Research Interests
Last Glacial Maximum
AMOC dynamics
air-sea interaction
global climate modelling
Curriculum Vitae
July 2017 - February 2018
Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
2014 - July 2017
PhD candidate at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
International Max Planck Research School for Earth System Modelling
Thesis title: "The AMOC and its sensitivity to different climate forcings in the range of glacial to modern conditions"
2013
Young Graduate Trainee at ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Topics: SMOS salinity and water mass formation in T-S space
2010 - 2012
M.Sc. physical Oceanography, University of Hamburg
Thesis title: "Atmospheric pressure adjustments associated with spin-down over sea surface temperature fronts – A regional and seasonal study"
2007 - 2010
B.Sc. Oceanography/Geophysics, University of Hamburg
Thesis title: "Lagrangian Study of the Subtropical-Subpolar Gyres Water exchange in the North Atlantic"
Publications
M.Klockmann, U.Mikolajewicz, J.Marotzke (2018): Two AMOC states in response to decreasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the coupled climate model MPI-ESM, Journal of Climate (accepted)
M.Klockmann (2017): The AMOC and its sensitivity to different climate forcings in the range of glacial to modern conditions, PhD thesis, Reports on Earth System Science, 194, doi:10.17617/2.2472757
H.Kilbourne, M.Klockmann, E.Morene-Chamarro, P.Ortega, A.Romanou, M.Srokosz, Z.Szuts, K.Thirumalai, I.Hall, P.Heimback, D.Oppo, A.Schmittner, and R.Zhang (2017): Connecting paleo and modern oceanographic data to understand AMOC over decades to centuries. A US CLIVAR Workshop Report, Report 2017-3, 26pp., doi:10.5065/D6KP80KR
M.Klockmann, U.Mikolajewicz, J.Marotzke (2016): The effect of greenhouse gas concentrations and ice sheets on the glacial AMOC in a coupled climate model, Climate of the Past, 12, 1829-1846
R.Sabia, M.Klockmann, D.Fernandez-Prieto, C.Donlon (2014): A first estimation of SMOS-based ocean surface T-S diagrams, Journal of Geophysical Research, 119