Thomas Raddatz
| Department | Climate Dynamics |
| Group | Climate Dynamics Coordination |
| Position | Scientific Programmer |
| phone | +49 40 41173-170 |
| thomas.raddatz@mpimet.mpg.de | |
| Room | B 308 |
Scientific interests
Land carbon cycle, vegetation dynamics, land surface albedo, teleconnections, irrigation
Irrigation as geoengineering
Global irrigation on all land using only locally available water from river runoff could potentially cool the Earth globally by 1.2 °C.
Publications (selected)
Friedlingstein, P., P. Cox, R. Betts, L. Bopp, W. von Bloh, V. Brovkin, P. Cadule, S. Doney, M. Eby, I. Fung, G. Bala, J. John, C. Jones, F. Joos, T. Kato, M. Kawamiya, W. Knorr, K. Lindsay, H. D. Matthews, T. Raddatz, P. Rayner, C. Reick, E. Roeckner, K.-G. Schnitzler, R. Schnur, K. Strassmann, A. J. Weaver, C. Yoshikawa, and N. Zeng, 2006: Climate-Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIO Model Intercomparison. J. Climate, 19, 3337-3353.
Raddatz, T. J., C. H. Reick, W. Knorr, J. Kattge, E. Roeckner, R. Schnur, K.-G. Schnitzler, P. Wetzel, J. Jungclaus, 2007: Will the tropical land biosphere dominate the climate-carbon cycle feedback during the 21st century? Clim. Dyn., 29, 565-574, doi: 10.1007/s00382-007-0247-8.
Pongratz, J., C. Reick, T. Raddatz, and M. Claussen, 2008: A reconstruction of global agricultural areas and land cover for the last millennium. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, doi: 10.1029/2007GB003153.
Kattge, J., W. Knorr, T. Raddatz, and C. Wirth, 2009: Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models. Global Change Biology, 15, 976-991, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01744.x.
Otto, J., T. Raddatz, M. Claussen, V. Brovkin, and V. Gayler, 2009: Separation of atmosphere-ocean-vegetation feedbacks and synergies for mid-Holocene climate. Geophy. Res. Letters, 36, doi: 10.1029/2009GL037482.
Otto, J., T. Raddatz, and M. Claussen, 2011: Strength of forest-albedo feedback in mid-Holocene climate simulations. Clim. Past, 7, 1027-1039, doi: 10.5194/cp-7-1027-2011.
Reick, C. H., T. Raddatz, V. Brovkin, and V. Gayler, 2013: Representation of natural and anthropogenic land cover change in MPI-ESM. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 5, 1 - 24, doi: 10.1002/jame.20022.
Groner, V. P., T. Raddatz, C. H. Reick, and M. Claussen, 2018: Plant functional diversity affects climate-vegetation interaction. Biogeosciences, 15, 1947-1968, doi: 10.5194/bg-15-1947-2018.
Egerer, S., D. M. Lawrence, P. J. Lawrence, A. Argles, V. Aurora, A. L. Barbu, I. N. Harman, P. A. Miller, T. Raddatz, N. Vuichard, D. Warlind, T. Ziehn, and J. Pongratz, 2025: Forestation in CMIP6: wide model spread in tree cover and land carbon uptake. Environ. Res. Lett., 20, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adc93e.