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Gerrit Lohmann

Gerrit Lohmann

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Earth Science

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84
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22836
World Ranking
404
National Ranking
17

Overview

Gerrit Lohmann is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Paleontology.

Their work covers a range of scientific topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate variability and models
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost

Lohmann has contributed extensively to the academic literature, with recent notable papers including:

  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations (2021, Climate of the past)
  • A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 years (2021, Nature Communications)
  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet (2020, The Cryosphere)
  • The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity (2020, Climate of the past)
  • Poleward Shift of the Major Ocean Gyres Detected in a Warming Climate (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

Frequent publication venues where Lohmann's research appears include:

  • Climate of the past
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

Their collaborative network involves recurring co-authors such as:

  • Xiaoxu Shi
  • Christian Stepanek
  • Gregor Knorr
  • Zhongshi Zhang
  • Bette L. Otto-Bliesner

In addition to journal articles, Lohmann has contributed to book publications, including a forthcoming title from Springer International Publishing entitled Conversations on Climate: The People Behind the Science (2025).

Best Publications

  • Earth system models of intermediate complexity: closing the gap in the spectrum of climate system models

    M. Claussen;LA Mysak;AJ Weaver;Michel Crucifix

  • The Holocene temperature conundrum

    Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Jiang Zhu;Yair Rosenthal;Xu Zhang

  • Thermohaline circulation hysteresis: A model intercomparison

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Michel Crucifix;Andrey Ganopolski;Hugues Goosse

  • Large-scale features of Pliocene climate: results from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project

    Alan Haywood;Daniel Hill;Daniel Hill;Aisling Dolan;Bette Otto-Bliesner

  • Southern Ocean origin for the resumption of Atlantic thermohaline circulation during deglaciation

    Gregor Knorr;Gregor Knorr;Gerrit Lohmann;Gerrit Lohmann

  • Abrupt glacial climate shifts controlled by ice sheet changes

    Xu Zhang;Gerrit Lohmann;Gregor Knorr;Conor Purcell;Conor Purcell

  • Stable water isotopes in the ECHAM5 general circulation model: Toward high‐resolution isotope modeling on a global scale

    Martin Werner;Petra M. Langebroek;Tim Carlsen;Tim Carlsen;Marcus Herold;Marcus Herold

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 2: Two interglacials, scientific objective and experimental design for Holocene and Last Interglacial simulations

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P. Harrison;Daniel J Lunt

  • Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period

    Thomas Felis;Gerrit Lohmann;Henning Kuhnert;Stephan J. Lorenz

  • Holocene and Eemian sea surface temperature trends as revealed by alkenone and Mg/Ca paleothermometry

    Guillaume Leduc;Ralph R Schneider;Jung-Hyun Kim;Gerrit Lohmann

  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: Preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations

    Masa Kageyama;Sandy P. Harrison;Marie L. Kapsch;Marcus Lofverstrom

  • Intensification and poleward shift of subtropical western boundary currents in a warming climate

    Hu Yang;Gerrit Lohmann;Wei Wei;Mihai Dima

  • Millennial-scale variability in Antarctic ice-sheet discharge during the last deglaciation

    M. E. Weber;P.U. Clark;G. Kuhn;A. Timmermann

  • Evidence for Obliquity Forcing of Glacial Termination II

    R.N. Drysdale;J. C. Hellstrom;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;A. E. Fallick

  • Towards quantitative sea ice reconstructions in the northern North Atlantic: A combined biomarker and numerical modelling approach

    Juliane Müller;Axel Wagner;Axel Wagner;Kirsten Fahl;Ruediger Stein

  • A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80 000 years

    Evan J. Gowan;Xu Zhang;Xu Zhang;Sara Khosravi;Alessio Rovere

  • The PMIP4 Contribution to CMIP6-Part 4: Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum Experiments and PMIP4 Sensitivity Experiments

    Masa Kageyama;Samuel Albani;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P Harrison

  • A hemispheric mechanism for the atlantic multidecadal oscillation

    Mihai Dima;Gerrit Lohmann

  • What caused Earth's temperature variations during the last 800,000 years? Data-based evidence on radiative forcing and constraints on climate sensitivity

    Peter Köhler;Richard Bintanja;Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos

  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Xavier Fettweis;Stefan Hofer;Stefan Hofer;Uta Krebs-Kanzow;Charles Amory

  • Radiocarbon simulations for the glacial ocean: the effects of wind stress, Southern Ocean sea ice and Heinrich events.

    Martin Butzin;Matthias Prange;Gerrit Lohmann

  • The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity

    Alan M. Haywood;Julia C. Tindall;Harry J. Dowsett;Aisling M. Dolan

  • North Pacific and North Atlantic sea-surface temperature variability during the Holocene

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Norel Rimbu;Stephan J. Lorenz;Gerrit Lohmann

  • Southern Ocean Origin for Resumption of Atlantic Thermohalilne Circulation during Deglaciation

    Gregor Knorr;Gerrit Lohmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregor Knorr
Gregor Knorr Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Thomas Felis
Thomas Felis University of Bremen
Matthias Prange
Matthias Prange University of Bremen
Zhongshi Zhang
Zhongshi Zhang NORCE Research
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Martin Werner
Martin Werner Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Denis Scholz
Denis Scholz Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Wilfried Jokat
Wilfried Jokat University of Bremen
Torsten Bickert
Torsten Bickert University of Bremen
Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

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