Katrin Meissner (climatologist)

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Katrin Juliane Meissner (born 1971 in Berlin ) is a German-Australian climate scientist . She has headed the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New South Wales since 2017 , where she has been a professor since 2018 .

Life

Meissner passed the German Abitur and the Baccalauréat Français at the French Gymnasium in Berlin in 1989 . In 1995 she graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lille with an engineering degree. In 1996 she graduated from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie with a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies on the interactions between oceans and the atmosphere. She received her doctorate in physics from the University of Bremen in 1999 . From 2000 to 2009 she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria in Canada. In 2009 she moved to the University of New South Wales as a Senior Lecturer . There she has been director of the Climate Change Research Center since 2017 and has been a professor since 2018.

Meissner has lived in Sydney with her family since 2009. She has two children.

Act

Meissner's research interests include abrupt climate change events as well as threshold values ​​and feedback in the climate system . It relies on climate models of the Earth system in conjunction with paleoclimate records to improve the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms underlying climate variability and climate change .

Awards

Meissner has received several awards, including the Annette Barthelt Prize for Marine Research in 2000 for her doctoral thesis.

Publications (selection)

  • Eby, M., Zickfeld, K., Montenegro, A., Archer, D., Meissner, KJ, & Weaver, AJ (2009). Lifetime of anthropogenic climate change: millennial time scales of potential CO2 and surface temperature perturbations. Journal of Climate, 22 (10), 2501-2511. DOI: 10.1175 / 2008JCLI2554.1
  • Meissner, KJ, Lippmann, T., & Gupta, AS (2012). Large-scale stress factors affecting coral reefs: open ocean sea surface temperature and surface seawater aragonite saturation over the next 400 years. Coral Reefs, 31 (2), 309-319. DOI: 10.1007 / s00338-011-0866-8
  • Meissner, KJ, Weaver, AJ, Matthews, HD, & Cox, PM (2003). The role of land surface dynamics in glacial inception: a study with the UVic Earth System Model. Climate Dynamics, 21 (7-8), 515-537. DOI: 10.1007 / s00382-003-0352-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The winners: Prize winners of the year 2000. Annette Barthelt-Stiftung e. V., accessed on January 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Hummel: Devastating forest fires in Australia: "The political reaction is shocking". sueddeutsche.de , November 22, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Katrin J. Meissner - Curriculum Vitae. University of New South Wales, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Kerry Brewster: Climate Scientists Reveal Their Fears For The Future , ABC Lateline, June 29, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Katrin Juliane Meissner. University of New South Wales, accessed January 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Meissner, Katrin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meissner, Katrin Juliane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Australian climate scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin