D. Frank, J. Esper, E. Zorita and R. Wilson. A noodle, hockey-stick, and spaguetti plate: a perspective on high-resolution paleoclimatology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change, in press

R. Brázdil, P. Dobrovolný, J. Luterbacher, A. Moberg, C. Pfister, D. Wheeler, E. Zorita. European climate of the last 500 years: new challanges for historical climatology. Climatic Change 101, 7-40, doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9783-z (2010)

J. Luterbacher, S.J. Koenig, J. Franke, G. van der Schrier, P.M. Della-Marta, J. Jacobeit, M. Küttel,F.J. González-Rouco, E. Zorita, E. Xoplaki, M. Stössel, T. Rutishauser, H. Wanner, C. Pfister, R. Brázdil, P. Dobrovolný, D. Camuffo, C. Bertolin, A. Moberg, L. Leijonhufvud, J. Soderberg, R. Allan, R. Wilson, D. Wheeler, M. Barriendos, R. Glaser, D. Riemann, O. Nordli, D. Limanówka, A. van Engelen, C.S. Zerefos. Circulation dynamics and its influence on European and Mediterranean January-April climate over the past half millennium: Results and insights from instrumental data, documentary proxy evidence and coupled climate models. Climatic Change 101, 201-234, doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9782-0 (2010)

E. Zorita, A. Moberg, L. Leijonhufvud, R. Wilson, R. Brázdil, P. Dobrovolný, J. Luterbacher, R. Böhm, Ch. Pfister, R. Glaser, J. Söderberg, F. González-Rouco. European temperature records of the past five centuries based on documentary information compared to climate simulations. Climatic Change 101, 143-168, doi: 10.1007/s10584-010-9824-7 (2010)

E. Zorita, F. González-Rouco, H. von Storch. Relationships between Northern Hemisphere mean temperature, wind-stress and tropical sea-surface temperature in a climate simulation of the past millennium. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, in press

U. Ganzedo, E. Zorita, A. P. Solari, G. Chust, A. Santana del Pino, J. Polanco and J. J. Castro. What drives the tuna capture between the XVI (1525) and XVII (1756)centuries in Southern Europe?. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 66, 1595 - 160 (2009).

E. Zorita, T. Stocker and H. von Storch. How unusual is the recent series of warm years? Geophysical Research Letters 35, L24706 doi:10.1029/GL036228 (2008). See comment by G. Bürger and our response

H. von Storch, E. Zorita and F. González-Rouco. Relationships between global mean sea-level and global mean temperature and heat-flux in a climate simulation of the past millennium. Ocean Dynamics, 58, 227-236, DOI 10.1007/s10236-088-0142-9 (2009)

Jian Liu, Bin Wang, Qinghua Ding, Xueyuan Kuang, Willie Soon , and Eduardo Zorita. Centennial variations of the global monsoon precipitation in the last millennium: Results from ECHO-G model. Journal of Climate 22, 2356-2371 (2009).

J. F. González-Rouco, H. Beltrami, E. Zorita, and M. B. Stevens. Borehole climatology: a discussion based on contributions from climate modeling. Climate of the Past 97-127, 2009.

J. Smerdon, F. González-Rouco and E. Zorita. Comment on 'Robustness of proxy-based climate field reconstructions methods' by Mann et al. J. Geophys. Res. 113, D18106, doi:10.1029/2007JD00954 (2008).

H. von Storch, E. Zorita and F. González-Rouco. Assessement of three temperature reconstruction methods in the virtual reality of a climate simulation. International Journal of Earth Sciences 98, 67-82 (2009).

Matulla, C., X. Zahng, X.L. Wang, J. Wang, E. Zorita, S. Wagner and H. von Storch. Influence of similarity measures on the performance of the analog method for downscaling precipitation. Climate Dynamics 30, 133-144 (2008)

B. Hünicke, J. Luterbacher, A. Pauling, and E. Zorita. Regional differences in winter sea-level variations in the Baltic Sea for the past 200 years. Tellus, Tellus 60A (2), 384-393 (2008).

B. Hünicke and E. Zorita. Trends in the amplitude of Baltic Sea level annual cycle. Tellus, Tellus 60A (1), 154-164 (2008).

M. Küttel, J. Luterbacher, E. Zorita, E. Xoplaki, N. Riedwyl and H. Wanner. Testing a European winter surface temperature reconstruction in a surrogate climate. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L07710,doi:101029/2006GL027907 (2007).

I. Gouirand, V. Moron, E. Zorita. Teleconnections between ENSO and North Atlantic in an ECHO-G simulation of the 1000-1990 period. Geophysical Research Letters 34 L06706 doi:10.1029/2006GL028852 (2007).

E. Fischer, J. Luterbacher, E. Zorita, S. Tett , C. Casty , H. Wanner. European climate response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the last half millennium. Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L05707 doi: 10.1029/2006GL027992 (2007).

E. Zorita, F. González-Rouco and H. von Storch. Comment to "Testing the fidelity of methods used in proxy-based reconstructions of past climate" by Mann et al.. J. Climate 20, 3693 (2007).

J. Fernández, J.P Montávez, J. Sáenz, J.F. González-Rouco, and E. Zorita. Sensitivity of the MM5 mesoscale model to physical parametrizations for regional climate studies: annual cycle. J. Geophys. Res.,112, D04101, doi:10.1029/2005JD006649 (2007).

I. Gouirand, A. Moberg and E. Zorita. Climate variability in Scandinavia for the past millennium simulated by an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. Tellus 59, 30-49 (2007).

G. Hegerl, T. Crowley, M. Allen, W. Hyde, H. Pollack, J. Smerdon and E. Zorita. Detection of human influence on a new, validated 1500-year temperature reconstruction. J. of Climate 20, 650 (2007).

D. Frías, E. Zorita, J. Fernández, C. Rodríguez-Puebla. Testing statistical downscaling methods in simulated climates. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L19807 (2006).

H.v. Storch, E. Zorita, J. Jones, F. González-Rouco and S.F.B. Tett.Response to "Testing climate reconstructions by Rahmstorf". Science, 312, 1872-1873 (2006). This comment and our answer are not peer-reviewed. It is included in this list for the interested reader.

H.v. Storch, E. Zorita, J. Jones, Y. Dimitriev, F. González-Rouco and S.F.B. Tett. Response to the comment by Wahl, Ritson and Amman "Reconstruction of century scale temperature variations". Science 312,529 (2006). See also the comment by Wahl et al. and a GKSS press release.

T. Crueger,H. Kuhnert, J. Paetzold, E. Zorita. Calibrations of Bermuda corals against large-scale SST- and SLP-pattern time series and implications for climate reconstructions. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D23103, doi:10.1029/2005JD006903 (2006)

F. Gonzalez-Rouco,H. Beltrami, E. Zorita, H. von Storch. Simulation and inversion of borehole temperature profiles in simulated climates: Spatial distribution and surface coupling. Geophys. Res. Letters 33, L01703 (2006).

B. Hünicke and E. Zorita. Influence of temperature and precipitation on decadal Baltic Sea level variations in 20th century. Tellus 58A, 141-153 (2006)

M.A. Cane, P. Braconnot, A. Clement, H. Gildor, S. Joussaume, M. Kagayama, M. Khodri, D. Paillard, S. Tett, E. Zorita. Progress in Paleoclimate Modeling. Journal of Climate 19, 5031-5071 (2006).

U. Cubasch, F. Kaspar, E. Zorita, K. Prömmel, H.v. Storch, F. González-Rouco. Simulation of the role of solar and orbital forcing on climate. Advances in Space Research 37, 1629-1634 (2006)

H. von Storch and E. Zorita. Comment on "Hockey sticks, principal components and spurious significance" by S . McIntyre and R. McKitrick. Geophys. Research Letters, 32 L20701 (2005).
See also the response by McIntyre and McKitrick here .

