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Manfred Mudelsee

Manfred Mudelsee

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Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
16361
World Ranking
2792
National Ranking
183

Overview

Manfred Mudelsee is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research covers several key subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of main topics, focusing particularly on Climate variability and models, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, and Tree-ring climate responses. Additional areas include Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Manfred Mudelsee has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Igor Leščešen, Dragoslav Pavić, Minučer Mesaroš, Mojca Šraj, and Biljana Basarin.

Their research has been published in a variety of venues, with notable contributions to Quaternary Science Reviews, where they have three publications. Other venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, and Sustainability.

Selected recent papers illustrate the range of topics studied:

  • Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Muted multidecadal climate variability in central Europe during cold stadial periods, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Inter-hemispheric synchroneity of Holocene precipitation anomalies controlled by Earth's latitudinal insolation gradients, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The multifaceted history of the Walker Circulation during the Plio-Pleistocene, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Statistical Modeling of the Early-Stage Impact of a New Traffic Policy in Milan, Italy, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Manfred Mudelsee has also contributed to academic literature through book publication, including the work titled Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes, published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Holocene forcing of the Indian monsoon recorded in a stalagmite from southern Oman.

    Dominik Fleitmann;Stephen J. Burns;Manfred Mudelsee;Ulrich Neff

  • REDFIT: estimating red-noise spectra directly from unevenly spaced paleoclimatic time series

    Michael Schulz;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Holocene ITCZ and Indian monsoon dynamics recorded in stalagmites from Oman and Yemen (Socotra)

    Dominik Fleitmann;Stephen J. Burns;Augusto Mangini;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Strong coherence between solar variability and the monsoon in Oman between 9 and 6 kyr ago

    U. Neff;S. J. Burns;S. J. Burns;A. Mangini;M. Mudelsee

  • No upward trends in the occurrence of extreme floods in central Europe

    Manfred Mudelsee;Michael Börngen;Gerd Tetzlaff;Uwe Grünewald

  • Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey

    D. Fleitmann;D. Fleitmann;H. Cheng;S. Badertscher;S. Badertscher;R. L. Edwards

  • Climate time series analysis

    Manfred Mudelsee

  • The Mid-Pleistocene climate transition: onset of 100 ka cycle lags ice volume build-up by 280 ka

    Manfred Mudelsee;Michael Schulz

  • Slow dynamics of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation

    Manfred Mudelsee;Maureen E. Raymo

  • Trends, rhythms and events in Plio-Pleistocene African climate

    Martin H. Trauth;Juan C. Larrasoaña;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Trend analysis of climate time series: A review of methods

    Manfred Mudelsee

  • Recent intensification of tropical climate variability in the Indian Ocean

    Nerilie J. Abram;Nerilie J. Abram;Michael K. Gagan;Julia E. Cole;Wahyoe S. Hantoro

  • Palaeoclimatic interpretation of high-resolution oxygen isotope profiles derived from annually laminated speleothems from Southern Oman

    Dominik Fleitmann;Stephen J. Burns;Ulrich Neff;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Extreme floods in central Europe over the past 500 years: Role of cyclone pathway ''Zugstrasse Vb''

    M. Mudelsee;M. Mudelsee;M. Börngen;G. Tetzlaff;U. Grünewald

  • The leading mode of Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation variability during the last millennium

    Ashish Sinha;Max Berkelhammer;Lowell Stott;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Trends and oscillations in the Indian summer monsoon rainfall over the last two millennia.

    Ashish Sinha;Gayatri Kathayat;Hai Cheng;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach

  • A 780‐year annually resolved record of Indian Ocean monsoon precipitation from a speleothem from south Oman

    Stephen J. Burns;Dominik Fleitmann;Manfred Mudelsee;Ulrich Neff

  • Climate Time Series Analysis: Classical Statistical and Bootstrap Methods

    Manfred Mudelsee

  • Estimating Pearson's Correlation Coefficient with Bootstrap Confidence Interval from Serially Dependent Time Series

    Manfred Mudelsee

  • Erratum: Intensification of the meridional temperature gradient in the Great Barrier Reef following the Last Glacial Maximum (Nature Communications (2014) 5 (4102) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5102)

    Thomas Felis;Helen V. McGregor;Braddock K. Linsley;Alexander W. Tudhope

  • Statistical Analysis in Climate Research: Hans von Storch and Francis W. Zwiers; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999, x+484pp., US$ 110, ISBN 0-521-45071-3 (hardback)

    Manfred Mudelsee

  • Express Letter The Mid-Pleistocene climate transition: onset of 100 ka cycle lags ice volume build-up by 280 ka

    Manfred Mudelsee;Michael Schulz

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominik Fleitmann
Dominik Fleitmann University of Basel
Augusto Mangini
Augusto Mangini Heidelberg University
Albert Matter
Albert Matter University of Bern
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Stephen J. Burns
Stephen J. Burns University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thomas Felis
Thomas Felis University of Bremen
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Wolfgang Kuhnt
Wolfgang Kuhnt Kiel University
Michael K. Gagan
Michael K. Gagan Australian National University

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