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a publication list can be found here
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2016
Lasslop, G., Brovkin, V., Reick, C., Bathiany, S., Kloster, S. (2016), Multiple stable states of tree cover in a global land surface model due to a fire - vegetation feedback, Geophysical Research Letters, under revision
Hantson, S., Kloster, S., Coughlan, M., Daniau, A., Vannière, B., Brücher, T., Kehrwald, N., and Magi, B (2016), Fire in the Earth System - bridging data and modelling research. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00319.1, in press.
Veira, A., Lasslop, G., Kloster, S. (2016), Wildfires in a warmer climate: Emission fluxes, emission heights and black carbon concentrations in 2090-2099, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, accepted.
Hantson, S., Arneth, A., Harrison, S.P., Kelley, D.E., Prentice, I.C., Rabin, S.S., Archibald, S., Mouillot, F., Arnold, S.R., Artaxo, P., Bachelet, D., Ciais, P., Forrest, M., Friedlingstein, P., Hickler, T., Kaplan, J.O., Kloster, S., Knorr, W., Lasslop,G., Li, F., Mangeon, S., Melton, J.R., Meyn, A., Sitch, S., Spessa, A., van der Werf, G.R., Voulgarakis, A. and Yue, C. (2016), The status and challenge of global fire modeling, Biogeosciences Discussion. doi:10.5194/bg-2016-17
2015
Hantson, S., Lasslop, G., Kloster, S., Chuvieco, E. (2015), The human impact on global mean fire size, Intern. J. of Wildland Fires, 24(5), 589-596. doi:10.1071/WF14208
Kloster, S., Brücher, T., Brovkin, V., & Wilkenskjeld, S. (2015). Controls on fire activity over the Holocene. Climate of the Past, 11(6), 781-788. doi:10.5194/cp-11-781-2015
Lasslop, G., Kloster, S. (2015), Impact of fuel variability on wildfire emission estimates, Atmospheric Environment (121),93-102, IBBI special issue. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.05.040
Lasslop, G., Hantson, S., Kloster, S. (2015), Influence of wind speed on the global variability of burned fraction: a global fire model’s perspective,Intern. J. of Wildland Fires, 24(7) 989-1000. doi:10.1071/WF15052
Veira, A., Kloster, S., Wilkenskjeld, S., Remy, S. Fire Emission Heights in the Climate System Part I: Global Plume Height Patterns Simulated by ECHAM6-HAM2 (2015), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15, 7155-7171. doi:10.5194/acp-15-7155-2015
Veira, A., Kloster, S., Schutgens, N.A.J., Kaiser, J.W. (2015), Fire Emission Heights in the Climate System Part II: Impact on Transport, Black Carbon Concentrations and Radiation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15, 7173-7193. doi:10.5194/acp-15-7173-2015
2014
Brücher, T., Brovkin, V., Kloster, S., Marlon, J. R., & Power, M. J. (2014). Comparing modelled fire dynamics with charcoal records for the Holocene. Climate of the Past, 10(2), 811–824. doi:10.5194/cp-10-811-2014
Krause, A., Kloster, S., Wilkenskjeld, S., & Paeth, H. (2014). The sensitivity of global wildfires to simulated past, present, and future lightning frequency. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 119(3), 312–322.
Lasslop, G., Thonicke, K., & Kloster, S. (2014). SPITFIRE within the MPI Earth system model: Model development and evaluation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 7, 740-755. doi:10.1002/2013MS000284
Pausata, F. S. R., Gaetani, M., Messori, G., Kloster, S., & Dentener, F. J. (2014). The role of aerosol in altering North Atlantic atmospheric circulation in winter and air-quality feedbacks. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 14(16), 22477–22506. doi:10.5194/acpd-14-22477-2014
van Leeuwen, T. T., van der Werf, G. R., Hoffmann, A. A., Detmers, R. G., Rücker, G., French, N. H. F., Kloster, S. et al. (2014). Biomass burning fuel consumption rates: a field measurement database. Biogeosciences, 11(24), 7305–7329. doi:10.5194/bg-11-7305-2014
Ward, D. S., Mahowald, N. M., & Kloster, S. (2014). Potential climate forcing of land use and land cover change. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 14(23), 12701–12724. doi:10.5194/acp-14-12701- 2014
Wilkenskjeld, S., Kloster, S., Pongratz, J., Raddatz, T., & Reick, C. H. (2014). Comparing the influence of net and gross anthropogenic land-use and land-cover changes on the carbon cycle in the MPI-ESM. Biogeosciences, 11(17), 4817–4828. doi:10.5194/bg-11-4817-2014
2013
Kinne, S., O'Donnel, D., Stier, P., Kloster, S., Zhang, K., Schmidt, H., et al. (2013). MAC-v1: A new global aerosol climatology for climate studies. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 5(4), 704–740. doi:10.1002/jame.20035
Migliavacca, M., Dosio, A., Kloster, S., Ward, D. S., Camia, A., Houborg, R., et al. (2013). Modeling burned area in Europe with the Community Land Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 118(1), 265–279. doi:10.1002/jgrg.20026
Sillmann, J., Pozzoli, L., Vignati, E., Kloster, S., & Feichter, J. (2013), Aerosol effect on climate extremes in Europe under different future scenarios. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 2290-2295.
Six, K. D., Kloster, S., Ilyina, T., Archer, S. D., Zhang Kai, K., & Maier-Reimer, E. (2013), Global warming amplified by reduced sulphur fluxes as a result of ocean acidification. Nature Climate Change, 3, 975-978
2012
Kloster, S., Mahowald, N. M., Randerson, J. T., & Lawrence, P. J. (2012). The impacts of climate, land use, and demography on fires during the 21st century simulated by CLM-CN. Biogeosciences, 9, 509–525. doi:10.5194/bg- 9-509-2012
Ward, D. S., Kloster, S., Mahowald, N. M., Rogers, B. M., Randerson, J. T., & Hess, P. G. (2012). The changing radiative forcing of fires: global model estimates for past, present and future. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12(22), 10857–10886. doi:10.5194/acp-12-10857-2012
Weil, M., Grassl, H., Hoshyaripour, G., Kloster, S., Kominek, J., Misios, S., et al. (2012). Pathways, Impacts, and Policies on Severe Aerosol Injections into the Atmosphere: 2011 Severe Atmospheric Aerosols Events Conference. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(9), ES85–ES88. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00272.1
2011
Granier, C., Bessagnet, B., Bond, T., D’Angiola, A., Denier van der Gon, H., Frost, G. J., Kloster, S. et al. (2011). Evolution of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of air pollutants at global and regional scales during the 1980– 2010 period. Climatic Change, 109(1-2), 163–190. doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0154-1
Mahowald, N., Ward, D. S., Kloster, S., Flanner, M. G., Heald, C. L., Heavens, N. G., et al. (2011). Aerosol Impacts on Climate and Biogeochemistry. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 36(1), 45–74. doi:10.1146/annurev- environ-042009-094507
Thomas, M. A., Suntharalingam, P., Pozzoli, L., Devasthale, A., Kloster, S., Rast, S., et al. (2011). Rate of non-linearity in DMS aerosol-cloud-climate interactions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11(21), 11175–11183. doi:10.5194/acp-11-11175-2011
2010
Emmons, L. K. , S. Walters, P. G. Hess, J.-F. Lamarque, G. G. Pfister, D. Fillmore, C. Granier, A. Guenther, D. Kinnison, T. Laepple, J. Orlando, X. Tie, G. Tyndall, C. Wiedinmyer, S. L. Baughcum, S. Kloster, Description and evaluation of the Model for Ozone and Related chemical Tracers (2010), version 4 (MOZART-4), Geosci. Model Dev., 3, 43-67
Fischer-Bruns, I., Feichter, J., Kloster, S., & Schneidereit, A. (2010). How present aerosol pollution from North America impacts North Atlantic climate. Tellus A, 62(4), 579–589. doi:10.1111/j.1600- 0870.2010.00446.x
Kloster, S., Mahowald, N. M., Randerson, J. T., Thornton, P. E., Hoffman, F. M., Levis, S., et al. (2010). Fire dynamics during the 20th century simulated by the Community Land Model. Biogeosciences, 7(6), 1877–1902. doi:10.5194/bg-7-1877-2010
Mahowald, N. M., Kloster, S., Engelstaedter, S., Moore, J. K., Mukhopadhyay, S., McConnell, J. R., et al. (2010). Observed 20th century desert dust variability: impact on climate and biogeochemistry. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10(22), 10875–10893. doi:10.5194/acp-10-10875-2010
Thomas, M. A., Suntharalingam, P., Pozzoli, L., Rast, S., Devasthale, A., Kloster, S., et al. (2010). Quantification of DMS aerosol-cloud-climate interactions using the ECHAM5-HAMMOZ model in a current climate scenario. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10(15), 7425–7438. doi:10.5194/acp- 10-7425-2010
2009
Kloster, S., Dentener, F., Feichter, J., Raes, F., Lohmann, U., Roeckner, E., & Fischer-Bruns, I. (2009). A GCM study of future climate response to aerosol pollution reductions. Climate Dynamics, 34(7-8), 1177–1194. doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0573-0
2008
Kloster, S., Dentener, F., Feichter, J., Raes, F., Aardenne, J. V., Roeckner, E., et al. (2008). Influence of future air pollution mitigation strategies on total aerosol radiative forcing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8(21), 6405– 6437
2007
Kloster, S., Six, K. D., Feichter, J., Maier-Reimer, E., Roeckner, E., Wetzel, P., et al. (2007). Response of dimethylsulfide (DMS) in the ocean and atmosphere to global warming. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112(G3), G03005. doi:10.1029/2006JG000224
Lohmann, U., P. Stier, C. Hoose, S. Ferrachat, S. Kloster, E. Roeckner, J. Zhang, Cloud mirophysics and aerosol indirect effects in the global climate model ECHAM5-HAM, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 3425- 3446, 2007.
