Axel Timmermann
Director, Distinguished Professor
Climate Physics
Institute for Basic Science
Korea
Biography
Axel Timmermann, Distinguished Professor at Pusan National University, and Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, was appointed Director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics in January 2017. Prior to his move to Korea, he was a tenured Professor for Physical Oceanography at the University of Hawaii and Team Leader at the International Pacific Research Center. Director Timmermann received his PhD in Meteorology from the University of Hamburg in 1999 and his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Marburg in Germany in 1995.
Research Interest
El Niño Human migration and climate Climate/carbon cycle interactions Glacial Dynamics Abrupt Climate Change Sea level rise Ice-sheet instabilities Climate Predictability
Publications
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Strong middepth warming and weak radiocarbon imprints in the equatorial Atlantic during Heinrich 1 and Younger Dryas, S Weldeab, T Friedrich, A Timmermann, R Schneider Paleoceanography 31, doi:10.1002/2016PA002957, 2016
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Tropical Pacific SST drivers of recent Antarctic sea ice trends, A Purich, M England, W Cai, Y Chikamoto, A Timmermann, J Fyfe, Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175 JCLI-D-16, 2016
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Nonlinear climate sensitivity and its implications for future greenhouse warming, T Friedrich, A Timmermann, M Tigchelaar, O Elison Timm, A Ganopolski, Science Advances 2 (11), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501923, 2016
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Revisiting ENSO/Indian Ocean Dipole phase relationships, M Stuecker, A Timmermann, FF Jin, Y Chikamoto, W Zhang, Geophysical Research Letters 44, DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072308, 2017
