Contact: wolfgang.wicker@unil.ch
Office 3239, Géopolis Building
Wolfgang Wicker is a PhD Student interested in extratropical dynamics. He works on tropospheric and stratospheric mechanisms for extreme weather events at the earth surface such as heat waves in summer and cold spells in winter.

Publications
Vries, A. J. D., Wicker, W., Fragkoulidis, G., Rudeva, I., Rivoire, P., Russo, E., … & Domeisen, D. I. (2025). Extreme weather in the Southern Hemisphere in early 2022. BAMS. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0141.1
Russo, E., Wicker, W., Folini, D., & Domeisen, D. I. V. (2025). The role of boundary‐layer friction in modulating midlatitude heatwaves. Q J R Meteorol S, 151(768), e4932. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4932
Wicker, W., Harnik, N., Pyrina, M., & Domeisen, D. I. V. (2024). Heatwave location changes in relation to Rossby wave phase speed. Geophys Res Let, 51(14), e2024GL108159. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108159
Andrews, M. B., Knight, J. R., Scaife, A. A., & Wicker, W. (2024). Influence of the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation on tropical convection and its teleconnection to the midlatitudes in boreal winter. Q J R Meteorol Soc, 150(761), 2510-2521. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4721
Wicker, W., Polichtchouk, I. & Domeisen, D.I.V. (2023) Increased vertical resolution in the stratosphere reveals role of gravity waves after sudden stratospheric warmings. Weather Clim Dynam, 4: 81-93. doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-81-2023.
Wicker, W., Greatbatch, R.J. & Claus, M. (2022) Sensitivity of a simple atmospheric model to changing surface friction with implications for seasonal prediction. Q J R Meteorol Soc, 148:199-213. doi.org/10.1002/qj.4200