Martin Beniston

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Martin Beniston is affiliated with the following schools: University of Fribourg, University of Geneva

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According to Wikipedia, Martin Beniston was born in England in 1953 and holds three passports . He has studied in the UK , France , and ETH-Zurich . After more than 40 years of academic life, he retired in the Summer of 2017, and is now an Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva.

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Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) (2342)
Regional climate projections (2007) (1897)
Future extreme events in European climate: an exploration of regional climate model projections (2007) (1335)
Climatic Change in Mountain Regions: A Review of Possible Impacts (2003) (1244)
Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Tien Shan (Central Asia) (2012) (718)
CLIMATIC CHANGE AT HIGH ELEVATION SITES: AN OVERVIEW (1997) (713)
21st century climate change in the European Alps--a review. (2014) (694)
The 2003 heat wave in Europe: A shape of things to come? An analysis based on Swiss climatological data and model simulations (2004) (635)
Climate change and its impacts on glaciers and permafrost in the Alps (1998) (446)
Elevation Dependency of the Surface Climate Change Signal: A Model Study (1997) (382)
The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges (2018) (329)
Mountain Weather and Climate: A General Overview and a Focus on Climatic Change in the Alps (2006) (316)
On interpreting hydrological change from regional climate models (2007) (302)
Extreme climatic events and their evolution under changing climatic conditions (2004) (300)
Nonlinearities, Feedbacks and Critical Thresholds within the Earth's Climate System (2004) (290)
VARIATIONS OF SNOW DEPTH AND DURATION IN THE SWISS ALPS OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS: LINKS TO CHANGES IN LARGE-SCALE CLIMATIC FORCINGS (1997) (285)
Predicting future distributions of mountain plants under climate change: does dispersal capacity matter? (2009) (279)
Mountain Climates and Climatic Change: An Overview of Processes Focusing on the European Alps (2005) (245)
Effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on combined temperature and precipitation winter modes in the Mediterranean mountains: Observed relationships and projections for the 21st century (2011) (233)
Climate Risks and Their Impact on Agriculture and Forests in Switzerland (2006) (225)
Estimates of volcanic-induced cooling in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1,500 years (2015) (220)
Regional behavior of minimum temperatures in Switzerland for the period 1979–1993 (1996) (219)
The 2003 heat wave as an example of summers in a greenhouse climate? Observations and climate model simulations for Basel, Switzerland (2004) (219)
Estimates of snow accumulation and volume in the Swiss Alps under changing climatic conditions (2003) (203)
Progress in the Study of Climatic Extremes in Northern and Central Europe (1999) (194)
Mountain Environments in Changing Climates (1994) (191)
An analysis of regional climate change in Switzerland (1994) (187)
Environmental change and water management in the Pyrenees: Facts and future perspectives for Mediterranean mountains (2008) (181)
Impacts of climatic change on water and associated economic activities in the Swiss Alps (2012) (178)
Snow pack in the Swiss Alps under changing climatic conditions: an empirical approach for climate impacts studies (2003) (177)
Simulation of multiannual thermal profiles in deep Lake Geneva: A comparison of one‐dimensional lake models (2009) (150)
Sensitivity Analysis of Snow Cover to Climate Change Scenarios and Their Impact on Plant Habitats in Alpine Terrain (2005) (150)
Are Swiss birds tracking climate change? Detecting elevational shifts using response curve shapes (2011) (146)
Impact of climate change on snowpack in the Pyrenees: Horizontal spatial variability and vertical gradients (2009) (144)
Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands (2000) (143)
Impacts of climatic change on water and natural hazards in the Alps: Can current water governance cope with future challenges? Examples from the European “ACQWA” project (2011) (142)
Assessing the impacts of climatic change on mountain water resources. (2014) (142)
Potential effects of changes in mean climate and climate variability on the yield of winter and spring crops in Switzerland (2007) (141)
Streamflow Modeling in a Highly Managed Mountainous Glacier Watershed Using SWAT: The Upper Rhone River Watershed Case in Switzerland (2012) (136)
On the incidence of debris flows from the early Little Ice Age to a future greenhouse climate: A case study from the Swiss Alps (2006) (130)
Trends in joint quantiles of temperature and precipitation in Europe since 1901 and projected for 2100 (2009) (126)
Climate response to the Samalas volcanic eruption in 1257 revealed by proxy records (2017) (122)
Is snow in the Alps receding or disappearing? (2012) (117)
Impacts of climate change on mountain regions (1996) (116)
Climate change prediction over complex areas: spatial variability of uncertainties and predictions over the Pyrenees from a set of regional climate models (2008) (111)
Shifts in the distributions of pressure, temperature and moisture and changes in the typical weather patterns in the Alpine region in response to the behavior of the North Atlantic Oscillation (2002) (107)
Evidence of response of vegetation to environmental change on high-elevation sites in the Swiss Alps (2000) (105)
Linking GCM-simulated climatic changes to ecosystem models: case studies of statistical downscaling in the Alps (1994) (100)
Sensitivity analysis of snow patterns in Swiss ski resorts to shifts in temperature, precipitation and humidity under conditions of climate change (2008) (97)
The impacts of climate variability on forests (1998) (96)
Rainfall characteristics for periglacial debris flows in the Swiss Alps: past incidences–potential future evolutions (2011) (91)
The changing roles of temperature and precipitation on snowpack variability in Switzerland as a function of altitude (2013) (86)
Biomass burning and its inter-relationships with the climate system (2000) (82)
Warm winter spells in the Swiss Alps: Strong heat waves in a cold season? A study focusing on climate observations at the Saentis high mountain site (2005) (82)
Hydrological impacts of climate and land‐use changes in a mountain watershed: uncertainty estimation based on model comparison (2015) (79)
Rain-on-snow events, floods and climate change in the Alps: Events may increase with warming up to 4°C and decrease thereafter. (2016) (73)
August 2005 intense rainfall event in Switzerland: Not necessarily an analog for strong convective events in a greenhouse climate (2006) (73)
Assessing species vulnerability to climate and land use change: the case of the Swiss breeding birds (2014) (70)
Application of a new wind gust parameterization: Multiscale case studies performed with the Canadian regional climate model (2003) (70)
Changes in the anomalies of extreme temperature anomalies in the 20th century at Swiss climatological stations located at different latitudes and altitudes (2001) (69)
Obstacles to data access for research related to climate and water: Implications for science and EU policy-making (2012) (66)
High resolution simulations of January and July climate over the western Alpine region with a nested Regional Modeling system (1995) (66)
Climatic Change: Implications for the Hydrological Cycle and for Water Management (2002) (63)
Daily wind gust speed probabilities over Switzerland according to three types of synoptic circulation (2002) (60)
Changes in sunshine duration are correlated with changes in daily temperature range this century: An analysis of Swiss climatological data (1998) (60)
Streamflow timing of mountain rivers in Spain: Recent changes and future projections (2014) (59)
Pest management under climate change: The importance of understanding tritrophic relations. (2018) (57)
Seasonal forecasts, climatic change, and human health : (2008) (57)
Regional assessment of climate change impacts on maize productivity and associated production risk in Switzerland (2007) (54)
Effects of climate change on the intensity and frequency of heavy snowfall events in the Pyrenees (2011) (53)
Integration of research advances in modelling and monitoring in support of WFD river basin management planning in the context of climate change. (2012) (53)
Governing and managing water resources under changing hydro-climatic contexts: The case of the upper Rhone basin (2014) (51)
Wind speed measurements and forest damage in Canton Zurich (Central Europe) from 1891 to winter 2007 (2010) (51)
Will snow‐abundant winters still exist in the Swiss Alps in an enhanced greenhouse climate? (2011) (49)
Linking extreme climate events and economic impacts: Examples from the Swiss Alps (2007) (49)
Use of lidar measurements and numerical models in air pollution research (1990) (49)
Climate change and desertification: Where do we stand, where should we go? (2008) (48)
Changes in variability and persistence of climate in Switzerland: Exploring 20th century observations and 21st century simulations (2007) (48)
Shifting mountain snow patterns in a changing climate from remote sensing retrieval. (2014) (46)
Impacts of extreme air temperatures on cyanobacteria in five deep peri-Alpine lakes (2011) (46)
Sharing Environmental Data through GEOSS (2011) (44)
Daily precipitation intensity projected for the 21st century: seasonal changes over the Pyrenees (2009) (42)
Entering into the “greenhouse century”: Recent record temperatures in Switzerland are comparable to the upper temperature quantiles in a greenhouse climate (2007) (42)
The Risks Associated with Climatic Change in Mountain Regions (2005) (41)
