Matteo Willeit
PostDoc
Earth system Analysis
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Germany
Biography
I am a Physicist/Meteorologist by training. I studied at the University of Bologna. During my PhD at PIK my work was focused on the analysis and quantification of vegetation-climate and carbon-cycle feedbacks using the CLIMBER Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC). My PhD work was part of the GREENCYCLES II Initial Training Network on global biosphere-climate interactions funded by the Marie Curie 7th Framework Programme.
Research Interest
Major transitions in Quaternary climate. Currently I am studying the major transitions in Quaternary climate, including the intensification of northern Hemisphere glaciation (Pliocene-Pleistocene transition at around 2.7 Million years ago) and the transition from 40 kyr (1kyr = 1000 years) to 100 kyr dominated glacial cycles (mid-Pleistocene revolution, around 1 Million year ago). The project is funded by the DFG.
Publications
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Willeit, M., Ganopolski, A., Calov, R., Robinson, A. and Maslin, M., 2015: The role of CO2 decline for the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation, Quat. Sci. Rev., 119, 22–34,
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Willeit, M. and Ganopolski, A., 2015: Coupled Northern Hemisphere permafrost-ice-sheet evolution over the last glacial cycle, Clim. Past, 11(9), 1165–1180,
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Willeit, M. and Ganopolski, A., 2016: PALADYN v1.0, a comprehensive land surface–vegetation–carbon cycle model of intermediate complexity, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 3817-3857,
