Wolfgang Wicker

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.

Northward wind (in m.s-1) at the height of the 200 hPa surface for July 25 – August 07, 2018 from the ERA5 dataset.

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 S151(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 Let51(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 Soc150(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