Nils Fischer
Office
Email: nils.fischer@zmaw.de
Phone: +49-40-41173-158
Fax: +49-40-41173-298
Room No. N222
Address
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundesstr. 53
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Department
Group
Research Interests
I am using the coupled atmosphere-ocean-biosphere model (ECHAM5/MPIOM/JSBACH) to simulate the mid-Holocene 6000 years before present (yrs BP) and the Eemian 125000 yrs BP). With long term time-slice and transient integrations, I investigate the influence of orbital forcing on
- seasonality
- atmospheric and oceanic circulation and heat transports
- climate variability
- patterns of climate variability.
Currently, I am involved in the analysis of the CMIP5 simulations conducted at the MPI-M and the DKRZ. I investigate changes in ocean circulation and sea-ice cover in the different simulations.
Curriculum vitae
Born
15.04.1980 in Berlin
University
10/2000-12/2006 Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, Physics Department, Diplom Physiker
10/2003-05/2004 Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Physics Department, BSc. Hons.
Diploma thesis
12/2006 "Anomalous dispersion of pulse trains in a reaction-diffusion-model for exitable media", Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Theoretische Physik in the group of Harald Engel
PhD
09/2007-01/2011 Max Planck Institute for Meteorolgy, Hamburg, Germany, The Ocean in the Earth System, under the supervision of Johann Jungclaus and Jochem Marotzke
09/2009-10/2009: visiting student at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway; host: Helga (Kikki) Kleiven (funded by the SPP INTERDYNAMIK of the German Research Foundation)
09/2007-01/2011 member of the IMPRS on Earth System Modeling
PhD thesis
01/2011 "Holocene and Eemian Climate Variability", Universität Hamburg, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (pdf)
PostDoc
since 02/2011 Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Ocean in the Earth System Department
Publications
- N. Fischer and J. H. Jungclaus (2011): Evolution of the seasonal temperature cycle in a transient Holocene simulation: orbital forcing and sea-ice, Climate of the Past, (pdf)
- A. Dallmeyer, M. Claussen, U. Herzschuh, and N. Fischer (2011): Holocene vegetation and biomass changes on the Tibetan Plateau – a model-pollen data comparison, Climate of the Past, 7, 881-901 (pdf)
- N. Fischer and J. H. Jungclaus (2010): Effects of orbital forcing on atmosphere and ocean heat transports in Holocene and Eemian climate simulations with a comprehensive Earth system model, Climate of the Past, 6, 155-168 (pdf)
- G. Bordyugov, N. Fischer, H. Engel, N. Manz, and O. Steinbock (2010): Anomalous dispersion in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction: Experiments and modeling, Physica D, Vol. 23(11), 766-775 (Link)