Steffen Tietsche

Contact:

E-Mail: steffen.tietsche@we dont want spamzmaw.de

Phone: +49-40-41173-168

Office: room 318 in ZMAW building

 

Mailing Address:

Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie

Bundesstr. 53

D-20146 Hamburg

Germany

 

Department:

Ocean in the Earth System

Research Group:

Director's Research Group

 

Research Interests
  • Decadal climate predictability
  • Polar climate change
  • Large-scale interactions of sea ice with ocean and atmosphere
  • Data assimilation and initial conditions for decadal predictions
Publications
  • Tietsche, S., D. Notz, J. H. Jungclaus, and J. Marotzke: Sea-ice data assimilation in a global coupled climate model – physical and statistical aspects, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, submitted
  • Tietsche, S., D. Notz, J.H. Jungclaus, and J. Marotzke (2011): Recovery mechanisms of Arctic summer sea ice, Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L02707, doi:10.1029/2010GL045698 [paper link] [this research was highlighted by Nature Geosci., Nature Clim. Change, and Geophys. Res. Lett. ]
  • Tietsche, S. and A. Pikovsky (2008): Chaotic destruction of Anderson localization in a nonlinear lattice, Europhysics Letters 84, 10006, doi:10.1209/0295-5075/84/10006 [paper link] [this research was highlighted by Europhys. Lett.]
  • Tietsche, S., F. Sapuppo, and P. Sinn, 2008: Parametric Studies on Networks of Morris-Lecar Neurons, in Lectures in Supercomputational Neuroscience, edited by P. beim Graben, C. Zhou, M. Thiel, and J. Kurths, Springer
Presentations
  • S. Tietsche, D. Notz, J. H. Jungclaus, J. Marotzke (2011): Predictability of extreme Arctic sea-ice anomalies, Poster at the WCRP Open Science Conference, Denver, 24 - 28 Oct 2011
  • S. Tietsche, D. Notz, J. H. Jungclaus, J. Marotzke (2011): Sea-ice data assimilation in coupled climate models – are ice concentration observations sufficient? Talk at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 3 - 8 Apr 2011 
  • S. Tietsche, D. Notz, J. H. Jungclaus, J. Marotzke (2010): Towards sea-ice initialization in coupled climate models, Poster presented at the WCRP Workshop on Seasonal to Multi-Decadal Predictability of Polar Climate, Bergen (Norway), 25 - 29 Oct 2010
  • S. Tietsche, D. Notz, J. H. Jungclaus, J. Marotzke (2010): Rapid recovery of Arctic summer sea-ice loss, Talk at the International Symposium on Sea Ice in the Physical and  Biogeochemical System, Tromso (NO), 31 May - 4 Jun 2010 
  • S. Tietsche (2009): Wie entsteht Meereis? Poster for public science event "Nacht des Wissens", Hamburg, 7. Nov 2009 
  • S. Tietsche, D. Notz, W. Müller, J. Jungclaus and J. Marotzke (2009): Future recovery of summer Arctic sea ice loss, Talk at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 19 - 24 Apr 2009 
  • S. Tietsche and A. Pikovsky (2007): Transmission through a one-dimensional DNSE lattice with random potential. Poster at the Conference ' Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: advances and Perspectives’ in Aberdeen (UK), 2007
Curriculum vitae

Undergraduate Studies

10/2001-08/2003: University of Potsdam (D), Institute for Physics and Astronomy

09/2003-06/2004: University of Warwick (UK), Visiting Student

10/2003-03/2008: University of Potsdam (D), Institute for Physics and Astronomy

Special subjects: Nonlinear Dynamics, and Climate Science

Diploma thesis: "Destruction of Anderson Localization in nonlinear lattices", supervised by Prof. Dr. Arkadi Pikovsky

Degree: Diplom (equiv. MSc) Physics - with distinction

 

Graduate Studies

Since 06/2008 PhD with Prof. Dr. Jochem Marotzke (Co-advisors Dr. Dirk Notz and Dr. Johann Jungclaus)

PhD thesis title: "Decadal variability and predictability of Arctic sea ice"

Member of the IMPRS on Earth System Modelling