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Submitted articles

• Krug, A., Aemisegger, F., Sprenger, M., Ahrens, B., 2021, Moisture sources of heavy precipitation in Central Europe during Vb-cyclones, Clim. Dyn., submitted.
  
  
• Schneider, A., Borsdorff, T., aan de Brugh, J., Lorente, A., Aemisegger, F., Noone, D., Henze, D., Kivi, R., and Landgraf, J., 2021, Retrieving H2O/HDO columns over cloudy and clear-sky scenes from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., doi:10.5194/amt-2021-141, revised.
  
  
• Villiger, L., Wernli, H., Boettcher, M., Hagen, M., and Aemisegger, F., 2021, Lagrangian formation pathways of moist anomalies in the trade-wind region during the dry seasontwo case studies from EUREC4A, Weather Clim. Dynam. Discuss., doi:10.5194/wcd-2021-42, in revision.
  
  



Peer-reviewed articles

• Dahinden, F., Aemisegger, F., Wernli, H., Schneider, M., Diekmann, C. J., Ertl, B., Knippertz, P., Werner, M. and Pfahl, S., 2021, Disentangling different moisture transport pathways over the eastern subtropical North Atlantic using multi-platform isotope observations and high-resolution numerical modelling, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-2021-269, accepted.
  
  
• Diekmann, C. J., Schneider, M., Knippertz, P., de Vries, A. J., Pfahl, S., Aemisegger, F., Dahinden, F., Ertl, B., Khosrawi, F., Wernli, H., Braesicke, P.: A Lagrangian perspective on stable water isotopes during the West African Monsoon, J. Geophys. Res., 126, e2021JD034895, doi:10.1029/2021JD034895, open access link.
  
  
Papritz, L., Aemisegger, F., and Wernli, H., 2021, Sources and Transport Pathways of Precipitating Waters in Cold-Season Deep North Atlantic Cyclones, J. Atmos. Sci., , 78(10), 3349-3368, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-21-0105.1, open access link.


• Stevens, B., Bony, S., Farrel, D., 293 coauthors incl. Aemisegger, F., Dütsch, M., Villiger, L., EUREC4A, Earth Syst. Sci. Dat., doi:10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021.
  
  
• Li, Y., Aemisegger, F., Riedl, A., Buchmann, N., and Eugster, W., 2021, The role of dew and radiation fog inputs in the local water cycling of a temperate grassland in Central Europe, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. , doi:10.5194/hess-2020-493, accepted.
  
  
• Thurnherr, I., Hartmuth, K., Jansing, L., Gehring, J., Boettcher, M., Gorodetskaya, I., Werner, M., Wernli, H., and Aemisegger, F., 2021, The role of air-sea fluxes for the water vapour isotope signals in the cold and warm sectors of extratropical cyclones over the Southern Ocean, Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 331-357, doi:10.5194/wcd-2020-46.
  
  
• Aemisegger, F., Vogel, R., Graf, P., Dahinden, F., Villiger, L., Jansen, F., Bony, S., Stevens, B., and Wernli, H., 2021, How Rossby wave breaking modulates the water cycle in the North Atlantic trade wind region, Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 281-309, doi:10.5194/wcd-2020-51.
  
  
• Affolter, S., Steinmann, P., Aemisegger, F., Putschert, R., and Leuenberger, M., 2020, Origin and percolation times of Milandre Cave drip water determined by tritium time sereis and Beryllium-7 data, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 222, 106346, doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106346.
  
  
• Jullien, N., Vignon, E., Sprenger, M., Aemisegger, F., and Berne, A., 2020, Synoptic conditions and atmospheric moisture pathways associated to virga and precipitation over coastal Adélie Land in Antarctica, The Cryosphere, 14, 1685-1702, doi:10.5194/tc-14-1685-2020.
  
  
• Thurnherr, I., Kozachek, A., Graf, P, Weng, Y., Bolshiyanov, D., Landwehr, S., Pfahl, S., Schmale, J., Sodemann, H., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Toffoli, A., Wernli, H., and Aemisegger, F., 2020, Meridional and vertical variations of the water vapour isotopic composition in the marine boundary layer over the Atlantic and Southern Ocean, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 5811–5835, doi:10.5194/acp-20-5811-2020.
  
  
• Schneider, A., Borsdorff, T., de Brugh, J., Aemisegger, F., Feist, D. G., Kivi, R., Hase, F., Schneider, M., and Landgraf, J., 2020, First results of H2O/HDO column retrievals from TROPOMI, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 85–100, doi:10.5194/amt-13-85-2020.
  
  
• Papritz, L., Rouges, E., Aemisegger, F., and Wernli, H., 2019, On the thermodynamic pre-conditioning of Arctic air masses and the role of tropopause polar vortices for cold air outbreaks from Fram Strait, J. Geophys. Res., 124, 11033– 11050, doi:10.1029/2019JD030570, open access link.
  
  
• Wei, Z., Lee, X., Aemisegger, F. , Benetti, M., Berkelhammer, M., Bonne, J.-L., Casado, M., Caylor, K., Christner, E., Dyroff, C., García, O. E., González, Y., Griffis, T., Kurita, N., Liang, J., Liang, M.-C., Lin, G., Noone, D., Gribanov, K., Munksgaard, N.-C., Schneider, M., Ritter, F., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Vallet-Coulomb, C., Wen, X., Wright, J. S., Xiao, W., Yoshimura, K., 2019, A global database of water vapour isotopes measured with high temporal resolution infrared laser spectroscopy, Scientific Data, 6, 180302, doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.302.
  
  
• Fischer, B. M. C., Aemisegger, F., Graf, P., Sodemann, H., and Seibert, J., 2019, Assessing the sampling precision of a low-tech low-budget volume-based rainfall sampler for stable isotope analysis, Front. Earth Sci., 7:244, doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00244.
  
  
• Schmale, J., Baccarini, A., Thurnherr, I., Henning, S., Ephraim, A., Regayre, L., Bolas, C., Hartmann, M., Welti, A., Lehtipalo, K., Aemisegger, F., Tatzelt, C., Landwehr, S., Modini, R., Tummon, F., Johnson, J., Harris, N., Schnaiter, M., Toffoli, A., Derkani, M., Bukowiecki, N., Stratmann, F., Dommen, J., Baltensperger, U., Wernli, H., Rosenfeld, D., Gysel-Beer, M., Carslaw, K., 2019, Overview of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition: study of preindustrial-like aerosols and their climate effects (ACE-SPACE), B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 100, 2260–2283, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0187.1.
  
  
• Lee, K.-O., Aemisegger, F., Pfahl, S., Flamant, C., Lacour, J.-L., and Chaboureau, J.-P., 2019, Contrasting stable water isotope signals from convective and large-scale precipitation phases of a heavy precipitation event in Southern Italy during HyMeX IOP 13, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 7487-7506, doi:10.5194/acp-19-7487-2019.
  
  
• Suess, E., Aemisegger, F., Sonke, J., Sprenger, M., Wernli, H., and Winkel, L., 2019, Marine versus continental sources of iodine and selenium in rainfall at two European high-altitude locations, Environ. Sci. and Technol., 19;53(4):1905-1917, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05533.
  
  
• Aemisegger, F. , 2018, On the link between the North Atlantic storm track and precipitation deuterium excess in Reykjavik, Atmos. Sci. Lett., 19:e865, doi:10.1002/asl.865.
  
  
• Aemisegger, F. and Sjolte, J., 2018, A climatology of strong large-scale ocean evaporation events. Part II: relevance for the deuterium excess signature of the evaporation flux. J. Climate, 31, 7313-7336, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0592.1, open access link.
  
