Weather, Extremes & Atmosphere

Weather, Extremes & Atmosphere

What happens high up in the sky affects everyone’s life down on the ground. This is one of our research topics.

The extra amount of energy from solar radiation trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels affects numerous most relevant processes in atmosphere and weather patterns – from heat and droughts to rain and floods. Weather extremes are increasing. Our climate changes, a climate which has been remarkably stable during millennia of human civilization. Earth system science disentangling the mechanisms at work is the very foundation for assessing the risks.

People

Giorgia Di Capua
Working Group Leader
Earth System Analysis
Extremes Monsoon Atmosphere RD1 - Earth System Analysis Asia
Christian Otto
Working Group Leader
Transformation Pathways
Qualitative Methods Extremes Acclimate Economics Nonlinear Dynamics Climate impacts RD3 - Transformation Pathways Complex Networks Attribution Agent-based Models
Niklas Boers
Working Group Leader
Complexity Science
Extremes RD4 - Complexity Science Monsoon FutureLab - Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene Machine Learning Nonlinear Data Analysis Atmosphere Paleoclimate Nonlinear Dynamics Tipping Elements Complex Networks
Inga Sauer
Working Group Leader
Transformation Pathways
Extremes Global Climate impacts RD3 - Transformation Pathways Attribution
Katja Frieler
Head of Research Department
Transformation Pathways
1.5/2°C limit Extremes Food / Agriculture Adaptation Global Model Intercomparison Transfer (Knowledge/Technology) Climate impacts RD3 - Transformation Pathways Attribution
Georg Feulner
Deputy Head of Research Department
Earth System Analysis
Oceans POEM Atmosphere Planetary Boundaries Paleoclimate Tipping Elements CLIMBER Biodiversity RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Anders Levermann
Head of Research Department
Complexity Science
Extremes Weather RD4 - Complexity Science Monsoon Global Economics Acclimate Tipping Elements Climate impacts Complex Networks Sea-level Rise PISM-PIK Ice Agent-based Models
Wolfgang Lucht
Head of Research Department
Earth System Analysis
Germany Tipping Elements RD1 - Earth System Analysis Land Use Global Nonlinear Data Analysis Atmosphere Planetary Boundaries Ecosystems Policy Advice Global Commons LPJmL 1.5/2°C limit copan:CORE CO2 Removal POEM Transfer (Knowledge/Technology) Europe Sustainable Development Biodiversity Climate Policy
Stefan Rahmstorf
Head of Research Department
Earth System Analysis
Extremes Global Oceans POEM Atmosphere Paleoclimate Tipping Elements Sea-level Rise RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Jacob Schewe
FutureLab Leader
Working Group Leader
Transformation Pathways
Security / Migration Extremes Monsoon Global Model Intercomparison Freshwater Climate impacts RD3 - Transformation Pathways FutureLab - Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration
Norbert Marwan
Deputy Head of Research Department
Complexity Science
Extremes RD4 - Complexity Science Nonlinear Data Analysis Paleoclimate Nonlinear Dynamics Tipping Elements Complex Networks
Carolin Grumbach
Doctoral Researcher
Transformation Pathways
Extremes Climate impacts RD3 - Transformation Pathways Attribution Sea-level Rise
Svetlana Botsyun
Scientist
Earth System Analysis
Lab - Planetary Boundaries Science Monsoon Global Atmosphere POEM Planetary Boundaries Paleoclimate Europe RD1 - Earth System Analysis Asia
Yinglin Tian
Postdoctoral Researcher
Earth System Analysis
Extremes Weather Adaptation Atmosphere Attribution RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Stefan Liersch
Senior Scientist
Climate Resilience
Food / Agriculture Extremes Adaptation Mitigation Freshwater RD2 - Climate Resilience Energy Climate impacts Sustainable Development Africa
Jürgen Kurths
Senior Scientist
Complexity Science
Germany Tipping Elements Health Arctic / Antarctica Open Source Software Nonlinear Data Analysis Machine Learning Atmosphere Planetary Boundaries Paleoclimate Energy Nonlinear Dynamics North America Weather RD4 - Complexity Science South America Brandenburg Complex Networks Oceania/Australia Asia Oceans Europe Sustainable Development Climate impacts
Kilian Kuhla
Postdoctoral Researcher
Transformation Pathways , Transformationspfade
Qualitative Methods Food / Agriculture Extremes Acclimate Economics Climate impacts Complex Networks Agent-based Models
Jonas Jägermeyr
Senior Scientist
Climate Resilience
Food / Agriculture Extremes Adaptation Global Model Intercomparison Planetary Boundaries RD2 - Climate Resilience LPJmL Climate impacts Sustainable Development
Philipp Hess
Postdoctoral Researcher
Complexity Science
Extremes Weather Machine Learning
Jens Heinke
Postdoctoral Researcher
Climate Resilience
Food / Agriculture MAgPIE Extremes Global Freshwater RD2 - Climate Resilience LPJmL Climate impacts Ecosystems
Markus Drüke
Scientist
Earth System Analysis
Land Use Extremes Global South America POEM Planetary Boundaries Tipping Elements Climate impacts Biodiversity LPJmL RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Jonathan Donges
Senior Scientist
Extremes Science Unit - Earth Resilience (ERSU) Tipping Elements PISM-PIK RD1 - Earth System Analysis Ice Agent-based Models Global Open Source Software Machine Learning Nonlinear Data Analysis Planetary Boundaries Paleoclimate Nonlinear Dynamics Security / Migration Complex Networks Decarbonization copan:CORE POEM Sustainable Development
Dominik Paprotny
Postdoctoral Researcher
Transformation Pathways
Quantitative Methods Europe Extremes RD3 - Transformation Pathways
Iulii Didovets
Postdoctoral Researcher
Climate Resilience
Extremes Freshwater Europe RD2 - Climate Resilience Climate impacts SWIM Africa Asia
Cornelia Auer
Senior Scientist
Policy Unit
Extremes REMIND Open Source Software Mitigation Energy Nonlinear Dynamics Climate impacts RD3 - Transformation Pathways FutureLab - Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration
Lennart Quante
Postdoctoral Researcher
Complexity Science
Extremes RD4 - Complexity Science Adaptation Global Economics Acclimate Climate impacts Complex Networks Inequality and equity Agent-based Models
Sophie von Loeben
Scientist
Climate Resilience
Food / Agriculture Extremes Adaptation RD2 - Climate Resilience Africa Climate Policy
Stefanie Heinicke
Postdoctoral Researcher
Transformation Pathways
Food / Agriculture Extremes Global Model Intercomparison Climate impacts RD3 - Transformation Pathways
Shraddha Gupta
Postdoctoral Researcher
Complexity Science
Land Use Extremes RD4 - Complexity Science Monsoon CO2 Removal Global Model Intercomparison Nonlinear Data Analysis Nonlinear Dynamics Complex Networks Asia
Ottmar Edenhofer
Global Commons Atmosphere Carbon Pricing Economics Europe Germany Director Edenhofer Climate Policy
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Publications

