Dameris, C. Schnadt, V. Eyring, and C. Brühl, Impact of large solar zenith angles on lower stratospheric dynamical and chemical processes in a coupled chemistry-climate model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 3, 1981-1990, 2003

Schnadt, C. and M. Dameris, Relationship between North Atlantic Oscillation changes and stratospheric ozone recovery in the Northern Hemisphere in a coupled chemistry-climate model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, No. 9, 1487, doi: 10.10292003GL017006, 2003

Shine, K.P., M.S. Bourqui, P.M. de F. Forster, S.H.E. Hare, U. Langematz, V. Grewe, C. Schnadt, C.A. Smith, J.D. Haigh, J. Austin, N. Butchart, D. Shindell, W.J. Randel, T. Nagashima, R.W. Portmann, S. Solomon, D. Seidel, J. Lanzante, S. Klein, V. Ramaswamy, and M.D. Schwarzkopf, A comparison of model-predicted trends in stratospheric temperatures, Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 129, 1565, 2003

Austin, J., D. Shindell, C. Brühl, M. Dameris, E. Manzini, T. Nagashima, P. Newman, S. Pawson, G. Pitari, E. Rozanov, C. Schnadt, and T. Shepherd, Uncertainties and assessments of chemistry-climate models of the stratosphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 3, 1-27, 2003

Schnadt, C., M. Dameris, M. Ponater, R. Hein, V. Grewe, and B. Steil, Interaction of atmospheric chemistry and climate and its impact on stratospheric ozone, Clim. Dyn., 18, 501-517, 2002

Hein, R., M. Dameris, C. Schnadt, C. Land, V. Grewe, M. Ponater, I. Köhler, R. Sausen, B. Steil, J. Landgraf, and C. Brühl, Results of an interactively coupled atmospheric chemistry-general circulation model: Comparison with observations, Ann. Geophys., 19, 435-457, 2001

Dameris, M., V. Grewe, R. Hein, and C. Schnadt, Assessment of the future development of the ozone layer, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 3579-3582, 1998

Schnadt, C., A. Fink, D.G. Vincent, J.M. Schrage, and P. Speth, Tropical Cyclones, 6-25 day Oscillations over the Northwestern Pacific, Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 68, 151-169, 1998