Antje Weisheimer

Antje Weisheimer (* 1972 ) is a German climate scientist . She conducts research at Oxford University and at the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

Life

Weisheimer received his PhD in atmospheric physics from the University of Potsdam in 2000 . From 2002 to 2003 she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science . From 2003 to 2005 she worked as an assistant professor at the Meteorological Institute of the Free University of Berlin . She has been researching at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) since 2005 and, since 2011, at the University of Oxford .

Act

Weisheimer's research focuses on model-based weather and climate forecasts and the associated uncertainties. In particular, she researches the predictability on subseasonal, seasonal to decadal time scales, the assessment of model uncertainty in weather and climate forecasts, and the linked forecast of weather and climate. Based on their models, Weisheimer and her co-author were able to show that natural events such as the floods in England in the winter of 2013/2014 can be traced back to man-made climate change . Weisheimer was one of the authors of the Fourth Assessment Report (2007) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

She is the editorial board member of Scientific Reports and co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society .

Awards

• 1999/00: Michelson Prize for the best doctorate of the year, Mathematical and Natural Science Faculty of the University of Potsdam
• 2011: Finalist of the For Women in Science Award
• 2011: Shortlist Science of Risk Prize

Publications (selection)

• Sarah Ineson , Magdalena A. Balmaseda , Antje Weisheimer u. a. (2018). Predicting El Niño in 2014 and 2015. Scientific Reports , 8 (1), 10733. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29130-1
• Nathalie Schaller , Antje Weisheimer, Myles R. Allen u. a. (2016). Human influence on climate in the 2014 Southern England winter floods and their impacts. Nature Climate Change , 6 (6), 627. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2927
• Antje Weisheimer, Francisco J. Doblas ‐ Reyes , Thomas Jung , TN Palmer (2011). On the predictability of the extreme summer 2003 over Europe. Geophysical Research Letters , 38 (5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL046455

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Antje Weisheimer. The University of Oxford Department of Physics, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Antje Weisheimer. European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, accessed January 30, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Schaller et al. (2016), https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2927
4. ↑ Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis Historical Overview of Climate Change Science , page 88, ipcc.ch
5. ^ Editorial Advisory Panel and Editorial Board. In: Scientific Reports . Nature Research, accessed February 22, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Editorial Board. In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society . Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), accessed February 22, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Prizes for the best of the year at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Potsdam
8. ↑ Why a woman's place should be in the lab telegraph.co.uk
9. ^ Weisheimer, Dr Antje National Center for Atmospheric Science