Spatially enabling the Global Framework for Climate Services: Reviewing geospatial solutions to efficiently share and integrate climate data & information (2017) (41)
Nested regional simulation of climate change over the Alps for the scenario of a doubled greenhouse forcing (1997) (40)
Numerical investigation of an extreme storm with the Canadian Regional Climate Model: the case study of windstorm VIVIAN, Switzerland, February 27, 1990 (2001) (40)
Phytoplankton configuration in six deep lakes in the peri-Alpine region: are the key drivers related to eutrophication and climate? (2013) (39)
Sensitivity of the snow energy balance to climatic changes: prediction of snowpack in the Pyrenees in the 21st century (2008) (39)
Climatic change: possible impacts on human health. (2002) (38)
European isotherms move northwards by up to 15 km year−1: using climate analogues for awareness‐raising (2014) (38)
Global change and protected areas (2001) (37)
An independent and combined effect analysis of land use and climate change in the upper Rhone River watershed, Switzerland (2015) (37)
Climatic change and its impacts (2004) (35)
Reviewing innovative Earth observation solutions for filling science-policy gaps in hydrology (2014) (34)
Spatial Predictions of Extreme Wind Speeds over Switzerland Using Generalized Additive Models (2009) (32)
Remote sensing and climate modeling : synergies and limitations (2001) (31)
Evolution and frequency (1970–2007) of combined temperature–precipitation modes in the Spanish mountains and sensitivity of snow cover (2013) (31)
Climate modeling at various spatial and temporal scales: where can dendrochronology help? (2002) (31)
Simulations of Climate and Climate Change (1998) (28)
Rain-on-snow events in Switzerland: recent observations and projections for the 21st century (2016) (28)
Hedging with Weather Derivatives to Cope with Climate Variability and Change in Grain Maize Production (2008) (27)
Regional reconstruction of flash flood history in the Guadarrama range (Central System, Spain). (2016) (27)
Decadal‐scale changes in the tails of probability distribution functions of climate variables in Switzerland (2009) (26)
Ratios of record high to record low temperatures in Europe exhibit sharp increases since 2000 despite a slowdown in the rise of mean temperatures (2015) (26)
Water availability, use and governance in the wine producing region of Mendoza, Argentina (2015) (26)
Modelling runoff in a Swiss glacierized catchment—Part II: daily discharge and glacier evolution in the Findelen basin in a progressively warmer climate (2013) (24)
Estimating future cyanobacterial occurrence and importance in lakes: a case study with Planktothrix rubescens in Lake Geneva (2017) (23)
Seasonal forecasts, climatic change and human health : health and climate (2008) (22)
Linking atmospheric circulation patterns with hydro‐geomorphic disasters in Peru (2018) (20)
Summer Heat Waves in Western Europe, Their Past Change and Future Projections (2008) (19)
Streamflow response to regional climate model output in the mountainous watershed: a case study from the Swiss Alps (2014) (18)
On the extraordinary winter flood episode over the North Atlantic Basin in 1936 (2018) (18)
Modelling runoff in a Swiss glacierized catchment—part I: methodology and application in the Findelen basin under a long‐lasting stable climate (2013) (18)
Prediction of landslide movements caused by climate change : Modelling the behaviour of a mean elevation large slide in the Alps and assessing its uncertainties. (2008) (17)
Exploring the behaviour of atmospheric temperatures under dry conditions in Europe: evolution since the mid‐20th century and projections for the end of the 21st century (2013) (17)
Comparing observed and hypothetical climates as a means of communicating to the public and policymakers: The case of European heatwaves (2017) (16)
Use of a Detailed Planetary Boundary Layer Model for Parameterization Purposes (1981) (16)
Climate change and its impacts: growing stress factors for human societies (2010) (16)
From turbulence to climate (1997) (14)
The European mountain cryosphere: A review of past, current and future issues (2017) (14)
Assessing climate change impacts on the quantity of water in Alpine regions: Foreword to the adaptation and policy implications of the EU/FP7 “ACQWA” project (2014) (14)
Climatic change and its possible impacts in the alpine region (2005) (14)
Relative effects of solar and infrared radiative forcing in a mesoscale model (1986) (13)
Changes in temperature variability in relation to shifts in mean temperatures in the swiss alpine region this century (1998) (13)
Issues Relating to Environmental Change and Population Migrations. A Climatologist's Perspective (2004) (13)
A numerical study of atmospheric mesoscale cellular convection (1984) (13)
Influence of Winter North Atlantic Oscillation Index (NAO) on Climate and Snow Accumulation in the Mediterranean Mountains (2011) (13)
