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

Deforestation-induced drying lowers Amazon climate threshold
Nature
Wunderling, Nico, Sakschewski, Boris, Rockström...
Sequential hybridization enhances the reliability of a statistical crop yield model – exemplified...
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Eini, Mohammad Reza, Conradt, Tobias, Piniewski...
DJ4Earth: Differentiable, and Performance-Portable Earth System Modeling via Program Transformations
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Moses, William S., Cheng, Gong, Churavy, Valent...
A novel spatiotemporal and machine learning framework for sustainable groundwater monitoring and ...
Groundwater for Sustainable Development
Maqbool, Sheraz, Khan, Muhammad Imran, Raza, Aa...
Land vertebrates increasingly exposed to multiple extreme events by 2085
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Heinicke, Stefanie, Zantout, Karim, Kühl, Hjalm...
A systematic review of nature-positive climate risk transfer and financing instruments
Communications Earth and Environment
Bill-Weilandt, Alina, Lallemant, David, Chan, V...
Synchronization transitions and spike dynamics in a higher-order Kuramoto model with Lévy noise
Communications Physics
Zhao, Dan, Kurths, Jürgen, Marwan, Norbert, Xu,...
Temperatures around conception affect metabolic health in adulthood
Communications Medicine
Münz, Timo S., Pradella, Fabienne, Lambrecht, N...
Water vapor transport observed at a coastal Mediterranean site during the summer of 2021 and comp...
Scientific Reports
Madonna, Fabio, Gandolfi, Ilaria, Essa, Yassmin...
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