The land surface as part of the Earth system affects the regional and global climate. In turn, the climate shapes the structure of the land surface especially the global distribution of forests, steppes, and dry regions. Meanwhile humankind has drastically modified his habitat - the land surface. The goal of this department is to investigate the development of the mutual interactions between land surface, climate, and mankind in the past and in the future. This will be accomplished by the application of models, in situ measurements, and satellite observations.
Director's Research Group (Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen)
Climate-Biogeosphere Interaction (Prof. Dr. Victor Brovkin)
Global Vegetation Modelling (Dr. Christian Reick)
Boundary Layer Measurements and Modelling
(Dr. Andreas Chlond, Prof. Dr. Felix Ament)
Joint Group
Land use in the Earth system (Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz, LMU, Munich)
Terrestrial Remote Sensing (Dr. Stephan Bakan)
Terrestrial Hydrology (Dr. Stefan Hagemann)
Fire in the Earth System (Dr. Silvia Kloster)
Topics for master- and bachelor theses at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen
martin.claussen@ mpimet.mpg.de
Phone: +49 (0)40 41173 - 225
Secretary
Sylvia Houston
sylvia.houston@ mpimet.mpg.de
Phone: +49 (0)40 41173 - 226
Fax: +49 (0)40 41173 - 350