Irene Fischer-Bruns

Office

Email: irene.fischer-bruns(at)zmaw.de

Phone: +49-40-41173-242

Fax:    +49-40-41173-298

Room no. N426 

 

Mailing Address

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Bundesstr. 53

D-20146 Hamburg

Germany

 

Department

Atmosphere in the Earth System

 

Research Group

Aerosols, Clouds and Climate

Research Interests
  • Effects of aerosols on our climate
  • Atmospheric response to volcanic eruptions
  • Modeled and reconstructed historical climate
  • Arctic Oscillation / North Atlantic Oscillation / North Atlantic climate system
  • Long term atmospheric variability
  • Variability of global storm activity
  • Statistical analysis in climate research
Projects
  • SFB512: Tiefdruckgebiete und Klima des Nordatlantiks

- TP A4: Historische Rekonstruktion des Nordatlantischen Sturmklimas (2004-2006)  (Poster)  

- TP D3: Einfluss von Aerosolen auf das Klima des Nordatlantiks (2007-   )

Publications

 Refereed publications

  • Kloster, S., F. Dentener, J. Feichter, F. Raes, U. Lohmann, E. Roeckner, and I. Fischer-Bruns, 2009: A GCM study of future climate response to air pollution reductions, submitted to Clim. Dyn.
  • Lohmann, R., K. Bollinger, M. Cantwell, J. Feichter, I. Fischer-Bruns, and M. Zabel, 2009: Fluxes of soot black carbon to South Atlantic sediments, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 23, GB1015, doi:10.1029/2008GB003253.
  • Fischer-Bruns, I., D.F. Banse, and J. Feichter, 2009: Future Impact of anthropogenic sulfate aerosol on North Atlantic Climate,  Clim. Dyn., 32 (4): 511-524, doi: 10.1007/ s00382-008-0458-7.
  • Roeckner, E., P. Stier, J. Feichter, S. Kloster, M. Esch, and I. Fischer-Bruns, 2006: Impact of carbonaceous aerosol emissions on regional climate change. Clim.Dyn., 27, 6, 553-571, doi:10.1007/s00382-006-0147-3.
  • Fischer-Bruns, I., H. von Storch, J.F. Gonzales-Rouco, and E. Zorita, 2005: Modelling the variability of midlatitude storm activity on decadal to century time scales. Clim. Dyn., 25, 5,461-476, doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0036-1.
  • Zorita, E., H. von Storch, J.F. Gonzales-Rouco, U. Cubasch, J. Luterbacher, S. Legutke, I. Fischer-Bruns, and U. Schlese, 2004: Climate Evolution in the Last Five Centuries Simulated by an Atmosphere- Ocean Model: Global Temperatures, the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Late Maunder Minimum. Meteor. Z., 13, 4, 271-289.
  • von Storch, H., T. Bruns, I. Fischer-Bruns, and K. Hasselmann, 1988: Principal Oscillation Pattern Analysis of the 30- to 60-Day Oscillation in General Circulation Model Equatorial Troposphere. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 93, No. D9, 11022-11036. See also: MPI Report No. 7, August 1987.
  • von Storch, H. and I. Fischer, 1982: An Analysis of Geopotential Height at 300 mbar in the Frequency Wavenumber Domain Along 50 N in Observed and Modelled January Climate. Beitr. Phys. Atmosph., Vol. 56, No. 2, 199-212.

