Peter Greve

Peter Greve joined the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) as a research scholar in November 2016. In the Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) program, Water Security (WAT) research group, he contributes to the group's activities by providing a climate-focused perspective both on the use and the development, specifically of the Community Water Model (CWatM), and the integrated assessments at IIASA in general.

He received his PhD from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2015, for his work on the topic of understanding and characterizing past, present, and future hydroclimatological change. He also holds a diploma in Meteorology from Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany.

Dr. Greve's main research interest is at the interface of climate and hydrological science. During his time at ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher/PhD student, he aimed to identify and quantify historical and projected trends of water availability and aridity and their associated uncertainties by using a comprehensive collection of datasets and climate models. He is also interested in the further development and use of the popular conceptual Budyko framework in the context of hydroclimatological assessments. He was a contributing author for the IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 ° and is involved in four different chapters (concerning drought and hydrological impacts) in WGI and WGII of the upcoming IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.


Last update: 09 FEB 2021

Chiang, F., Greve, P., Mazdiyasni, O., Wada, Y. , & AghaKouchak, A. (2021). A Multivariate Conditional Probability Ratio Framework for the Detection and Attribution of Compound Climate Extremes. Geophysical Research Letters 48 (15), e2021GL094361. 10.1029/2021GL094361.

Tramberend, S. , Burtscher, R. , Burek, P. , Kahil, T. , Fischer, G., Mochizuki, J. , Greve, P., Kimwaga, R., Nyenje, P., Ondiek, R., Nakawuka, P., Hyandye, C., Sibomana, C., Luoga, H.P., Matano, A.S., Langan, S. , & Wada, Y. (2021). Co-development of East African regional water scenarios for 2050. One Earth 4 (3), 434-447. 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.02.012.

Stenzel, F., Greve, P., Lucht, W., Tramberend, S. , Wada, Y. , & Gerten, D. (2021). Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change. Nature Communications 12 (1), e1512. 10.1038/s41467-021-21640-3.

IPCC, (2021). Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Cambridge University Press (In Press)

Yves, T., Koutroulis, A., Samaniego, L., Vicente-Serrano, S.M., Volaire, F., Boone, A., Le Page, M., Llasat, M.C., Albergel, C., Burak, S., Cailleret, M., Kalin, K.C., Davi, H, Dupuy, J.-L., Greve, P., Grillakis, M., Jarlan, L., Martin-StPaul, N., Vilalta, J.M., Mouillot, F., Velazquez, D.P., Quintana-Seguí, P., Renard, D., Turco, M., Türkes, M., Trigo, R., Vidal, J.-P., Vilagrosa, A., Zribi, M., & Polcher, J. (2020). Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios. Earth-Science Reviews 210, e103348. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103348.

Burek, P. , Smilovic, M. , Guillaumot, L. , de Bruijn, J. , Greve, P., Satoh, Y., Islaam, A., Virgen-Urcelay, A., Tang, T. , Kahil, T. , & Wada, Y. (2020). Community Water Model CWatM Manual. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA

Greve, P., Burek, P. , & Wada, Y. (2020). Using the Budyko Framework for Calibrating a Global Hydrological Model. Water Resources Research 56 (6) 10.1029/2019WR026280.

Burek, P. , Satoh, Y., Kahil, T. , Tang, T. , Greve, P., Smilovic, M. , Guillaumot, L. , Zhao, F., & Wada, Y. (2020). Development of the Community Water Model (CWatM v1.04) – a high-resolution hydrological model for global and regional assessment of integrated water resources management. Geoscientific Model Development 13 (7), 3267-3298. 10.5194/gmd-13-3267-2020.

Kahil, T. , Albiac, J., Fischer, G., Strokal, M., Tramberend, S. , Greve, P., Tang, T. , Burek, P. , Burtscher, R. , & Wada, Y. (2019). A nexus modeling framework for assessing water scarcity solutions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 40, 72-80. 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.09.009.

Kahil, T. , Parkinson, S. , Satoh, Y., Greve, P., Burek, P. , Veldkamp, T., Burtscher, R. , Byers, E. , Djilali, N., Fischer, G., Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Riahi, K. , Tramberend, S. , & Wada, Y. (2018). A continental-scale hydro-economic model for integrating water-energy-land nexus solutions. Water Resources Research 10.1029/2017WR022478.

Greve, P., Kahil, T. , Mochizuki, J. , Schinko, T. , Satoh, Y., Burek, P. , Fischer, G., Tramberend, S. , Burtscher, R. , Langan, S. , & Wada, Y. (2018). Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections. Nature Sustainability 1, 486-494. 10.1038/s41893-018-0134-9.

