Dr. Sebastian Wagner
Dr. Sebastian Wagner
Climate Extremes and Impacts
ScientistPhone: +49 (0)4152 87-1862
Scientific career
since Jan 2017 Research Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research, Department of Coastal Impacts and Paleoclimate
Oct 2011-Dec 2016 Research Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research, Department of Paleoclimate and Statistics
Feb 2010 – Oct 2011 Research Scientist in the project ‘Precipitation in the Past Millennium in Europe, PRIME’ funded by the German Research Foundation within the priority program INTERDYNAMIK of the German Research Foundation
Aug 2009 – Jan 2010 Research Fellow in the Excellence Cluster TOPOI (The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations) at the Institute of Meteorology of the Free University of Berlin
Oct 2007 – Jul 2009 Research Scientist in the project 'Regional climate modeling for southern South America for the Holocene and the 21st century' (The project was funded based on an own research proposal in the framework the program ‘Temporary Positions for Principal Investigators’ by the German Research Foundation)
2004 – 2007 Research Scientist in the Department of Modeling and System Analysis at GKSS in the project MIDHOL (Transient simulation of the MIDdle HOLocene with a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model funded by the Federal Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF)
2004 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht/University of Hamburg: The role of different forcings on the historical climate variability, with special consideration of the Dalton Minimum (1790–1830): A model study.
2001 Diploma (Dipl.-Geogr. (Univ.)) at the University of Würzburg: Decadal atmospheric and oceanic variability in a control simulation with the climate model ECHO-G.
Teaching experience
2008 - 2009 PhD Seminar ‘Regionalization of climate model output: Statistical and dynamical applications’ at the International Max Planck School for Earth System Research (IMPRS), Hamburg, Germany
University courses
since 2010 Introduction to Climate Physics, Guest lecture at the University of Vienna, Austria
since 2014 Introduction to Climate Modelling, Guest lecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig
2010 – 2014 Climate modelling part of Master studies lecture ‘Klimaextreme und Klimaantriebe‘ at the Institute for Environmental Geology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
2011 Preparation of the Sino-German PhD Program “Tibetan Plateau” (Cooperation with Technical University of Braunschweig)
Other Activities
since 2005 Supervision of diploma students at the GKSS Research Center, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany
- Holocene Climate Change
- External climate forcings (Orbital, solar, volcanic, greenhouse gases)
- Global climate modelling of the last 2,000 years with coupled Earth System Models
- Regional climate change in Europe, North America and the Mediterranean area
- Hartmann, E., Zhang, M., Xoplaki, E., & Wagner, S. (2024): Design of High-Resolution Paleoclimate Simulations with the COSMO-CLM Model in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. In: Ksibi, M., et al. (eds): Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions (3rd Edition). EMCEI 2021. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham., doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43922-3_55
- Essell, H., Krusic, P.J., Esper, J., Wagner, S., Braconnot, P., Jungclaus, J., Muschitiello, F., Oppenheimer, C., & Büntgen, U. (2023): A frequency-optimised temperature record for the Holocene. Environ. Res. Lett., 18, 114022, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad0065
- Behr, L., Luther, N., Josey, S.A., Luterbacher, J., Wagner, S., & Xoplaki, E. (2022): On the Representation of Mediterranean Overflow Waters in Global Climate Models. Journal of Physical Oceanography 52, 7, 1397-1413, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-21-0082.1
- Büntgen, U., Smith, S.H., Wagner, S., Krusic, P., Esper, J., Piermattei, A., Crivellaro, A., Reinig, F., Tegel, W., Kirdyanov, A., Trnka, M. & Oppenheimer, C. (2022): Global tree-ring response and inferred climate variation following the mid-thirteenth century Samalas eruption. Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-022-06141-3
- Zhang, Z., Wagner, S., Klockmann, M., & Zorita, E. (2022): Evaluation of statistical climate reconstruction methods based on pseudoproxy experiments using linear and machine-learning methods. Clim. Past, 18, 2643–2668, doi:10.5194/cp-18-2643-2022
- Büntgen, U., Urban, O., Krusic, P.J., Rybníček, M., Kolář, T., Kyncl, T., Ač, A., Koňasová, E., Čáslavský, J., Esper, J., Wagner, S., Saurer, M., Tegel, W., Dobrovolný, P., Cherubini, P., Reinig, F., & Trnka, M. (2021): Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-021-00698-0
- Di Cosmo, N., Wagner, S., & Büntgen, U. (2021): Climate and environmental context of the Mongol invasion of Syria and defeat at ‘Ayn Jālūt (1258–1260 CE). Erdkunde, 2021, Vol. 75, Issue 2, pp 87-104, doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2021.02.02
- Lyu, Z., Goosse, H., Dalaiden, Q., Klein, F., Shi, F., Wagner, S., & Braconnot, P. (2021): Spatial patterns of multi–centennial surface air temperature trends in Antarctica over 1–1000 CE: Insights from ice core records and modeling. Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 271, 107205, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107205
- Pyrina, M., Moreno-Chamarro, E., Wagner, S., & Zorita, E. (2021): Surface and Tropospheric Response of North Atlantic Summer Climate from Paleoclimate Simulations of the Past Millennium. Atmosphere 2021, 12, 568, doi:10.3390/atmos12050568
- Pyrina, M., Nonnenmacher, M., Wagner, S., & Zorita, E. (2021): Statistical seasonal prediction of European summer mean temperature using observational, reanalysis and satellite data. AMS Journals, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-20-0235.1
- Xoplaki, E., Luterbacher, J., Luther, N., Behr, L., Wagner, S., Jungclaus, J., Zorita, E., Toreti, A., Fleitmann, D., Izdebski, A., & Bloomfield, K. (2021): Hydrological Changes in Late Antiquity: Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Socio-Economic Impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean. In: Erdkamp, P., Manning, J.G., & Verboven K. (eds): Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East. Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham., doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81103-7_18
- Cohuo, S., Macario-González, L., Wagner, S., Naumann, K., Echeverría-Galindo, P., Pérez, L., Curtis, J., Brenner, M., & Schwalb, A. (2020): Influence of late Quaternary climate on the biogeography of Neotropical aquatic species as reflected by non-marine ostracodes. Biogeosciences, 17, 145–161, doi:10.5194/bg-17-145-2020
- Bothe, O., Wagner, S., & Zorita, E. (2019): Inconsistencies between observed, reconstructed, and simulated precipitation indices for England since the year 1650 CE. Clim. Past, 15, 307-334, doi:10.5194/cp-15-307-2019
- Gómez-Navarro, J.J., Ludwig, P., Zeiher, N., Talento, S., Parveen, U., & Wagner, S. (2019): A joint effort to bring together global, regional modeling and proxy communities. Past Global Changes Magazine 27, 41, doi:10.22498/pages.27.1.41
- Wagner, S., & Zorita, E. (2018): High Resolution Climate Reconstruction of the last 2,000 years. Chapter 5, pp 123-140. In: Chiotis, E. (2018): Climate Changes in the Holocene – Impacts and Human Adaptation, CRC Press, November 2018, 406 p, ISBN 9780815365938
- Zorita, E., Wagner, S., & Schenk, F. (2018): The Global Climate System. In: White, S., Pfister, C., &, Mauelshagen, F. (eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, pp 21-26, Palgrave Macmillan, London, doi:10.1057/978-1-137-43020-5_2
- Zorita, E., & Wagner, S. (2018): Analysis and Interpretation: Modeling of Past Climates. In: White, S., Pfister, C., &, Mauelshagen, F. (eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, pp 141-148, Palgrave Macmillan, London, doi:10.1057/978-1-137-43020-5_13
- Weitzel, N., Wagner, S., Sjolte, J., Klockmann, M., Bothe, O., Andres, H., Tarasov, L., Rehfeld, K., Zorita, E., Widmann, M., Sommer, P., Schädler, G., Ludwig, P., Kapp, F., Jonkers, L., García-Pintado, J., Fuhrmann, F., Dolman, A., Dallmeyer, A., & Brücher, T. (2018): Diving into the past – A paleo data-model comparison workshop on the Late Glacial and Holocene. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0169.1