Liu, J., H. von Storch, X. Chen, E. Zorita, J. Zheng, and S. Wang. Simulated and reconstructed temperature in the eastern China during the last millennium. Chinese Science Bulletin, 50(24): 2872-2877 (in Chinese: 2005,50(20):2251-2255) (2005).

I. Fischer-Bruns, H. von Storch, J.F. González-Rouco and E. Zorita. Modelling the Variability of Midlatitude Storm Activity on Decadal to Century Time Scales. Climate Dynamics 25, 461-476 (2005) .

S. Wagner and E. Zorita. The influence of volcanic, solar and CO₂ forcing on the temperatures in the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830): a model study. Climate Dynamics 25, 205-218 (2005).

H. Goosse, T. Crowley, E. Zorita, C. Amman, H. Renssen and E. Driesschaert. Modelling the climate of the last millennium. What causes the differences between models?.Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L06710 (2005)

E. Zorita, F. González-Rouco, H. von Storch, J.P. Montavez and F. Valero. Natural and anthropogenic modes of surface temperature variations in the last thousand years. Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L08707 (2005).

S. Wagner, S. Legutke and E. Zorita. European winter temperature variability in a long coupled model simulation: the contribution of ocean dynamics. Climate Dynamics 25, 37-50 (2005).

Storch, H. von, E. Zorita, J. M. Jones, Y. Dmitriev. F. González and S. F. B. Tett. Reconstructing past climate from noisy data. Science 306, 679-682 (2004).This paper was awarded the von-Sengbusch-Award as the most cited paper in 2004-2008 in the GKSS Research centre.

Eduardo Zorita, Hans von Storch, Fidel González-Rouco, Ulrich Cubasch, Jürg Luterbacher, Stephanie Legutke, Irene Fischer-Bruns and Ulrich Schles e. Climate evolution in the last five centuries simulated by an atmosphere- ocean model: global temperatures, the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Late M aunder Minimum. Meteorologische Zeitschrift 13, 271-289 (2004).

D. Mueller-Navarra, M. Brett, S. Park, S. Chandra, A. Ballantyne, E. Zorita and C. Goldman. Seston unsaturated fatty acid content and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes. Nature, 427, 69-72 (2004).

F. González-Rouco, H. von Storch and E. Zorita. Deep soil temperature as proxy for surface air-temperature in a coupled model simulation of the last thousand years. Geophysical Research Letters 30, 2116-9 (2003).

F. Feser, H. v. Storch, R. Weisse and E. Zorita. Aliasing in power spectra: comment on "Improved global maps and 54-year history of wind-work on ocean inertial motions" by M.H. Alford.Geophysical Research Letters 22, art. 2165 (2003)

KIHZ-Consortium: J. Zinke, H. von Storch, B. Müller, E. Zorita, B. Rein, H. B. Mieding, H. Miller, A. Lücke, G.H. Schleser, M.J. Schwab, J.F.W. Negendank, U. Kienel, J.F. González-Ruoco, C. Dullo and A. Eisenhauser, 2003: Evidence for the climate during the Late Maunder Minimum from proxy data available within KIHZ. In H. Fischer, T. Kumke, G. Lohmann, G. Flöser, H. Miller, H von Storch und J. F. W. Negendank (Eds.): The KIHZ project: towards a synthesis of Holocene proxy data and climate models, Springer Verlag, Berlin - Heidelberg - New York, (in press)

Jesus Fernández, Jon Sáenz and Eduardo Zorita. Analysis of wintertime atmospheric moisture transport and its variability over the Mediterranean basin in the NCEP-Reanalyses. Climate Research 23, 195-215 (2003).

G.N.Summer,N.Romero, V. Homar, C. Ramis, S. Alonso and E. Zorita.An estimate of the effects of climate change on the rainfall of Mediterranean Spain by the late 21st century. Climate Dynamics 20, 789-805 (2003).