The Effects of Global Warming on Mountain Regions: a Summary of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2001) (12)
Assessing the Dynamics of Organic Aerosols over the North Atlantic Ocean (2017) (12)
From turbulence to climate : numerical investigations of the atmosphere with a hierarchy of models (1998) (12)
Sustainability of the landscape of a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Lake Geneva region (Switzerland) in a greenhouse climate (2008) (11)
Extreme climatic events: Examples from the alpine region (2004) (11)
A numerical study of atmospheric pollution over complex terrain in Switzerland (1987) (11)
Grand challenges in climate research (2013) (11)
Impacts of climatic variability and extreme on forests: synthesis (1998) (10)
A three-dimensional study of mesoscale model response to radiative forcing (1985) (9)
The influence of a water surface on mesoscale dynamics as a function of atmospheric stability (1986) (9)
Organization of convection in a numerical mesoscale model as a function of initial and lower boundary conditions (1985) (9)
Wind storm loss estimations in the Canton of Vaud (Western Switzerland) (2012) (8)
A combined numerical and wind-tunnel study of ventilation and air pollution episodes in a rural valley of Switzerland (1989) (8)
Climate‐based site selection for a Very Large Telescope using GIS techniques (2005) (8)
Natural Forcing of the Climate System (2004) (8)
Sensitivity of mountain regions to climatic change (2000) (7)
Alternative Hedging Strategies in Maize Production to Cope with Climate Variability and Change (2007) (7)
New tools for a global survey of potential sites for the future giant telescopes (2003) (7)
Perturbations to astronomical observations at the European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope site in Paranal, Chile: analyses of climatological causes (2002) (7)
On the potential use of glacier and permafrost observations for verification of climate models (1997) (7)
Site selection for OWL using past, present, and future climate information (2004) (6)
EUROPEAN ISOTHERMS MOVE NORTHWARDS BY UP TO 15 KM/YEAR: USING CLIMATE ANALOGUES FOR AWARENESS-RAISING (2014) (6)
Assembling and testing a generic phenological model to predict Lobesia botrana voltinism for impact studies (2020) (5)
Senstitivity of water balance components to environmental changes in a mountainous watershed: uncertainty assessment based on models comparison (2013) (5)
CLIMATE SCENARIOS FOR MOUNTAIN REGIONS (1994) (4)
Interactions between Energy Transformations and Atmospheric Phenomena. A Survey of Recent Research (1987) (4)
Atmospheric flows over Athens: first tests with the DREAMS model (1993) (4)
Approaches to the establishment of future climate scenarios for the Alpine region (1995) (4)
Climate Extremes and Society: Extreme climatic events and their impacts: examples from the Swiss Alps (2008) (3)
Analysis And Design Of The Wind-Shield For The Eso Very Large Telescope (1986) (3)
Evidence of response of vegetation to climatic change on high elevation sites in the Swiss Alps (2005) (3)
CLIMATE SCENARIOS FOR MOUNTAIN REGIONS: AN OVERVIEW OF POSSIBLE APPROACHES (2002) (3)
Coupled simulations of global and regional climate in Switzerland (1993) (3)
Thermodynamic and Radiative Processes in the Atmosphere (1995) (3)
Ratios of Record High to Record Low Temperatures in Europe Show an Accelerating Trend Since 2000 Despite a Slowdown in Mean Temperature Trends (2014) (3)
Modelling range shifts for Swiss breeding birds (2010) (3)
An Example of Climate-relevant Processes Unresolved by Present-day General Circulation Models (1992) (3)
Climate modelers meet in Switzerland (1997) (3)
Climate Scenarios for Alpine Regions: A Collaborative Effort between ICALPE and ProClim (1991) (3)
An Overview of Extreme Climatic Events in Switzerland: Implications for Assessing Economic Damages and Costs (2005) (2)
Specification of surface characteristics for use in a high resolution regional climate model: on the role of glaciers in the swiss alps (2001) (2)
The impacts of climatic change on water resources: Foreword to the Special Issue (2014) (2)
Overview and synthesis of the international conference on mountain environments in changing climates (1993) (2)
Icy mountains in a warming world: Revisiting science from the end of the 1990s in the early 2020s (2021) (2)
The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Europe (1998) (2)
Current and Future Trends of Climatic Extremes in Switzerland (2007) (2)
Phytoplankton configuration in six deep lakes in the peri-Alpine region: are the key drivers related to eutrophication and climate? (2013) (2)
SHOULD MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES BE CONCERNED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE (2002) (1)
Estimating future cyanobacterial occurrence and importance in lakes: a case study with Planktothrix rubescens in Lake Geneva (2016) (1)
Weather and Climate Extremes: Where Can Dendrochronology Help? (2010) (1)
