In their new study Olga Erokhina and Uwe Mikolajewicz showed that adding icebergs to climate models can help scientists better understand the influence melting icebergs have on the planet’s climate. Even though icebergs are an important component of the climate system, they are not included in most models — partly as they are computational quite expensive. Erokhina und Mikolajewicz now found a new approach of including them that doesn't add much to the computational cost of running the climate…
In a recent study, Dr. Junhong Lee and Dr. Cathy Hohenegger show that a next-generation climate model exhibits a different relationship between water stored in the soil and precipitation compared to a state-of-the-art climate model. This finding questions the ability of conventional climate models to answer questions related to climate over land.
PalMod - From the Last Interglacial to the Anthropocene - Modeling a Complete Glacial Cycle
Scalar - Quantifying millennial timescale grounding-line retreat in East Antarctica
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Since November 2019
Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
June 2017 - November 2019
Postdoc at University of Tübingen, Germany
November 2013- June 2017
PhD in Glaciology University of Birmingham and British Antarctic Survey, UK
2012-2013
MSc by Research…
Biography and Research
Klaus Fraedrich
is guest scientist at the Max Planck Insitute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany.
His prior affiliations include: Professor at University of Hamburg, Freie Universität Berlin, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (all in Germany); visiting Professor at the Universities of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), Washington (SeaPle, USA), Wisconsin (Madison, USA), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (China), Head of Long-Range…
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In a recent publication, Prof. Jin-Song von Storch together with other scientists showed that the ocean component of the ICON model is able to realistically simulate the major properties of open-ocean tides, also known as barotropic tides or surface tides. This ability is a prerequisite for the ocean component of ICON at kilometer scale to realistically simulate internal tides, which “live” in the ocean interior and are challenging to observe. Internal tides represent a major internal wave…
A group of climate protection fellows from South America, Asia and Africa will be visiting the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and the German Climate Computing Center on March 20 to gain an overview of selected aspects of climate research.
Climate change is melting the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica and causing sea levels to rise. This could be a disaster for
island states and coastal cities. How much the ice sheets shrink also depends on feedback effects between the ice sheets and the climate system. Marie-Luise Kapsch and Clemens Schannwell are studying these effects at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.
In a commentary recently published in AGU Advances, Prof. Bjorn Stevens, Director of the Climate Physics Department of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, shares his perspectives on the future of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, or CMIP.
In a new study, Lara Wallberg, together with Laura Suarez-Gutierrez, Daniela Matei, and Wolfgang Müller have investigated the relationship between extremely warm European summers and changes in the North Atlantic Ocean. They found a mechanism through which extremely warm European summers are preceded by the accumulation of heat in the North Atlantic Ocean on sub-decadal time scales of five to ten years. Thereby, anomalies of the ocean heat transport and associated ocean heat content changes…
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