Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

• karsten.haustein@ouce.ox.ac.uk

• Climate Theme

Karsten Haustein is a Short-term Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute.

Previously, Karsten was a postdoctoral researcher at the ECI working on the World Weather Attribution project, developing the capability to perform quasi-real time attribution analysis of extreme weather events around the world on an operational basis. Prior to this he worked at the Oxford University School of Geography and Environment as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Prof. Richard Washington. He completed his Ph.D. at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, developing a new global and regional model for the prediction of the mineral dust.

2021

• van Oldenborgh, G.J., Krikken, F., Lewis, S., Leach, N.J., Lehner, F., Saunders, K.R., van Weele, M., Haustein, K., Li, S., Wallom, D., Sparrow, S., Arrighi, J., Singh, R.K., van Aalst, M.K., Philip, S.Y., Vautard, R. and Otto, F.E.L. (2021) Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21: 941-960.

2020

• Vautard, R., van Aalst, M., Boucher, O., Drouin, A., Haustein, K., Kreienkamp, F., van Oldenborgh, G.J., Otto, F.E.L., Ribes, A., Robin, Y., Schneider, M., Soubeyroux, J., Stott, P., Seneviratne, S.I., Vogel, M.M. and Wehner, M. (2020) Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heat waves in Western Europe. Environmental Research Letters.

2019

• Haustein, K., Otto, F.E.L., Venema, V., Jacobs, P., Cowtan, K., Hausfather, Z., Way, R.G., White, B., Subramanian, A. and Schurer, A.P. (2019) A limited role for unforced internal variability in Twentieth-Century warming. Journal of Climate, 32(16): 4893-4917.
• Kumari, S., Haustein, K., Javid, H., Burton, C., Allen, M.R., Paltan, H., Dadson, S. and Otto, F.E.L. (2019) Return period of extreme rainfall substantially decreases under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming: a case study for Uttarakhand, India. Environmental Research Letters, 14(4).
• Philip, S., Sparrow, S., Kew, S.F., van der Wiel, K., Wanders, N., Singh, R., Hassan, A., Mohammed, K., Javid, H., Haustein, K., Otto, F.E.L., Hirpa, F., Rimi, R.H., Islam, A.K.M.S., Wallom, D.C.H. and van Oldenborgh, G.J. (2019) Attributing the 2017 Bangladesh floods from meteorological and hydrological perspectives. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(3): 1409-1429.

2018

• Grose, M.R., Black, M., Risbey, J.S., Uhe, P., Hope, P.K., Haustein, K. and Mitchell, D. (2018) Severe frosts in Western Australia in September 2016. Ch 29. In Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 from a Climate Perspective. Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92(12).
• Paltan., H., Allen, M., Haustein, K., Fuldauer, L. and Dadson, S. (2018) Global implications of 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer worlds on extreme river flows. Environmental Research Letters.
• Philip, S., Kew, S.F., van Oldenborgh, G.J., Aalbers, E., Vautard, R., Otto, F., Haustein, K., Habets, F. and Singh, R. (2018) Validation of a Rapid Attribution of the May/June 2016 Flood-Inducing, Precipitation in France to Climate Change. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 19: 1881-1898.
• Pretis, F., Schwarz, M., Tang, K., Haustein, K. and Allen, M.R. (2018) Uncertain impacts on economic growth when stabilizing global temperatures at 1.5°C or 2°C warming..
• Rimi, R., Haustein, K., Barbour, E.J., Sparrow, S.N., Li, S., Wallom, D.C.H. and Allen, M. (2018) Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 degrees’ warmer worlds – How anthropogenic aerosols change the story. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences: 1-23.
• Rimi, R.H., Haustein, K., Barbour, E.J. and Allen, M.R. (2018) Risks of pre-monsoon extreme rainfall events of Bangladesh: is anthropogenic climate change playing a role? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(1): 61-65.
• Rimi, R.H., Haustein, K., Barbour, E.J., Jones, R.G., Sparrow, S.N. and Allen, M.R. (2018) Evaluation of a large ensemble regional climate modelling system for extreme weather events analysis over Bangladesh. International Journal of Climatology, 39(6): 2845-2861.