- Mentzafou, A., Wagner, S., & Dimitriou, E. (2018): Historical trends and the long-term changes of the hydrological cycle components in a Mediterranean river basin. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 636, 15 September 2018, Pages 558-568, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.298
- Zhang, H., Werner, J.P., García-Bustamante, E., González-Rouco, F., Wagner, S., Zorita, E. , Fraedrich, K., Jungclaus, J.H., Ljungqvist, F.C., Zhu, X., Xoplaki, E., Chen, F., Duan, J., Ge, Q., Hao, Z., Ivanov, M., Schneider, L., Talento, S., Wang, J., Yang, B., & Luterbacher, J. (2018): East Asian warm season temperature variations over the past two millennia. Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-26038-8
- Xoplaki, E., Luterbacher, J., Wagner, S., Zorita, E., Fleitmann, D., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Sargent, A.M., White, S., Toreti, A., Haldon, J.F., Mordechai, L., Bozkurt, D., Akçer-Ön, S., & Izdebski, A. (2018): Modelling Climate and Societal Resilience in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Last Millennium. Human Ecology, pp 1–17, doi:10.1007/s10745-018-9995-9
- Jungclaus, J. H., Bard, E., Baroni, M., Braconnot, P., Cao, J., Chini, L. P., Egorova, T., Evans, M., González-Rouco, J. F., Goosse, H., Hurtt, G. C., Joos, F., Kaplan, J. O., Khodri, M., Klein Goldewijk, K., Krivova, N., LeGrande, A. N., Lorenz, S. J., Luterbacher, J., Man, W., Meinshausen, M., Moberg, A., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Otto-Bliesner, B. I., Phipps, S. J., Pongratz, J., Rozanov, E., Schmidt, G. A., Schmidt, H., Schmutz, W., Schurer, A., Shapiro, A. I., Sigl, M., Smerdon, J. E., Solanki, S. K., Timmreck, C., Toohey, M., Usoskin, I. G., Wagner, S., Wu, C.-Y., Yeo, K. L., Zanchettin, D., Zhang, Q. and Zorita, E. 2017: The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: the Last Millennium, Scientific Objective and Experimental Design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations, Geosci. Model Dev.10, 4005-4033.
- Bethke, I., Outten, S., Otterå, O.H., Hawkins, E., Wagner, S., Sigl, M. and Thorne, P. 2017: Potential volcanic impacts on future climate variability, Nature Climate Change.
- Pyrina, M., Wagner, S., and Zorita, E. 2017: Pseudo-proxy evaluation of climate field reconstruction methods of North Atlantic climate based on an annually resolved marine proxy network, Clim. Past, 13, 1339-1354.
- Jungclaus, J. H., Bard, E., Baroni, M., Braconnot, P., Cao, J., Chini, L. P., Egorova, T., Evans, M., González-Rouco, J. F., Goosse, H., Hurtt, G. C., Joos, F., Kaplan, J. O., Khodri, M., Klein Goldewijk, K., Krivova, N., LeGrande, A. N., Lorenz, S. J., Luterbacher, J., Man, W., Meinshausen, M., Moberg, A., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Otto-Bliesner, B. I., Phipps, S. J., Pongratz, J., Rozanov, E., Schmidt, G. A., Schmidt, H., Schmutz, W., Schurer, A., Shapiro, A. I., Sigl, M., Smerdon, J. E., Solanki, S. K., Timmreck, C., Toohey, M., Usoskin, I. G., Wagner, S., Wu, C.-Y., Yeo, K. L., Zanchettin, D., Zhang, Q. and Zorita, E. 2017: The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: the Last Millennium, Scientific Objective and Experimental Design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations, Geosci. Model Dev.10, 4005-4033.
- Büntgen, U., Verstege, A., J. Krusic, P.J., Sangüesa Barreda, G., Wagner, S., Camarero,J., Zorita, E., Ljungqvist, F.C, Konter, O., Oppenheimer, C., Tegel, W., Gärtner, H., Cherubini, P., Reinig, F. and Esper, J. (2017): New tree-ring evidence from the Pyrenees reveals Western Mediterranean climate variability since medieval times . Journal of Climate.
- Dallmeyer, A., Claussen, M., Ni, J., Cao, X., Wang, Y., Fischer, N., Pfeiffer, M., Jin, L., Khon, V., Wagner, S., Haberkorn, K., and Herzschuh, U. 2017: Biome changes in Asia since the mid-Holocene – an analysis of different transient Earth system model simulations, Clim. Past 13.
- Pyrina, M., Wagner, S. & Zorita, E. 2017: Evaluation of CMIP5 models over the northern North Atlantic in the context of forthcoming paleoclimatic reconstructions. Clim. Dyn. 49 (11-12), 3673–3691.
- Büntgen, U., Ljungqvist, F.C., Esper, J., Luterbacher, J., Wagner, S. and Werner, J.P. 2016: Consolidation, finalization and publication of the Euro-Med2k database. Past Global Changes Magazine, 24(1), p. 43.
- Bierstedt, S.E., Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., Wagner, S. and Gomez-Navarro, J.J. 2016: Variability of daily winter wind speed distribution over Northern Europe during the past millennium in regional and global climate simulations. Clim. Past 12, 317-338.
- Luterbacher, J., Werner, J.P., Smerdon, J.E., Fernández-Donado, L., González-Rouco, F.J., Barriopedro, D., Ljungqvist, F.C., Büntgen, U., Zorita, E., Wagner, S., Esper, J., McCarroll, D., Toreti, A., Frank, D., Jungclaus, J.H., Barriendos, M., Bertolin, C., Bothe, O., Brázdil, R., Camuffo, D., Dobrovolný, P., Gagen, M., García-Bustamante, E., Ge, Q., Gómez-Navarro, J.J., Guiot, J., Hao, Z., Hegerl, G.C., Holmgren, K., Klimenko, V.V., Martín-Chivelet, J., Pfister, C., Roberts, N., Schindler, A., Schurer, A., Solomina, O., von Gunten, L., Wahl, E., Wanner, H., Wetter, O., Xoplaki, E., Yuan, N., Zanchettin, D., Zhang, H. and Zerefos, C. 2016: European summer temperatures since Roman times. Environ. Res. Lett. 11, 024001.
- Büntgen, U., Myglan, V.S., Ljungqvist, F.C., McCormick, M., Di Cosmo, N., Sigl, M., Jungclaus, J., Wagner, S., Krusic, P.J., Esper, J., Kaplan, J.O., de Vaan, M.A.C., Luterbacher, J., Wacker, L., Tegel, W., Kirdyanov, A.V. 2016: Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD. Nature Geoscience 9, 231–236.
- Xoplaki, E., Fleitmann, D., Luterbacher, J., Wagner, S., Haldon, J.F., Zorita, E., Telelis, I., Toreti, A., Izdebski, A. 2016: The Medieval Climate Anomaly and Byzantium: A review of the evidence on climatic fluctuations, economic performance and societal change. Quat. Sci. Rev. 136, 229–252.
- Oliver Bothe, Michael Evans, L Fernández Donado, E Garcia Bustamante, J Gergis, JF Gonzalez-Rouco, H Goosse, Gabriela Hegerl, A Hind, Johann H Jungclaus, D Kaufman, F Lehner, N McKay, A Moberg, CC Raible, A Schurer, F Shi, JE Smerdon, L Von Gunten, Sebastian Wagner, E Warren, M Widmann, P Yiou, E Zorita (2015): Continental-scale temperature variability in PMIP3 simulations and PAGES 2k regional temperature reconstructions over the past millennium, Climate of the Past, 11, 1673–1699, doi:10.5194/cp-11-1673-2015
- Anne Dallmeyer, Martin Claussen, Nils Fischer, Kerstin Haberkorn, Sebastian Wagner, Madleen Pfeiffer, Liya Jin, Vyacheslav Khon, Yangbo Wang, Ulrike Herzschuh (2015): The evolution of sub-monsoon systems in the Afro-Asian monsoon region during the Holocene comparison of different transient climate model simulations, Climate of the Past, 11, 305–326, doi:10.5194/cp-11-305-2015
- Ulf Büntgen, Jürg Luterbacher, F Charpentier Ljungqvist, Jan Esper, Dominik Fleitmann, Mary Gagen, Fidel González-Rouco, Sebastian Wagner, J Werner, Eduardo Zorita, F Martínez-Peña (2015): Towards a spatiotemporal expansion of temperature and hydroclimatic proxy archives, Past Global Changes Magazine, 23, p. 34. DOI:10.22498/pages.23.1.34
- Gomez-Navarro, J. J., Bothe, O., Wagner, S., Zorita, E., Werner, J. P., Luterbacher, J., Raible, C. C., and Montavez, J. P. (2015): A regional climate palaeosimulation for Europe in the period 1500-1990 AD. Part 2: Shortcomings and strengths of models and reconstructions, Clim. Past, 11, 1077-1095, doi:10.5194/cp-11-1077-2015
- PAGES2k-PMIP3 (2015): Continental-scale temperature variability in PMIP3 simulations and PAGES 2k regional temperature reconstructions over the past millennium. Climate of the Past Discussions 11, 2483-2555, doi:10.5194/cp-11-1673-2015