  
• Aemisegger, F. and Papritz, L., 2018, A climatology of strong large-scale ocean evaporation events. Part I: identification, global distribution, and associated climate conditions. J. Climate, 31, 7287-7312,doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0591.1, open access link.
  
  
• Christner E., Aemisegger F., Pfahl S., Werner M., Cauquoin A., Schneider M., Hase F., Barthlott S., and Schädler G., 218, The climatological impacts of continentl surface evaporation, rainout, and subcloud processes on δD of water vapor and precipitation in Europe J. Geophys. Res., 12, 4390-4409, doi:10.1002/2017JD027260, open access link.
  
  
• Sodemann H., Aemisegger F., Pfahl S., Bitter M., Corsmeier U., Feuerle T., Graf P., Hankers R., Hsiao G., Schulz H., Wieser A., and Wernli H., 2017, The stable isotopic composition of water vapour above Corsica during the HyMeX SOP1 campaign: insight into vertical mixing processes from lower-tropospheric survey flights. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 17, 6125-6151, doi:10.5194/acp-17-6125-2017.
  
  
• Aemisegger F., Spiegel J.K., Pfahl S., Sodemann H., Eugster W., and Wernli H., 2015, Isotope meteorology of cold front passages: a case study combining observations and modeling. Geophys. Res. Lett. 42, 5652-5660, doi:10.1002/2015GL063988, open access link.
  
  
• Aemisegger F., Pfahl S., Sodemann H., Lehner I., Seneviratne S., and Wernli H., 2014, Deuterium excess as a proxy for continental moisture recycling and plant transpiration. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14, 4029-4054, doi:10.5194/acp-14-4029-2014.
  
  
• Aemisegger F., Sturm P., Graf P., Sodemann H., Pfahl S., Knohl A. and Wernli H., 2012, Measuring variations of δ¹⁸O and δ²H in atmospheric water vapour using two commercial laser-based spectrometers: an instrument characterisation study. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 5, 1491-1511, doi:10.5194/amt-5-1491-2012.
  
  
• Spiegel, J. K., Aemisegger, F., Scholl, M., Wienhold, F. G., Collett Jr., J. L., Lee, T., van Pinxteren, D., Mertes, S., Tilgner, A., Herrmann, H., Werner, R. A., Buchmann, N., and Eugster, W., 2012, Stable water isotopologue ratios in fog and cloud droplets are not size-dependent, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 9855-9863, doi:10.5194/acp-12-9855-2012.
  
  
• Spiegel, J. K., Aemisegger, F., Scholl, M., Wienhold, F. G., Collett Jr., J. L., Lee, T., van Pinxteren, D., Mertes, S., Tilgner, A., Herrmann, H., Werner, R. A., Buchmann, N., and Eugster, W., 2012, Temporal evolution of stable water isotopologues in cloud droplets in a hill cap cloud in central Europe (HCCT-2010), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 11679-11694, doi:acp-12-11679-2012.
  
  

Datasets

• Aemisegger, F. and Graf, P., 2020, IsoTrades campaign dataset, hourly laser spectroscopic stable water vapour isotope measurements from 23 January to 18 February 2018 at the Barbados Cloud Observatory, Research Collection, doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000439434.
  
  
• Thurnherr, I. and Aemisegger F., 2020, Calibrated data of stable water isotope measurements in water vapour at 13.5 m a.s.l., made in the austral summer of 2016/2017 around the Southern Ocean during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), doi:10.5281/zenodo.3250790.
  
  
• Aemisegger, F. and Sodemann, H., 2017, Water vapour isotopes, D-IBUF, HyMeX-SOP1, doi:acp-12-11679-2012.
  
  

Theses

• Aemisegger, F., 2013, Atmospheric stable water isotope measurements at the timescale of extratropical weather systems, PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich, ETH Diss no. 21165, 2013. 
  
  
• Aemisegger, F., 2009, Tropical cyclone forecast verification: three approaches to the assessment of the ECMWF tropical cyclone ensemble prediction system, Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.