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Overview

Rüdiger Gerdes is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, their work concentrates on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

Their main research topics include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate variability and models, climate change and permafrost, as well as oceanographic and atmospheric processes. Gerdes has published extensively on these themes, contributing to the understanding of polar and marine systems in the context of climate change.

Gerdes has coauthored research with several frequent collaborators, including Torsten Kanzow, Krissy Reeve, Olaf Boebel, Volker Strass, and Enrico P. Metzner. These collaborations reflect a network of expertise in polar and oceanographic sciences.

Their publication record includes papers in a range of respected journals and research venues, such as:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Climate
  • Ocean Science
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut)
  • Progress In Oceanography

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Gerdes include:

  • Arctic Ocean Surface Energy Flux and the Cold Halocline in Future Climate Projections, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Impact of Cyclonic Wind Anomalies Caused by Massive Winter Sea Ice Retreat in the Barents Sea on Atlantic Water Transport Toward the Arctic: A Model Study, 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Wind Feedback Mediated by Sea Ice in the Nordic Seas, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • The Weddell Gyre heat budget associated with the Warm Deep Water circulation derived from Argo floats, 2023, Ocean Science
  • Variability In The Nordic Seas Exchange - Model Results 1979-1993, 2024, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Best Publications

  • Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs)

    Stephen M. Griffies;Arne Biastoch;Claus W. Böning;Frank Bryan

  • Developments in ocean climate modelling

    Stephen M. Griffies;Claus Böning;Frank O. Bryan;Eric P. Chassignet

  • Arctic freshwater export: Status, mechanisms, and prospects

    Thomas W.N. Haine;Beth Curry;Rüdiger Gerdes;Edmond Hansen

  • One More Step Toward a Warmer Arctic

    Igor V. Polyakov;Agnieszka Beszczynska;Eddy C. Carmack;Igor A. Dmitrenko

  • Formulation of an ocean model for global climate simulations

    S. M. Griffies;A. Gnanadesikan;K. W. Dixon;J. P. