Contact Information

Office

Email: holger.pohlmann@we dont want spamzmaw.de

Fon: +49-40-41173-152

Fax: +49-40-41173-298

Room No. N209

 

Postal Address

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Bundesstr. 53

D-20146 Hamburg

Germany

 

Department

Ocean in the Earth System

 

Research Group

Decadal Climate Prediction

 

 

Refereed publications

2011

  • Hawkins, E., R. S. Smith, L. C. Allison, J. M. Gregory, T. J. Woolings, H. Pohlmann, and B. de Cuevas, 2011: Bistability of the Atlantic overturning circulation in a global climate model and links to ocean freshwater transport. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L10605, doi:10.1029/2011GL047208.
  • Hawkins, E., R. S. Smith, L. C. Allison, J. M. Gregory, T. J. Woolings, H. Pohlmann, and B. de Cuevas, 2011: Corrigendum to "Bistability of the Atlantic overturning circulation in a global climate model and links to ocean freshwater transport". Geophys. Res. Lett., L16699, doi:10.1029/2011GL048997.

 

2010

  • Smith, D. M., R. Eade, N. J. Dunstone, D. Fereday, J. M. Murphy, H. Pohlmann, and A. Scaife, 2010: Skilful multi-year predictions of Atlantic hurricane frequency. Nat. Geosci., 3, 846-849, doi:10.1038/ngeo1004.
  • Hurrell, J. W., T. Delworth, G. Danabasoglu, H. Drange, K. Drinkwater, S. Griffies, N. Holbrook, B. Kirtman, N. Keenlyside, M. Latif, J. Marotzke, J. Murphy, G. A. Meehl, T. Palmer, H. Pohlmann, T. Rosati, R. Seager, D. Smith, R. Sutton, A. Timmermann, K. E. Trenberth, J. Tribbia, and M. Visbeck, 2010: "Decadal Climate Variability, Predictability And Prediction: Opportunities And Challenges" in Proceedings of OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society (Vol. 1), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, J. Hall, D. E. Harrison, and D. Stammer, Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, doi:10.5270/OceanObs09. pp23

 

2009

  • Pohlmann, H., J. H. Jungclaus, A. Köhl, D. Stammer, and J. Marotzkke, 2009: Initializing decadal climate predictions with the GECCO oceanic synthesis: Effects on the North Atlantic. J. Climate, 22, 3926-3938.

 

2007

  • Latif, M., C. W. Böning, J. Willebrand, A. Biastoch, F. Alvarez-Garcia, N. Keenlyside, and H. Pohlmann, 2007: Decadal to multidecadal variability of the Atlantic MOC: mechanisms and predictability. AGU Geophysical Monograph 173 "Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts - Past and Future Changes of Meridional Overturning", A. Schmittner, J. Chiang, and S. Hemming (Eds.), American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, 149-166.

 

2006

  • Collins, M., M. Botzet, A. Carril, H. Drange, A. Jouzeau, M. Latif, O. H. Otteraa, H. Pohlmann, A. Sorteberg, R. Sutton, and L. Terray, 2006: Interannual to decadal climate predictability: A multimodel-ensemble study. J. Climate, 19, 1195-1203.
  • Latif, M., H. Pohlmann, and W. Park, 2006: Predictability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. In "Predictability of Weather and Climate", T. N. Palmer and R. Hagedorn (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, 343-364.
  • Pohlmann, H., and R. J. Greatbatch, 2006: Discontinuities in the late 1960's in different atmospheric data products. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L22803, doi:10.1029/2006GL027644.
  • Latif, M., M. Collins, H. Pohlmann, and N. Keenlyside, 2006: A review of predictability studies of Atlantic sector climate on decadal time scales. J. Climate, 19, 5971-5987.
  • Pohlmann, H., F. Sienz, and M. Latif, 2006: Influence of the multidecadal Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability on European climate. J. Climate, 19, 6062-6067.

 

2005

  • Pohlmann, H., and M. Latif, 2005: Atlantic versus Indo-Pacific influence on Atlantic-European climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L05707, doi:10.1029/2004GL021316.

 

2004

  • Pohlmann, H., M. Botzet, M. Latif, A. Roesch, M. Wild, and P. Tschuck, 2004: Estimating the decadal predictability of a coupled AOGCM. J. Climate, 17, 4463-4472.
  • Rodwell, M. J., M. Drevillon, C. Frankignoul, J. W. Hurrell, H. Pohlmann, M. Stendel, and R. T. Sutton, 2004: North Atlantic forcing of climate and its uncertainty from a multi-model experiment. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Society, 130, 2013-2032.

  

Other publications

2011

  • Doblas-Reyes, F. J., G. J. van Oldenborgh, J. Garcia-Serrano, H. Pohlmann, A. A. Scaife, and D. Smith, 2011: CMIP5 near-term climate predictions. CLIVAR Exchanges, 56, 8-11.

 

2010

  • Brander, K. M., U. Daewel, K. F. Drinkwater, G. Engelhard, A. Flin, M. Lindgren, B. R. MacKenzie, I. Mantzouni, P. Munk, G. Ottersen, H. Pohlmann, B. Rothschild, C. Schrum, J. E. Stiansen, S. Sundby, and K. U. Wieland, 2010: Cod and future climate change. ICES Cooperative Research Report, 305, 88pp.
  • Murphy, J., V. Kattsov, N. Keenlyside, M. Kimoto, G. Meehl, V. Mehta, H. Pohlmann, A. Scaife, D. Smith, 2010: Towards Prediction of Decadal Climate Variability and Change. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 1, 287-304, ISSN 1878-0296, doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2010.09.018.
  • Matei, D., H. Pohlmann, W. Mueller, H. Haak, J. Jungclaus, and J. Marotzke, 2010: Quantifying the role of ocean initial conditions in decadal prediction. OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society.

 

2004

  • Pohlmann, H., and N. Keenlyside, 2004: Review: Decadal-multidecadal climate predictability. Students Contest of the CRCES-IPRC Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability, Hawaii, USA.
  • Latif, M., M. Collins, R. J. Stouffer, H. Pohlmann, and N. Keenlyside, 2004: The physical basis for prediction of Atlantic sector climate on decadal time scales. CLIVAR Exchanges, 31, 6-8.

 

2003

  • Collins, M., A. Carril, H. Drange, H. Pohlmann, R. Sutton, and L. Terray, 2003: North Atlantic decadal predictability. CLIVAR Exchanges, 28, 6-7.

 

2002

  • Latif, M., E. Roeckner, M. Botzet, M. Esch, H. Haak, S. Hagemann, J. Jungclaus, S. Legutke, H. Pohlmann, S. Marsland, and U. Mikolajewicz, 2002: Predictability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. Proceedings of the ECMWF Seminar on Predictability of Weather and Climate, 265-273.

 

2000

  • Pohlmann, H., M. Harder, T. Martin, and P. Lemke, 2000: Comparison of two sea ice simulations forced with ECMWF and NCEP/NCAR re-analyses data. Proceedings of the Second WCRP International Conference on Reanalyses, 229-232, WCRP-109, WMO/TD-NO 985.

  

Curriculum vitae

Since 2011 scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Ocean in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany

 

Post-Doc

2007-2011  Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK

2006-2007  Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

2005-2006  Institute of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

 

Ph.D.

2000-2005  Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

 

University

1993-2000  Meteorology, Institute of Marine Research, Kiel, Germany