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

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...
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...
On the dynamics of equatorial excited dipolar systems
Physics of Fluids
Cao, Y., Kurganov, A., Liu, Y., Rostami, Masoud...
Monsoon hysteresis reveals atmospheric memory
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Katzenberger, Anja, Levermann, Anders
Benefits of Calibrating a Global Hydrological Model for Regional Analyses of Flood and Drought Pr...
Water Resources Research
Zhao, Fang, Nie, Ning, Liu, Yang, Yi, Congrui, ...
Study on associated effects of extreme drought and heatwave on air quality in South Africa during...
Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology
Fazel-Rastgar, Farahnaz, Sivakumar, Venkatarama...
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