Malte Meinshausen
Senior Scientist,
Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Germany
Biography
He is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Climate Impacts & Vulnerabilities at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, Germany.
Research Interest
Emission and concentration implications of long term climate targets, such as limiting global warming to below 2°C. Maintenance and further development of MAGICC6, the lower complexity coupled carbon-cycle, climate model, together with Tom Wigley and Sarah Raper. Analysis of GCM and carbon cycle (CMIP3, C4MIP and forthcoming CMIP5) intercomparison exercises. Creation of greenhouse gas concentration pathways for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), the new set of scenarios for climate change research. Analysis of international climate policy agreement under the UNFCCC in regard to their emission and climate implications. Team-leader of the research group PRIMAP at PIK until May 2011, now PRIMAP affiliate and at School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne (see http://www.primap.org). Member of External Advisory Board of "Nature Climate Change" and Editorial Board member of "Scientific Reports", both by Nature Publishing Group.
Publications
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Luderer, G., R. C. Pietzcker, C. Bertram, E. Kriegler, M. Meinshausen and O. Edenhofer (2013). "Economic mitigation challenges: how further delay closes the door for achieving climate targets." Environmental Research Letters 8(3).
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Khodayari, A., D. J. Wuebbles, S. C. Olsen, J. S. Fuglestvedt, T. Berntsen, M. T. Lund, I. Waitz, P. Wolfe, P. M. Forster, M. Meinshausen, D. S. Lee and L. L. Lim (2013). "Intercomparison of the capabilities of simplified climate models to project the effects of aviation CO2 on climate." Atmospheric Environment 75: 321-328.
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Heinke, J., S. Ostberg, S. Schaphoff, K. Frieler, C. Mueller, D. Gerten, M. Meinshausen and W. Lucht (2013). "A new climate dataset for systematic assessments of climate change impacts as a function of global warming." Geoscientific Model Development 6(5): 1689-1703.
