Dr. Franziska S. Hanf

Education

• Ph.D. Climate Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 2016.
  Thesis title: South Asian summer monsoon variability: a modelling study with the atmospheric regional climate model HIRHAM5
• M.Sc. Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2012.
  Thesis title: The ocean-atmosphere coupling of the South Asian Summer Monsoon during the last Millennium
• B.Sc. Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2009.
  Thesis title: Analyse der Verschiebung von Klimazonen nach Köppen in Folge der Erhöhung von Treibhausgaskonzentrationen

Scientific Work Experience

• since July 2019: Senior researcher
  Meteorological Institute, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Cluster of Excellence ‘Climate, Climatic Change, and Society’ (CLICCS), Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• Feb 2019 - Mar 2019: Research assistant
  Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Climate Sciences / Atmospheric Physics, Research Unit Potsdam, Germany
• Apr 2016 - Nov 2018: Postdoctoral fellow
  International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• Oct 2015 - Dec 2015: Research assistant
  Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Climate Sciences / Atmospheric Physics, Research Unit Potsdam, Germany

Research Interests

• Urban system modeling
• Climate change adaptation
• Interdisciplinary approaches to integrate natural and social sciences
• Urban risk and vulnerability assessment
• Global, regional climate modeling
• Asian summer monsoon, tropical convection and tropical rainfall simulation

Project

• CLICCS C1: Sustainable Adaptation Scenarios for Urban Areas - Water from Four Sides

Refereed Publications

• Hanf, F. S., Knieling, K., von Szombathely, M., Wickel, M., Oßenbrügge, J., Schlipf, S. and Sillmann, J. (2024). Hamburg, Germany. In: Engels, A.; J. Marotzke; B. Ratter; E. G. Gresse; A. López-Rivera; A. Pagnone; J. Wilkens (eds.); 2024. Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024. Conditions for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation. Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS), pp. 104-108. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470817.

• Olonscheck, D., and F. S. Hanf (2024). Are Recently Observed Heavy Precipitation Extremes Realistically Represented by State-of-the-Art Spatial Resolutions of Global Climate Models? In: Engels, A.; J. Marotzke; B. Ratter; E. G. Gresse; A. López-Rivera; A. Pagnone; J. Wilkens (eds.); 2024. Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024. Conditions for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation. Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS). pp. 79-83. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470817.

• von Szombathely, M., Hanf, F.S., Bareis, J., Meier, L., Oßenbrügge, J., Pohl, T. (2023). An Index-Based Approach to Assess Social Vulnerability for Hamburg, Germany. Int J Disaster Risk Sci, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-023-00517-7.

• Gresse, E.G., Schrum, C., Hoffmann, P., Bolaños, T.G., Hanf, F.S., Pein, J., (2023). Plausibility assessment methodology. In: Engels, A., Marotzke, J., Gresse, E.G., López-Rivera, A., Pagnone, A., Wilkens, J. (eds.); 2023. Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook. The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming - Social drivers and physical processes, Hamburg Germany, doi:10.25592/uhhfdm.11230

• Jantke, K., Pein, J., Hanf, F.S, Schrum, C., Langendijk, G.S, Hoffmann, P., Schneider, U.A., Neuburger, M., Seiffert, R., Umaña, C.R., Sillmann, J., Wickel, M. (2023). Climate change adaptation in key social-ecological systems. In: Engels, A., Marotzke, J., Gresse, E.G., López-Rivera, A., Pagnone, A., Wilkens, J. (eds.); 2023. Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook. The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming - Social drivers and physical processes, Hamburg Germany, doi:10.25592/uhhfdm.11230

• Hanf, F.S., Gresse, E.G., Schrum, C., Wickel, M., Bolaños, T.G., Umaña, C.R., Huang-Lachmann, J.-T., (2023). Climate action as a multi-dimensional challenge. In: Engels, A., Marotzke, J., Gresse, E.G., López-Rivera, A., Pagnone, A., Wilkens, J. (eds.); 2023. Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook. The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming - Social drivers and physical processes, Hamburg Germany, doi:10.25592/uhhfdm.11230

• Gresse, E.G., Schrum, C., Hanf, F.S., Jantke, K., Pein, J. Hawxwell, T. Hoffmann, P., Bolaños, T.G., Langendijk, G.S., Schneider, U.A., Huang-Lachmann, J.-T., Neuburger, M., Umaña, C.R., Seiffert, R., Wickel, M., Sillmann, J., Scheffran, J., Held, H. (2023). Toward a Sustainable Adaptation Plausibility Framework. In: Engels, A., Marotzke, J., Gresse, E.G., López-Rivera, A., Pagnone, A., Wilkens, J. (eds.); 2023. Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook. The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming - Social drivers and physical processes, Hamburg Germany, doi:10.25592/uhhfdm.11230.

• Hanf, F.S., and H. Annamalai (2020). Systematic errors in South Asian monsoon precipitation: Process-based diagnostics and sensitivity to entrainment in NCAR models. J. Climate, 33 (7), 2817-2840, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0495.1.

• Hanf, F.S., H. Annamalai, A. Rinke, and K. Dethloff (2017). South Asian summer monsoon breaks: Process-based diagnostics in HIRHAM5. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 122 (9), 4880-4902, doi:10.1002/2016JD025967.

• Hanf, F.S. (2016). South Asian summer monsoon variability: a modelling study with the atmospheric regional climate model HIRHAM5. Doctoral thesis, Institute of Physics and Astronomy / Faculty of Science / University of Potsdam, urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-89331.

• Hanf, F.S. (2012). The ocean–atmosphere coupling of the South Asian Summer Monsoon during the last Millennium. Master thesis, Interactions in the Climate System of the Earth / Institute of Meteorology / Freie Universität Berlin.

• Hanf, F.S., J. Körper, T. Spangehl, and U. Cubasch (2012). Shifts of climate zones in multi-model climate change experiments using the Köppen climate classification. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 21 (2), 111-123, doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0344.

Outreach

• Workshop 'Anpassung an den Klimawandel in Hamburg - was ist machbar, was ist plausibel?' at Klimakongress kk23 - Klimaforschung und Zukunftsszenarien, Universität Hamburg, 21.09.2023
• Talk "Wasser von vier Seiten: Welche Wechselwirkungen gibt es mit der Stadt Hamburg als sozioökologisches System? Die Entwicklung eines konzeptionellen Modells als Ergebnis interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit" at Interdisciplinary public lecture series "Anpassung an den Klimawandel in der Stadt, auf dem Land und an der Küste – Adaptation to climate change in cities, rural areas, and on the coast" (WiSe 2022/23), Universität Hamburg, 01.11.2022
• Conceptualisation and realisation of the Interdisciplinary public lecture series "Anpassung an den Klimawandel in der Stadt, auf dem Land und an der Küste – Adaptation to climate change in cities, rural areas, and on the coast" (WiSe 2022/2023), Universität Hamburg

Other professional activities

• Co-founder and vice-chair (2024-present) of the expert committee 'climate communication' of the German Meteorological Society (Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft; DMG) since 2021
• Representative Young Talents of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Climate, Climatic Change, and Society’ (CLICCS, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany), 2021-2023