Gabriele Clarissa Hegerl

Gabriele Clarissa Hegerl, 2018

Gabriele Clarissa "Gabi" Hegerl (born January 9, 1962 in Munich ) is a German climatologist . She is Professor of Climate Systems Science at Edinburgh University .

Life

Hegerl obtained his doctorate in applied mathematics from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1992 . She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology until 1997 and then spent two years at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington . After research stays at Texas A&M University and Duke University , she moved to the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in 2007 , where she has held the Chair of Climate Systems Science since 2009.

She is married and has two sons.

In 2018 she was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldia .

Act

Hegerl's research deals with climate diagnostics and statistical climatology . It considers the variability of temperature, precipitation and climatic extremes as well as the limitation of future climate change . In her work she uses paleo - proxy data to study climate variability over the past millennium .

Hegerl was u. a. involved in the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC .

In the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis , Hegerl speaks out in favor of foregoing air travel through the creation of reliable, fast and comfortable public transport and the use of teleconferences .

Publications (selection)

• Pavel Ya Groisman, Richard W. Knight, David R. Easterling, Thomas R. Karl, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev (2005). Trends in intense precipitation in the climate record. Journal of Climate , 18 (9), 1326-1350. doi: 10.1175 / JCLI3339.1
• Gabriele C. Hegerl (2015). Use of models and observations in event attribution. Perspective in Environmental Research Letters , 10. doi: 10.1088 / 1748-9326 / 10/7/071001
• Seung-Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers and Gabriele C. Hegerl (2011). Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes. Nature , 470 (7334), 378. doi: 10.1038 / nature09763

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae. (PDF) Retrieved January 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Maria Mast: Climate change: If climate researchers would rule the world. Zeit Online , December 11, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Atmospheric Sciences - Section of AGU Newsletter. (PDF) American Geophysical Union , accessed January 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Member entry by Gabriele Clarissa Hegerl (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 14, 2018.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Gabriel Hegerl at School of GeoSciences. The University of Edinburgh , accessed January 19, 2019 .