Stefan Rahmstorf

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Stefan Rahmstorf (born February 22, 1960) is a German oceanographer and climatologist. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University. He received his PhD in oceanography from Victoria University of Wellington (1990). His work focuses on the role of ocean currents in climate change.

He was one of the lead authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

In 1999 Rahmstorf was awarded the $1 million Centennial Fellowship Award of the US-based James S. McDonnell foundation. Rahmstorf is a member of the Panel on Abrupt Climate Change and of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).

[edit] Selected publications

  • Rahmstorf, S. and K. Zickfeld (2005). Thermohaline circulation changes: a question of risk assessment. Climatic Change 68, 241-247.
  • Rahmstorf, S., et al. (2004). Cosmic rays, carbon dioxide and climate. Eos 85, 38, 41.
  • Zickfeld, K., T. Slawig, and S. Rahmstorf (2004). A low-order model for the response of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation to climate change. Ocean Dynamics 54, 8-26.
  • Rahmstorf, S. (2003). Timing of abrupt climate change: a precise clock. Geophys. Res. Let. 30, 1510.
  • Rahmstorf, S. (2003). Thermohaline circulation: The current climate. Nature 421, 699.
  • Rahmstorf, S. (2002). Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years. Nature 419, 207-214.
  • Ganopolski, A. and S. Rahmstorf (2002). Abrupt glacial climate changes due to stochastic resonance. Phys. Rev. Let. 88, 038501.
  • Rahmstorf, S., and R.B. Alley (2002). Stochastic resonance in glacial climate. Eos 83, 129-135.
  • Ganopolski, A. and S. Rahmstorf (2001): Simulation of rapid glacial climate changes in a coupled climate model. Nature 409, 153-158.
  • Rahmstorf, S. (1999). Shifting seas in the greenhouse? Nature 399, 523-524.
  • Ganopolski, A., S. Rahmstorf, V. Petoukhov and M. Claussen (1998). Simulation of modern and glacial climates with a coupled global climate model. Nature 391, 351-356.
  • Rahmstorf, S. (1997). Risk of sea-change in the Atlantic. Nature 388, 825-826.
  • Rahmstorf, S. (1995) Bifurcations of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to changes in the hydrological cycle. Nature 378, 145-149.
  • Rahmstorf, S. (1994). Rapid climate transitions in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. Nature 372, 82-85.

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