Andreas Hense
Andreas Hense (* 1956 ) is a German meteorologist and professor at the University of Bonn , where he heads the Climate Dynamics working group.
From 1979 Hense was at the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Cologne and in 1981/82 at the German Weather Service in Offenbach. In 1982 he received his doctorate with Erhard Raschke in Cologne (Parameterizations of Clouds in General Circulation Models) and was a post-doctoral student with Hermann Flohn at the University of Bonn and in 1987/88 at the Jülich Research Center with Gert Eilenberger . From 1988 to 1990 he was a scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute under Dirk J. Olbers and from 1990 professor for climate dynamics at the University of Bonn.
In 1991 he received the Carus Prize and in 2016 the Alfred Wegener Medal for his outstanding contributions to the development of statistical methods in the fields of climatology and weather forecasting, in particular the qualitative precipitation forecast (laudation), whereby, according to Hans von Storch , he was primarily critical and applied innovative statistical methods in meteorology and climate research.
From 2001 onwards, improving the forecast of precipitation amounts was the subject of a research project by various meteorological institutes and the German Weather Service, including an internationally oriented project in south-west Germany and Alsace (COPS, Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study) in 2007, which primarily involved broad data collection which was then theoretically evaluated.
Among other things, he was busy with various reconstructions of the climate of the past, for example at the Dead Sea from pollen data (where around 1200 BC there was a change from a cooler, humid period to a dry, warmer one, which also marked the end of the Canaanite urban culture), in the European Young Tertiary and in the last interglacial. He also dealt with models of the earth's rotation.
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| SURNAME | Hense, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German meteorologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |