Bjorn Stevens

Bjorn Stevens (born April 19, 1966 in Augsburg , Germany ) is an American meteorologist and climate scientist . He heads the Department for Atmosphere in the Earth System at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and is a professor at the University of Hamburg .

Life

The son of a German and an American, Stevens grew up in various English-speaking countries and learned German later in his life. He received a bachelor 's and master' s degrees in electrical engineering from Iowa State University and his PhD in atmospheric science from Colorado State University in 1996 . From 2007 to 2011 he was "Full Professor" for dynamic meteorology at the University of California, Los Angeles , before moving to Hamburg.

Stevens is married and has two children.

Stevens researches the role of aerosols , clouds and atmospheric convection in the climate system . He has made contributions to the understanding of cloud formation , the response of clouds to warming, and the response of radiative forcing to aerosol disturbances, which has contributed to a deeper understanding of climate change .

Stevens was one of the authors of the chapter on clouds and aerosols in the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2013/2014).

Bjorn Stevens: Rethinking the lower bound on aerosol radiative forcing. In: Journal of Climate . Volume 28, 2015, pp. 4794-4819, doi: 10.1175 / JCLI-D-14-00656.1
Bjorn Stevens: Clouds unfazed by haze. In: Nature . Volume 546, 2017, pp. 483-484, doi: 10.1038 / 546483a
Bart van Stratum and Bjorn Stevens: The impact of vertical mixing biases in large-eddy simulation on nocturnal low clouds. In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems . Volume 10, 2018, pp. 1290-1303, doi: 10.1029 / 2017MS001239

personal data
SURNAME	Stevens, Bjorn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American meteorologist and climate scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Augsburg , Germany