Byers, E. , Parkinson, S. , Balkovic, J. , Burek, P. , Ebi, K., Gidden, M. , Grey, D., Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Hillers, A., Johnson, N., Kahil, T. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Leclere, D., Nakicenovic, N. , Novak, R., Obersteiner, M. , Pachauri, S. , Palazzo, A. , Rao, N. , Rogelj, J. , Satoh, Y., Wada, Y. , Willaarts, B. , & Riahi, K. (2018). Global climate and development hotspots assessment: Asia under pressure. In: 5th Asian Energy Modelling Workshop, 10-12 September 2018, Singapore.

Hoegh - Guldberg, O., Jacob, D., Taylor, M., Bindi, M., Brown, S., Camilloni, I., Diedhiou, A., Djalante, R., Ebi, K., Engelbrecht, F., Guiot, K., Hijioka, Y., Mehrotra, S., Payne, A., Seneviratne, S., Thomas, A., Warren, R., Zhou, G., Halim, S., Achlatis, M., Alexander, L., Allen, M., Berry, P., Boyer, C., Brilli, L., Buckeridge, M., Cheung, W., Craig, M., Ellis, N., Evans, J., Fisher, H., Fraedrich, K., Fuss, S., Ganase, A., Gattuso, J., Greve, P., Guillen, T., Hanasaki, N., Hasegawa, T., Hayes, K., Hirsch, A., Jones, C., Jung, T., Kanninen, M., Krinner, G., Lawrence, D., Lenton, T., Ley, D., Liveman, D., Mahowald, N., McInnes, K., Meissner, K., Millar, R., Mintenbeck, K., Mitchell, D., Mix, A., Notz, D., Nurse, L., Okem, A., Olsson, L., Oppenheimer, M., Paz, S., Peterson, J., Petzold, J., Preuschmann, S., Rahman, M., Rogelj, J. , Scheuffele, H., Schleussner, C.-F., Scott, D., Seferian, R., Sillmann, J., Singh, C., Slade, R., Stephenson, K., Stephenson, T., Sylla, M., Tebboth, M., Tschakert, P., Vautard, R., Wartenburger, R., Wehner, M., Weyer, N., Whyte, F., Yohe, G., Zhang, X., & Zougmore, R. (2018). Chapter 3: Impacts of 1.5ºC global warming on natural and human systems. In: Global Warming of 1.5 °C an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Byers, E. , Gidden, M. , Leclere, D., Balkovic, J. , Burek, P. , Ebi, K., Grey, D., Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Hillers, A., Johnson, N., Kahil, T. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Nakicenovic, N. , Novak, R., Obersteiner, M. , Pachauri, S. , Palazzo, A. , Parkinson, S. , Rao, N. , Rogelj, J. , Satoh, Y., Wada, Y. , Willaarts, B. , & Riahi, K. (2018). Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots. In: International Energy Workshop, 19-21 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Seneviratne, .I., Wartenburger, R., Guillod, B.P., Hirsch, A.L., Vogel, Martha M., Brovkin, V., van Vuuren, D.P., Schaller, N., Boysen, L., Calvin, K.V., Doelman, J., Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Humpenöder, F., Krisztin, T. , Mitchell, D., Popp, Al., Riahi, K., Rogelj, J. , Schleussner, C.-F., Sillmann, J., & Stehfest, E. (2018). Climate extremes, land–climate feedbacks and land-use forcing at 1.5°C. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 376 (2119), e20160450. 10.1098/rsta.2016.0450.

Byers, E. , Gidden, M., Leclere, D., Burek, P. , Ebi, K.L., Greve, P., Grey, D., Havlik, P. , Hillers, A., Johnson, N., Kahil, T. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Nakicenovic, N., Novak, R., Obersteiner, M. , Pachauri, S. , Palazzo, A. , Parkinson, S. , Rao, N. , Rogelj, J. , Riahi, K. , Satoh, Y., Wada, Y. , & Willaarts, B. (2018). Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots. Environmental Research Letters 13, e055012. 10.1088/1748-9326/aabf45.

Burek, P. , Greve, P., Satoh, Y., & Wada, Y. (2018). Using the Budyko framework for calibrating a global hydrological model in ungauged catchments of the world. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, 9-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Greve, P., Gudmundsson, L., & Seneviratne, S.I. (2018). Regional scaling of annual mean precipitation and water availability with global temperature change. Earth System Dynamics 9 (1), 227-240. 10.5194/esd-9-227-2018.

