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Overview

Monika Esch is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work emphasizes topics such as climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Key areas of Monika Esch's research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate
  • Animal behavior and welfare studies
  • Milk quality and mastitis in dairy cows
  • Tropical and extratropical cyclones research

Their subfields of study encompass global and planetary change, atmospheric science, small animals, agronomy and crop science, and oceanography.

Monika Esch's publication record features articles in several scientific venues, including repeated contributions to Geoscientific Model Development. Other venues include Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), AASV Annual Meeting, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Monika Esch include:

  • ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales, 2023, Geoscientific Model Development
  • The ICON-A model for direct QBO simulations on GPUs (version icon-cscs:baf28a514), 2022, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Early Development and Tuning of a Global Coupled Cloud Resolving Model, and its Fast Response to Increasing CO2, 2022, Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
  • DYAMOND++: A high resolution Climate Model Setup, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Validation of AndroVision® eFlow - a novel, reusable counting chamber for CASA concentration measurement of boar sperm, 2022, AASV Annual Meeting

Collaborations have been maintained frequently with several researchers, including Björn Stevens, Cathy Hohenegger, René Redler, Reiner Schnur, and Helmuth Haak.

Best Publications

  • The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM 5. PART I: Model description

    Erich Roeckner;G. Bäuml;L. Bonaventura;Renate Brokopf

  • 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

  • Increased El Nino frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming

    A. Timmermann;J. Oberhuber;A. Bacher;Monika Esch

  • Atmospheric component of the MPI-M Earth System Model: ECHAM6

    Bjorn Stevens;Marco Giorgetta;Monika Esch;Thorsten Mauritsen

  • Sensitivity of Simulated Climate to Horizontal and Vertical Resolution in the ECHAM5 Atmosphere Model

    E. Roeckner;R. Brokopf;M. Esch;M. Giorgetta

  • 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

  • A higher-resolution version of the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM1.2-HR)

    W. A. Müller;W. A. Müller;J. H. Jungclaus;T. Mauritsen;J. Baehr

  • How may tropical cyclones change in a warmer climate

    Lennart Bengtsson;Lennart Bengtsson;Kevin I. Hodges;Monika Esch;Noel Keenlyside

  • Simulation of the present-day climate with the ECHAM model: Impact of model physics and resolution

    Erich Roeckner;Klaus Arpe;Lennart Bengtsson;S. Brinkop

  • Tuning the climate of a global model

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Bjoern Stevens;Erich Roeckner;Traute Crueger

  • The influence of sea surface temperatures on the northern winter stratosphere : Ensemble simulations with the MAECHAM5 model

    E. Manzini;M. A. Giorgetta;M. Esch;L. Kornblueh

  • Cloud feedback in atmospheric general circulation models: An update

    R. D. Cess;M. H. Zhang;W. J. Ingram;G. L. Potter

  • Climate and carbon-cycle variability over the last millennium

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

  • Reconstructing, Monitoring, and Predicting Multidecadal-Scale Changes in the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation with Sea Surface Temperature

    Mojib Latif;Erich Roeckner;Michael Botzet;Monika Esch

  • Will greenhouse gas-induced warming over the next 50 years lead to higher frequency and greater intensity of hurricanes ?

    Lennart Bengtsson;Michael Botzet;Monika Esch

  • Climatology and Forcing of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the MAECHAM5 Model

    M. A. Giorgetta;E. Manzini;E. Roeckner;M. Esch

  • ICON-A, the Atmosphere Component of the ICON Earth System Model: I. Model Description

    Marco A. Giorgetta;Renate Brokopf;Traute Crueger;Monika Esch

  • Hurricane-type vortices in a general circulation model

    Lennart Bengtsson;M. Botzet;M. Esch

  • Aerosol nucleation and its role for clouds and Earth's radiative forcing in the aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM

    J. Kazil;P. Stier;K. Zhang;J. Quaas

  • The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM5 Part II: Sensitivity of simulated climate to horizontal and vertical resolution

    Erich Roeckner;Renate Brokopf;Monika Esch;Marko Giorgetta

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society
Marco A. Giorgetta
Marco A. Giorgetta Max Planck Society
Thorsten Mauritsen
Thorsten Mauritsen Stockholm University
Hauke Schmidt
Hauke Schmidt Max Planck Society
Lennart Bengtsson
Lennart Bengtsson University of Reading
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Thomas Raddatz
Thomas Raddatz Max Planck Society
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society

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