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Klaus Hasselmann

Klaus Hasselmann

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
72
Citations
35785
World Ranking
1462
National Ranking
102

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 1988 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1964 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1964 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Klaus Hasselmann is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans several intersecting fields including Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, and Management Science and Operations Research. The scientist's main research topics focus on Climate Change Policy and Economics, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, and demographic modeling and climate adaptation.

Among recent publications, two notable papers include:

  • Beyond shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) and representative concentration pathways (RCPs): climate policy implementation scenarios for Europe, the US and China, 2020, Climate Policy
  • Table of Contents, 2022, Computing in Science & Engineering

Frequently collaborating with Klaus Hasselmann are several co-authors, including:

  • Richard J. Hewitt
  • Roger Cremades
  • Dmitry V. Kovalevsky
  • Manish Parashar
  • Sven Hammarling

Publication venues where their work is often featured include:

  • Climate Policy
  • Computing in Science & Engineering

Recognition received throughout their career includes several awards and honors:

  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2009)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (1988)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1964)
  • James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1964)
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Best Publications

  • Measurements of wind-wave growth and swell decay during the Joint North Sea Wave Project (JONSWAP)

    K. Hasselmann;T.P. Barnett;E. Bouws;H. Carlson

  • Dynamics and Modelling of Ocean Waves

    G. J. Komen;L. Cavaleri;M. Donelan;K. Hasselmann

  • Stochastic climate models Part I. Theory

    Klaus Hasselmann

  • On the non-linear energy transfer in a gravity-wave spectrum Part 1. General theory

    K. Hasselmann

  • On the existence of a fully developed wind-sea spectrum

    G. J. Komen;Susanne Hasselmann;Klaus Hasselmann

  • Computations and Parameterizations of the Nonlinear Energy Transfer in a Gravity-Wave Specturm. Part II: Parameterizations of the Nonlinear Energy Transfer for Application in Wave Models

    Susanne Hasselmann;Klaus Hasselmann;J. H. Allender;T. P. Barnett

  • Arctic climate change: observed and modelled temperature and sea-ice variability

    Ola M. Johannessen;Ola M. Johannessen;Lennart Bengtsson;Martin W. Miles;Svetlana I. Kuzmina

  • Stochastic climate models, part II. Application to sea-surface temperature anomalies and thermocline variability

    Claude Frankignoul;Klaus Hasselmann

  • Transport and storage of CO2 in the ocean ——an inorganic ocean-circulation carbon cycle model

    E. Maier-Reimer;Klaus Hasselmann

  • A statistical analysis of the generation of microseisms

    Klaus Hasselmann

  • On the nonlinear mapping of an ocean wave spectrum into a synthetic aperture radar image spectrum and its inversion

    Klaus Hasselmann;Susanne Hasselmann

  • Time-dependent greenhouse warming computations with a coupled ocean-atmosphere model

    Ulrich Cubasch;Klaus Hasselmann;Heinke Höck;Ernst Maier-Reimer

  • Theory of synthetic aperture radar ocean imaging: A MARSEN view

    Klaus Hasselmann;R. K. Raney;W. J. Plant;W. Alpers

  • A parametric wave prediction model

    K. Hasselmann;W. Sell;D. B. Ross;P. Müller

  • 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

  • On the spectral dissipation of ocean waves due to white capping

    Klaus Hasselmann

  • PIPs and POPs: The reduction of complex dynamical systems using principal interaction and oscillation patterns

    Klaus Hasselmann

  • Mean Circulation of the Hamburg LSG OGCM and Its Sensitivity to the Thermohaline Surface Forcing

    Ernst Maier-Reimer;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Klaus Hasselmann

  • Propagation of ocean swell across the Pacific

    F. E. Snodgrass;G. W. Groves;Klaus F. Hasselmann;G. R. Miller

  • Computations and Parameterizations of the Nonlinear Energy Transfer in a Gravity-Wave Spectrum. Part I: A New Method for Efficient Computations of the Exact Nonlinear Transfer Integral

    Susanne Hasselmann;Klaus Hasselmann

  • Detecting greenhouse-gas-induced climate change with an optimal fingerprint method

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Hans von Storch;Klaus Hasselmann;Benjamin D. Santer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Cubasch
Ulrich Cubasch Freie Universität Berlin
Werner Alpers
Werner Alpers Universität Hamburg
Mark A. Donelan
Mark A. Donelan University of Miami
Ola M. Johannessen
Ola M. Johannessen Nansen Scientific Society
Tim P. Barnett
Tim P. Barnett Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Benjamin D. Santer
Benjamin D. Santer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ernst Maier-Reimer
Ernst Maier-Reimer Max Planck Society
Gabriele C. Hegerl
Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh
Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society
Patrick Heimbach
Patrick Heimbach The University of Texas at Austin

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