The tropical Pacific not only impacts the weather in various regions of the world, but also determines the overall response of the climate system to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. Thus, understanding the processes in this region is crucial for the development of medium- and long-term adaptation strategies. Currently, however, climate change in the tropical Pacific is unfolding in a way that climate researchers did not expect. But the working group of Sarah Kang, Director at the Max
… University of Hamburg, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology
2019-2022
MSc Integrated Climate System Sciences; University of Hamburg
Thesis: A Philosophically Informed Evaluation of Integrated Assessment Models
Supervised by: Prof. Moritz Drupp (Uni Hamburg), Dr. Chris Hedemann (Expertenrat für Klimafragen), Prof. Conrad Heilmann (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Prof. Johanna Baehr (Uni Hamburg)
2015-2019
BSc Physics; Technical University Dresden
Thesis:…
… Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/nextGEMS_cyc2
Niklas Röber et al., 2020: DYAMOND++: A High Resolution Climate Model Setup. The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.
Moritz Hanke and René Redler, 2019: New features with YAC 1.5.0. Reports on ICON, No 3. DOI: 10.5676/DWD_pub/nwv/icon_003
Sophie Valcke and René Redler, 2012: The OASIS Coupler. In: S. Valcke, R. Redler, R. Budich (Eds.), Earth System Modelling - Volume…
… world.
Some of my research explained using only the 1000 most common words in English
Google Scholar CV (last updated on 3 April 2025) PhD Thesis: Asymmetries between the climate responses to CO2 and stratospheric aerosol forcing Twitter (@MoritzGnther7) Mastodon (@moritzguenther@mastodon.world) Github (moritz-g): Parts of my code are available on github. All publications of which I'm first author contain a link to the underlying code and, as far as I own the rights, the data / model…
… change); 2009 - 2012 DFG/CAWSES - ARTOS (The Atmospheric Response to Solar Variability); 2005 - 2011 AFO2000 - MEDEC (Mesospheric Dynamics, Energetics and Chemistry); 2000 - 2004
Projects
ongoing (PhD):
Helene Glöckner, Abisha Gnanaraj, Moritz Günther
finished (PhD):
Paul Keil: "Tropical tropospheric temperatures, warming and involved mechanisms", Univ. of Hamburg, 2023. Clarissa Kroll: "The volcanic impact on moisture fluxes into the stratosphere" (Erstbetreuerin: C. Timmreck),…
… of uncertain phasing between the onsets of stadial–interstadial transitions in different Greenland ice core proxies. Climate of the Past, 17, 1751–1775. (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1751-2021 Riechers, K., Hueck, K., Luick, N., Lompe, T., Moritz, H., (2017). Detecting Friedel oscillations in ultracold Fermi gases. European Physical Journal D. 71, 232. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2017-80275-6 Morr, A., Riechers, K., Leonardo Rydin Gorjão, L.R., Boers, N.,: Anticipating critical…
International climate and sustainability researchers have visited the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the German Climate Computing Center. The meeting was part of a trip through Germany in the scope of the introductory seminar for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Climate Protection Fellows.
… 15:50-16:05 Tropical thermocline helps power Pacific equatorial upwelling Gutierrez-Brizuela, Noel Columbia University 16:05-16:20 The Brewer-Dobson circulation affects temperature change patterns in the tropics Günther, Moritz Max Planck Institute for Meteorology 16:20-17:30 Synthesis discussion all 17:30-open end Icebreaker
Day 2 (Sep. 18) Activity / presentation…
…The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) is pleased to announce that Moritz Günther has started a 4-year postdoctoral position in the German-Israeli Max Planck-Weizmann Postdoctoral Programme. Together with Prof. Sarah Kang, Head of the Climate Dynamics Department and Director at MPI-M, and Prof. Yohai Kaspi, Department of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Tel Aviv, Israel, he will spend the next four years as a postdoc investigating how land-sea contrasts influence…
…In a new study Moritz Günther, Hauke Schmidt, Claudia Timmreck, and Matthew Toohey show how aerosol perturbations in the stratosphere lead to a cascade of unanticipated effects with global implications. The heating from the aerosol changes the stratospheric circulation which perturbs the distribution of radiant energy flows, eventually influencing the surface temperature in ways that affect the climate system globally.
… unter Verwendung eines drei-dimensionalen Modells des Transports und der Chemie der Troposphäre PDF
24 - Ralf Weiße (1994): Nordatlantische Variabilität in einem Ozeanzirkulationsmodell im Zeitbereich von Dekaden PDF
23 - Moritz Flügel (1994): Untersuchungen zu Mechanismus und Vorhersagbarkeit von ENSO mit einem vereinfachten gekoppelten Ozean-Atmosphäre-Modell PDF
22 - Andreas Villwock (1994): ENSO induzierte Variabilität im Indischen Ozean PDF
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