2025

Preprints

• Epp K, Sulzer M, Steinmann D, Zeeman M, Matzarakis A, Christen A, 2025: Assessment of current and future heat in a large hospital complex based on continuous indoor measurements and climate simulations. EGUsphere 2025, 1-36, open for discussion and under review for Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS). 
• Kunz AK, Hammer S, Aigner P, Bignotti L, Borchardt L, Chen J, Della Coletta J, Emmenegger L, Eritt M, Gutiérrez X, Hashemi J, Hilland R, Holst C, Jordan A, Kljun N, Kneißl R, Lan C, Legendre V, Levin I, Loubet B, Mauder M, Molinier B, Preunkert S, Ramonet M, Stagakis S, Christen A, 2025: 14C-based separation of fossil and non-fossil CO2 fluxes in cities using relaxed eddy accumulation: results from tall-tower measurements in Zurich, Paris, and Munich. EGUshpere, Open for discussion and under review for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). 
• Moutahir H, Sulzer M, Kiese R, Christen A, Weiler M, Dedden L, Brzozon J, Labenski P, Khanal P, Šigut L, Grote R, 2025: Matching scales of eddy covariance measurements and process-based modeling – Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of carbon and water fluxes in a mixed forest in Southern Germany, EGUsphere, Open for discussion and under review for Biogeosciences (BG).
• Tesch J, Kühnhammer K, Wagner D, Christen A, Dormann C, Frey J, Grote R, Kattenborn T, Sulzer M, Wallrabe U, Weiler M, Werner C, Baghbani S, Brzozon J, Comella LM, Dedden L,  Dumberger S, Frey Y, Gassilloud M, Gerach T, Göritz A, Haberstroh S, Klüppel J, Kremer L,  Kreuzwieser J, Lee H, Maack J, Müller J, Prucker O, Rajak SK, Rühe J, Rupitsch SJ,  Schack-Kirchner H, Scharinger C, Shinde U, Steinmann T, Stock C, Strack J, 2025: The ECOSENSE forest: A distributed sensor and data management system for real-time monitoring of ecosystem processes and stresses, EGUsphere, Open for discussion and under review for Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI).

Originalarbeiten in wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften

• Albrecht C, Graw K, Kehl V, Hostettler I, Meyer B, Matzarakis A, Wostrack M, 2025: The impact of biotropic weather on the incidence and severity of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a single-center observational explorative study. International Journal of Biometeorology. 
• Aliyev V, Amiranashvili A, Kartvelishvili L; Matzarakis A, Tatishvili M., 2025: Comparative Analysis of the Variability of Daily Minimum, Maximum and Mean Air Temperature in Baku and Tbilisi in 2005-2024. International Journal of Sustainability and Risk Control, 1 (2), 1-8.
• Badiru A, Humaire L, Wanderley LSdA, Matzarakis A, 2025: Impact of Climate Change on the Tourism Potential of Northeastern Brazil: Trend Analysis and Future Perspectives. Sustainability. 2025; 17(12):5290.
• Badiru A, Humaire L, Matzarakis A, 2025: Climate and Sustainable Tourism in João Pessoa: A Comparative Study with Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Atmosphere 2025, 16, 705.
• Böse-OʼReilly S, Matthies-Wiesler F, Ritterhoff J, Schoierer J, Hellmann A, Matzarakis A, 2025: Vorschläge zur Vermeidung gesundheitlicher Folgen von Hitzebelastung als Querschnittsaufgabe im Gesundheitswesen. Das Gesundheitswesen, 87, 555-559.
• Briegel F, Schrodi S, Sulzer M, Brox T, Pinto JG, Christen A, 2025: Deep learning enables city-wide climate projections of street-level heat stress, Urban Climate, 62, 102564.
• Briegel F, Pinto JG, Christen A, 2025: Is satellite land surface temperature an appropriate proxy for intra-urban variability of daytime heat stress? Remote Sensing of Environment, 331, 115045.
• Dao-Siebel T, Holstiege J, Graw K, Müller C, Matzarakis A, Halbleib R, Lamy E, 2025: Association between climate indicators and hay fever incidence in children and adolescents in Freiburg, Germany. Front. Public Health, Sec. Environmental Health and Exposome, 13, 1587767, 1-14.
