Lorenzo Tomassini

Office
Email:
lorenzo.tomassini@zmaw.de
Phone: +49-40-41173-266
Room no. Z306
Mailing Address
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundesstr. 53
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Department
Atmosphere in the Earth System
Research Group
Ph.D. student:
Christine Radermacher
Research Interests
- Interplay of large-scale atmospheric dynamics and regional climate
- Governing factors of (extreme) rainfall
- Radiative climate change feedbacks
- Troposphere-stratosphere coupling
- Data assimilation
Projects and Co-workers
Publications
- Mauritsen T., B. Stevens, E. Roeckner, T. Crueger, M. Esch, M. Giorgetta, H. Haak, J. Jungclaus, D. Klocke, D. Matei, U. Mikolajewicz, D. Notz, R. Pincus, H. Schmidt, and L. Tomassini (2012), Tuning the climate of a global model, submitted
- Radermacher Ch., and L. Tomassini (2012), Extreme-value analysis of future trends in heavy rainfall over Europe based on a multi-model ensemble of regional climate model simulations, revised
- Tomassini L., and A. Elizalde (2012), Does the Mediterranean Sea influence the European summer climate? The anomalous summer 2003 as a testbed, accepted for publication in Journal of Climate
- Tomassini L., S. Hagemann, Ch. Moseley, A. Haumann, R. Podzun, and D. Jacob (2011), Extremes and predictability in the European preindustrial climate of a regional climate model, Climate Dynamics, 36, 2371-2397
- Tomassini L., R. Knutti, G.-K. Plattner, D. van Vuuren, T.F. Stocker, R.B. Howarth, and M.E. Borsuk (2010), Risk and uncertainty in climate projections for the 21st century: comparing mitigation to non-intervention scenarios, Climatic Change, 103, 399-422, doi: 10.1007/s10584-009-9763-3
- Härter J.O., E. Röckner, L. Tomassini, and J.S. von Storch (2009), Parametric uncertainty effects on aerosol radiative forcing, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L15707. doi: 10.1029/2009GL039050
- Tomassini L. and D. Jacob (2009), Spatial analysis of trends in extreme precipitation events in high-resolution climate model results and observations for Germany, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D12113, doi:10.1029/2008JD010652
- Tomassini L., P. Reichert, Ch. Buser, H.-R. Künsch, R. Knutti, and M. E. Borsuk (2009), A smoothing algorithm for estimating stochastic continuous-time model parameters and its application to a simple climate model, J. Royal Stat. Soc. (Series C), 58, 679-704
- Knutti R. and L. Tomassini (2008), Constraints on the transient climate response from observed global temperature and ocean heat uptake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L09701, doi:10.1029/2007GL032904
- Tomassini L., Case studies in estimation and representation of uncertainty in climate modeling, ETH Diss. No. 17109, Zurich 2007
- Tomassini L., P. Reichert, R. Knutti, Th. F. Stocker, and M. E. Borsuk (2007), Robust Bayesian uncertainty analysis of climate system properties using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, J. Climate, 20, 1239-1254
- Cattaneo A. S., G. Felder, and L. Tomassini (2002), From local to global deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds, Duke Math. Journal, 115, 329-352
- Cattaneo A. S., G. Felder, and L. Tomassini, Fedosov connections on jet bundles and deformation quantization, in: Deformation Quantization, IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, de Gruyter, Berlin 2002
- Tomassini L., Global star products on Poisson manifolds, ETH Diss. No. 14792, Zurich 2002
Links of interest
- Research program on extremes at the Bernoulli Centre of EPFL
- Research program on climate modelling and prediction at the Newton Institute in Cambridge
- Workshops on model hierarchies for simulating and understanding climate at IPAM, UCLA
- Environmental risk and extreme events, Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona


