Participation in research projects

Cluster of Excellence: Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction clisap

20th and 21st century climate changes in western China simulated with a hierarchy of global and regional climate models, including improved scenarios of human activity and reliable observational data for validation (DFG, Aksu-Tarim)

Global land use and technological evolution. Simulations on new paleoclimatic data. (DFG priority program SPP 1266 Interdynamik)

PhD students co-advisor

ZHANG Dan: Millennium climate variability, impact of solar variability and volcanoes

ZHANG Huan: Extremes in precipitation, teleconnections

Schalge Bernd: Instability in geophysical flows, dynamical systems, predictability

Haberkorn, Kerstin: Holocene climate variability, dynamic reconstructions, biosphere and technological evolution

Research interests

Cyclone tracking, climatologies, climate change impact

Low frequency climate variability, mechanisms, long term memory, 1/f-noise

Conservative dynamical systems, Hamiltonian and Nambu representations