- Christian Pfister, Oliver Wetter, Rudolf Brázdil, Petr Dobrovolný, Rüdiger Glaser, Jürg Luterbacher, Sonia I Seneviratne, Eduardo Zorita, Maria-Joao Alcoforado, Mariano Barriendos, Ursula Bieber, Karl H Burmeister, Chantal Camenisch, Antonio Contino, Uwe Grünewald, Jürgen Herget, Iso Himmelsbach, Thomas Labbé, Danuta Limanówka, Laurent Litzenburger, Andrea Kiss, Oldrich Kotyza, Øyvind Nordli, Kathleen Pribyl, Dag Retsö, Dirk Riemann, Christian Rohr, Werner Siegfried, Jean-Laurent Spring, Johan Söderberg, Sebastian Wagner, Johannes P Werner (2015): Tree-rings and people-different views on the 1540 Megadrought. Reply to Büntgen et al. 2015, Climatic Change, 131(2), 191–198, DOI:10.1007/s10584-015-1429-8
- Bierstedt, S.E., Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., Wagner, S. and Gomez-Navarro, J.J.(2015).: Variability of daily winter wind speed distribution over Northern Europe during the past millennium in regional and global climate simulations, Clim. Past Discuss., 11, 1479-1518, doi:10.5194/cpd-11-1479-2015
- Strandberg, G., Kjellström, E., Poska, A., Wagner, S., Gaillard, M.-J., Trondman, A.-K., Mauri, A., Birks, H.J.B, Bjune, A.E., Davis, B.A.S., Fyfe, R., Giesecke, T., Kalnina, L., Kangur, M., Kaplan, J.O., van der Knaap, W.O., Kokfelt, U., Kunes, P., Latalowa, M., Marquer, L., Mazier, F., Nielsen, A.B., Smith, B. Seppä, H., and S. Sugita (2014): Regional climate model simulations for Europe at 6 k and 0.2 k yr BP: sensitivity to changes in anthropogenic deforestation. Clim. Past Clim. Past, 10, 661-680, doi:10.5194/cp-10-661-2014
- Wetter, O., Pfister, C., Werner, J.P., Zorita E., Wagner S., Seneviratne, S.I., Herget, J., Grünewald, U., Luterbacher, J., Alcoforado M.-J., Barriendos M., Bieber, U., Brazdil R., Burmeister K.H., Camenisch C., Contino A., Dobrovoly P., Glaser R., Himmelsbach I., Kiss A., Kotyza, O., Labbe, T., Limanowka D., Litzenburger L., Nordli O., Pribyl L., Retsö D., Riemann, D., Rohr C., Siegfried W., Söderberg J., Spring, J-L. (2014): The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540: aa worst case. Climatc Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-014-1184-2
- Mayr, C., Lücke, A., Wagner, S., Wissel, H., Ohlendorf, C., Haberzettl, T., Oehlerich, M., Schäbitz, F., Wille, M., Zhu, J., and B. Zolitschka (2013): Intensified Southern Hemisphere Westerlies regulated atmospheric CO2 during the last deglaciation, Geology , First published online June 20, 2013, doi:10.1130/G34335.1
- Gomez-Navarro, J.J., Montavez, J.P., Wagner, S., and E. Zorita (2013): A regional climate palaeosimulation for Europe in the period 1500.1990 - Part 1: Model validation. Clim Past , 9, 1667-1682, www.clim-past.net/9/1667/2013/, doi:10.5194/cp-9-1667-2013
- Ackerley, D., Lorrey, A., Renwick, J., Phipps, S.J., Wagner, S. and A. Fowler (2013): High-resolution modelling of mid-Holocene New Zealand climate at 6000 yr BP, The Holocene, September 2013 vol. 23 no. 9 1272-1285, doi:10.1177/0959683613484612
- PAGES 2k Consortium (2013): Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia (2013) Nature Geoscience, 6, 339-346, doi:10.1038/ngeo1797
- Fernandez-Donado, L., Gonzalez-Rouco, J.F., Raible, C.C., Ammann, C.M., Barriopedro, D., Garca-Bustamante, E., Jungclaus, J.H., Lorenz, S.J.,Luterbacher, J., Phipps, S.J., Servonnat, J., Swingedouw, D., Tett, S.F.B., Wagner, S., Yiou, P., and E. Zorita (2013): Temperature response to external forcing in simulations and reconstructions of the last millennium. Clim. Past , 9, 393-421, 2013, doi:10.5194/cp-9-393-2013
