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Overview

Martin Losch is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to cryospheric sciences, with a strong emphasis on the dynamics of Arctic and Antarctic ice, climate change impacts, and environmental processes associated with polar regions.

Their main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Computational Mechanics contributing to their multidisciplinary approach.

Key topics covered in their research encompass:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Martin Losch's recent publications illustrate the scope and direction of their work. Notable papers include:

  • Atmospheric and Surface Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms Determining Arctic Amplification: A Review of First Results and Prospects of the (AC)3 Project, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Sea Ice Rheology Experiment (SIREx): 1. Scaling and Statistical Properties of Sea-Ice Deformation Fields, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Sea Ice Rheology Experiment (SIREx): 2. Evaluating Linear Kinematic Features in High-Resolution Sea Ice Simulations, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • The Future of Sea Ice Modeling: Where Do We Go from Here?, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Toward a Data Assimilation System for Seamless Sea Ice Prediction Based on the AWI Climate Model, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues with consistent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The Cryosphere

Collaboration is an important aspect of Martin Losch's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Nils Hutter
  • Bruno Tremblay
  • Jean-François Lemieux
  • Qiang Wang
  • Einar Ólason

Best Publications

  • On the formulation of sea-ice models. Part 1: Effects of different solver implementations and parameterizations

    Martin Losch;Dimitris Menemenlis;Jean-Michel Campin;Patick Heimbach

  • Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom

    Victor Smetacek;Victor Smetacek;Christine Klaas;Volker H. Strass;Philipp Assmy;Philipp Assmy

  • Advancing Polar Prediction Capabilities on Daily to Seasonal Time Scales

    Thomas Jung;Neil D. Gordon;Peter Bauer;David H. Bromwich

  • Modeling ice shelf cavities in a z coordinate ocean general circulation model

    Martin Losch

  • Testing a marine ecosystem model: Sensitivity analysis and parameter optimization

    Katja Fennel;Martin Losch;Jens Schröter;Manfred Wenzel

  • Seasonally different carbon flux changes in the Southern Ocean in response to the southern annular mode

    Judith Hauck;Christoph Völker;Tingting Wang;Mario Hoppema

  • Modeled Trends in Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness

    Paul R. Holland;Nicolas P.R. Bruneau;Clare Enright;Martin Losch

  • Sea Ice Rheology Experiment (SIREx), Part I: Scaling and statistical properties of sea‐ice deformation fields

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  • On the drivers of phytoplankton blooms in the Antarctic marginal ice zone: A modeling approach

    Marc Hollis Taylor;Martin Losch;Astrid Bracher;Astrid Bracher

  • Assimilating SMOS sea ice thickness into a coupled ice-ocean model using a local SEIK filter

    Qinghua Yang;Svetlana N. Losa;Martin Losch;Xiangshan Tian-Kunze

  • Sea Ice Rheology Experiment (SIREx), Part II: Evaluating linear kinematic features in high‐resolution sea‐ice simulations

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  • Evaluation of FESOM2.0 Coupled to ECHAM6.3: Preindustrial and HighResMIP Simulations

    Dmitry Sidorenko;Helge F. Goessling;Nikolay Koldunov;Nikolay Koldunov;Patrick Scholz

  • On the formulation of sea-ice models. Part 2: Lessons from multi-year adjoint sea ice export sensitivities through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

    Patick Heimbach;Dimitris Menemenlis;Martin Losch;Jean-Michel Campin

  • The adaptive EVP method for solving the sea ice momentum equation

    Madlen Kimmritz;Sergey Danilov;Martin Losch

  • Arctic-Wide Sea Ice Thickness Estimates From Combining Satellite Remote Sensing Data and a Dynamic Ice-Ocean Model with Data Assimilation During the CryoSat-2 Period

    Longjiang Mu;Longjiang Mu;Martin Losch;Qinghua Yang;Robert Ricker

  • Dynamics of a Snowball Earth ocean

    Yosef Ashkenazy;Hezi Gildor;Martin Losch;Francis Alexander Macdonald

  • Space-borne gravimetric satellite constellations and ocean tides: aliasing effects

    Peter M. Visser;N. Sneeuw;T. Reubelt;Martin Losch

  • How Sensitive are Coarse General Circulation Models to Fundamental Approximations in the Equations of Motion

    Martin Losch;Alistair Adcroft;Jean-Michel Campin

  • Improving sea ice thickness estimates by assimilating CryoSat-2 and SMOS sea ice thickness data simultaneously

    Longjiang Mu;Qinghua Yang;Martin Losch;Svetlana N. Losa;Svetlana N. Losa

  • Scaling Properties of Arctic Sea Ice Deformation in a High-Resolution Viscous-Plastic Sea Ice Model and in Satellite Observations.

    Nils Hutter;Martin Losch;Dimitris Menemenlis

  • Freshwater in the ocean is not a useful parameter in climate research

    Ursula Schauer;Martin Losch

  • Adjoint sensitivities of sub-ice-shelf melt rates to ocean circulation under the Pine Island Ice Shelf, West Antarctica

    Patrick Heimbach;Martin Losch

  • Dynamical reconstruction of the global ocean state during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Takasumi Kurahashi-Nakamura;André Paul;Martin Losch;Martin Losch

  • Mixed layer analysis of a mesoscale eddy in the Antarctic Polar Front Zone

    Boris Cisewski;Boris Cisewski;Volker H. Strass;Martin Losch;Hartmut Prandke

  • Simulation of subice shelf melt rates in a general circulation model: Velocity‐dependent transfer and the role of friction

    Véronique Dansereau;Patrick Heimbach;Martin Losch

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey Danilov
Sergey Danilov Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Thomas Jung
Thomas Jung Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jens Schröter
Jens Schröter Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
André Paul
André Paul University of Bremen
Astrid Bracher
Astrid Bracher University of Bremen
Christoph Völker
Christoph Völker Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Dieter Wolf-Gladrow
Dieter Wolf-Gladrow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Nico Sneeuw
Nico Sneeuw University of Stuttgart
Qiang Wang
Qiang Wang Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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