Dieter Klaus

Dieter Klaus (born July 8, 1938 in Cologne ; † April 16, 2010 ) was a German geographer , climatologist and systems scientist.

Career

Klaus studied geography and mathematics in Munich and Bonn. In 1972 he obtained his doctorate in Bonn with Wilhelm Lauer , and in 1979 he completed his habilitation. From 1977 Klaus taught as a professor at the Geography Institute at the University of Bonn . The main research areas were climate change, local climate models, desertification processes, Mexico, Tunisia, the Sahel and systems research.

Klaus was a pioneer of earth system science , of mathematical-statistical analyzes and system modeling, in particular of global environmental and climate changes. His system-analysis studies of ecological processes, local climate analyzes and the development of procedures for calculating global carrying capacity were groundbreaking.

Publications (selection)

• Natural and anthropogenic climate changes and their effects on the people who work. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1980.
• Systems analytical approach in geographic research 1980
• From being to becoming. Spatial systems with chaotic dynamics - Geographische Rundschau, 1991
• Environmental pollution through energy supply and use. Geographisches Inst., 1980 - 140 pages
• Dynamics of global carrying capacity. In: Contributions to Global Environmental Problems. (Eds. Dieter Anhuf, Peter Frankenberg), Academy of Sciences and Literature 1994
• The global water cycle and its influence by humans: possibilities for remote sensing detection and verification. 2000 (together with Gotthard Stein)
• Bryophytes as indicators of recent climate fluctuations in Central Europe. (Together with JP Frahm), Lindbergia, 2001
• Changes in the structure of circulation in the European-Atlantic sector and their possible causes. Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Treatises of the Mathematical and Natural Science Class (AM-MN). 1997
• Changes in the Circulation and Persistence of European Weather Types as Reflected in the Statistics of Large-Scale Weather Situations. Geography Vol. 47, H. 2 (Jul., 1993), pp. 85-104
• Desertification in the Sahel. Ecological and socio-economic consequences - Geographische Rundschau, 1986
• Climatological and climate-ecological aspects of the drought in the Sahel. Steiner 1981
• Periodic and statistical linkages between the Annual Frequency of Major Circulation Types in Europe and the Spatial Distribution of Annual Precipitation Totals in Parts of West Africa . Geography Vol. 29, H. 4 (Dec., 1975), pp. 248-267
• Geoecological investigations on the timberline of Pico de Orizaba, Mexico togehter wiith W Lauer, D Klaus - Arctic and Alpine Research, 1975
• Climate fluctuations in Mexico since the beginning of the meteorological observation period, Academy of Sciences and Literature, 1977 (together with Wilhelm Lauer)
• Solar activity fluctuations and fluctuations in precipitation in West Africa, 1978
• Pollution pollution and urban climate in Mexico City, Academy of Sciences and Literature, 1988 (together with Wilhelm Lauer, Ernesto Jáuregui O.)
• Long-term relationships between air pollution and large-scale weather events. Academy of Sciences and Literature, 1984
• Atlas of the flora of the North African arid region: computer maps of essential plant species and plant families. Geographical Institutes of the University of Bonn, 1980 - 237 pages
• The Sahara: Developments in a Desert Continent. 1980. (in cooperation with Heinrich Schiffers and Hartmut Redmer)

Web links

• Geographical Institute of the University of Bonn