Prof. Dr. Niklas Boers

extreme events, paleoclimate, complex system science, dynamical systems, machine learning, time series analysis, semi-empirical modeling

D. Traxl, N. Boers, A. Rheinwalt, B. Bookhagen: The role of cyclonic activity in tropical temperature-rainfall scaling, Nature Communications (accepted). link

T. Mitsui, N. Boers: Machine learning approach reveals strong link between obliquity amplitude increase and the Mid-Brunhes transition, Quaternary Science Reviews (accepted).link

J. Ludescher, M. Martin, N. Boers, A. Bunde, C. Ciemer, J. Fan, S. Havlin, M. Kretschmer, J. Kurths, J. Runge, V. Stolbova, E. Surovyatkina, H. Schellnhuber: Successful Climate-Phenomena Forecasting beyond Number Crunching, PNAS (accepted).link

C. Boettner, G. Klinghammer, N. Boers, T. Westerhold, N. Marwan: Early-Warning Signals For Cenozoic Climate Transitions, Quaternary Science Reviews (2021).link

K. Riechers, N. Boers: Significance of uncertain lags between the transition onsets in different Greenland ice-core proxies around Dansgaard-Oeschger events, Climate of the Past (2021).link

M. Gelbrecht, N. Boers, J. Kurths: Variability of the Low-Level Circulation of the South American Monsoon Analysed with Complex Networks, The European Physical Journal Special Topics (2021).link

M. Rypdal, N. Boers, H. Fredriksen, K. Eiselt, A. Johansen, A. Martinsen, E. Mentzoni, R. Graversen, K. Rypdal: Estimating remaining carbon budgets using temperature responses informed by CMIP6, Frontiers in Climate, 75 (2021).link

S. Gupta, N. Boers, F. Pappenberger, J. Kurths: Complex Network approach for detecting Tropical Cyclones, Climate Dynamics (2021).link

C. Irrgang, N. Boers, M. Sonnewald, E. Barnes, C. Kadow, J. Staneva, J. Saynisch-Wagner: Towards Neural Earth System Modelling by integrating Artificial Intelligence in Earth System Science, Nature Machine Intelligence (2021). link

N. Boers: Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Nature Climate Change (2021). link

N. Boers, M. Rypdal: Critical Slowing Down suggests that the western Greenland ice sheet is close to a tipping point, PNAS (2021). link

T. Mitsui, N. Boers: Seasonal Prediction of Indian Summer Monsoon Onset with Echo-State Networks, Environmental Research Letters (2021). link

C. Ciemer, R. Winkelmann, J. Kurths, N. Boers: Impact of an AMOC weakening on the stability of the southern Amazon rainforest, The European Physical Journal Special Topics (2021). link

M. Gelbrecht, V. Lucarini, N. Boers, J. Kurths: Analysis of a bistable climate toy model with physics-based machine learning methods, The European Physical Journal Special Topics (2021)link

N. Boers, J. Kurths, N. Marwan: Complex Systems Approaches to Earth system data analysis, Journal of Phyisics: Complexity (2021). link

F. Hassanibesheli, N. Boers, J. Kurths: Reconstructing Complex System Dynamics from Time Series: A Method Comparison, New Journal of Physics (2020). link

C. Ciemer, L. Rehm, J. Kurths, R. V. Donner, R. Winkelmann, N. Boers: An early-warning indicator for Amazon droughts exclusively based on tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures, Environmental Research Letters (2020). link

D.-D. Rousseau, P. Antoine, N. Boers, F. Lagroix, M. Ghil, J. Lomax, M. Fuchs, M. Debret, C. Hatté, O. Moine, C. Gauthier, D. Jordanova, N. Jordanova: Dansgaard–Oeschger-like events of the penultimate climate cycle: the loess point of view, Climate of the Past (2020). link

F. Wolf, J. Bauer, N. Boers, R.V. Donner: Event synchrony measures for functional climate network analysis: A case study on South American rainfall dynamics, Chaos (2020). link

C. Ciemer, N. Boers, M. Hirota, J. Kurths, F. Mueller-Hansen, R. Oliveira, R. Winkelmann: Tropical vegetation in regions with higher rainfall variability is more resilient to climate change, Nature Geoscience (2019). link

N. Boers, B. Goswami*, A. Rheinwalt*, B. Bookhagen, B. Hoskins, J. Kurths: The global pattern of extreme rainfall teleconnections revealed by complex networks, Nature (2019). link

M. Gelbrecht, N. Boers, J. Kurths: Phase Coherence between Precipitation in South America and Rossby Waves, Science Advances 4, eaau3191 (2018). link

N. Boers, M. Ghil, D. Rousseau: Interactions between ocean circulation and sea ice explain Dansgaard-Oeschger events, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 9, E11005–E11014 (2018). link

N. Boers: Early-warning signals for Dansgaard-Oeschger events in a high-resolution ice core record, Nature Communications 9, 2556 (2018). link

B. Goswami, N. Boers*, A. Rheinwalt*, N. Marwan, J. Heitzig, S.F.M. Breitenbach, J. Kurths: Abrupt transitions in time series with uncertainties, Nature Communications 9, 48 (2018) link

C. Ciemer, N. Boers, H.M.J. Barbosa, J. Kurths, A. Rammig: Temporal Evolution of the spatial covariability of rainfall in South America, Climate Dynamics 51, 371–382 (2018). link

