Heinz Wanner

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Heinz Wanner (born September 25, 1945 in Biel ) is a Swiss climatologist .

life and work

Wanner studied geography , climatology , geology and mathematics in Bern and Grenoble ( France ), among others with Bruno Messerli and Max Schüepp, and initially dealt with synoptic climatology, mesoscale dynamics and mountain meteorology. After completing his doctorate on fog and cold air dynamics over the Swiss Plateau, he worked from 1981 to 1982 at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins and as deputy head of operations for the international mountain experiment ALPEX, which was carried out as part of the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) has been. He then dealt with air currents and air pollution in the Alpine region (especially photochemical smog).

In 1988 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Bern and was co-director of the Swiss research project POLLUMET (Air POLLUtion and METeorology). Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has mainly dealt with palaeoclimatology and was director of the Swiss National Climate Research Center from 2001 to 2007. He worked with Hans Oeschger and Thomas Stocker , among others , and was founding president of the Oeschger Climate Research Center at the University of Bern from 2007 until his retirement in 2010 . His main interest lies in the interrelationships between climate history and the development of societies.

Wanner was involved in the fourth and fifth assessment reports of the UN Climate Change Council ( IPCC ).

Awards

In 2006, Wanner won the unofficial Nobel Prize for Geography with the Prix ​​Vautrin Lud . He is an honorary member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences , a member of the Leopoldina , received the Medal of Honor from Masaryk University in Brno in 2005 and an honorary doctorate from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2009 .

Publications (selection)

  • Climate and people. A 12,000 year history. Haupt Verlag, Bern 2016, ISBN 978-3-258-07879-3 (popular scientific work on the Holocene climate history).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. em. Dr. Heinz Wanner ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the University of Bern. Retrieved December 13, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geography.unibe.ch
  2. ↑ Academia Engelberg: Prof. Heinz Wanner  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 13, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.academia-engelberg.ch  
  3. ↑ ProClim: Heinz Wanner . Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  4. ↑ Heinz Wanner: The warming of the last 30 years in the perspective of the last 2000 years. Presentation slides, IPCC Working Group 1, Chapter 5 (Information from Paleoclimate Archives), Hotel Bellevue Palace Bern, September 30, 2013. Accessed December 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Heinz Wanner (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wanner, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss climatologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel