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2023

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Anders Levermann is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within environmental science and earth sciences, with a focus on atmospheric phenomena and global climate dynamics.

The scientist's main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. They specialize particularly in the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Key topics covered in their research are:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Anders Levermann are:

  • "The effect of rainfall changes on economic production," 2022, published in Nature
  • "RETRACTED ARTICLE: The economic commitment of climate change," 2024, published in Nature
  • "Robust increase of Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability under future warming in CMIP6 models," 2021, published in Earth System Dynamics
  • "Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth," 2021, published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice shelf melt using linear response functions of 16 ice sheet models (LARMIP-2)," 2020, published in Earth System Dynamics

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sven Willner
  • Christian Otto
  • Leonie Wenz
  • Maximilian Kotz
  • Ricarda Winkelmann

The scientist often publishes in these venues:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise

    Jochen Hinkel;Daniel Lincke;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Mahé Perrette

  • Sea-Level Rise by 2100

    John A. Church;Peter U. Clark;Anny Cazenave;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Investigating the Causes of the Response of the Thermohaline Circulation to Past and Future Climate Changes

    Ronald J. Stouffer;J. Yin;J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon

  • On the driving processes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

    T. Kuhlbrodt;A. Griesel;M. Montoya;A. Levermann

  • Sea Level Change

    J. A. Church;P. U. Clark;A. Cazenave;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Changing the resilience paradigm

    Igor Linkov;Todd Bridges;Felix Creutzig;Jennifer Decker

  • A model intercomparison of changes in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration

    J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon;R. J. Stouffer;A. J. Weaver

  • Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Shaun A. Marcott;Alan C. Mix

  • The Potsdam Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM-PIK) – Part 1: Model description

    R. Winkelmann;R. Winkelmann;M. A. Martin;M. A. Martin;M. Haseloff;M. Haseloff;T. Albrecht;T. Albrecht

  • The multimillennial sea-level commitment of global warming

    Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Peter U. Clark;Ben Marzeion;Glenn A. Milne

  • Ice-sheet model sensitivities to environmental forcing and their use in projecting future sea level (the SeaRISE project)

    Robert A. Bindschadler;Sophie Nowicki;Ayako Abe-OUCHI;Andy Aschwanden

  • The far reach of ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica

    R. Reese;R. Reese;G. H. Gudmundsson;A. Levermann;A. Levermann;A. Levermann;R. Winkelmann;R. Winkelmann

  • Loss of cultural world heritage and currently inhabited places to sea-level rise

    Ben Marzeion;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann

  • Future sea level rise constrained by observations and long-term commitment

    Matthias Mengel;Matthias Mengel;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Katja Frieler;Alexander James Robinson;Alexander James Robinson

  • Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet after local destabilization of the Amundsen Basin

    Johannes Feldmann;Anders Levermann

  • Dynamic sea level changes following changes in the thermohaline circulation

    Anders Levermann;Alexa Griesel;Matthias Hofmann;Marisa Montoya

  • Estimating the near-surface permafrost-carbon feedback on global warming

    T. Schneider von Deimling;M. Meinshausen;M. Meinshausen;A. Levermann;A. Levermann;V. Huber

  • Consistent increase in Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability across CMIP-5 models

    A. Menon;A. Menon;A. Levermann;A. Levermann;J. Schewe;J. Lehmann;J. Lehmann

  • Robust increase of Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability under future warming in CMIP6 models

    Anja Katzenberger;Anja Katzenberger;Jacob Schewe;Julia Pongratz;Julia Pongratz;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann

  • Consistent evidence of increasing Antarctic accumulation with warming

    Katja Frieler;Peter U. Clark;Feng He;Feng He;Christo Buizert

  • Ice plug prevents irreversible discharge from East Antarctica

    M. Mengel;M. Mengel;A. Levermann;A. Levermann

  • Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth

    Maximilian Kotz;Maximilian Kotz;Leonie Wenz;Leonie Wenz;Annika Stechemesser;Annika Stechemesser;Matthias Kalkuhl

  • The Potsdam Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM-PIK) – Part 2: Dynamic equilibrium simulation of the Antarctic ice sheet

    M. A. Martin;M. A. Martin;Ricarda Winkelmann;Ricarda Winkelmann;M. Haseloff;M. Haseloff;T. Albrecht;T. Albrecht

  • The hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

    Julius Garbe;Julius Garbe;Torsten Albrecht;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Jonathan Friedemann Donges;Jonathan Friedemann Donges

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricarda Winkelmann
Ricarda Winkelmann University of Potsdam
Katja Frieler
Katja Frieler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Malte Meinshausen
Malte Meinshausen University of Melbourne
Peter U. Clark
Peter U. Clark Oregon State University
Stefan Rahmstorf
Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ben Marzeion
Ben Marzeion University of Bremen
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Juliette Mignot
Juliette Mignot Université Paris Cité
Glenn A. Milne
Glenn A. Milne University of Ottawa
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading

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