Burek, P. , Satoh, Y., Greve, P., Kahil, T. , Byers, E. , Langan, S. , & Wada, Y. (2018). Improving Water Resources Management on Global and Region Scales – Evaluating Strategies for Water Futures with the IIASA’s Community Water Model. In: American Geo-Sciences Union Fall Meeting, 11-15 December, New Orleans, USA.

Willaarts, B. , Langan, S. , Balkovic, J. , Burek, P. , Byers, E. , Deppermann, A., Frank, S. , Gidden, M. , Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Kahil, T. , Krey, V. , Magnuszewski, P., Mayor Rodriguez, B., Palazzo, A. , Parkinson, S. , Poblete Cazenave, M., Riahi, K. , van Dijk, M., Vinca, A. , & Wada, Y. (2018). Integrated Solutions for Water, Energy and Land Progress report 3. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Gidden, M. , Byers, E. , Burek, P. , Ebi, K., Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Hillers, A., Johnson, N., Kahil, T. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Leclere, D., Nakicenovic, N. , Novak, R., Obersteiner, M. , Palazzo, A. , Pachauri, S. , Parkinson, S. , Rao, N. , Rogelj, J. , Satoh, Y., Wada, Y. , Willaarts, B. , & Riahi, K. (2017). Exposure and Vulnerability to Energy, Water, and Land Hotspots under Different Climate Futures. In: 10th Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium Meeting, December 2017.

Greve, P., Roderick, M., & Seneviratne, S. (2017). Simulated changes in aridity from the last glacial maximum to 4xCO2. Environmental Research Letters 12 (11), e114021. 10.1088/1748-9326/aa89a3.

Padrón, R.S., Gudmundsson, L., Greve, P., & Seneviratne, S.I. (2017). Large-Scale Controls of the Surface Water Balance Over Land-Insights From a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Water Resources Research 53 (11), 9659-9678. 10.1002/2017WR021215.

Greve, P., Kahil, T. , Mochizuki, J. , Florke, M., Eisner, S., Hanasaki, N., & Wada, Y. (2017). Global assessment of water policy challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections. In: ILEAPS Science conference, 11-14 September 2017, Oxford, UK.

Wartenburger, R., Hirschi, M., Donat, M.G., Greve, P., Pitman, A.J., & Seneviratne, S.I. (2017). Changes in regional climate extremes as a function of global mean temperature: an interactive plotting framework. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 3609-3634. 10.5194/gmd-2017-33.

Satoh, Y., Kahil, T. , Byers, E. , Burek, P. , Fischer, G., Tramberend, S. , Greve, P., Flörke, M., Eisner, S., Hanasaki, N., Magnuszewski, P., Nava, L.F. , Cosgrove, W., Langan, S. , & Wada, Y. (2017). Multi-model and multi-scenario assessments of Asian water futures: the Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative. Earth's Future 5 (7), 823-852. 10.1002/2016EF000503.

Kahil, T. , Parkinson, S. , Burek, P. , Satoh, Y., Greve, P., Fischer, G., Tramberend, S. , Langan, S. , & Wada, Y. (2017). Economic costs of reducing unsustainable groundwater use: Application of IIASA global hydro-economic modeling framework. In: JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017, 20-25 May 2017, Tokyo, Japan.

Burek, P. , Satoh, Y., Greve, P., Kahil, T. , & Wada, Y. (2017). The CommunityWater Model (CWATM) / Development of a community driven global water model. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017, 23–28 April 2017, Vienna, Austria.

Gidden, M. , Byers, E. , Greve, P., Kahil, T. , Parkinson, S. , Raptis, C., Rogelj, J. , Satoh, Y., van Vliet, M., Wada, Y. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , & Riahi, K. (2017). Hydroclimatic risks and uncertainty in the global power sector. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017, 23–28 April 2017, Vienna, Austria.

Greve, P., Kahil, T. , Schinko, T. , Mochizuki, J. , Satoh, Y., Burek, P. , Burtscher, R. , Langan, S. , Byers, E. , Florke, M., Eisner, S., Hanasaki, N., & Wada, Y. (2017). Global assessment of water policy vulnerability under uncertainty in water scarcity projections. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017, 23–28 April 2017, Vienna, Austria.

Willaarts, B. , Langan, S. , Balkovic, J. , Burek, P. , Byers, E. , Deppermann, A., Gidden, M. , Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Leclere, D., Kahil, T. , Khan, Z., Krisztin, T. , Krey, V. , Magnuszewski, P., Mastrucci, A. , Mayor Rodriguez, B., Palazzo, A. , Parkinson, S. , Poblete Cazenave, M., Riahi, K. , Satoh, Y., van Dijk, M., & Wada, Y. (2017). Integrated Solutions for Water, Energy and Land Progress report 2. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)