Dr. Franziska S. Hanf

Education

• Ph.D. Climate Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 2016.
  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.
  Title: The ocean-atmosphere coupling of the South Asian Summer Monsoon during the last Millennium
• B.Sc. Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2009.
  Title: Analyse der Verschiebung von Klimazonen nach Köppen in Folge der Erhöhung von Treibhausgaskonzentrationen

Scientific Work Experience

• since July 2019: Postdoctoral 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

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

Other professional activities

• Co-founder and member of the expert committee 'climate communication' of the German Meteorological Society (Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft; DMG) since 2021