Dr. Franziska S. Hanf
Foto: Franziska S. Hanf
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
Note: currently working from home with phone forwarding (this induces a connection delay)
Anschrift
Universität Hamburg
Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften
Erdsystemwissenschaft
Meteorologisches Institut
Bundesstr. 55
20146 Hamburg
Büro
Geomatikum
Raum: 1611
Kontakt
Tel.: +49 40 42838-5081
Fax: +49 40 42838-5452
E-Mail: franziska.hanf"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Schwerpunkte
- Project: Water from Four Sides (CLICCS C1)
Project
Sustainable Adaptation Scenarios for Urban Areas - Water from Four Sides (CLICCS C1)
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
- Precipitation in urban areas
- Urban adaptation to climate change
- Mesoscale modelling
- Global, regional climate modelling
- Tropical rainfall simulation
- Asian summer monsoon and tropical convection
- Monsoon breaks
- Aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions
Refereed Publications
- 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.