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I am a doctoral candidate studying climate-land surface interactions on long timescales. My research focuses mainly on understanding African humid periods across glacial cycles. Part of my work involves use of climate models of different levels of complexity to simulate such ancient climates of the Earth system.
Supervision: Prof. Dr. Martin Claußen (MPI-M/UHH), Prof. Dr. Victor Brovkin (MPI-M), & Dr. Thomas Kleinen (MPI-M).
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since 2020 Doctorate…
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I am working at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and am interested in extreme conditions occurring on longer time scales. In particular, I am interested in the driving mechanisms and predictability of heat extremes on sub-decadal time scales. My dissertation project focused on the sub-decadal variability of European summer heat extremes. In this work, I have not only found a mechnaism linking the accumulation of heat in the North Atlantic to extremely warm…
ORCID 0000-0002-4269-3875
My current work focuses on statistical permafrost modelling. I have a broad interest in large-scale climate modelling, oceanography and paleoclimate. I am currently involved in the Q-Arctic project.
Supervisor: Prof. Victor Brovkin
Co-supervisor: Dr. Thomas Kleinen
Education
2019-2022: M.Sc. Climate Sciences with specialisation in Earth System Modelling, University of Bern Thesis: Noble…
Experience
2023 - 2026 Postdoctoral Reseacher
Project: WorldTrans (Horizon Europe) Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
2019 - 2023 PhD student
Thesis: "Snowball Earth aftermath: Ocean dynamics and carbon cycling under extreme greenhouse conditions" International Max-Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), Hamburg, Germany
2016 Research Internship
Modelling of seismological surface wave anisotropy around the Hawaiian mantle plume…
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3270-610X
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Research interests
vegetation dynamics and large-scale vegetation changes
interactions between climate and vegetation
monsoon systems and their role in the global atmospheric circulation
paleoclimate, focus Holocene
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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.
Weather Dynamics - An Introduction
Biography and Research
Klaus…
since 04/2024 Post-Doc in the group Earth System Modeling and Prediction, Department Climate Variability, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
01/24 - 02/24 Post-Doc in the group Climate Extremes, Research Unit Marine Meteorology, GEOMAR, Kiel
2020 - 2023 Dr. rer. nat. - PhD in the group Climate Extremes, Research Unit Marine Meteorology, GEOMAR, Kiel
2017 - 2020 …
About Me
I am a Research Scientist in the Earth System Modelling and Prediction group involved in the BMBF A Coming Decade - Decadal-scale prospects for Europe and EU-funded ASPECT projects. My research is currently focused on decadal prediction of European summer climate, including physical drivers such as Atlantic Multidecadal Variability. My general research interests concern climate prediction and predictability, tropical–extratropical teleconnections, climate variability on interannual…
When I studied Physics, I kept thinking about how to combine my passion for solving equations and physical reasoning with a task that I found reasonable, meaningful, and socially relevant. Thus, climate science was, and continues to be, the perfect fit for me.
I did my PhD in a project called 'Tipping Points of the Earth System'. My role was to explore the Dansgaard-Oeschger events, a series of tipping events that occurred during the last glacial cycle and comprised abrupt changes in the…
Since Jun 2024 PhD Candidate, Max-Planck-Institut for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany Oct 2021 - Feb 2024 MSc in Ocean and Climate Physics, Universität Hamburg. Hamburg, Germany -Master Thesis: Machine Learning-driven Infilling of Precipitation Recordings over Germany -Working Group: Climate Informatics and Technologies, German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) Sep 2015 - Jun 2021 BSc in Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece -Bachelor Thesis: Machine…
Krieger, D., Weisse, R., Baehr, J., and Borchert, L. F.: Machine Learning-Driven Skillful Decadal Predictions of German Bight Storm Surges. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111558. doi:10.1029/2024GL111558, 2025.
Krieger, D., Brune, S., Baehr, J., and Weisse, R.: Improving seasonal predictions of German Bight storm activity. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24, 1539-1554. doi:10.5194/nhess-24-1539-2024, 2024.
Olonscheck, D., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., Milinski, S.,…
