Publications

peer reviewed publications

2012
Burauskaite-Harju A, Grimvall A, Achberger C, Walther A, Chen D, 2012: Characterising and visualizing spatio-temporal patterns in hourly precipitation records. Theoretical and Applied Climatology (in press)

Franzén, L.G., Lindberg, F., Viklander, V. & A. Walther, 2012: The potential peatland extent and carbon sink in Sweden, as related to the Peatland / Ice Age Hypothesis. Mires and Peat, 10, Art. 8.

Comadran, J., Kilian, B., Russell, J., Ramsay, L., Stein, N., Ganal, M., Shaw, P., Bayer, M., Thomas, W., Marshall, D., Hedley, P., Tondelli, A., Pecchioni, N., Francia, E., Korzun, V., Walther, A., Waugh, R., 2012: Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley. Nature Genetics doi:10.1038/ng.2447

2011
Jeong J-H, Walther A, Nikulin G, Jones C, Chen D. 2011: Diurnal cycle of precipitation amount and frequency in Sweden: observation versus model simulation. Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 63(4): 664-674.

Walther, A., Jeong, J.-H., Nikulin, G., Chen, D., Jones, C., 2011: Evaluation of the warm season diurnal cycle of precipitation over Sweden simulated by the Rossby Centre regional climate model RCA3. Atmospheric Research (in press) doi: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.10.012

2010
Song, Y., H.W. Linderholm, D. Chen and A. Walther, 2010: Trends of the thermal growing season in China, 1951-2004. International Journal of Climatology, 30: 33-43.

Westerberg, I., Walther, A., Guerrero, J.-L., Coello, Z., Halldin, S., Xu, C.-Y., Chen, D., Lundin, L.-C., 2010: Precipitation data in a mountainous catchment in Honduras: quality assessment and spatiotemporal characteristics. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 101(3), 381-396.

2009
C. Achberger, A. Walther, D. Chen, A. Obregón, P. Bissolli, J. J. Kennedy, and D. E. Parker, 2009: The Nordic and Baltic countries. In: State of the Climate in 2008. Peterson et al., ed., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(8), 147-149.

Linderholm, H.W., Folland, C.K. and Walther, A., 2009: A multicentury perspective on the summer North Atlantic Oscillation (SNAO) and drought in the eastern Atlantic Region. J. Quaternary Sci., Vol. 24(5): 415-425.

2008
Linderholm, H.W., Walther, A. and Chen, D. 2008: Twentieth-century trends in the thermal growing season in the Greater Baltic Area. Climatic Change, 87(3-4): 405-419.

2007
Brunet, M., P. Jones, J. Sigró, O. Saladié, E. Aguilar, A. Moberg, P.M. Della-Marta, D. Lister, A. Walther, and D. López, (2007), Temporal and spatial temperature variability and change over Spain during 1850-2005, Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 112(12), D12117.

M. Brunet, J. Sigró, P. D. Jones, O. Saladié, E. Aguilar, A. Moberg, D. Lister and A. Walther (2007): Long-term changes in extreme temperatures and precipitation in Spain. Contributions to Science, 3 (3): 333-344 (2007).

Kilian, B., H. Özkan, A. Walther, J. Kohl, T. Dagan, F. Salamini and W. Martin 2007: Molecular Diversity at 18 Loci in 321 Wild and 92 Domesticate Lines Reveal No Reduction of Nucleotide Diversity During Triticum monococcum (Einkorn) Domestication: Implications for the Origin of Agriculture. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24(12): 2657-2668.

2006
Walther, A. and Linderholm, H.W., 2006: A comparison of growing season indices for the Greater Baltic Area. International Journal of Biometeorology 51(2):107-118.

Moberg, A., P.D. Jones, D. Lister, A. Walther, M. Brunet, J. Jacobeit, O. Saladie, J. Sigro, E. Aguilar, P. Della-Marta, J. Luterbacher, P. Yiou, L.V. Alexander, D. Chen, A.M.G. Klein Tank, H. Alexandersson, C. Almarza, I. Auer, M. Barriendos, M. Begert, H. Bergström,R. Böhm, J. Butler, J. Caesar, A. Drebs, D. Founda, F.-W. Gerstengarbe, M. Giusi, T. Jónsson, M. Maugeri, H. Österle, K. Pandzic, M. Petrakis, L. Srnec, R. Tolasz, H. Tuomenvirta, P.C. Werner, H. Linderholm, A. Philipp, H. Wanner, E. Xoplaki, 2006: Indices for daily temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe analysed for the period 1901-2000, Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 111(22), D22106.

Brunet, M., Saladie, O., Jones, P., Sigro, J., Aguilar, E., Moberg, A., Lister, D., Walther, A., Lopez, D. (2006): The development of a new dataset of Spanish daily adjusted temperature series (SDATS) (1850-2003). International Journal of Climatology, 26, 1777-1802.

Reviews, Reports and Proceedings

2009 Jacobeit, J., A. Philipp, J. Rathmann, A. Walther, 2009: EMULATE, European and North Atlantic daily to MULtidecadal climATE variability, Objectives and Results of the German Contribution to the European Climate Research Project EMULATE. Geographica Augustana Manuskripte 7, 65pp.

2008
Brunet, M., Saladié, O., Jones, P., Sigró, J., Aguilar, E., Moberg, A., Lister, D., Walther, A., Almarza, C. (2008): A case-study/guidance on the development of long-term daily adjusted temperature datasets. WMO-TD No. 1425, 50pp.

2006
Chen, D. and A. Walther, A. Moberg, P.D. Jones, J. Jacobeit, D. Lister (2006): Trend Atlas of the EMULATE indices. Research Report C73, ISSN 1400-383X, Earth Sciences Centre, Göteborg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, 798 pp. (!!! for the online version of the Atlas and a downloadable PDF click here)

2005
Linderholm, H.W., Walther, A. and Chen, D. 2005: Growing season trends in the Greater Baltic Area, Earth Sciences Center Report C69, ISSN 1400-383X, 92 pp.

Brunet, M., Sigró, J., Saladié, O., Aguilar, E., Jones, PD., Moberg, A., Walther, A., López, D. (2005): Spatial patterns of long-term Spanish temperature change. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 04007, 2005. (Download pdf)

Brunet, M., Sigró, J., Saladié, O., Aguilar, E., Jones, PD., Moberg, A., Walther, A., López, D. (2005): Long-term Change in the Mean and Extreme State of surface air temperature over Spain (1850-2003). Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 04042, 2005. (Download pdf)