Other publications

  • von Storch, H., E. Zorita, I. Fischer-Bruns, and J. Liu, 2004: Variability on time scales of decades up to a century in a AOGCM simulation with realistic time-variable forcing. Proceedings NASA-CRCES-IPRC Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability, Feb.23-26, 2004.
  • Gonzales-Rouco, J. F., E. Zorita, U. Cubasch, H. von Storch, I. Fischer-Bruns, F. Valero, J. P. Montavez, U. Schlese and S. Legutke, 2003: Simulating the climate since 1000 A. D. with the AOGCM ECHO-G. Proc. ISCS 2003 Symposium, 'Solar Variability as an Input to the Earth's Environment'. Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia, 23-28 June 2003. ESA SP-535, 329-338.
  • Zorita, E. , H. von Storch, J.F. Gonzales-Rouco, U. Cubasch, J. Luterbacher, S. Legutke, I. Fischer-Bruns and U. Schlese, 2003: Simulation of the climate of the last five centuries, GKSS Report 2003/12, 43 pp.
  • Fischer-Bruns, I., U. Cubasch, H. von Storch, E. Zorita, J. F. Gonzales-Rouco and J. Luterbacher, 2002: Modelling the Late Maunder Minimum with a 3-dimensional Ocean-Atmosphere GCM. CLIVAR Exchanges, No. 25 (Vol. 7, No. 3/4), pp. 59-61. International CLIVAR Project Office, Southampton, UK, ISSN No. 1026-0471.
  • Fischer-Bruns, I., U. Cubasch, H. von Storch, E. Zorita, J.F. Gonzales-Rouco and J. Luterbacher 2002: Modelling the Late Maunder Minimum with a 3-dimensional OAGCM. Presentations from workshop 6-7 May 2002 at Kjeller, Norway. In: RegClim, General Technical Report No. 6, DNMI, T. Iversen and C. Lunder (eds), Oslo, p. 13-21. (Available from Norwegian Institute for Air Research, PO Box 100, N-2007 Kjeller, NORWAY)
  • As contributing author in:
    Cubasch, U., G. A. Meehl, G. J. Boer, R. J. Stouffer, M. Dix, A. Noda, C. A. Senior, S. Raper and K. S. Yap, 2001: Projections of future climate change (Ch. 9). In: Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Houghton, J. T., Y. Ding, D. J. Griggs, M. Noguer, P. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell, C. I. Johnson (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521 01495 6, 525-582.
  • Cubasch, U., I. Fischer-Bruns, 2000: An Intercomparison of Scenario Simulations Performed with Different OAGCMs. Presentation from workshop 8-9 May 2000 at Jevnaker, Norway, 2000. In: RegClim, General Technical Report No. 4, DNMI, T. Iversen and B.A.K. Hoiskar (eds), Oslo (Available from Norwegian Institute for Air Research, PO Box 100, N-2007 Kjeller, NORWAY).

Theses

  • Fischer-Bruns, I., 1987: Untersuchungen zur Ausbreitung spontan freigesetzter schwerer Gase. Dissertation, Hamburger Geophysikalische Einzelschriften, Reihe A, Heft 81.
  • Fischer, I., 1981: Zeitserienanalyse mit der Maximum Entropie Methode. Diplomarbeit, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universitaet Hamburg.  
Presentations and Posters

