Oliver Bothe

Office

Email: oliver.bothe@we dont want spamzmaw.de

Phone: +49-40-41173-371

Room no. Z208

 

Mailing Address 

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Bundesstr. 53

D-20146 Hamburg

Germany

 

Department

Ocean in the Earth System / CliSAP

 

Research Group

Director's Research Group

Climate Variability

Research Interests
  • Climate variability and climate dynamics of the last millennium
  • Teleconnections and their variability
  • Processes and interactions in the earth system
  • Interaction of climate processes and the anthroposphere
  • Adaptation to natural and anthropongenic climate variability
  • Relative impact of different forcing components on the earth system
  • History of climate sciences
  • Philosophy of climate sciences
  • Sociology of climate sciences
Projects and Co-workers
  • CliSAP
  • Millennium: Climate of the Last Millennium - Comparison of observations, reconstructions and model simulations, in cooperation with Johann Jungclaus, Eduardo Zorita, Davide Zanchettin, Frank Sienz ...
Publications

Peer reviewed

  • Wang, Y., T. Jiang, O. Bothe, K. Fraedrich, 2007: Changes of pan evaporation and reference evapotranspiration in the Yangtze River Basin. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 90, 13-23. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-006-0276-y
  • Bothe, O., K. Fraedrich, X. Zhu, 2009: The large-scale circulations and summer drought and wetness on the Tibetan plateau. International Journal of Climatology, 30, 844-855. DOI: 10.1002/joc.1946
  • Orlowsky, B., O. Bothe, K. Fraedrich, F. W. Gerstengarbe, X. Zhu , 2010: Future climates from bias-bootstrapped weather analogues: an application to the Yangtze river basin. Journal of Climate, 23, 3509-3524. DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3271.1
  • Bothe O., K. Fraedrich, X. Zhu (2011) Large-scale circulations and Tibetan Plateau summer drought and wetness in a high-resolution climate model. International Journal of Climatology 31: 832-846, doi: 10.1002/joc.2124
  • Zhu X., O. Bothe, K. Fraedrich (2011) Summer atmospheric bridging between Europe and East Asia: Influences on drought and wetness on the Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary International 236: 151-157, doi:  10.1016/j.quaint.2010.06.015
  • Bothe, O., K. Fraedrich, X. Zhu (2012) Precipitation climate of Central Asia and the large scale atmospheric circulation. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 108, 345-354. doi: 10.1007/s00704-011-0537-2
  • Bothe, O., K. Fraedrich, X. Zhu (2012) Tibetan Plateau Summer Precipitation: Covariability with circulation indices. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 108, 293-300. doi: 10.1007/s00704-011-0538-1
  • Zanchettin, D., A. Rubino, D. Matei, O. Bothe, and J.H. Jungclaus (2012): Multidecadal-to-centennial SST variability in the MPI-ESM simulation ensemble for the last millennium. Clim. Dyn., Online First. doi: 10.1007/s00382-012-1361-9. 

Under review

  • Sienz, F., Bothe, O., and Fraedrich, K.: Monitoring and quantifying future climate projections of dryness and wetness extremes: SPI bias, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 8, 10635-10677, doi:10.5194/hessd-8-10635-2011, 2011.

In preparation 

  • Bothe, O. (2012) Are Simulations and Reconstructions comparable?
  • Bothe, O. (2012) Climate reconstructions from artifical tree ring widths in a millennial climate simulation

Other

  • Bothe, O. (2011) A sustained oscillation in a toy-model of the coupled atmosphere-ocean system. eprint arXiv:1106.1779 
  • Bothe, O. (2012) Are temperature reconstructions regionally biased? eprint arXiv:1204.5871v1

 

Posters

  • Bothe, O., J. Jungclaus, D. Zanchettin, E. Zorita, 2011: Comparison of simulated and reconstructed estimates of the climate of the Last Millennium. INQUA 2011
  • Bothe, O., 2011: Are reconstructions and simulations comparable? The case of large scale temperatures for the climate of the last millennium. INQUA 2011
  • Bothe, O., D. Zanchettin, and J. Jungclaus, 2012: Climatology of cold and warm periods in recent centuries - conistency of simulations and reconstructions. EGU2012-11044
  • Bothe, O., J. Jungclaus, D. Zanchettin, E. Zorita, 2012: Initiates file downloadEnsemble consistency of simulations and reconstructions - The PMIP3 last millennium ensemble. planned for PMIP3 Meeting, Crewe, 6.5.-11.5.2012. 

 

Unpublished Drafts

Curriculum vitae

Born

16.12.1977 in Kassel

 

School graduation

Engelsburggymnasium with Abitur in 1997

 

University

University of Hamburg, Meteorology, Diplom, 2005

Thesis: Niederfrequente Variabilität in einem niedrigdimensionalen Spektralmodell des Ozeans (low frequent variability in a low dimensional spectral model of the ocean) (in German)

 

Ph.D.

Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, 2010

 

Ph.D. thesis

Teleconnections for precipitation 

 

Post-doc

  • since Sep. 2010:

Klimacampus, Universität Hamburg und Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie, CliSAP: Analysis of millennium climate simulations: simulation-reconstruction comparison

  • Jan. 2010 to May 2010:

Klimacampus, Universität Hamburg, CliSAP: Analysis of millennium climate simulations

 

 

Further Practices

  • Sep. 1997 –  Aug. 1998    Volontary Service, Alfred Wegener Institut für Polar- and Meeres-forschung, Bremerhaven, Biological Oceanography
  • Dec. 1998 – Feb. 2000    Hamburger UniZeitung, co-editor, student magazine, University of Hamburg
  • Jul. 2000    Four-week expedition: FS Polarstern - ARK XVI/1, Biological Oceanography
  • Apr. 2001, Oct. 2001    One-week expeditions: FS Alkor, Meteorology
  • Apr. 2003    Four-week expedition: FS Polarstern - ARK XIX/1, Meteorology
  • Jun. 2002 – May 2003    Organisation: Students Meteorologists Conference, Stumeta 2003