Ionospheric chaos in the solar quiet current due to sudden stratospheric warming events across th...
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Oludehinwa, Irewola Aaron, Velichko, Andrei, Ol...
Investigation of the role of southwestern Asia dust events on urban air pollution: a case study o...
Scientific Reports
Hamidi, Mehdi, Ghobadi, Tahoora, Shao, Yaping, ...
A review of storms and marine coastal flooding in the Baltic Sea – Insights from instrumental, hi...
Earth-Science Reviews
Leszczyńska, K., Alexanderson, H., Clemmensen, ...
On the dynamics and interactions of coherent magnetic dipolar structures in a magnetohydrodynamic...
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Cao, Yangyang, Kurganov, Alexander, Rostami, Ma...
Global warming increases the risk of crop yield failures driven by climate oscillations
One Earth
Li, Linchao, Wang, Bin, Feng, Puyu, Lu, Chaoqun...
The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: transdisciplinary practical guidance
Climatic Change
Ebi, Kristie L., Haines, Haines, Andrade, Rober...
New insights into the polar ozone and water vapor, radiative effects, and their connection to the...
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Shi, Guochun, Liu, Hanli, Tsutsumi, Masaki, Gul...
Complex network analysis of extreme temperature events in the Contiguous United States
Atmospheric Research
Bosikun, Kehinde, Jamali, Tayeb, Ghanbarian, Be...
Evidence for preferred propagating terrestrial heatwave pathways due to Rossby wave activity
Nature Communications
Wang, Mingzhao, Huang, Yu, Franzke, Christian L...
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