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Claudia Timmreck

Claudia Timmreck

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
11099
World Ranking
4445
National Ranking
305

Overview

Claudia Timmreck is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions to Oceanography, Paleontology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in Timmreck's research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Timmreck has published frequently in leading scientific journals. The most common venues for their work include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Climate of the Past
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Climate

Recent publications by Timmreck include:

  • Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), 2020, Monthly Weather Review
  • Volcanic effects on climate: recent advances and future avenues, 2022, Bulletin of Volcanology
  • The Climate Response to Emissions Reductions Due to COVID-19: Initial Results From CovidMIP, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Model physics and chemistry causing intermodel disagreement within the VolMIP-Tambora Interactive Stratospheric Aerosol ensemble, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Interactive stratospheric aerosol models' response to different amounts and altitudes of SO 2 injection during the 1991 Pinatubo eruption, 2023, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent collaborators that have coauthored multiple works alongside Timmreck include:

  • Matthew Toohey
  • Hauke Schmidt
  • Davide Zanchettin
  • Shih-Wei Fang
  • Ulrike Niemeier

Best Publications

  • Climate and carbon cycle changes from 1850 to 2100 in MPI‐ESM simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5

    Marco A. Giorgetta;Johann H. Jungclaus;Christian H. Reick;Stephanie Legutke

  • An improved parameterization for sulfuric acid-water nucleation rates for tropospheric and stratospheric conditions

    Hanna Tuula Katariina Vehkamäki;M Kulmala;I Napari;K E J Lehtinen

  • Stratospheric Aerosol--Observations, Processes, and Impact on Climate

    Stefanie Kremser;Larry W. Thomason;Marc von Hobe;Markus Hermann

  • Climate and carbon-cycle variability over the last millennium

    Johann H. Jungclaus;S. J. Lorenz;C. Timmreck;C. H. Reick

  • Modeling the climatic effects of large explosive volcanic eruptions

    Claudia Timmreck

  • Monthly averages of aerosol properties: A global comparison among models, satellite data, and AERONET ground data

    Stefan Kinne;Ulrike Lohmann;Johann Feichter;M. Schulz

  • Tambora 1815 as a test case for high impact volcanic eruptions: Earth system effects.

    Christoph C. Raible;Stefan Bronnimann;Renate Auchmann;Philip Brohan

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations

    Johann H. Jungclaus;Edouard Bard;Mélanie Baroni;Pascale Braconnot

  • The Model Intercomparison Project on the climatic response to Volcanic forcing (VolMIP) : experimental design and forcing input data for CMIP6

    Davide Zanchettin;Myriam Khodri;Claudia Timmreck;Matthew Toohey;Matthew Toohey

  • Bi-decadal variability excited in the coupled ocean–atmosphere system by strong tropical volcanic eruptions

    D. Zanchettin;C. Timmreck;H.-F. Graf;A. Rubino

  • Tree rings and volcanic cooling

    Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Petra Breitenmoser;Keith R. Briffa;Agata Buchwal

  • Aerosol size confines climate response to volcanic super-eruptions

    Claudia Timmreck;Hans-F. Graf;Stephan J. Lorenz;Ulrike Niemeier

  • Limited temperature response to the very large AD 1258 volcanic eruption

    Claudia Timmreck;Stephan J. Lorenz;Thomas J. Crowley;Stefan Kinne

  • Initial fate of fine ash and sulfur from large volcanic eruptions

    U. Niemeier;C. Timmreck;H.-F. Graf;S. Kinne

  • Volcanic effects on climate: recent advances and future avenues

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  • What is the limit of climate engineering by stratospheric injection of SO 2

    Ulrike Niemeier;Claudia Timmreck

  • Solar irradiance reduction to counteract radiative forcing from a quadrupling of CO2: climate responses simulated by four earth system models

    Hauke Schmidt;K. Alterskjaer;D. Bou Karam;O. Boucher;O. Boucher

  • Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)

    Stephanie Fiedler;Traute Crueger;Roberta D’Agostino;Karsten Peters

  • Background conditions influence the decadal climate response to strong volcanic eruptions

    Davide Zanchettin;Oliver Bothe;Oliver Bothe;Oliver Bothe;Hans F. Graf;Stephan J. Lorenz

  • The influence of eruption season on the global aerosol evolution and radiative impact of tropical volcanic eruptions

    Matthew Toohey;Kirstin Krüger;U. Niemeier;C. Timmreck

  • Emissions from volcanoes

    C. Textor;H.-F. Graf;Claudia Timmreck

  • Disproportionately strong climate forcing from extratropical explosive volcanic eruptions

    Matthew Toohey;Kirstin Krüger;Hauke Schmidt;Claudia Timmreck

  • Easy Volcanic Aerosol (EVA v1.0): an idealized forcing generator for climate simulations

    Matthew Toohey;Matthew Toohey;Bjorn Stevens;Hauke Schmidt;Claudia Timmreck

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirstin Krüger
Kirstin Krüger University of Oslo
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Hauke Schmidt
Hauke Schmidt Max Planck Society
Marco A. Giorgetta
Marco A. Giorgetta Max Planck Society
Hans-F. Graf
Hans-F. Graf University of Cambridge
Steffen Kutterolf
Steffen Kutterolf Kiel University
Michael J. Mills
Michael J. Mills National Center for Atmospheric Research
Johann Feichter
Johann Feichter Max Planck Society
Armin Freundt
Armin Freundt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Anja Schmidt
Anja Schmidt University of Cambridge

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