Johannes Quaas
Office
Room Z431
Email: johannes.quaas@zmaw.de
Fon: +49-40-41173-179
Fax: +49-40-41173-298
Post address
Bundesstraße 53
D-20146 Hamburg
Department
Atmosphere in the Earth System
Research Group
Research Interests
- Cloud processes and cloud-climate feedbacks.
- Cloud process parameterizations in large-scale models.
- Satellite observations.
- Aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions (aerosol indirect effects).
- Global climate change.
Teaching
Course "Aerosol- and cloud physics", winter term 2009/2010 (Slides, password-protected; in German)
Course "Aerosol- and cloud physics", winter term 2008/2009
Course "Aerosol- and cloud physics", summer term 2008
Course "Aerosol- and cloud physics", winter term 2007/2008
Course "Cloud physics", summer term 2007
Academic Responsibilities
- Member, International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (IAMAS-ICCP)
- Member, Editorial Board, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- Associate Editor, Atmospheric Research
Projects and Co-workers
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
- Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom.
- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland.
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique ( IPSL/ C.N.R.S.), Paris, France.
- Global Aerosol Model Intercomparison (AEROCOM; since 2004).
- Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP; since 2005).
- Comprehensive Modelling of the Earth System for Better Climate Prediction and Projection (COMBINE; since 2009)
- Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC; since 2009)
- Parametrization of the Aerosol indirect Climatic Effects (PACE; 2001-2002).
Publications
Curriculum vitae
Born
1974 in Düsseldorf, Germany
University
1. University of Essen, Physics, Intermediate diploma September 1996
2. University of Cologne, Meteorology, Diploma June 2000
Diploma thesis at Scientific Computing and Algorithms Institute of the GMD-National Research Center for Information Technology, St. Augustin (now Fraunhofer-Institute)
Ph.D.
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique / IPSL, École Polytechnique, Paris, France, November 2003
Ph.D. thesis
The aerosol indirect effect: Parameterization in large-scale models and evaluation with satellite data
Post-doc
1. "Allocation jeune post-doc" grant of the École Polytechnique, working at Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique / IPSL, Palaiseau, France, 2003 - 2004
2. "Emmy Noether" phase I grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, working at
a) MPI-M, 2004 - 2005
b) Atmospheric Sciences Group at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, July/August 2004
c) Hadley Centre / Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, 2005 - 2006
3. Cloud research scientist, Hadley Centre / Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, June - August 2006
4. "Emmy Noether" phase II grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Junior Research Group at MPI-M (since September 2006)