The Swiss National Climate Programme (ProClim): Objectives and Prospects (1990) (1)
Climate oscillations and extremes. (2000) (1)
RESPONSE TO RADIATIVE FORCING (1985) (1)
DYNAMICS AND FUNCTIONING OF RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM SUBALPINE HEATHLANDS (NORTHERN ALPS, FRANCE): MINERAL NITROGEN AVAILABILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE (2002) (1)
Climate change at high elevations discussed at workshop (1995) (1)
Koenigia islandica (Iceland purslane) - A case study of a potential indicator of climate change in the UK. (2001) (1)
Environmental Change in Mountain Regions (2012) (1)
Modulation of extreme temperatures in Europe under extreme values of the North Atlantic Oscillation Index (2019) (1)
Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications (2001) (1)
EFFECTS OF MESOSCALE VEGETATION DISTRIBUTIONS IN MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ON LOCAL CLIMATE (2002) (1)
Global environmental change in mountain regions : an overview (1999) (1)
El cambio climático y sus consecuencias potenciales sobre la salud humana Climatic Change and its Potential Impacts on Human Health (2005) (0)
Concluding Remarks and Bibliography (1998) (0)
Interactions Between Biomass Burning and Climate: Conclusions Drawn from the Workshop (2000) (0)
Stability properties of the North Atlantic Ocean Circulation (2012) (0)
Fundamental Concepts Related to Atmospheric Modeling (1998) (0)
GIS and GAMs to predict extreme wind speeds over Switzerland and to assess storm damage (2010) (0)
Interactive comment on “The European mountain cryosphere: A review of past, current and future (2017) (0)
Site selection for the European Southern Observatory's future very large telescope (2003) (0)
Anthropogenic Forcing of the Climate System (2004) (0)
Investigations with the DREAMS Mesoscale Meteorological Model (1998) (0)
Contents of Volume 65 (1996) (0)
Climate, the environment, and humankind: lessons from the past (2004) (0)
Air Pollution Modelling Applications in Hungary: An Example of Short-term Collaboration between Switzerland and Hungary (1993) (0)
Extreme climatic events in a changing climate: a review (2003) (0)
The Climate System (2004) (0)
CHANGES IN THE ALPINE SNOWPACK IN THE COURSE OF THE 20 TH CENTURY Available Data (2017) (0)
Climate in Switzerland Since 1900 (2004) (0)
GEOSS support for IPCC assessments: Summary and Recommendations (2011) (0)
Modeling and Observing Climate (2004) (0)
Climate Trends and Impacts in Switzerland in the 21st Century (2004) (0)
A numerical study of nocturnal valley winds in the Haute-Gruyere region. (1988) (0)
Coupling the Macroscale to the Mesoscale: Regional Climate Simulations (1998) (0)
Toward a more realistic assessment of the climatic impacts of the 1257 eruption (2015) (0)
Synthesis and overview of the international conference of energy transformations and interaction with small and mesoscale atmospheric processes (ICEA-87), 2-6 March 1987, Lausanne, Switzerland (1987) (0)
Exploring the behaviour of atmospheric temperatures under dry conditions in Europe : evolution since the mid-20 th century and projections for the end of the 21 st century BENISTON (2019) (0)
Coupling the Mesoscale to the Microscale: Air Pollution Simulations (1998) (0)
Distribution changes of seasonal mean temperature in observations and climate change scenarios (2008) (0)
THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ON MOUNTAINS (2011) (0)
Observational and numerical investigations of changes in climatological extremes in terms of shifts in means (1997) (0)
Observational Evidence of Regional Climate Change (1998) (0)
The EU-FP7 'ACQWA' Project: Exploring issues of water in vulnerable mountain regions (2009) (0)
Water Resources by 2100 in Mountains with Declining Glaciers (2015) (0)
MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE HINDU KUSH-HIMALAYAS (2002) (0)
Coupled model studies of future climate trends over the Alpine regions (1993) (0)
Maggini et al 2014 Supporting information (2014) (0)
Important Prospect: International Conference on Mountain Environments in Changing Climates, to be held in the Conference Center, situated 1,650 m above Sea-Level in Davos, Switzerland, during 11–16 October 1992 (1992) (0)
Interdisciplinary research on "Global environmental change" at the Department of Geosciences/Geography of the University of Fribourg (2003) (0)
Past environmental change in mountains and uplands : Chapter summary (2016) (0)
Nonlinear evolution of surface gravity waves and optical waves in dispersive materials (2013) (0)
Investigations with the Deardorff-Sommeria ABL Model (1998) (0)
Exploring future changes in synchrony between grapevine (Vitis vinifera) and its major insect pest, Lobesia botrana (2023) (0)
Snowcover duration in alpine Regions and its impact on plant habitats (2003) (0)
Restructuring the Swiss Journal of Geography : Editorial Note (1999) (0)
Current and Future Climatic Change (2004) (0)

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