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• Quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO)
• Radiative transfer

Projects

• ARTOS: The Atmospheric Response to Solar Variability
• ENSEMBLES: Ensemble prediction system for climate change
• ICON: Icosagedral Non-hydrostatic Dynamical GCM
• SCOUT-O3: Stratosphere-Climate Links With Emphasis On The UTLS
• COMBINE: Comprehensive Modelling of the Earth System for Better Climate Prediction and Projection

Recent publications

• Rípodas, P., A. Gassmann, J. Förstner, D. Majewski, M. Giorgetta, P. Korn, L. Kornblueh, H. Wan, G. Zängl, L. Bonaventura, and T. Heinze, Icosahedral Shallow Water Model (ICOSWM): results of shallow water test cases and sensitivity to model parameters, Geosci. Model Dev., 2, 231-251, 2009.
• Schmidt, H., G. P. Brasseur, and M. A. Giorgetta, The solar cycle signal in a general circulation and chemistry model with internally generated QBO, J. Geophys. Res., 2009, accepted.
• Cagnazzo, C., Manzini, E., Calvo, N., Douglass, A., Akiyoshi, H., Bekki, S., Chipperfield, M., Dameris, M., Deushi, M., Fischer, A. M., Garny, H., Gettelman, A., Giorgetta, M. A., Plummer, D., Rozanov, E., Shepherd, T. G., Shibata, K., Stenke, A., Struthers, H., and Tian, W.: Northern winter stratospheric temperature and ozone responses to ENSO inferred from an ensemble of Chemistry Climate Models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 8935-8948, 2009.
• Meehl, G. A.,  L. Goddard,  J. Murphy,  R. J. Stouffer,  G. Boer,  G. Danabasoglu,  Keith Dixon,  M. A. Giorgetta,  A. M. Greene,  Ed Hawkins,  G. Hegerl,  D. Karoly,  N. Keenlyside,  M. Kimoto,  B. Kirtman,  A. Navarra,  R. Pulwarty,  D. Smith,  D. Stammer, and T. Stockdale, Decadal prediction, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 1467-1485, 90, 2009.
• Struthers, H., G. E. Bodeker, J. Austin, S. Bekki, I. Cionni, M. Dameris, M. A. Giorgetta, V. Grewe, F. Lefèvre, F. Lott, E. Manzini, T. Peter, E. Rozanov, and M. Schraner, The simulation of the Antarctic ozone hole by chemistry-climate models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6363-6376, 2009.
• Thomas, M. A., M. A. Giorgetta, C. Timmreck, H.-F. Graf, and G. Stenchikov, Simulation of the climate impact of Mt. Pinatubo eruption using ECHAM5. Part-II: Sensitivity to the phase of the QBO and ENSO, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 3001-3009, 2009.
• Calvo, N., M. A. Giorgetta, R. Garcia-Herrera and E. Manzini, Non-linearity of the combined warm ENSO and QBO effects on the northern hemisphere polar vortex  in MAECHAM5 simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D13109, doi:10.1029/2008JD011445, 2009.
• Tourpali, K., A. F. Bais, A. Kazantzidis, C. S. Zerefos, H. Akiyoshi, J. Austin, C. Brühl, N. Butchart, M. P. Chipperfield, M. Dameris, M. Deushi, V. Eyring, M. A. Giorgetta, D. E. Kinnison, E. Mancini, D. R. Marsh, T. Nagashima, G. Pitari, D. A. Plummer, E. Rozanov, K. Shibata, and W. Tian, Clear sky UV simulations for the 21st century based on ozone and temperature projections from chemistry-climate models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 1165-1172, 2009.
• Thomas, M. A. , C. Timmreck, M. A. Giorgetta, H.-F. Graf, and G. Stenchikov, Simulation of the climate impact of Mt. Pinatubo eruption using ECHAM5 – Part 1: Sensitivity to the modes of atmospheric circulation and boundary conditions, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 757-769, 2009.
• Punge, H. J., P. Konopka, M. A. Giorgetta, R. Müller, Effects of the quasi-biennial oscillation on low-latitude transport in the stratosphere derived from trajectory calculations, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D03102, doi:10.1029/2008JD010518, 2009.
• Punge, H. J. , and M. A. Giorgetta, Net effect of the QBO in a chemistry climate model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 6505-6525, 2008.

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Born

02.03.1966 in St.Gallen, Switzerland

School

Naturwissenschafltiches Gymnasium, St. Gallen, Matura C, 1985

College/University

ETH Zurich, Physics, Diploma, 1991

Ph.D.

MPI-M/University of Hamburg, 1996

Ph.D. thesis

Influence of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on the General Circulation: Model Simulations with ECHAM4

Post-doc

MPI-M, since 1996