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Martin Claussen

Martin Claussen

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
73
Citations
26414
World Ranking
1391
National Ranking
95

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Martin Claussen is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Classics, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics covered in Claussen's work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate variability and models
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Geological formations and processes

Claussen has published extensively in several notable venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Climate of the past
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Church History

Sample recent papers by Claussen include:

  • Global temperature modes shed light on the Holocene temperature conundrum, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • The ICON Earth System Model Version 1.0, 2022, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • The end of the African humid period as seen by a transient comprehensive Earth system model simulation of the last 8000 years, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2, 2021, Climate of the past

Frequent collaborators in Claussen's research include Thomas Kleinen, Stephan Lorenz, Anne Dallmeyer, Victor Brovkin, and Leonore Jungandreas.

Claussen has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 1999, reflecting affiliation with a European academy of scholars.

Best Publications

  • The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM-4: Model description and simulation of present-day climate

    Erich Roeckner;Klaus Arpe;Lennart Bengtsson;M. Christoph

  • 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

  • Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI-ESM1.2) and Its Response to Increasing CO2.

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Jürgen Bader;Tobias Becker;Jörg Behrens

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

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

  • Simulation of an abrupt change in Saharan vegetation in the mid-Holocene

    Martin Claussen;Claudia Kubatzki;Victor Brovkin;Andrey Ganopolski

  • A reconstruction of global agricultural areas and land cover for the last millennium

    Julia Pongratz;C. Reick;T. Raddatz;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen

  • CLIMBER-2: a climate system model of intermediate complexity. Part I: model description and performance for present climate

    V. Petoukhov;A. Ganopolski;V. Brovkin;M. Claussen

  • Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study

    A. J. Pitman;N. de Noblet-Ducoudré;F. T. Cruz;E. L. Davin;E. L. Davin

  • Simulation of modern and glacial climates with a coupled global model of intermediate complexity

    Andrey Ganopolski;Stefan Rahmstorf;Vladimir Petoukhov;Martin Claussen

  • The Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble - Enabling the Exploration of Climate System Variability

    Nicola Maher;Sebastian Milinski;Laura Suarez‐Gutierrez;Michael Botzet

  • The Influence of Vegetation-Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction on Climate During the Mid-Holocene

    Andrey Ganopolski;Claudia Kubatzki;Martin Claussen;Victor Brovkin

  • Carbon cycle, vegetation, and climate dynamics in the Holocene: Experiments with the CLIMBER-2 model

    Victor Brovkin;Jørgen Bendtsen;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen;Andrey Ganopolski

  • NONLINEARITIES, FEEDBACKS AND CRITICAL THRESHOLDS WITHIN THE EARTH'S CLIMATE SYSTEM

    José A. Rial;Roger A. Pielke;Martin Beniston;Martin Claussen

  • Terrestrial biotic responses to environmental change and feedbacks to climate

    J. M. Mellilo;I. C. Prentice;G. D. Farquhar;E.-D. Schulze

  • The greening of the Sahara during the mid-Holocene: results of an interactive atmosphere-biome model

    Martin Claussen;Veronika Gayler

  • Biogeophysical versus biogeochemical feedbacks of large‐scale land cover change

    Martin Claussen;Victor Brovkin;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Climate and carbon-cycle variability over the last millennium

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

  • Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century

    V. Brovkin;Lena R. Boysen;Vivek K. Arora;J. P. Boisier

  • Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First results from the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Micah Wilhelm;Tanja Stanelle;Bart van den Hurk

  • Global biogeophysical interactions between forest and climate

    Victor Brovkin;Thomas Raddatz;Christian H. Reick;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Christian Reick
Christian Reick Max Planck Society
Thomas Raddatz
Thomas Raddatz Max Planck Society
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Andrey Ganopolski
Andrey Ganopolski Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
William C. Clark
William C. Clark Harvard University
Paul J. Crutzen
Paul J. Crutzen Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Hauke Schmidt
Hauke Schmidt Max Planck Society

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