Madlene Pfeiffer

Name:              Madlene Pfeiffer (ESSReS PhD student)
Institute:           Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Department:     Climate Sciences/Paleoclimate Dynamics
Phone:             +49-(0)471-4831 1051
Email:               Madlene.Pfeiffer@awi.de
Web link:        
http://www.awi.de/en/research/research_divisions/climate_science/paleoclimate_dynamics/

PhD-project title: Evaluation of Eemian and Holocene Climate Trends: Synthesis of marine archives with climate modelling

A serious problem which has become very popular in the discussion on how future environmental conditions will affect mankind is whether increasing human population and industrialisation has already caused or will have the potential to induce a significant impact on the Earth’s climate. To properly address this question requires detailed knowledge on amplitude and rapidness in the natural variations of temperature or other temperature-related environmental properties in the ocean, over the continents and in cryosphere – particulary for warm periods.
The major objective of the project is to examine the spatio-temporal pattern of temperature changes for the Holocene and Eemian. Special emphasis will be placed on the comparison of simulated and reconstructed sea surface temperature evolution. Evaluation of model results in particular comprises statistical analysis of the simulated Holocene climate variability with respect to results from the reconstructions.
 
Start of doctoral thesis: 01.08.2008

PhD committee:

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerrit Lohmann (AWI)
Co-Supervisor: Dr. F. Lamy (AWI/Geoscience)
Further members: Dr. Martin Werner (AWI), Dr. Thomas Laepple (AWI), Axel Wagner (AWI)

References:

Pfeiffer, M., T. Laepple, G. Lohmann, J-H Kim and G. Leduc: A model-data comparison of
the Holocene global ocean temperature evolution, 2010 (in preparation)

References:

Pfeiffer, M., T. Laepple, G. Lohmann, J-H Kim and G. Leduc: A model-data comparison of
the Holocene global ocean temperature evolution, 2010 (in preparation)

Presentations:

Madlene Pfeiffer, T. Laepple, G. Lohmann, J-H Kim and G. Leduc, A model-data
comparison of the Holocene global ocean temperature evolution
, SPP Interdynamik
worrkshop, 29-30 March, Bremen


Madlene Pfeiffer, T. Laepple, G. Lohmann, J-H Kim and G. Leduc, A model-data
comparison of the Holocene global ocean temperature evolution
, EGU General Assembly,
02 May – 07 May 2010. (Poster)

Distinctions:

NICE (Network for Ice Sheet and Climate Evolution) Winter School, Aussois, France, 4-11 January 2009; School title: Integrated modelling of the past climate and the future climate: the role of the cryosphere; Local organizer: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Poster presentation: “Causes of the most prominent climate change in the 20th century”
 
Earth System Modeling School EaSyMS2009, 03 – 07 August 2009, Helsinki, Finland.
Talk: „Ocean vertical mixing experiment“

Expeditions

Helicopter EM sea ice thickness measurements, 28.02. - 08.03.10 Helsinki, Finland.
Antarctic-Expedition ANT XXVII/2, 28.11.10 - 05.02.11, Cape Town, South Africa to Punta Arenas, South Chile.