Ongoing PhD studies related to terrestrial systems and processes
| Name | PhDtopic | |
| Dunkl, Istvan | The role of terrestrial processes in ESM-based predictability of atmospheric CO2 concentration | |
| Duque Villegas, Mateo | Understanding the dynamics of the late Quaternary African Humid Periods | |
| Hu, Pinhsin | Quantifying the importance of plant trait diversity in climate - vegetation interaction in present and past climate (tentative) | |
| Schickhoff, Meike | High-resolution feedbacks between hydrological disturbances, the carbon cycle, and climate change in the Arctic | |
| Reinken, Constanze | Upscaling High-Latitude Land Processes from Micro-scale to Meso-scale | |
| Specht, Nora | Dynamic interaction between climate, lakes and vegetation | |
| Wong, Josephine | Dynamic interaction between climate and soil formation |
Completed PhD studies related to terrestrial systems and processes
IMPRS-ESM alumni hold a Dr. rer. nat. from the Department of Earth Sciences.
| Name | PhDtopic |
| Rehder, Zoe | Modelling of methane emissions from ponds in high latitudes |
| Jungandreas, Leonore | The influence of deep convection on the West African monsoon and the atmosphere - vegetation interaction during the mid-Holocene |
| Wey, Hao-wei | Impact of forest drought response on land-atmosphere interactions |
| Mendonca, Guilherme | Response characteristics of the terrestrial carbon cycle in Earth system models |
| Heidkamp, Marvin | Evaluation of different canopy layer representations and their impact on energy and water fluxes in the land surface scheme JSBACH |
| Lemburg, Alexander | Upper level dynamics of the West African Monsoon during Mid-Holocene and today |
| Winkler, Alexander | Process-based attribution and projection of the Earth greening trend |
| Kalidindi. Sirisha | Study of a terraplanet in ICON |
| Abis, Beniamino | Multiple tree cover states in the Earth System |
| Nyawira, Sylvia Sarah | Modeling the effects of land use change on soil carbon on global scale |
| Mayer, Dorothea | Potentials and side-effects of afforestation for climate mitigation |
| Winckler, Johannes | Climatic and economic feedbacks of forest management |
| Egerer, Sabine | Dynamics of Holocene Saharan dust sources and transport |
| Groner, Vivienne | Reassessment of simulated climate-vegetation interaction in semi-arid regions affected by plant diversity |
| Petrova, Irina | Interannual variability of land-atmosphere interactions from observations and models over Africa |
| Burdanowitz, Joerg | Improved satellite based ocean precipitation estimates through error characterization and point to area analysis of newground validation data |
| Engels, Jessica | The impact of black carbon aerosol induced snow darkening on the radiation balance in ECHAM6: Quantifying the contribution of wildfires for present and future conditions |
| Naipal, Victoria | Modelling long-term, large-scale sediment dynamics in an Earth System Model framework |
| Schoengassner, Thomas | Climate impact on geophysical thermokarst processes during the past 6000 years |
| Veira, Andreas | Quantifying the Present and Future Climate Impact of Wildfire Emission Heights in an Earth System Model |
| De Vrese, Philipp | Impact of surface heterogeneities on land surface water and energy fluxes |
| Port, Ulrike | Vegetation-climate interactions during the Paleocene/Eocene |
| Cresto Aleina, Fabio | Scale interactions in the climate-biosphere system |
| Geppert, Gernot | Assimilation of multi-spectral, multi-scale remote sensing data for land surface applications |
| Dass, Pawlok | The role of bioenergy production in the terrestrial carbon cycle and energy balance |
| Peng, Jian | Estimation of evapotranspiration using satellite TOA radiances |
| Goessling, Daniel | Continental moisture recycling and evaporation-precipitation coupling: Water as passive tracer and as active component |
| Goll, Daniel | The influence of phosphorus cycling and temperature acclimation of photosynthesis on the land carbon cycle |
| Pavlick, Ryan | Development and evaluation of a diverse dynamic global vegetation model based on plant functional tradeoffs |
| Schuldt , Robert | Modelling interactions between boreal wetlands, carbon cycle and climate |
| Stacke , Tobias | Development of a dynamical wetlands hydrology scheme and its application under different climate conditions |
| Vamborg, Freja | Vegetation ? albedo ? precipitation interactions in North Africa during the Holocene |
| Haensler, Andreas | Impact of climate change on the coastal climate of South-Western Africa |
| Parida, Bikash | The influence of plant nitrogen availability on the global carbon cycle and N2O emissions |
| Badawy, Bakr | Quantifying carbon processes of the terrestrial biosphere in a global atmospheric inversion based on atmospheric mixing ratio, remote sensing and meteorological data |
| Otto, Juliane | Interactions between climate and vegetation at high northern latitudes during the mid-Holocene |
| Lapola, David | Modeling the interplay between land use, bioenergy production and climate change |
| Verzano, Kerstin | Climate change impacts on flood related hydrological processes: Further development and application of a global scale hydrological model |
| Pongratz, Julia | A model estimate on the effect of anthropogenic land cover change on the climate of the last millennium |
| Guglielmo, Francesca | Global cycling of semivolatile organic compounds in the marine and total environment: A study using a comprehensive model |
| Katrynski, Krzysztof | Quantifying the terrestrial carbon budget of middle latitude ecosystems: the role of Volatile Organic Compounds |
| Jung, Martin | Uncertainties of terrestrial carbon cycle modelling: Studies on gross carbon uptake of Europe |
| Tanaka, Katsumasa | Inverse estimation for the simple Earth system model ACC2 and its applications |
| Mueller, Christoph | Climate change and global land-use patterns ? Quantifying the human impact on the terrestrial biosphere |
| Heistermann, Maik | Modelling the global dynamics of rain-fed and irrigated croplands |
| Trusilova, Kristina | Urbanization impacts on the climate in Europe |
| Narayan, Caroline | CO2 fluxes and concentration patterns over Eurosiberia: A study using terrestrial biosphere models and the regional atmosphere model REMO |
| Tiwari, Yogesh | Constraints of satellite derived CO2 on carbon sources and sinks |
| Criscuolo, Luca | Assessing the agricultural system and the carbon cycle under climate change in Europe using a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model |
| Stehfest, Elke | Modelling of global crop production and resulting N2O emissions |