E. Zorita, F. González-Rouco and S. Legutke. Testing the Mann et al. (1998) Approach to Paleoclimate Reconstructions in the Context of a 1000-Yr Control Simulation with the ECHO-G Coupled Climate M odel . Journal of Climate 16,1378-1390 (2003).

Eduardo Zorita and Fidel González-Rouco. Are temperature-sensitive proxies adequate for North Atlantic Oscillation reconstructions?. Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (14), 48-1 - 48-4 (2002).

E. Zorita and F. Tilya: Rainfall variability in North Tanzania in the March-May season (long rains) and its links to large-scale climate forcing. Climate Research 20, 31-40 (2002).

W. Petersen, U. Callies, L. Bertino and E. Zorita. Process identification by statistical analysis of water quality data. Ecological Modelling, 138, 193-213 (2001)

E. Zorita and J.F. González-Rouco: Disagreement between predictions of the future behavior of the Arctic Oscillation as simulated in two different climate models: Implications for global warming. Geophysical Research Letters 27, 1755-1758 (2000).

E. Zorita and A. Laine: Dependence of salinity and oxygen concentrations in the Baltic Sea on the large-scale atmospheric circulation. Climate Research 14, 25-41 (2000). Also available as GKSS-Report 99/E/14

González-Rouco, F., H. Heyen, E. Zorita, and F. Valero: Agreement between observed rainfall trends and climate change simulations in the Southwest of Europe. Journal of Climate 13, 3057-3065 (2000).

G. Biau, E. Zorita, H.v.Storch and H. Wackernagel: Estimation of precipitation by kriging in the EOF space of the Sea level Pressure field. Journal of Climate 12, 1070-1085 (1999). Also available as GKSS Report No 97/E/45.

E. Zorita and H.v.Storch: The analog method as a simple statistical downscaling technique:comparison with more complicated methods. Journal of Climate 12, 2474-2489 (1999).

M. Cui and E. Zorita: Analysis of the sea-level variability along the Chinese coast and estimation of the impact of a CO₂-perturbed atmospheric circulation. Tellus 50A, 333-347 (1998). Also available as GKSS Report No 97/E/19.

E. Zorita and C. Frankignoul: "Modes of North Atlantic decadal variability in the ECHAM1/LSG coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model". Journal of Climate 10, 183-200 (1997)

C. Frankignoul, P. Müller, and E. Zorita.:" A simple model of the decadal response of the ocean to stochastic wind forcing". Journal of Physical Oceanography 27, 1533-1546 (1997)

J. von Storch, V. Kharin, , U. Cubasch, G. Hegerl, D. Schriever, H. von Storch, and E. Zorita:"A description of a 1260-year control integration with the coupled ECHAM1/LSG general circulation model". Journal of Climate 10, 1525-1543 (1997), also available as Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Report No.198

U. Cubash, H.v.Storch, J. Waszkezwitz and E. Zorita:" Estimates of climate changes in southern Europe using different downscaling techniques". Climate Research 7, 129-149 (1996) , also available as Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Report No.183

H. Heyen, E. Zorita and H.v. Storch: "Statistical downscaling of winter monthly mean North Atlantic sea-level pressure to sea level variations in the Baltic sea".Tellus 48 A 312-323 (1996), also available as Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Report No.150

M. Cui, H. von Storch and E. Zorita. "Coastal sea level and the large scale climate state: a downscaling exercise for the Japanese Islands".Tellus 47A, 132 -144 (1995)

E. Zorita, J. Hughes, D. Lettenmaier and H. von Storch. "Stochastic characterization of regional circulation patterns for climate model diagnosis and estimation of local precipitation". Journal of Climate 8, 1023-1042 (1995), also avaiable as Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Report No.109

H.von Storch, E. Zorita and U. Cubasch. "Downscaling of global climate change estimates to regional scales: an application to Iberian rainfall in wintertime". Journal of Climate 6, 1161-1171 (1993), also available as Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Report No.64

E.Zorita, V. Kharin and H.von Storch."The atmospheric circulation and sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic area in winter: their interaction and relevance for Iberian precipitation". Journal of Climate 5, 1097-1108 (1992). Also available as Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Report No.54

R. Alcalá, E. Zorita and P.J. Alonso. " Ni⁺ centers in RbCaF₃ :Application to the study of the 195-K structural phase transition". Physical Review B 38, 11 156 (1988).

