Klaus Fraedrich
| Department | Climate Physics |
| Group | Climate Physics Coordination |
| Position | Guest |
| phone | +49 40 41173-382 |
| klaus.fraedrich@mpimet.mpg.de | |
| Room | S 1.01 |
Biography and Research
Klaus Fraedrich
is guest scientist at the Max Planck Insitute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany.
His prior affiliations include: Professor at University of Hamburg, Freie Universität Berlin, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (all in Germany); visiting Professor at the Universities of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), Washington (SeaPle, USA), Wisconsin (Madison, USA), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (China), Head of Long-Range Weather Forecasting Research, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (Melbourne, Australia); and Postdoc at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, USA), visiting researcher in South America (Venezuela) and in Africa (East African Meteorology Department in Nairobi, Kenya).
He has received awards including the Lewis Frey Richardson Medal (European Geophysical Union), Alfred Wegener Medal (Germany), Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize (France-Germany), Max Planck Research Prize (Germany), Max Planck Fellowship (Germany), Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Hamburg).
His research interests span across regional climates, nonlinear systems analysis and predictability, weather dynamics of tropics and extratropics, building of a user-friendly and open access GCM hierarchy, and climate dynamics and variability, attribution and causality.
Weather Dynamics - An Introduction
This textbook gives a thorough introduction to the dynamics of weather. It provides readers with a basic understanding of the complex phenomena and their underlying processes. A rigorous mathematical derivation of all results and numerous figures are also included in the book to help illustrate and interpret weather maps, weather forecasts, atmospheric data and the output of atmospheric models.
Publications
Complete list publications