N. Boers, M. Chekroun, H. Liu, D. Kondrashov, D.-D. Rousseau, A. Svensson, M. Bigler, M. Ghil: Inverse stochastic-dynamic models for high-resolution Greenland ice-core records, Earth System Dynamics 8, 1171–1190 (2017) link

N. Boers, B. Goswami, M. Ghil: A complete representation of uncertainties in layer-counted paleoclimatic archives, Climate of the Past 13, 1169–1180 (2017) link

D.-D. Rousseau, A. Svensson, M. Bigler, A. Sima, J.P. Steffensen, N. Boers: Eurasian contribution to the last glacial dust cycle: how are loess sequences built?, Climate of the Past 13, 1181–1197 (2017) link

D.-D. Rousseau, N. Boers, A. Sima, A. Svensson, M. Bigler, F. Lagroix, S. Taylor, S. Antoine: (MIS3 & 2) millennial oscillations in Greenland dust and Eurasian aeolian records–A paleosol perspective, Quaternary Science Reviews 169, 99–113 (2017) link

M. Gelbrecht, N. Boers, J. Kurths: A complex network representation of wind flows, Chaos 27, 035805 (2017) link

N. Boers, N. Marwan, H.M.J. Barbosa, J. Kurths: A deforestation-induced tipping point for the South American monsoon system, Nature Scientific Reports 7, 41489 (2017) link

D.Traxl∗, N. Boers∗, A. Rheinwalt, B. Goswami, J. Kurths: The size distribution of spatiotemporal extreme rainfall clusters around the globe, Geophysical Research Letters 43, 9939–9947 (2016). link

D.Traxl, N. Boers, J. Kurths: Deep Graphs – a general framework to represent and analyze heterogeneous complex systems across scales, Chaos 26, 06530 (2016). link

N. Boers, B. Bookhagen, N. Marwan, J. Kurths: Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Synchronization of Extreme Rainfall in South America with Focus on the Andes Mountain Range, Climate Dynamics 46, 601–617 (2016). link

A. Rheinwalt, N. Boers, N. Marwan, J. Kurths, P. Hoffmann, F. Gerstengarbe, P. Werner: Non-Linear Time Series Analysis of Precipitation Events Using Regional Climate Networks for the Region of Germany, Climate Dynamics 46, 1065–1074 (2016). link

N. Boers, P. Pickl: On Mean Field Limits for Dynamical Systems, Journal of Statistical Physics 164, 1–16 (2016). link

N. Boers, H. Barbosa, B. Bookhagen, J. Marengo, N. Marwan, and J. Kurths: Propagation of Strong Rainfall Events from Southeastern South America to the Central Andes, Journal of Climate 28, 7641–7658 (2015). link

N. Boers, B. Bookhagen, J. Marengo, N. Marwan, J. v. Storch, J. Kurths: Extreme rainfall of the South American monsoon system: A dataset comparison using complex networks, Journal of Climate 28, 1031–1056 (2015). link

N. Boers, R. Donner, B. Bookhagen, J. Kurths: Complex network analysis helps to identify impacts of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on moisture divergence in South America, Climate Dynamics 45, 619-632 (2015). link

N. Boers, A. Rheinwalt, B. Bookhagen, N. Marwan, J. Kurths: A complex network approach to investigate the spatiotemporal co-variability of extreme rainfall, in: Machine Learning and Data Mining Approaches to Climate Science: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Climate Informatics, Springer (2015). link

A. Rheinwalt, N. Boers, B. Goswami, J. Heitzig, N. Marwan, R. Krishnan, J. Kurths: Teleconnections in Climate Networks: A Network-of-Networks Approach to Investigate the Influence of Sea Surface Temperature Variability on Monsoon Systems, in: Machine Learning and Data Mining Approaches to Climate Science: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Climate Informatics, Springer (2015). link

N. Boers, B. Bookhagen, H.M.J. Barbosa, N. Marwan, J. Kurths, J. Marengo: Prediction of Extreme Floods in the Eastern Central Andes based on a Complex Networks Approach, Nature Communications 5:5199 (2014). link

D. Traxl, N. Boers, J. Kurths: General scaling of maximum degree of synchronization in noisy complex networks, New Journal of Physics 16, 115009 (2014). link

N. Boers, A. Rheinwalt, B. Bookhagen, H.M.J. Barbosa, N. Marwan, J. Marengo, J. Kurths: The South American Rainfall Dipole: A Complex Network Analysis of Extreme Events, Geophysical Research Letters 41, 73977405 (2014). link

N. Boers, B. Bookhagen, N. Marwan, J. Kurths, J. Marengo: Complex networks identify spatial patterns of extreme rainfall events of the South American Monsoon System, Geophysical Research Letters 40, 4386–4392 (2013). link

*Equal author contribution.

Multiscales and Critical Transitions in the Earth System (CriticalEarth)

Tipping Points in the Earth System (TiPES)

Climate Change and Extreme Events (ClimXtreme)

Predicting Abrupt transitions and Extremes in the Earth System (Freigeist research group at FU Berlin, funded by Volkswagen foundation)

Brandenburg Postdoc Award 2019

Freigeist Fellowship by the Volkswagen Foundation

Feodory-Lynen Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation