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Hans Peter Schmid

climatologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ85765671 ↗
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Hans Peter Schmid is a climatologist. He is director of the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT/IMK-IFU) based in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He is also Professor of Atmospheric Environmental Research at the Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Schmid studied at ETH Zurich from 1978 and graduated in 1984 with the work: "The Horizontal Wind Field in the area of the City of Zurich" as a natural scientist. He wrote his dissertation at the University of British Columbia.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hans, Peter and Schmid can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hans Peter Schmid” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.