Daniel Hernández Deckers
Office
Email: daniel.hernandez@zmaw.de
Phone: +49-40-41173-310
Fax: +49-40-41173-298
Room no. Z212
Mailing Address
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundesstr. 53
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Department
Research group
Research topics
- Energetics of the atmosphere and its changes due to global warming:
- Changes in baroclinicity and eddy kinetic energy (storm activity?)
- The effect of different warming patterns on the energetics response of the atmosphere.
- Changes in angular momentum balance.
Publications
Peer reviewed:
- Hernández-Deckers, D. and J.-S. von Storch, 2011: Impact of the warming pattern on global energetics, submitted to J. Climate.
- Hernández-Deckers, D. and J.-S. von Storch, 2011: The energetics response to a warmer climate: relative contributions from the transient and stationary eddies, Earth Syst. Dynam., 2, 105-120, doi:10.5194/esd-2-105-2011
- Hernández-Deckers, D. and J.-S. von Storch, 2010: Energetics responses to increases in greenhouse gas concentration. J. Climate, 23, No. 14, 3874–3887. doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3176.1.
- Alfaro, E. J., D. Hernández and A. Bezanilla, 2007: Uso de un modelo de aguas someras para analizar la influencia del Atlántico Tropical Norte y del Pacífico Ecuatorial del Este sobre la circulación atmosférica en los mares Intra-Americanos. Revista de Climatología 7, 15-26.
Thesis:
- 2010: Warming up the atmosphere's heat engine: atmospheric energetics with higher greenhouse gas concentrations. IMPRS-ESM, MPI-M, Hamburg. (PhD. Thesis)
- 2007: Predictores de la variabilidad de las anomalías de la Temperatura Superficial del Mar en la Cuenca del Pacífico Colombiano. Departamento de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. (MSc. Thesis)
- 2005: Reducción de datos del experimento con interferómetro estacionario de Michelson-Morley-Miller. Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. (Undergraduate Thesis)
Conferences / Workshops:
- D. Hernandez-Deckers and J.-S. von Storch, 2010: Energetics responses to different atmospheric warming patterns. AGU Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #A33A-0147.
- D. Hernandez-Deckers and J.-S. von Storch, 2010: Energetics of a warmer climate: eddy kinetic energy responses to different warming patterns. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 12 EGU2010-3609. EGU General Assembly 2010.
- D. Hernández-Deckers and J.-S. von Storch, 2009: Energetics responses to higher greenhouse gas concentrations, and the role of the warming pattern, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A51L-07.
- D. Hernández-Deckers and J.-S. von Storch, 2009: The role of moisture in the energetics response to global warming. Cargese International School - Water Vapour in the Climate System (WAVACS), Cargèse, France, 14-26 Sept. 2009 (poster).
- D. Hernández-Deckers and J.-S. von Storch, 2009: Energetics responses to increases in greenhouse gas concentration. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11 EGU2009-476. EGU General Assembly 2009.
- D. Hernández-Deckers and J.-S. von Storch, 2008: Energetics responses to an increase in greenhouse gas concentration. Workshop on Maximum Entropy Production in the Earth System, 07-09 May, 2008, MPI-BGC, Jena, Germany (poster).
Curriculum vitae
Born
08.06.1978 in Bogotá, Colombia
School
Colegio San Carlos, Bogotá, Colombia.
College/University
1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Physics, 2005
2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, MSc. Meteorology, 2007
Ph.D.
International Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) / Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Hamburg, Sept. 2007 - Dec. 2010.