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Katja Frieler


Dr. Katja Frieler
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
P.O. Box 60 12 03
Telegrafenberg A26 - cellar
D-14412 Potsdam, Germany

Phone: +49 331 288 2522

  Current focus of research:

   development of impact functions that allow for probabilistic projections of regional climate changes /

   changes in the occurrence of extreme events in terms of global mean temperature change (see PRIMAP).

 

 

Publications


Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Perrette, M., Riva, R., Landerer, F. W., Frieler, K., Meinshausen, M. (2013) “A scaling approach to project regional sea level rise and its uncertainties”, Earth Syst. Dynam., 4, 11–29.

Winkelmann, R., Levermann, A., Martin, M. A., Frieler, K. (2012) "Increased future ice discharge from Antarctica owing to higher snowfall", Nature, 492, 7428, 239--242.

Frieler, K. , Meinshausen, M., Golly A., Mengel, M., Lebek, K., Donner, S., Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2012) “Limiting global warming to 2°C is unlikely to save most coral reefs”, Nature Climate Change, 3, 165-170.

Schneider von Deimling, T., Meinshausen, M., Levermann, A., Huber, V., Frieler, K., Lawrence, D. M., Brovkin V. (2012). “Estimating the permafrost-carbon feedback on global warming.” Biogeosciences, 9, 649–665.

Frieler, K. , Meinshausen, M., Mengel, M., Braun, N., Hare, W. (2012) "A scaling approach to probabilistic assessment of regional climate change", Journal of Climate, 25, 9, 3117-3144.

Schleußner, C.-F., Frieler, K., Meinshausen, M., Yin, J., Levermann, A. "Emulating Atlantic overturning strength for low emission scenarios: consequences for sea-level rise along the North American east coast.", Earth System Dynamics (accepted).

Frieler, K., Meinshausen, M., Schneider von Deimling, T., Andrews, T., Forster, P. (2011). "Changes in global‐mean precipitation in response to warming, greenhouse gas forcing and black carbon." Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L04702

Kremser, S., Schofield, R., Bodeker, G. E., Connor, B. J., Rex, M., Barret, J., Mooney, T., Salawitch, R. J., Canty, T., Frieler, K., Chipperfield, M. P., Langematz, U., Feng, W. (2011). "Retrievals of chlorine chemistry kinetic parameters from Antarctic ClO microwave radiometer measurements." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 11, 5183-5193.

Hoffmann, H., Frieler, K., Schlattmann, P., Hamm, B., Dewey, M. (2010). "Influence of statin treatment on coronary atherosclerosis visualised using multidetector computed tomography." European Radiology, 20, 12, 2824-2833.

Meinshausen, M., Meinshausen, N., Hare, W., Raper, S.C.B., Frieler, K. , Knutti, R., Frame, D. J., Allen, M. R. (2009). "Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C." Nature, 458, doi:10.1038/nature08017.

Kawa, S. R., Stolarski, R. S., Newman, P.A., Douglass, A.R., Rex, M., Hofman, D.J., Santee, M.L., Frieler, K. (2009). "Sensitivity of polar stratospheric ozone loss to uncertainties in chemical reaction kinetics." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 8651–8660.

Schlenk, F., Frieler, K., Nagel, A., Vajkoczy, P., Sarrafzadeh, A. S. (2009). "Cerebral microdialysis for detection of bacterial meningitis in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients: a cohort study." Critical Care, 13, 1.

Salbach-Andrae, H., Klinkowski, N., Holzhausen, M., Frieler, K. , Bohnekamp, I., Thiels, C., Bender, C., Vandereycken, W. (2009). "The German version of the Anorectic Behavior Observation Scale (ABOS)." European Child Adolescent Psychiatry, PMID: 19165534.

Schneider, N., Frieler, K., Pfeiffer, E., Lehmkuhl, U., Salbach-Andrae, H.(2009). "Comparison of body size estimation in adolescents with different types of eating disorders." European Eating Disorders Review, 17, 6, 468-475.

Schneider, N., Frieler, K. , Ehrlich, S., Pfeiffer, E., Lehmkuhl, U., Salbach-Andrae, H. (2008). "Persönlichkeitsstile und dimensionale Diagnostik bei Jugendlichen Patientinnen mit Anorexia und Bulimia nervosa." Z Kl Psych Psychoth, 37(4), 236-244.

Hoffmann, H., Frieler, K., , Hamm, B., Dewey, M. (2008). "Intra- and interobserver variability in detection and assessment of calcified and noncalcified coronary artery plaques using 64-slice computed tomography." International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, 24(7), doi:10.1007/s10554-008-9299-z.

Schofield, R., Frieler, K., Wohltmann, I., Rex, M., von Hobe, M., Stroh, F., Koch, G., Peter, T., Canty, T., Salawitch, R.J., Volk, C.M. (2008). "Polar stratospheric chlorine kinetics from a self-match flight during SOLVE II / EUPLEX." Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L10807, doi:10.1029/2007GL031740.

Frieler, K., Rex, M., Salawitch, R.J., Canty, T., Streibel, M., Stimpfle, R., Pfeilsticker, K., Dorf, M., Weisenstein, D.K., Godin-Beekmann, S. (2006). "Toward a better quantitative understanding of polar stratospheric ozone loss." Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L10812, doi:10.1029/2005GL025466.

Submitted Papers

Levermann, A., Winkelmann, R., Nowicki, S., Fastook, J., Frieler, K., Greve, R., Hellmer, H.H., Martin, M.A., Mengel, M., Payne, A.J., Pollard, D., Sato, T., Timmermann, R., Wang, W.L., Bindschadler, R.A. "Projecting Antarctic ice discharge using response functions from SeaRISE ice-sheet models", The Cryosphere Discussions, 6, 3447-3489, 2012, doi:10.5194/tcd-6-3447-2012.

Winkelmann, R., Levermann, A., Frieler, K., Martin, A.M. "Uncertainty in future solid ice discharge from Antarctica", The Cryosphere Discuss., 6, 673–714, 2012, www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/6/673/2012/, doi:10.5194/tcd-6-673-2012

Heinke, J., Ostberg, S., Schaphoff, S., Frieler, K., Müller, C., Gerten, D., Meinshausen, M., and Lucht, W. "A new dataset for systematic assessments of climate change impacts as a function of global warming".

Hempel, S., Frieler, K., Warszawski, L., Schewe, J., & Piontek, F. (2013), "A trend-preserving bias correction -- the ISI-MIP approach", Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., 4, 49-92.

Warszawski, L., Friend, A., Ostberg, S., Frieler, K., Lucht, W., Schaphoff, S., Beerling, D., Cadule, P., Ciais, P., Clark, D. B., Kahana, R., Ito, A., Keribin, R., Kleidon, A., Lomas, M., Nishina, K., Pavlick, R., Rademacher, T.T., Piontek, F., Schewe, J., Serdeczny, O., Schellnhuber, H.J., "Risk of ecosystem shift under climate change, a multi-model analysis".

Schewe, J., Heinke, J., Gerten, D., Haddeland, I., Arnell, N.W., Clark, D.B., Dankers, R., Eisner, S., Fekete, B., Colón-González, F.J., Gosling, S.,N., Kim, H., Liu, X., Masaki, Y, Portmann, F.T., Satoh, Y., Stacke, T., Tang, Q., Wada, Y., Wisser, D., Albrecht, T., Frieler, K., Piontek, F., Warszawski, L., Kabat, P., "Multi-model assessment of water scarcity under climate change".

Frieler, K., Müller, C., Elliott, J., Heinke, J., Arneth, A., Bierkens, M.F.P., Ciais, P., Clark, D.B., Deryng, D., Döll, P., Falloon, P., Fekete, B., Folberth, C., Friend, A.D., Gellhorn, C., Gosling, S.N., Haddeland, I., Khabarov, N., Lomas, M., Masaki, Y., Nishina, K., Neumann, K., Oki, T., Pavlick, R., Ruane, A.C., Schmid, E., Schmitz, C., Stacke, T., Stehfest, E., Tang, Q., Huber, V., Piontek, F., Warszawski, L., Schewe, J., Levermann, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Schellnhuber, H.J., "Impact cascades of climate change"

Piontek, F., Müller, C., Pugh, T.A.M., Clark, D., Deryng, D., Elliott, J., Colón-González, F.J., Flörke, M., Folberth, C., Franssen, W., Frieler, K., Friend, A.D., Gosling, S.N., Hemming, D., Khabarov, N., Kim, H., Lomas, M., Masaki, Y., Mengel, M., Morse, A., Neumann, K., Nishina, K., Ostberg, S., Pavlick, R., Ruane, A. C., Schewe, J., Schmid, E., Stacke, T., Tang, Q., Tessler, Z., Tompkins, A. M., Warszawski, L., Wisser, D., Schellnhuber, H.J., "Leaving the world as we know it: Hotspots of global climate change impacts".

Elliott, J., Deryng, D., Müller, C., Frieler, K., Konzmann, M., Gerten, D., Glotter, M., Flörke, M., Wada, Y., Eisner, S., Folberth, C., Foster, I., Gosling, S. N., Haddeland, I., Khabarov, N., Ludwig, F., Masaki, Y., Olin, S., Rosenzweig, C., Ruane, A.C., Satoh, Y., Schmid, E., Stacke, T., Tang, Q., Wisser, D. "Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change".

Menon, A., Levermann, A., Schewe, J., Lehmann, J., Frieler, K. (2013) "Consistent increase in Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability across CMIP-5 models", Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., 4, 1-24.

Huber, V., Schellnhuber, H.J., Arnell, N. W., Edenhofer, O., Frieler, K., Friend, A.D., Gerten, D., Haddeland, I., Kabat, P., Parry, M., Piontek, F., Rosenzweig, C., Schaphoff, S., Schewe, J., Warszawski, L., "Climate Impacts Research: Beyond Patchwork".

Diploma Thesis

Frieler, K. , Knoche, C. (2002). "Solutions of Stochastic Differential Equations in Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Spaces and their Dependence on Initial Data", Preprint of the Research Center BiBoS (Bielefeld-Bonn-Statistics), No. E02-04-083


Ph.D. Thesis

Frieler, K. (2005). "Beitrag zum theoretischen Verständnis polarer stratosphärischer Ozonverluste - Modellrechnungen basierend auf Labormessungen und in situ Beobachtungen."


Education
since 2012
Leader of the ISI-MIP project (www.isi-mip.org)
since 2011
Head of PRIMAP research group (www.primap.org)
since 2008
Post-Doc at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
2006 - 2008 Post-Doc at the Department of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité, University Medicine Berlin
2002 - 2006 PhD study at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI, Potsdam), work within the EU project QUOBI (Quantitative Understanding of Ozone losses by Bipolar Investigations)
2002 Research stay at the Banach Center for Differential Equations and Stochastic Processes, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Marie-Curie-Research-Fellowship)
1995 - 2002 Studies of Mathematics at the University of Bielefeld, Diploma thesis on "Solutions of Stochastic Differential Equations in Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Spaces and their Dependence on Initial Data"


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