• Epp K, Sulzer M, Christen A, Steinmann A, Matzarakis A, 2025: Quantifizierung von Hitzestress und Maßnahmen zur Reduktion von Hitze in Krankenhäusern am Beispiel des Universitätsklinikums Freiburg im Sommer 2023.Gefahrstoffe, 85, 7-8, 156-164.
• Exler J, Skeeter J, Christen A, Moore RD, 2025: Interannual climatic sensitivity of surface energy flux densities and evapotranspiration in a disturbed and rewetted ombrotrophic bog. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 367, 110501.
• Feigel G, Plein M, Zeeman M, Metzger S, Matzarakis A, Schindler D, Christen A, 2025: High spatio-temporal and continuous monitoring of outdoor thermal comfort in urban areas: a generic and modular sensor network and outreach platform. Sustainable Cities and Society, 119: 105991.
• Feldbusch H, Schneider A, Matthies-Wiesler F, Matzarakis A, Peters A, Breitner-Busch S, Huber V, 2025: Assessing the effectiveness of the heat health warning system in preventing mortality in 15 German cities: a difference-in-differences approach. Environment International, 203, 109746, 1-10.
• Garamszegi B, Jung C, Schindler D, 2025: Identifying (less) vulnerable forest structures to storms in different conifer-dominated European forest landscapes by simple spaceborne proxies. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 55: 1-13.
• Gardiner B, Lingua E, Costa M, Chen Y-Y, Kamimura K, Bunce A, Schindler D, 2025: The future is uncertain: Wind resilient forests in a changing climate. Forest Ecology and Management, 581: 122556.
• Glazer RH, Grimmond S, Blunn L, Fenner D, Lean H, Christen A, Morrison W, Looschelders D, 2025: Hectometric-scale modelling of the urban mixed layer evaluated with a dense LiDAR-ceilometer network, Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1723–1742.
• Haberstroh S, Christen A, Sulzer M, Scarpa F, Werner C, 2025: Recurrent hot droughts cause persistent legacy effects in a temperate Scots Pine forest. Plant Biol J.
• Haberstroh S, Scarpa F, Seeger S, Christen A, Werner C, 2025: Continuous stem water potential measurements of a diffuse-porous tree species offer new insights into tree water relations. Ecohydrology, 18: e2761.
• He BJ, Qi L, Cheshmehzangi A, Attia S, Prasad D, Mohaghegh Zahed L, Mao Y, Tang J, Matzarakis A, Liu Z, 2025: Tourism-related short-term migration for heat adaptation: Impacts of socio-economic-institutional, climatic, socio-interactive, emotional, and perceptive-behavioral-psychological factors and implications for responsible tourism development. Human Settlements and Sustainability 1, 290-303. 
• Helmich L, Sulzer M, Christen A, Matzarakis A, 2025: Untersuchung der thermischen Belastung von Milchkühen in Ställen im Sommer im Oberrheingebiet. Gefahrstoffe, 85, 7-8, 195-205.
• Hilland R, Hashemi J, Stagakis S,  Brunner D, Constantin L, Kljun N, Molinier B,  Hammer S, Emmenegger L, Christen A, 2025: Sectoral attribution of greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions using multi-species eddy covariance on a tall tower in Zurich, Switzerland. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25 (1),14279–14299. 
• Hilland R, Christen A, 2025: Horizontal Anisotropy of Turbulent Fluctuations in Surface and Air Temperatures Over a Flat, Homogeneous Surface, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 130 (24), e2025JD044685
• Hong B, Du M, Zhai Y, Matzarakis A, 2025: Multi-sensory modulation of outdoor thermal comfort: A systematic review and future agenda. Human Settlements and Sustainability 1, 251-263. 
• Huanga B, Matzarakis A, He B-J, 2025: Nonlinear law of cumulative heat exposure and dynamic thermal comfort during pedestrians’ walking: Field experiments and machine learning predictions. Sustainable Cities and Society, 131, 106696.
• Huanga B, Qic J, Pathak M, Sharifi A, Cheshmehzangi A, Attia S, Matzarakis A, Ghaffarianhoseini A, Yun GY, Darko A, Liu X, He B-J, 2025: Climate-driven transformations: A framework for the sustainable urban landscape system to enhance heat resilience. Sustainable Cities and Society, 131, 106684.
