Ice, Oceans & Sea Level Rise

Ice, Oceans & Sea Level Rise

Identifying long-term dynamics to assess the risks. This is one of our research topics.

What is the future of the majestic ice masses of Antarctica that store enough water to make sea levels rise many meters, if it gets released? The science is clear that what we do today, if we keep on emitting greenhouse gases for just a few further decades, will shape our planet’s coastlines for millennia to come. From shrinking Arctic sea-ice to weakening critical currents such as the Gulf Stream or crumbling ecosystems like the coral reefs - the oceans, covering two thirds of our planet, are one major life-support system for people all around the world.

People

Willem Huiskamp
Working Group Leader
Earth System Analysis
Arctic / Antarctica RD1 - Earth System Analysis POEM Oceans Paleoclimate
Levke Caesar
Lab Leader
Earth System Analysis
Lab - Planetary Boundaries Science Tipping Elements RD1 - Earth System Analysis Oceans Global Planetary Boundaries Paleoclimate
Georg Feulner
Deputy Head of Research Department
Earth System Analysis
Biodiversity CLIMBER Tipping Elements RD1 - Earth System Analysis Atmosphere POEM Oceans Planetary Boundaries Paleoclimate
Anders Levermann
Head of Research Department
Complexity Science
Extremes RD4 - Complexity Science Sea-level Rise Monsoon Climate impacts Tipping Elements Complex Networks Ice Agent-based Models Economics Weather Global PISM-PIK Acclimate
Matteo Willeit
Working Group Leader
Earth System Analysis
CLIMBER Ice RD1 - Earth System Analysis Atmosphere Oceans Global Paleoclimate SICOPOLIS
Stefan Rahmstorf
Head of Research Department
Earth System Analysis
Extremes Sea-level Rise Tipping Elements RD1 - Earth System Analysis Atmosphere POEM Oceans Global Paleoclimate
Ricarda Winkelmann
Working Group Leader
FutureLab Leader
Earth System Analysis
Nonlinear Dynamics Arctic / Antarctica Sea-level Rise Climate impacts Tipping Elements Global Ice RD1 - Earth System Analysis POEM Oceans Planetary Boundaries PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU)
Malin Ödalen
Working Group Leader
Earth System Analysis
Oceans RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Jürgen Kurths
Senior Scientist
Complexity Science
Germany Atmosphere Weather Oceans Open Source Software Sustainable Development Nonlinear Data Analysis Arctic / Antarctica Tipping Elements Complex Networks Brandenburg Planetary Boundaries Nonlinear Dynamics Europe Climate impacts Health Energy Asia South America RD4 - Complexity Science Machine Learning Paleoclimate Oceania/Australia North America
Moritz Kreuzer
Doctoral Researcher
Sea-level Rise Arctic / Antarctica Ice RD1 - Earth System Analysis POEM Oceans PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU)
Johannes Feldmann
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sea-level Rise Arctic / Antarctica Nonlinear Dynamics Tipping Elements Ice PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU)
Jan Swierczek-Jereczek
Doctoral Researcher
Earth System Analysis
Tipping Elements RD1 - Earth System Analysis Ice Nonlinear Dynamics
Helen Werner
Doctoral Researcher
Earth System Analysis
Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU) PISM-PIK Ice
Jonathan Donges
Senior Scientist
Ice Agent-based Models copan:CORE POEM Global Decarbonization PISM-PIK Open Source Software Sustainable Development Extremes Nonlinear Data Analysis Tipping Elements Complex Networks Security / Migration Planetary Boundaries Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU) Nonlinear Dynamics Machine Learning RD1 - Earth System Analysis Paleoclimate
Sabine Mathesius
Scientist
Earth System Analysis
Lab - Planetary Boundaries Science Climate impacts CO2 Removal RD1 - Earth System Analysis LPJmL POEM Forest Planetary Boundaries Oceans Global
Lena Nicola
Doctoral Researcher
Ice PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU) Arctic / Antarctica
Julius Garbe
Doctoral Researcher
Earth System Analysis
Nonlinear Dynamics Arctic / Antarctica Sea-level Rise Tipping Elements Ice RD1 - Earth System Analysis Open Source Software PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU)
Torsten Albrecht
Senior Scientist
Paleoclimate Sea-level Rise Tipping Elements Ice RD1 - Earth System Analysis PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU)
Ann Kristin Klose
Sea-level Rise Arctic / Antarctica Nonlinear Dynamics Tipping Elements Ice PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU)
Michel Wortmann
Postdoctoral Researcher
Climate Resilience
Extremes Europe Africa RD2 - Climate Resilience Climate impacts Adaptation Research Software Engineering (RSE) Ice Freshwater SWIM Asia Open Source Software Health
Simon Treu
Doctoral Researcher
Transformation Pathways
Sea-level Rise RD3 - Transformation Pathways Machine Learning Climate impacts Attribution Global
Simon Schöll
Doctoral Researcher
Earth System Analysis
Arctic / Antarctica Ice RD1 - Earth System Analysis PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU)
Tanja Schlemm
Postdoctoral Researcher
Earth System Analysis
Sea-level Rise Arctic / Antarctica Tipping Elements Ice RD1 - Earth System Analysis PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU)
Ronja Reese
Postdoctoral Researcher
Earth System Analysis
Sea-level Rise Arctic / Antarctica Tipping Elements Ice RD1 - Earth System Analysis Global PISM-PIK
Stefan Petri
Senior Scientist
Earth System Analysis
Paleoclimate Aeolus CLIMBER Ice RD1 - Earth System Analysis Atmosphere LPJmL POEM Oceans Planetary Boundaries PISM-PIK
Matthias Mengel
Senior Scientist
Transformation Pathways
Sea-level Rise RD3 - Transformation Pathways Climate impacts Adaptation Ice Model Intercomparison 1.5/2°C limit Attribution Oceans Global Open Source Software
Maria A. Martin
Scientific Directors' Staff
Arctic / Antarctica Tipping Elements Director Rockström Complex Networks Ice Directors' Staff Global PISM-PIK
Tien-Yiao Hsu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tipping Elements RD1 - Earth System Analysis Atmosphere Oceans Paleoclimate
Verena Hofbauer
Doctoral Researcher
Transformationspfade
Mitigation REMIND CO2 Removal 1.5/2°C limit Oceans
Shivani Ehrenfeucht
Postdoctoral Researcher
Earth System Analysis
Sea-level Rise Arctic / Antarctica Tipping Elements Ice Model Intercomparison PISM-PIK Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU)
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Publications

Simulating the impact of an AMOC weakening on the Antarctic Ice Sheet using a coupled climate and...
Earth System Dynamics
Höse, Anna, Kreuzer, Moritz, Huiskamp, Willem N...
Quantifying resilience in non-autonomous and stochastic Earth system dynamics with application to...
Earth System Dynamics
Harteg, Jakob, Wunderling, Nico, Donges, Jonath...
Antarctic meltwater-stratification feedback is less pronounced under high climate forcing
Geophysical Research Letters
Kreuzer, Moritz, Albrecht, Torsten, Huiskamp, W...
Impacts of bed topography resolution on sea-level rise projections from coupled subglacial hydrol...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Ehrenfeucht, Shivani Leigh, Dow, Christine
Synthetic bed topographies for Antarctica and their utility in ice sheet modelling
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
McCormack, Felicity S., Stål, Tobias, Shao, Niy...
Collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation would lead to substantial oceanic car...
Communications Earth and Environment
Nian, Da, Willeit, Matteo, Wunderling, Nico, Ga...
Physics-constrained generative machine learning-based high-resolution downscaling of Greenland's ...
The Cryosphere
Bochow, Nils, Hess, Philipp, Robinson, Alexander
Synchronisation of Extreme Precipitation and Sea Surface Temperature Events in the Northern Hemis...
International Journal of Climatology
Saari, Connor, Kurths, Jürgen, Villarini, Gabri...
Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming
Nature Climate Change
Winkelmann, Ricarda, Garbe, Julius, Donges, Jon...
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