Hans Oerlemans

Johannes "Hans" Oerlemans (born October 8, 1950 in Eethen ) is a Dutch meteorologist and geophysicist who deals with climate models, modeling the dynamics and shrinkage of glaciers and the resulting rise in sea levels and with ice ages .

Oerlemans studied meteorology and physics (geophysics) at the University of Utrecht with a doctorate degree in 1976 and a doctorate from CEJ Schuurmans in 1980 (Some model studies on the ice age problem) at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). In 1988 he became professor for climate dynamics and in 1989 for meteorology in Utrecht. 1997 to 2001 and 2004 to 2006 he was director of the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (IMAU) in Utrecht.

Oerlemans developed computer models and undertook numerous field studies on the melting of glaciers, which were also frequently referred to in the IPCC reports.

From 1986 to 1988 he was part-time at the Alfred Wegener Institute and from 1982 to 1986 part-time lecturer at the University of Leuven.

He coordinated the international Glaciodyn program to study glaciers in the Arctic as part of the International Polar Year .

In 2010 he received the Spinoza Prize , in 2004 the Physica Prize of the Dutch Physical Society and in 2008 an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council . In 2008 he received the Louis Agassiz Prize of the European Geophysical Union, and in 2007 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Stockholm and an academy professor at KNAW. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW, 1994), the Academia Europaea (1989) and became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion in 2010 . In 2009 he became a member of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research.

Fonts

Minimal Glacier Models, Utrecht University, 2nd edition 2011
with PW Leclercq, JG Cogley: Estimating the glacier contribution to sea-level rise for the period 1800-2005, Surveys in Geophysics 2011
The Microclimate of Valley Glaciers, Utrecht 2010
Glaciers and Climate Change, Balkema 2001
Glacier Fluctuations and Climatic Change, Kluwer 1989
with M Dyurgerov, RSW van de Wal: Reconstructing the glacier contribution to sea-level rise back to 1850, The Cryosphere, Volume 1, 2007, pp. 59-65
R Bintanja, RSW van de Wal, J Oerlemans: Modeled atmospheric temperatures and global sea levels over the past million years, Nature, Volume 437, 2005, pp. 125–128
Extracting a climate signal from 169 glacier records, Science, Volume 308, 2005, pp. 675-677
Quantifying Global Warming from the Retreat of Glaciers, Science, Volume 264, 1994, 243-245

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SURNAME	Oerlemans, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oerlemans, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eethen