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

Research efforts and gaps in the assessment of forest system resilience: A scoping review
Ambio
Anamaghi, Sara, Behboudian, Massoud, Emami-Skar...
Global assessment of population exposure to multiple climate-related hazards from 2003 to 2021: a...
The Lancet Planetary Health
Stalhandske, Zélie, de Ruiter, Marleen C, Chamb...
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...
Recent changes in spatiotemporal patterns of heat extremes in South Asia
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Banerjee, Abhirup, Gupta, Shraddha, Priyanshu, ...
Modelling flood losses of micro-businesses in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Buch, Anna, Paprotny, Dominik, Rafiezadeh Shahi...
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...
A review of storms and marine coastal flooding in the Baltic Sea – Insights from instrumental, hi...
Earth-Science Reviews
Leszczyńska, K., Alexanderson, H., Clemmensen, ...
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, ...
On the dynamics and interactions of coherent magnetic dipolar structures in a magnetohydrodynamic...
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Cao, Yangyang, Kurganov, Alexander, Rostami, Ma...
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