Publications
2026
Cheda, A., Tetzlaff, A., Blannin, J., Good, E., Sharma, V., Trigo, I., Schwaab, J., Riihelä, A., Grams, C. M., & Schröder, M. (2026). Heat Indices for Europe Derived from Satellite Data: A Proof of Concept. Remote sensing, 18(4), Article 589. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18040589
Pan, H., Gudmundsson, L., Hauser, M., Schwaab, J., Quilcaille, Y., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2026). MESMER-RCM: a probabilistic climate emulator for regional warming projections. Nonlinear processes in geophysics, 33(1), 73-83. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-33-73-2026
Sieber, P., Karger, D. N., Zimmermann, N. E., Si-Moussi, S., Thuiller, W., Midolo, G., Chytrý, M., Axmanová, I., Schwaab, J., Davin, E. L., Leclair, M., Kambach, S., Bruelheide, H., Hickler, T., Stančić, Z., Biurrun, I., Güler, B., Dengler, J., Divíšek, J., ... Seneviratne, S. I. (2026). Climate response to Nature Future scenarios in a regional Earth System Model. Nature Communications, 17(1), Article 4017. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70284-8
2025
Jäger, F., Schwaab, J., Bukenberger, M., Hertog, S. J. D., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2025). Spectral Decomposition and Signal Separation of Climate Responses to Land Cover Changes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(5), Article e2024JD042698. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042698
Maciążek, J., Przewozniczek, M. W., & Schwaab, J. (2025). Seeking and leveraging alternative variable dependency concepts in gray-box-elusive bimodal land-use allocation problems. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2504.11882
Walther, F., Barton, D. N., Schwaab, J., Kato-Huerta, J., Immerzeel, B., Adamescu, M., Andersen, E., Arámbula Coyote, M. V., Arany, I., Balzan, M., Bruggeman, A., Carvalho-Santos, C., Cazacu, C., Geneletti, D., Giuca, R., Inácio, M., Lagabrielle, E., Lange, S., Clec'h, S. L., ... Grêt-Regamey, A. (2025). Uncertainties in ecosystem services assessments and their implications for decision support: A semi-systematic literature review. Ecosystem Services, 73, Article 101714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101714
Yao, Y., Sieber, P., Hauser, M., Schwaab, J., Jäger, F., Batibeniz, F., Räty, M., Pongratz, J., Wild, M., Augustynczik, A. L. D., Hertog, S. J. D., Griess, V. C., Windisch, M. G., Ge, J., Collalti, A., Fulvio, F. D., Havlík, P., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2025). Conversion from coniferous to broadleaved trees can make European forests more climate-effective. Nature Communications, 16(1), Article 9536. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64580-y
2024
Jäger, F., Schwaab, J., Quilcaille, Y., Windisch, M., Doelman, J., Frank, S., Gusti, M., Havlik, P., Humpenöder, F., Augustynczik, A. L. D., Müller, C., Narayan, K., Padrón, R. S., Popp, A., van Vuuren, D., Wögerer, M., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2024). Fire weather compromises forestation-reliant climate mitigation pathways. Earth system dynamics, 15(4), 1055–1071. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1055-2024
Koopmans, M., Schwaab, J., Vicedo-Cabrera, A. M., & Davin, E. L. (2024). Mapping heat-related risks in Swiss cities under different urban tree scenarios. City and Environment Interactions, 24, Article 100175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100175
Schwaab, J., Hauser, M., Lamboll, R. D., Beusch, L., Gudmundsson, L., Quilcaille, Y., Lejeune, Q., Schöngart, S., Schleussner, C.-F., Nath, S., Rogelj, J., Nicholls, Z., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2024). Spatially resolved emulated annual temperature projections for overshoot pathways. Scientific data, 11(1), Article 1262. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04122-1
2023
Liu, L., Ciais, P., Wu, M., Padrón, R. S., Friedlingstein, P., Schwaab, J., Gudmundsson, L., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2023). Increasingly negative tropical water–interannual CO2 growth rate coupling. NATURE, 618(7966), 755-760. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06056-x
Nath, S., Gudmundsson, L., Schwaab, J., Duveiller, G., Hertog, S. J. D., Guo, S., Havermann, F., Luo, F., Manola, I., Pongratz, J., Seneviratne, S. I., Schleussner, C.-F., Thiery, W., & Lejeune, Q. (2023). TIMBER v0.1: a conceptual framework for emulating temperature responses to tree cover change. Geoscientific model development, 16(14), 4283-4313. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4283-2023
Spielhofer, R., Schwaab, J., & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2023). How spatial policies can leverage energy transitions − Finding Pareto-optimal solutions for wind turbine locations with evolutionary multi-objective optimization. Environmental science & policy, 142, 220-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.02.016
2022
Mussetti, G., Davin, E. L., Schwaab, J., Acero, J. A., Ivanchev, J., Singh, V. K., Jin, L., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2022). Do Electric Vehicles Mitigate Urban Heat? The Case of a Tropical City. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, Article 810342. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.810342
Schwaab, J. (2022). Sprawl or compactness? How urban form influences urban surface temperatures in Europe. City and Environment Interactions, 16, Article 100091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cacint.2022.100091
2021
Meier, R., Schwaab, J., Seneviratne, S. I., Sprenger, M., Lewis, E., & Davin, E. (2021). Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe. Nature geoscience, 14(7), 473-478. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00773-6
Schwaab, J., Meier, R., Mussetti, G., Seneviratne, S. I., Bürgi, C., & Davin, E. (2021). The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 6763. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26768-w
Wicki, S., Schwaab, J., Perhac, J., & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2021). Participatory multi-objective optimization for planning dense and green cities. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64(14), 2532-2551. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2021.1875999
2020
Schwaab, J., Davin, E. L., Bebi, P., Duguay-Tetzlaff, A., Waser, L., Haeni, M., & Meier, R. (2020). Increasing the broad-leaved tree fraction in European forests mitigates hot temperature extremes. Scientific reports, 10(1), Article 14153. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71055-1
Schwaab, J., Lautenbach, S., Braun-Dubler, N., Markus, G., Grêt-Regamey, A., & van Strien, M. J. (2020). The difficulty of steering settlement development to reduce the loss of ecosystem services: an exploration of different development scenarios in Switzerland using spatially explicit land-use models. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 63(6), 1037-1055. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2019.1631762
