Zhijun Liu
| Department | Climate Dynamics IMPRS |
| Group | Climate-Biosphere Interactions IMPRS doctoral candidate |
| Position | Phd Candidate |
| phone | +49 40 41173-106 |
| zhijun.liu@mpimet.mpg.de | |
| Room | B 307 |
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 Gases as Mean Ocean Temperature Proxies in Pre-industrial and Last Glacial Maximum Simulations (Featured Thesis Figure: https://www.climatestudies.unibe.ch/key_figure/index_eng.html), supervised by Prof. Thomas Stocker. Examination Committee: Prof. Fortunat Joos, Prof. Hubertus Fischer.
- 2019-2021: Mobility student at ETH Zürich
- 2015-2018: B.Sc. Physics, Imperial College London
- Thesis: Idealised Ocean Modelling: An Estimation of Surface Currents Behaviour under Wind Stress on the North Atlantic, supervised by Dr. Arnaud Czaja
Publications
Pöppelmeier, F., Baggenstos, D., Grimmer, M., Liu, Z., Schmitt, J., Fischer, H., & Stocker, T. F. (2023). The effect of past saturation changes on noble gas reconstructions of mean ocean temperature. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102055. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102055
Shihora, L., Liu, Z., Balidakis, K., Wilms, J., Dahle, C., Flechtner, F., Dill, R., Dobslaw, H. (2024). Accounting for residual errors in atmosphere–ocean background models applied in satellite gravimetry. Journal of Geodesy, 98, 27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-024-01832-7
Talks and Conferences
- Oxford Workshop for Model Uncertainty, University of Oxford (Sep, 2024)
- Swiss Climate Summer School, Grindelwald (Sep, 2024)
- EGU General Assembly, Vienna (Apr, 2024)
- Statistical Modelling of Permafrost Subsidence Based on High-resolution InSAR Data https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17224
- Seminar talk invited by Prof. Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo (Dec, 2023)
- EGU General Assembly, contribution only (Apr, 2023)
- Stability of AOD1B RL07 https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-5115
- Inter-Commission Committee on Geodesy for Climate Research Workshop, online (Mar, 2023)
- Frontiers of Geodetic Science, Essen (Oct, 2022)
- GRACE/GRACE-FO Science Team Meeting, Potsdam (Sep, 2022)
- Status of AOD1B RL07 https://doi.org/10.5194/gstm2022-44
- Ensemble Error Assessment for AOD1B RL07 https://doi.org/10.5194/gstm2022-100
- EGU General Assembly, online (May, 2022)
- Annual Symposium of the Swiss Society for Meteorology - Table Talk, Zürich (Nov, 2021)