Kirsten Zickfeld

Kirsten Zickfeld (* 1971 in Saarbrücken ) is a German climate scientist. She works at Simon Fraser University .

Life

Zickfeld completed a master’s degree in physics at the Free University of Berlin in 1998 . She received her PhD in physics from the University of Potsdam in 2004 . In 2005 she worked at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research . She also worked at the University of Victoria from 2006 to 2014 . From 2008 to 2010 she also worked as a researcher for the Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis . Since 2010 she has been doing research at Simon Fraser University .

Act

Zickfeld's research focuses on the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions on the climate on centuries-long time scales. She looks at negative greenhouse gas emissions to reverse climate change through technology for the capture of carbon dioxide , the reaction of the carbon cycle to carbon dioxide removal , the quantification of the carbon budget to achieve the climate goals, and the feedback between the climate and the carbon cycle.

Zickfeld points out possible climate refugees as a result of climate change.

She is one of the authors of the IPCC's special report on global warming of 1.5 degrees .

Publications (selection)

• K. Zickfeld, M. Eby, HD Matthews and AJ Weaver: Setting cumulative emissions targets to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . Volume 106, No. 38, 2009, pp. 16129-16134.
• HD Matthews, N. Gillett, PA Stott and K. Zickfeld: The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions. In: Nature . Volume 459, 2009, pp. 829-833.
• M. Collins et al .: Chapter 12: Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility. In: TF Stocker and D. Qin (Eds.): Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, pp. 1029-1136.
• JA Church, PU Clark et al .: Chapter 13: Sea Level Change. In: TF Stocker and D. Qin (Eds.): Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, pp. 1137-1216.

credentials

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2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} https://www.sfu.ca/geography/people/profiles/kirsten-zickfeld.html
3. ↑ M. Odenwald: climatology: The consequences of pyromania. In: Focus. No. 44, 2003, https://www.focus.de/wissen/natur/klimatologie-die-haben-der-pyromanie_aid_193372.html

Category: University Lecturers (Simon Fraser University)