2017

• Guillod, B.P., Jones, R.G., Bowery, A., Haustein, K., Massey, N.R., Mitchell, D.M., Otto, F.E.L., Sparrow, S.N., Uhe, P., Wallom, D.C.H., Wilson, S. and Allen, M.R. (2017) weather@home 2: validation of an improved global - regional climate modelling system. Geoscientific Model Development, 10: 1849-1872.
• Hauser, M., Gudmundson, L., Orth, R., Jezequel, A., Haustein, K., Vautard, R., van Oldenburg, G., Wilcox, L. and Seneviratne, S.I. (2017) Methods and Model Dependency of Extreme Event Attribution: The 2015 European Drought. Earth's Future, 5(10): 1034-1043.
• Haustein, K., Allen, M.R., Forster, P.M., Otto, F.E.L., Mitchell, D.M., Matthews, H.D. and Frame, D.J. (2017) A real-time Global Warming Index. Nature Scientific Reports, 7(15417).
• Kok, J.F., Ridley, D.A., Zhou, Q., Millar, R.L., Zhao, C., Heald, C.L., Ward, D.S., Albani, S. and Haustein, K. (2017) Smaller desert dust cooling effect estimated from analysis of dust size and abundance. Nature Geoscience, 10: 274-278.
• Mitchell, D., AchutaRao, K., Allen, M., Bethke, I., Beierle, U., Ciavarella, A., Forster, P.M., Fuglestvedt, J., Gillett, N., Haustein, K., Ingram, W., Iversen, T., Karin, V., Klingaman, N., Massey, N., Fischer, E., Schleussner, C., Sparrow, S., Stone, D., The, P., Wallom, D., Wehner, M. and Zaaboul, R. (2017) Half a degree additional warming, prognosis and projected impacts (HAPPI): background and experimental design. Geoscientific Model Development, 10: 71-583.
• Philip, S., Kew, S.F., van Oldenborgh, G., Otto, F., O'Keefe, S., Haustein, K., King, A., Segele, A., Eshetu, Z., Hailemariam, K., Singh, R., Jjemba, E., Funk, C. and Cullen, H. (2017) Attribution analysis of the Ethiopian drought of 2015. American Meteorological Society Journal of Climate.
• Pretis, F., Schwarz, N., Tang, K., Haustein, K. and Allen, M. (2017) Uncertain Impacts on Economic Growth When Stabilizing Global Temperatures at 1.5C or 2C Warming. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
• van Oldenborgh, G., van der Wiel, K., Sebastian, A., Singh, R., Arrighi, J., Otto, F., Haustein, K., Li, S., Vecchi, G. and Cullen, H. (2017) Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017. Environmental Research Letters.

2016

• Haustein, K., Otto, F.E.L., Uhe, P., Schaller, N., Allen, M.R., Hermanson, L., Christidis, N., McLean, P. and Cullen, H. (2016) Real-time extreme weather event attribution with forecast seasonal SSTs. Environmental Research Letters, 11(6). 064006.
• Mitchell, D., Davini, P., Harvey, B., Massey, N., Haustein, K., Woolings, T., Jones, R., Otto, F., Guillod, B., Sparrow, S., Wallom, D. and Allen, M. (2016) Assessing mid-latitude dynamics in extreme event attribution systems. Climate Dynamics, 48(306): 1-13.
• Schaller, N., Kay, A.L., Lamb, R., Massey, N.R., van Oldenborgh, G.J., Otto, F.E.L., Sparrow, S.N., Vautard, R., Yiou, P., Ashpole, I., Bowery, A., Crooks, S.M., Haustein, K., Huntingford, C., Ingram, W.J., Jones, R.G., Legg, T., Miller, J., Skeggs, J., Wallom, D., Weisheimer, A., Wilson, S., Stott, P.A. and Allen, M.R. (2016) Human influence on climate in the 2014 southern England winter floods and their impacts. Nature Climate Change, 6: 627-634.
• Uhe, P., Otto, F.E.L., Haustein, K., van Oldenborgh, G.J., King, A.D., Wallom, D.C.H., Allen, M.R. and Cullen, H. (2016) Comparison of methods: Attributing the 2014 record European temperatures to human influences. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(16): 8685-8693.
• van Oldenborgh, G., Otto, F.E.L., Haustein, K. and AchutaRao, K. (2016) The heavy precipitation event of December 2015 in Chennai, India. In, Explaining Extremes of 2015 from a Climate Perspective. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(17), S87-S91.
• van Oldenborgh, G., Philip, S., Aalbers, E., Vautard, R., Otto, F., Haustein, K., Habets, F., Singh, R. and Cullen, H. (2016) Rapid attribution of the May/June 2016 flood-inducing precipitation in France and Germany to climate change. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

2015

• Haustein, K., Washington, R., King, J., Wiggs, G., Thomas, D.S.G., Eckardt, F.D., Bryant, R.G. and Menut, L. (2015) Testing the performance of state-of-the-art dust emission schemes using DO4Models field data. Geoscientific Model Development, 8(2): 341-362.
• Otto, F.E.L., Coleho, C.A.S., King, A., Coughlan de Perez, E., Wada, Y., van Oldenborgh, G.J., Haarsma, R., Haustine, K., Uhe, P., van Aalst, M., Aravequia, J.A., Almeida, W. and Cullen, H. (2015) Water shortage in southeast Brazil. In, Herring, S.C., Howrling, M.P., Kossin, J.P., Peterson, T.C., Stott, P.A. (ed.) Explaining Extreme Events of 2014: From a Climate Perspective. Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol 96, No 12, December 2015. American Meteorological Society. pp. 35-40.
• Otto, F.E.L., Haustein, K., Cullen, H. and van Oldenborgh, G.J. (2015) Climate Change increases the probability of heavy rains like those of storm Desmond in the UK - an event attribution study in near-real time. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 12(12): 13197-13216.
• van Oldenborgh, G.J., Otto, F.E.L., Haustein, K., Cullen, H. (2015) Climate change increases the probability of heavy rains like those of storm Desmond in the UK – an event attribution study in near-real time. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 12: 13197-13216.

2013

• Menut, L., Perez, C., Haustein, K., Bessagnet, B., Prigent, C. and Alfaro, S. (2013) Impact of surface roughness and soil texture on mineral dust emission fluxes modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

2011

• Haustein, K., Pérez, C., Baldasano, J.M., Jorba, O., Basart, S., Miller, R.L., Janjic, Z., Black, T., Nickovic, S., Todd, M. and Washington, R. (2011) Atmospheric dust modeling from meso to global scales with the online NMMB/BSC-Dust model: 2. Experimental campaigns in Northern Africa. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 11: 30273-30331.
• Pérez, C., Haustein, K., Janjic, Z., Jorba, O., Huneeus, J., Baldasano, J.N., Black, T., Basart, S., Nickovic, S., Miller, R.L., Perlwitz, J.P., Schulz, M. and Thomson, M. (2011) Atmospheric dust modeling from meso to global scales with the online NMMB/BSC-Dust model: 1. Model description, annual simulations and evaluation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11: 13001-13027.

2010

• Seifert, P., Ansmann, A., Mattis, I., Wandinger, W., Tesche, M., Engelmann, R., Méller, D., Pérez, C. and Haustein, K. (2010) Saharan dust and heterogeneous ice formation: Eleven years of cloud observations at a central-European EARLINET site. Geophysical Research Letters, 115(D20201).

2009

• Gerasopoulos, E., Kokkalis, P., Amiridis, V., Liakakou, E., Pérez, C., Haustein, K., Eleftheratos, K., Andreae, M.O., Andreae, T.W. and Zerefos, C.S. (2009) Dust specific extinction cross-sections over the Eastern Mediterranean using the BSC-DREAM model and sun photometer data: the case of urban environments. Annales Geophysicae, 27: 2903-2912.
• Haustein, K., Pérez, C., Baldasano, J.M., Méller, D., Tesche, M., Schladitz, A., Esselborn, M., Weinzierl, B., Kandler, K. and van Hoyningen-Huene, W. (2009) Regional dust model performance during SAMUM-1 2006. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(L03812).
• Pérez, C., Baldasano, J.M., Jiménez-Guerrero, P., Jorba, O., Haustein, K., Cuevas, E., Basart, S. and Nickovic, S. (2009) Dust modeling and forecasting in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center: Activities and developments. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 7(012013).