- Berking, J., Körper, J., Wagner, S., Cubasch, C., and B. Schütt (2012): Heavy rainfalls in a desert(ed) city: A climate-archaeological case study from Sudan, in Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 198, edited by L. Giosan et al., 163-168, AGU, Washington, D. C., doi:10.1029/2012GM001208
- Wagner, S., Fast, I., and F. Kaspar (2012): Climatic changes and forcing mechanisms between 20th century and pre-industrial times over South America in regional model simulations, Climate of the Past , 8, 1599-1620, doi:10.5194/cp-8-1599-2012
- Esper, J., D.C. Frank, M. Timonen, E. Zorita, R.J.S. Wilson, J. Luterbacher, S. Holzkämper, N. Fischer, S. Wagner, D. Nievergelt, A. Verstege, and U. Bütgen (2012): Orbital forcing of tree-ring data. Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate1589
- Varma, V., Prange, M., Merkel, U., Kleinen, T., Lohmann, G., Pfeiffer, M., Renssen, H., Wagner, A., Wagner, S., and M. Schulz (2012).: Holocene Evolution of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds in Transient Simulations with Global Climate Models. Climate of the Past 8, 391-402, doi:10.5194/cp-8-391-2012
- Springer, S., Matulla, C., Watson, E., Wagner, S., Schöner, W., and R. Steinacker (2012): Downscaled GCM projections of winter and summer mass balance for Central European glaciers (2000-2100) from ensemble simulations with ECHAM5-MPIOM. International Journal of Climatology, online, doi:10.1002/joc.3511
- Ackerley, D., Lorrey, A., Renwick, J. A., Phipps, S. J., Wagner, S., Dean, S., Singarayer, J., Valdes, P., Abe-Ouchi, A., Ohgaito, R., and J.M. Jones (2011): Using synoptic type analysis to understand New Zealand climate during the Mid-Holocene, Climate of the Past , 7, 1189-2011, doi:10.5194/cp-7-1189-2011
- Tol, R.S.J. and S. Wagner (2010): Climate changes and violent conflict in Europe over the last millennium. Climatic Change, 99, 65-79, doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9659-2
- Matulla, C., E. Watson, S. Wagner and W. Schöner (2009): Downscaled GCM projections of winter and summer mass balance for Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Canada (2000-2100) from ensemble simulations with ECHAM5-MPIOM, International Journal of Climatology, 29,1550-1559, doi:10.1002/joc.1796
- Meyer, I. and S. Wagner (2009): The Little Ice Age in Southern South America: Proxy and Model Based Evidence. In: F. Vimeux et al. (eds), Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions, Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, 14, 395.412, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-2672-9_16
- Matulla, C., X. Zhang, X.L. Wang, J. Wang, E. Zorita, S. Wagner and H. von Storch (2007): Influence of similarity measures on performance of downscaling precipitation by the analog method. Climate Dynamics, 30, 133-144, doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0277-2
- Wagner, S., M. Widmann, J. Jones, T. Haberzettl, A. Lücke, C. Mayr, C. Ohlendorf, F. Schäbitz and B. Zolitschka (2007): Transient simulations, empirical reconstructions and forcing mechanisms for the Mid-Holocene hydrological climate in Southern Patagonia. Climate Dynamics, 29, 333-355, doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0229-x
- Wagner S. and E. Zorita (2005): The influence of volcanic, solar and CO2 forcing on the temperatures in the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830): a model study. Climate Dynamics, 25, 205-218, doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0029-0
- Wagner S., S. Legutke and E. Zorita (2005): European winter temperature variability in a long coupled model simulation: the contribution of ocean dynamics. Climate Dynamics, 25, 37-50, doi:10.1007/s00382-004-0494-x