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Malena Andernach

Department Climate Variability IMPRS
Group IMPRS doctoral candidate Ocean Physics
Position Phd Candidate
phone +49 40 41173-383
Email malena.andernach@mpimet.mpg.de
Room B 208

Research interests

My research focuses on the changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet under possible future climate scenarios, with a specific focus on the identification and analysis of state transitions and the potential for ice sheet regrowth under certain climate conditions. In contrast to previous work, I apply a comprehensive coupled climate-ice sheet model. The model considers interactions and feedbacks between ice sheets and other components of the climate system, including the atmosphere, ocean and solid earth. This allows for a thorough analysis of the impact of the GrIS on the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation and vice versa.  

Publications

Andernach, M., Kapsch, M.-L., and Mikolajewicz, U. (2026): Stabilizing feedbacks allow for multiple states of the Greenland Ice Sheet in a fully coupled Earth System – Ice Sheet Model, The Cryosphere, 20, 1047–1069, doi: 10.5194/tc-20-1047-2026​​​​​​​.

Andernach, M., Kapsch, M.-L., and Mikolajewicz, U. (2025): Impact of Greenland Ice Sheet disintegration on atmosphere and ocean disentangled, Earth System Dynamics, 16, 451–474, doi: 10.5194/esd-16-451-2025.

Nicola, L., Frøystad, R., Juarez-Martinez, A., Menthon, M., Moraes Luzardi, A. C., Turner, K. A., Wilson, S. F., Karlsson, N. B., van den Akker, T., Ambelorun, A., Andernach, M., Bentley, M., Bianchi, G., Bird, L., Carter, C., Castillo-Llarena, A., Coffey, N. B., Dawson, E., de Roda Husman, S., ... Keisling, B. (2025). Where do we want the glaciological community to be in 2073? Equality, diversity and inclusion challenges and visions from the 2023 Karthaus Summer School. Journal of Glaciology, 71, e68, doi: 10.1017/jog.2025.18.

Andernach, M., Turton, J. V. & Mölg, T. (2022): Modeling cloud properties over the 79N Glacier (Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, NE Greenland) for an intense summer melt period in 2019. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 148(749), 3566–3590, doi: 10.1002/qj.4374.

Andernach, M., Wyss, D. & Kappas, M. (2020): An evaluation of the Land Cover Classification  Product Sentinel 2 Prototype Land Cover 20 m Map of Africa 2016 for Namibia. Namibian Journal of Environment, 4A: 1-12.

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