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Gerrit Lohmann

Prof. Gerrit Lohmann
Paleoclimate Dynamics
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar & Marine Research
Bussestr. 24
D-27570 Bremerhaven
Germany
Phone: +49 471 4831 1758
Phone2: +49 471 4831 1760
Fax: +49 471 4831 1797
E-mail: gerrit.lohmann@awi.de
URL: www.awi.de/en/go/paleo
Vitae: link


Additional functions:


German-American Frontiers of Science Symposia 2001, 2002, 2003 - Organizing Committee

2003-2006: Spokesperson for the German climate research program DEKLIM .

2006-2008: President for the Climate division of the EGU



Key Publications of Gerrit Lohmann (up to five) :
Lohmann, G., and Gerdes, R., 1998: Sea ice effects on the Sensitivity of the Thermohaline Circulation in simplified atmosphere-ocean-sea ice models. J. Climate 11, 2789-2803.

Lohmann, G., and Lorenz, S., 2000: On the hydrological cycle under paleoclimatic conditions as derived from AGCM simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, no. D13, 17,417-436.

Lohmann, G., and Schulz, M., 2000: Reconciling Bølling warmth with peak deglacial meltwater discharge. Paleoceanography, 15 (5), 537-540.

Knorr, G., and G. Lohmann, 2003: Southern Ocean Origin for Resumption of Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation during Deglaciation. Nature, 424, 532-536.

Felis, T., G. Lohmann, H. Kuhnert, S. Lorenz, D. Scholz, J. Pätzold, S. A. Al-Rousan, S. M. Al-Moghrabi, 2004: Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period. Nature Vol. 429, 13 MAY 2004, 164-168.




Expertise of Gerrit Lohmann:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
PAGES Topics	Modeling
	Climate Dynamics
PAGES Timescales	Pleistocene (glacial-interglacial cycles)
	Holocene (10,000 years)
	Last Millennium
	Anthropocene
	Abrupt Events
PAGES Location	Global
	World Ocean
PAGES Archives	Ocean Sediments
	Ice Cores/Glaciers
	Corals
	Speleothems
PAGES Proxies	Isotopes

Additional Specialties:
Research interests are in Earth System Modeling, Theoretical Oceanography and Meteorology, and in the field of Dynamical System Theory. One focus of my research is to identify driving mechanisms for paleo and future climate change. This is done through numerical models of the Earth system and statistical analysis of instrumental and proxy data. One special area of my research is focussed on the role of the global oceanic thermohaline circulation for recent and paleo climate variations. The identification of resonances and thresholds in the system allows an estimate of possible future climate shifts. Recent work focusses also on the statistical interpretation of proxy data, e.g. corals, ice cores, and marine sediments.


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