Anja Rammig

Anja Rammig (born October 27, 1975 ) is a German climate scientist . She holds the professorship for interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Rammig graduated from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg with a degree in biology and received his PhD in environmental sciences from the ETH Zurich in 2006 . She was scientifically active at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF), the University of Lund and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). In 2015 she was appointed to the Technical University of Munich.

Act

Rammig's research deals with the effects of environmental changes on terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. She has contributed to the understanding of complex reactions of ecosystems to climate and land use change. In her work, she has dealt with the climate-related changes in the Amazon region many times . So far, the area has been considered a carbon sink , i.e. an area in which large quantities of climate-damaging carbon dioxide are bound. With reference to her research results, she once said: "Today the rainy season in the southern and eastern Amazon is more humid and the dry season is drier, as sea surface temperatures change and influence the transport of moisture through the tropics."

Publications (selection)

• Frank, D. et al. (2015). Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts. Global Change Biology, 21 (8), 2861-2880. doi: 10.1111 / gcb.12916
• Reichstein, M. et al. (2013). Climate extremes and the carbon cycle. Nature, 500 (7462), 287-295. doi: 10.1038 / nature12350
• Zemp, DC et al. (2017). Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks. Nature communications, 8, 14681. doi: 10.1038 / ncomms14681

credentials

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} https://www.professoren.tum.de/rammig-anja/
2. ↑ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170313085312.htm