• Ilgen K, Bergmann Goulart C, Hilgert S, Schindler D, van de Weyer K, de Carvalho Bueno R, Bleninger T, Lastrico R, Gfüllner L, Graef A, Fuchs S, Lange J, 2025: Hydrological and ecological effects of floating photovoltaic systems: a model comparison considering mussel, periphyton and macrophyte growth. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 426: 11.
• Jung C, Schindler D, 2025: Global future onshore wind energy droughts intensify under climate change. Journal of Cleaner Production, 523: 146391.
• Jung C, Sander L, Schindler D, 2025: Global climate change impacts onshore wind resource complementarity and temporal variability. Energy Conversion and Management, 339: 119963.
• Junk J, Lett C, Trebs I, Hipler E, Torres-Matallana JA, Lichti R, Matzarakis A, 2025: Quantifying the Effects of Climate Change on the Urban Heat Island Intensity in Luxembourg—Sustainable Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies Through Urban Design. Atmosphere, 16(4), 462; 1-22.
• Kittner J, Fenner D, Demuzere M, Bechtel B, 2025: Analysis of nocturnal urban heat advection using crowd weather stations, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 10.1002/qj.5065
• Klimenka M, Zhao K, Hilland R, Zhang F, Voogt J, Ratti C, 2025: Instant infrared: Estimating urban surface temperatures from street view imagery. Building and Environment, 267, Part B, 112122.
• Kreuzwieser J, Lee H, Köhler A, Christen A, Sulzer M, Schack-Kirchner H, Brzozon J, Lang F, Daber LE, Bechtold R, Werner C, 2025: Biotic and abiotic factors controlling terpenoid exchange from soil of a mixed temperate forest ecosystem, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 109991.
• Kunz A-K, Borchardt L, Christen A, Della Coletta J, Eritt M, Gutiérrez X, Hashemi J, Hilland R, Jordan A, Kneißl R, Legendre V, Levin I, Preunkert S, Rubli P, Stagakis S,  Hammer S, 2025: A relaxed eddy accumulation flask sampling system for 14C-based partitioning of fossil and non-fossil CO2 fluxes. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 18, 5349–5373.
• Lee H, Park S, Mayer H, 2025: Approach for the vertical wind speed profile implemented in the UTCI basics blocks UTCI applications at the urban pedestrian level. International Journal of Biometeorology, 69: 567-580.
• Looschelders D, Christen A, Grimmond S, Kotthaus S, Fenner D, Dupont J-D, Haeffelin M, Morrison W, 2025: Inter-Instrument Variability of Vaisala CL61 Lidar-Ceilometer's Attenuated Backscatter, Cloud Properties and Mixed-Layer Height, Meteorological Applications, 32, 5, e70088
• Matzarakis A, Giannaros C, 2025: Toward the Next-Generation of Heat-Health Warning Systems and Action Plans. Atmosphere, 16, 938.
• Mendes PT, Santos Nouri A, Matzarakis A, 2025: Evaluating Outdoor Human Thermal Comfort Through Climate-Resilient Adaptation: A Case Study at School of Science and Technology (NOVA FCT) Campus. Atmosphere, 16, 6, 677
• Morrison W, Looschelders D, Céspedes J, Claxton B, Drouin M-A, Dupont J-C, Faucheux A, Haeffelin M, Holst CC, Kotthaus S, Masson V, McGregor J, Price J, Zeeman M, Grimmond S, Christen A, 2025: Harmonised boundary layer wind profile dataset from six ground-based doppler wind lidars in a transect across Paris, France, Earth Syst. Sci. Data (ESSD), 17, 6507–6529.
• Pace R,  Endreny TA, Ciolfi M, Gangwisch M, Saha S, Ruehr NK, Grote R, 2025: Mitigation Potential of Urban Greening during Heatwaves and Stormwater Events: A Modeling Study for Karlsruhe, Germany. Scientific Reports, 15: 5308.