 Conference contributions

  • v. Storch, H., and I. Fischer-Bruns (2008): Modelling the variability of midlatitude storm activity on decadal to century time scales (Poster). AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 Dec 2008, San Francisco.
  • Feichter J., S. Kloster, I. Fischer-Bruns, J. V. Ardenne, F. Dentener (2008): Climate response of aerosol emissions from specific economic sectors.  Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-09174. SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-09174. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008.
  • Fischer-Bruns, I. and J. Feichter, 2007: Einfluss auf das Winterklima des Nordatlantiks durch Änderungen der Konzentrationen von Treibhausgasen und Sulfataerosolen. DACH Meteorologentagung, Hamburg, Germany, Sept.10-14, 2007.
  • Hand, R., K. Krüger, J. Flöter, C. Timmreck, I. Fischer-Bruns, I., M. Giorgetta, 2007: Der Einfluss von Vulkanausbrüchen in einem gekoppelten Ozean-Atmosphärenmodell. DACH Meteorologentagung, Hamburg, Germany, Sept.10-14, 2007.
  • Krüger, K., J. Flöter, R. Hand, C. Timmreck, I. Fischer-Bruns, M. Giorgetta, B. Steil, C. Brühl, and E. Roeckner, 2007: The influence of Central American volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere as represented in different ECHAM model versions. Second ICESM, Hamburg, Germany, Aug.27-31, 2007.
  • Krüger, K., J. Flöter, R. Hand, C. Timmreck, I. Fischer-Bruns, M. Giorgetta, B. Steil, C. Brühl, and E. Roeckner, 2007: The influence of major volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere as represented in different ECHAM model versions. CCMVal Workshop 2007, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, June 26-28, 2007. 
  • Fischer-Bruns I. and J. Feichter (2007): Impact on North Atlantic winter climate due to changes of greenhouse gas and sulfate aerosol concentrations. AGU Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico, 22-25 May 2007. Eos Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract GC22A-06. 
  • Roeckner, E., P. Stier, J. Feichter, S. Kloster, M. Esch, and I. Fischer-Bruns (2006): Carbonaceous Aerosols And Regional Climate Change. WCRP, ESSP OSC, 9-12 Nov 2006, Beijing, China.
  • Fischer-Bruns, I. (2004): A Modelling Study on the Variability of Storm Activity on Time Scales of Decades and Centuries. 9th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, 24-28 May 2004, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • von Storch, H., E. Zorita, I. Fischer-Bruns, and J. Liu, 2004: Variability on time scales of decades up to a century in a AOGCM simulation with realistic time-variable forcing (Abstract),  CRCES-IPRC Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability, Kona, Hawaii, Feb.23-26, 2004.
  • von Storch, H., E. Zorita, I. Fischer-Bruns, J.F. Gonzáles-Rouco and J. Liu, 2004: Variability on time scales of decades up to a century in a AOGCM simulation with realistic time-variable forcing. (Abstract),  GFDL, Princeton, USA; May 2004.
  • von Storch, H., U. Cubasch, J.F. Gonzales-Rouco, I. Fischer-Bruns, J. Luterbacher, S. Legutke, U. Schlese, and E. Zorita, 2003: Transient simulation of the climate of the last 1000 years with a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. First  ICESM, Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 15-19, 2003
  • Cubasch, U. and I. Fischer-Bruns, 2002: The behavior of the NAO during the LMM as simulated by a three-dimensional coupled OAGCM. AGU Spring Meeting, 28-31 May 2002, Washington, D.C.

Invited talks

  • Fischer-Bruns, I. and U. Cubasch, 2003: Modellierung des 'Späten Maunder Minimums' mit einem dreidimensionalen Ozean-Atmosphäre-Modell. Meteorologisches Kolloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Feb. 2003 (invited).
  • Fischer-Bruns, I. and U. Cubasch, 2002: The LMM as simulated by a three-dimensional OAGCM with special respect to the North Atlantic Oscillation. IBSEN Project Meeting, Hamburg, Germany, Nov. 28, 2002 (invited).
  • Fischer-Bruns, I. and U. Cubasch, 2002: The LMM as simulated by a three-dimensional OAGCM with special respect to the North Atlantic Oscillation. HELMERT Summerschool "Natural Climate Variability from 10,000 years to the Present Day", GFZ Potsdam, Germany, Sept. 12-18, 2002 (invited).
Curriculum vitae

2001 - today Scientist at the MPIfM, Hamburg 

1999 - 2001  IPCC (TAR) Assistant at MPIfM, Hamburg

1994 - 1998  Editorial Assistant for Monthly Weather Review at MPIfM, Hamburg

1988 - 1993  Longterm maternity leave

1986 - 1988  Scientist at the MPIfM, Hamburg

1982 - 1986  Scientist at the University of Hamburg

1986            PhD in Meteorology at the University of Hamburg

1981            Diploma in Meteorology at the University of Hamburg                     

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