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Gian-Kasper Plattner is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research activity primarily lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Economics and Econometrics, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work spans multiple topics, particularly Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Climate variability and models, Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, and Risk Perception and Management.

Plattner's recent papers illustrate engagement with diverse environmental issues and modeling approaches. Notable publications include:

  • "Geological Net Zero and the need for disaggregated accounting for carbon sinks" (2024, Nature)
  • "A perspective on the next generation of Earth system model scenarios: towards representative emission pathways (REPs)" (2024, Geoscientific model development)
  • "Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments: The case of the IPCC" (2022, Environmental Science & Policy)
  • "Cloud Optimized Raster Encoding (CORE): A Web-Native Streamable Format for Large Environmental Time Series" (2021, Geomatics)
  • "Revision of the global carbon budget due to changing air-sea oxygen fluxes" (2021, Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern))

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as Ionuţ Iosifescu Enescu, Lucia Espona Pernas, Dominik Haas-Artho, Rebecca Kurup Buchholz, and David Hanimann.

In terms of publication venues, Plattner has contributed multiple works to the Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern) as well as Abstracts of the ICA, with additional publications in Nature, Geoscientific model development, and Environmental Science & Policy.

Gian-Kasper Plattner has also contributed to book publications, notably a 2024 report titled "Geschäftsbericht. Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL 2023" published by WSL-Berichte/WSL Berichte.

Best Publications

  • Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis

    Reinhard F. Stocker;D Qin;G.-K. Plattner;M Tignor

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

    Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

  • Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms

    James C. Orr;Victoria J. Fabry;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation. Special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

  • Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

  • Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions

    Susan Solomon;Gian-Kasper Plattner;Reto Knutti;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global Warming

    Susan Solomon;Karen H. Rosenlof;Robert W. Portmann;John S. Daniel

  • Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties

    Michael D. Mastrandrea;Christopher B. Field;Thomas F. Stocker;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics:a multi-model analysis

    Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Raphael Roth;Raphael Roth;J. S. Fuglestvedt;G. P. Peters

  • Imminent ocean acidification in the Arctic projected with the NCAR global coupled carbon cycle-climate model

    Marco Steinacher;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Thomas Lukas Frölicher;Gian-Kasper Plattner;Gian-Kasper Plattner

  • 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

  • Global warming feedbacks on terrestrial carbon uptake under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Emission Scenarios

    Fortunat Joos;I. Colin Prentice;Stephen Sitch;Robert Meyer

  • Rapid Progression of Ocean Acidification in the California Current System

    Nicolas Gruber;Claudine Hauri;Zouhair Lachkar;Damian Loher

  • Constraints on radiative forcing and future climate change from observations and climate model ensembles

    Reto Knutti;Thomas F. Stocker;Fortunat Joos;Gian-Kasper Plattner

  • Global warming and marine carbon cycle feedbacks on future atmospheric CO2

    Fortunat Joos;Gian-Kasper Plattner;Thomas F. Stocker;Olivier Marchal

  • Eddy-induced reduction of biological production in eastern boundary upwelling systems

    Nicolas Gruber;Zouhair Lachkar;Hartmut Frenzel;Patrick Marchesiello

  • The IPCC AR5 guidance note on consistent treatment of uncertainties: a common approach across the working groups

    Michael D. Mastrandrea;Katharine J. Mach;Gian-Kasper Plattner;Ottmar Edenhofer;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Evaluating Global Ocean Carbon Models: The Importance of Realistic Physics

    Scott C. Doney;Keith Lindsay;K. Caldeira;J.-M. Campin;J.-M. Campin

  • Impact of circulation on export production, dissolved organic matter, and dissolved oxygen in the ocean: Results from Phase II of the Ocean Carbon-cycle Model Intercomparison Project (OCMIP-2)

    Raymond G. Najjar;X. Jin;F. Louanchi;Olivier Aumont

  • Evaluation of ocean carbon cycle models with data-based metrics

    K. Matsumoto;Jorge L. Sarmiento;Robert M. Key;Olivier Aumont

Frequent Co-Authors

Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Nicolas Gruber
Nicolas Gruber ETH Zurich
Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia
James C. Orr
James C. Orr French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Reiner Schlitzer
Reiner Schlitzer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Andrew Yool
Andrew Yool National Oceanography Centre
Ernst Maier-Reimer
Ernst Maier-Reimer Max Planck Society
Richard J. Matear
Richard J. Matear CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere

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