Simone Tilmes

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Simone Tilmes , formerly Kanera (born February 5, 1973 in Borken ) is a German atmospheric scientist . She works at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Life

Tilmes studied physics and geophysics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1992 to 1994 . She continued her studies in geophysics at the University of Cologne and graduated in 1998 with a diploma. She received her PhD in geophysics and geography from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2004 . As a result, she took on a variety of scientific roles, most recently at NCAR.

Act

Tilmes deals with chemical, aerosolic and dynamic processes in climate models. She has studied the past, present and future evolution of the ozone hole in both hemispheres . Her most recent work also covers tropospheric chemistry , aerosols , air quality, long-distance transport of pollutants, and tropospheric ozone.

Tilmes is also investigating the possibility of using geoengineering to counteract the climate crisis . It deals extensively with the artificial reduction of sunlight that reaches the earth's surface in order to still be able to achieve the two-degree target agreed in the Paris Agreement . Together with her colleague Ulrike Niemeier, she once said: "To keep the global temperature rise in check, the annual sulfur input into the stratosphere would have to correspond to that of the eruption of Pinatubo on June 12, 1991." Her suggestions were not only published in specialist journals and popular science magazines , but also discussed in newspapers and magazines.

She studied the continuous introduction of sulfur into the stratosphere for the purpose of geoengineering a few years earlier on the basis of the Pinatubo eruption , during which large amounts of sulfur were emitted; She came to the conclusion that a sulfur input that is large enough to compensate for the overheating of the earth's surface caused by the doubling of atmospheric CO 2 would have major consequences for the ozone layer .

Tilmes has received numerous international awards for her work.

Publications

Tilmes' work includes more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, including:

  • with Rolf Müller, Ross Salawitch: The sensitivity of polar ozone depletion to proposed geoengineering schemes. In: Science. 320, 5880, 2008, pp. 1201-1204, doi: 10.1126 / science.1153966 .
  • with John Fasullo, Jean-François Lamarque, Daniel R. Marsh, Michael Mills, Kari Alterskjær, Helene Muri et al .: The hydrological impact of geoengineering in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 118, 19, 2013, pp. 11-36, doi: 10.1002 / jgrd.50868 .
  • with Ulrike Niemeier: Sulfur injections for a cooler planet. In: Science. 357, 6348, 2017, pp. 246–248, doi: 10.1126 / science.aan3317 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Results of the Leopoldina funding program. Volume 5. p. 150.
  2. ↑ a b Debate about climate manipulation: Is the sun blocker coming for the earth? Spiegel Online, October 14, 2017, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Curriculum Vitae on ucar.edu
  4. ↑ a b c Simone Tilmes on ucar.edu
  5. ↑ Ulrike Niemeier, Simone Tilmes: Sulfur injections for a cooler planet. In: Science. 357, 6348, 2017, pp. 246–248, doi: 10.1126 / science.aan3317 .
  6. ↑ a b Climate manipulation: With technology against global warming. Berliner Zeitung, August 20, 2018, accessed on December 14, 2019 .
  7. ^ The Best Way to Shade Earth Scientific American
  8. ↑ Geoengineering: The Pitfalls of Climate Cooling Spectrum of Science
  9. ↑ Cooling for the globe tagesspiegel.de
  10. ↑ Technology against climate change Researchers are working on methods to change the weather rundschau-online.de
  11. ↑ What if geoengineering goes rogue? The Economist
  12. ↑ Simone Tilmes, Rolf Müller, Ross Salawitch: The sensitivity of polar ozone depletion to proposed geoengineering schemes. In: Science. 320, 5880, 2008, pp. 1201-1204, doi: 10.1126 / science.1153966 .
personal data
SURNAME Tilmes, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kanera, Simone (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German atmospheric scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bark