Max Planck Institute for Meteorology welcomes Hasselmann-fellow Lin Lin
Internal climate variability arises spontaneously through processes and feedbacks within the climate system and is therefore part of natural variability. Lin explains how her work will be organized: “Quantifying the climate responses to external forcing and identifying the contribution of inherent dissipation in the climate model with the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model is an important part of my project.” Inherent dissipation refers to processes within the model, such as friction processes, turbulence and other forms of energy transfer and loss. Such investigation will follow the system-approach.
In parallel, Lin Lin plans to analyze the link between the internal variability and the hydrodynamic processes, such as mesoscale or submesoscales eddies (process-approach). She reasons: “Such understanding would be particularly crucial as it clarifies the sensitivity of the climate model to external forcing and fluctuations, further improving the understanding of climate model prediction ability.”
Lin Lin’s research interests hook up with the Climate Energetics’ work motivation to study the Earth's climate as a high-dimensional forced dissipative system by two approaches: one is systems-oriented, and the other one is process-oriented.
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Further Information
Working Group Climate Energetics
Contact
Dr. Lin Lin
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
lin.lin@mpimet.mpg.de