C. Textor, M. Schulz, S. Guibert, S. Kinne, Y. Balkanski, S. Bauer, T. Berntsen, T. Berglen, O. Boucher, M. Chin, F. Dentener, T. Diehl, J. Feichter, D. Fillmore, P. Ginoux, S. Gong, A. Grini, J. Hendricks, L. Horowitz, P. Huang, I. S. A. Isaksen, T. Iversen, S. Kloster, D. Koch, A. Kirkevåg, J. E. Kristjansson, M. Krol, A. Lauer, J. F. Lamarque, X. Liu, V. Montanaro, G. Myhre, J. E. Penner, G. Pitari, M. S. Reddy, Ø. Seland, P. Stier, T. Takemura, X. Tie, The effect of harmonized emissions on aerosol properties in global models – an AeroCom experiment, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 4489- 4501, 2007.
2006
Kinne, S., M. Schulz, C. Textor, S. Guibert, Y. Balkanski, S. Bauer, T. Berntsen, T. Berglen, O. Boucher, M. Chin, W. Collins, F. Dentener, T. Diehl, R. Easter, J. Feichter, D. Fillmore, S. Ghan, P. Ginoux, S. Gong, A. Grini, , J. Hendricks, M. Herzog, L. Horrowitz, I. Isaksen, T. Iversen, A. Jones, S. Kloster, D. Koch, M. Krool, A. Lauer, J.F. Lamarque, G. Lesins, X. Liu, U. Lohmann, V. Montanaro, G. Myhre, J. Penner, G. Pitari, S. Reddy, D. Roberts, O. Seland, P. Stier, T. Takemura, X. Tie (2006), An AEROCOM initial assessment - optical properties in aerosol component modules of global models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 1815-1834
Kloster, S., Feichter, J., Maier-Reimer, E., Six, K. D., Stier, P., & Wetzel, P. (2006). DMS cycle in the marine ocean- atmosphere system: a global model study. Biogeosciences, 3(1), 29–51.
Roeckner, E., Stier, P., Feichter, J., Kloster, S., Esch, M., & Fischer-Bruns, I. (2006). Impact of carbonaceous aerosol emissions on regional climate change. Climate Dynamics, 27(6), 553–571. doi:10.1007/s00382-006-0147-3
Stier, P., J. Feichter, E. Roeckner, S. Kloster, M. Esch (2006), The evolution of the global aerosol system in a transient climate simulation from 1860 to 2100, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 3059-3076
Stier, P., J. Feichter, S. Kloster, E. Vignati, J. Wilson (2006), Emission-Induced Nonlinearities in the
Global Aerosol System - Results From the ECHAM5-HAM Aerosol-Climate Model, J. Clim., 19(16), 3845-3862
Textor, C. , M. Schulz, S. Guibert, S. Kinne, Y. Balkanski, S. Bauer, T. Berntsen, T. Berglen, O. Boucher, M. Chin, F. Dentener, T. Diehl, H. Feichter, D. Fillmore, S. Ghan, P. Ginoux, S. Gong, A. Grini, J. Hendricks, L. Horrowitz, I. Isaksen, T. Iversen, S. Kloster, D. Koch, M. Kroll, A. Lauer, J.F. Lamarque, X. Liu, V. Montanaro, G. Myhre, J. Penner, G. Pitari, S. Reddy, O. Seland, P. Stier, T. Takemura, X. Tie (2006), Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AEROCOM, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 1777-1813
2005
Stier, P., Feichter, J., Kinne, S., Kloster, S., Vignati, E., Wilson, J., et al. (2005). The aerosol-climate model ECHAM5- HAM. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 5(4), 1125–1156.Others:
S. Kloster, contributing author to Working Group I contribution to the IPCC 5th Assessment Report Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, 2013, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA: P. Ciais, C. Sabine, G. Bala, L. Bopp, V. Brovkin, J. Canadell, A. Chhabra, R. DeFries, J. Galloway, M. Heimann, C. Jones, C. Le Quere, R. Myneni, S. Piao, and P. Thornton, Chapter 6: Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles.
Andreae, M.O., D.A. Hegg (Lead authors), J. Feichter, S. Kloster, Z. Levin, C. Liousse, L. F. Radke, P. Stier (Co-authors), L. A. Barrie, S. M. Kreidenweis, C. Textor, W. R. Cotton, U. Baltensperger (Contributors), Aerosol pollution impact on precipitation, A scientific review, Chapter 3: Sources and nature of atmospheric aerosols, WMO International Aerosol-Precipitation Science Assessment Group (IAPSAG), Springer Science, pp. 387, 2009.
Kloster, S., DMS cycle in the ocean-atmosphere system and its response to anthropogenic perturbations, Ph.D. Thesis, International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling / University of Hamburg, Reports on Earth System Science, 19, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, 2006.
March 2011 - present Group leader, Emmy Noether Junior Research Group "Fire in the Earth System", Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Land in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany
Post-doc
2009 - 2011 "Klaus Hasselmann fellowship", Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Land in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany
2008 - 2009 Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, USA
2006 - 2008 Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
Ph.D.
2002 - 2006 Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Atmosphere in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany
University
1996 - 2002 Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Germany
Born
17.02.1977 in Wilhelmshaven