R. Alcalá, E. Zorita, P.J. Alonso,J.M. Spaeth and Th. Hangleiter ."EPR stud y of Ni⁺ in RbCaF₃ below the cubic- tetragonal phase transition". Solid State Commun. 68, 167 (1988).

E. Zorita, P.J. Alonso, R. Alcalá, J.M. Spaeth and H. Soethe. "ENDOR study of Ni²⁺ in KMgF₃ ". Solid State Communications 66, 773 (1988).

R. Alcalá, E. Zorita and P.J. Alonso. "Monovalent niquel in K₂MgF₄ :an EPR investigation". Journal of Physics C21, 461 (1988).

E. Zorita, P.J. Alonso and R. Alcalá."Tetragonal Ni⁺ ions in x- irradiated KMgF₃ :Ni". Physical Review B 35, 3116 (1987).

P.J. Alonso,E. Zorita and R. Alcalá."Tetravalent vanadium in CaF₂ and SrF₂ crystals". J. Phys. Chem. Solids 46, 1351 (1985).

E. Zorita, P.J. Alonso and R. Alcalá. "EPR of V³⁺in SrCl₂". Solid State Communications 56, 61 (1985).

Unreviewed publications:

Zorita E. Independent Agency needed. In IPCC: cherish it, tweak it or scrap it ? Nature 463, 731 (2010)

von Storch, H., J.M. Jones, M. Widmann, J.F. Gonzalez-Rouco, I. Kirchner, and E. Zorita, 2001: Reconstructing large-scale climate variability from paleoclimatic evidence by means of data assimilation through upscaling and nudging (DATUN). Terra Nostra 2001/3 "High Resolution Lake Sediment Records in Climate and Enviornment Variability Studies", 233-238

González-Rouco, F., H. Heyen, E. Zorita, and F. Valero: Testing the validity of a statistical downscaling method in simulations with global climate models. GKSS Report 99/E/29

E. Zorita and A. Laine: Low-frequency evolution of hydrographic variables in the Baltic Sea and its relationship to the low-frequency atmospheric circulation. GKSS Report 99/E/14.

E. Zorita: Predicción global y regional del clima. . Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, 2000.

E. Zorita and H.v.Storch: A survey of statistical downscaling techniques. GKSS Report No 97/E/20.

H. von Storch, Johannes Guddal, Knut Iden, Trausti Jonsson, Jan Perlwitz , Magnar Reistad, John de Ronde, Heiner Schmidt and E. Zorita."Changing statistics of storms in the North Atlantic?". Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie Report No. 116 (1993)

E. Zorita. "Sind zwei EOFs genug oder möchtest du meine Mutter kennenlernen". Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Report No. 109a (1993)

E. Zorita and H.von Storch." Estimación de cambios en la precipitación en la Peninsula Ibérica a partir de experimentos con modelos de circulación general". In "Modelos en Meteorología y Climatología", Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1991)

H.v. Storch and E. Zorita. "Aspects of the origin of Iberian drought". Procee dings of the Fifteenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop. U.S. Departament of Commerce, 1991

Arthur Urbanowitz, Hans v. Storch and Eduardo Zorita." Analysis of a global general circulation model output over Poland". CAS/JSC Working group on Numerical Experimentation, WMO. (1991)

H.V.Storch and E. Zorita." Assesment of regional climate changes with the help of global GCM's: an example". CAS/JSC Working group on Numerical Experimentation. WMO Report no. 14, 7.30, 1990