Sebastian Sippel

Address

Dr. Sebastian Sippel
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
CHN N 16.1
Universitätstrasse 16
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

sebastian.sippel@env.ethz.ch

 

Research Interests

I'm a Senior Scientist and Lecturer in the Climate Physics Group with a key research interest in improving our understanding of climate variability, extremes and their changes at global and regional scales. My research interests also include the implications of global climate changes for impact-relevant variables such as the hydrological cycle at regional scale, ecosystem water-carbon cycling, and society at large. The bulk of my research is closely linked to climate change detection and attribution. I use modern empirical-quantitative statistical and machine learning methods to address these broad research questions, integrating various climate and Earth science data streams such as gridded climate observations and climate model simulations.

Recently, I have been working on DASH - "DAta Science-informed attribution of changes in the Hydrologic cycle". The main research idea is to improve our understanding of the water cycle, and hence the detection and attribution of water cycle variables, by using data science methods guided by physical understanding. DASH is a joint project between the Climate Physics Group at IAC (Prof. Reto Knutti), the Seminar of Statistics (Prof. Nicolai Meinshausen) and the Swiss Data Science Centre. The project idea is summarized in a blog post here.

A very brief summary of my research interests:

Teaching

Statistical Learning for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (with L. Gudmundsson)

  • M. Sc. Lecture, Thu 10-12, CHN F42, Autumn Semester 2022/23. Link to Course.
  • M. Sc. Lecture, Tue 08-10, CHN G42, Autumn Semester 2021/22. Link to Course.
  • M. Sc. Lecture, Tue 08-10, Autumn Semester 2020/21. Link to Course.
  • Introduction to Statistical Learning for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (28.-29.08.2018, with L. Gudmundsson):

    Publications