• Parliari D, Economou T, Giannaros C, Matzarakis A, 2025: Mortality Burden Attributed to the Synergy Between Human Bio-Climate and Air Quality Extremes in a Climate Change Hotspot. Atmosphere 16, 1313, 1-17.
• Pecelj M, Malinović-Milićević S, Matzarakis A, 2025: Thermal Comfort and Tourism in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina): A Human Bioclimatic Information Sheet for Visitors and Planners. Atmosphere, 16, 987, 1-16.
• Plein M, Feigel G, Zeeman M, Dormann CF, Christen A, 2025, Using Gradient Boosting for gap-filling to analyze temperature and humidity patterns in an urban weather station network in Freiburg, Germany, Urban Climate, 62, 102496.
• Raman V, Kumar M, Sharma A, Matzarakis A, 2025: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Thermal Changes Affected by Trees: A Comparative Based on Simulations with SkyHelios Pro and ENVI-met Lite. Architecture Science 32, 1-25.
• Schindler D, Wehrle J, Sander L, Schlemper C, Bekel K, Jung C, 2025: Assessment of Spatiotemporal Wind Complementarity. Energies, 18: 3715.
• Shevchenko O, Sulzer M, Christen A, Matzarakis A, 2025: Coupling Indoor and Outdoor Heat Stress During the Hot Summer of 2022: A Case Study of Freiburg, Germany. Atmosphere 16 (2)
• Song W, Harzer J, Jung C, Sander L, Diehl M, 2025: Novel numerical method for simultaneous design and control optimization of seasonal thermal energy storage systems. Energy 337, 138580.
• Stiperski I, Rotach MW, Ansorge C, Baklanov A, Belušić D, Bou-Zeid E, Brun C, Christen A, Dias NL, Dörnbrack A, Foken T, Grachev A, Holtslag AAM, Kelly M, Klein P, Kosović B, Meneveau C, Mortarini L, Patton EG, Steeneveld G-J, Zardi D, 2025: Open questions in atmospheric turbulence: A synthesis from the centenary workshop "100 years of turbulence: Innsbruck 1922 -2022", Journal of the European Meteorological Society, 3, 100022.
• Wösle J, Briegel F, Zeeman M, Plein M, Christen A, Matzarakis A, 2025: Intra-urbane Variabilität der Intensität und Häufigkeit von Hitzebelastung im Stadtgebiet von Freiburg. Gefahrstoffe, 85, 7-8, 175-182.
• Writzl L, Wollmann CA, Costa IT, Iensse AC, da Silva AN, Baumhardt O de F, Rigão da Silva R, Oliveira da Costa T, Assis Gobo JP, Shooshtarian S,  Matzarakis A, 2025: Mobile measurements with bicycles: A systematic review applied to the thermal environment of urban microclimates. RAEGA - O Espaço Geográfico Em Análise, 61(1), 192–217. 
• Zafarmandi S, Matzarakis A, 2025: Investigating thermal comfort indices in relation to clothing insulation value: A survey of an outdoor space in Tehran, Iran, Sustainable Cities and Society, 118, 105993 

Buchbeiträge

• de Abreu-Harbich LV, Labaki LC, Matzarakis A, 2025: Using Landscape Design to Mitigate Urban Climate: Campinas Case. In: Angeoletto F, Tryjanowski P, Fellowes, MDE (eds) Ecology of Tropical Cities, Volume I. Springer, Cham.
• Pickford R, Matzarakis A, Lechner K, Matthies-Wiesler F, Woeckel M, Breitner-Busch S, Schneider A, 2025: Hitze und Gesundheit. In: H. E. Wichmann HE, Fromme F, Zeeb H (Hrsg.), Handbuch für Umweltmedizin. Ecomed Verlag, Kapitel VII – 3.2, 1-24. ISBN 978-3-609-71181-2.
• Pickford R, Matzarakis A, Lechner K, Matthies-Wiesler F, Woeckel M, Breitner-Busch S, Schneider A, 2025: Hitze und Gesundheit. In: begr. von Neander, Meyer, Friesacher,  Handbuch der Intensivpflege, Pflegerische Praxis und medizinische Grundlagen; Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für Mitarbeiter auf Intensivstationen. Ecomed Verlag, Kapitel II–8.7, Seite 1-24., ISBN 3-609-71240-6.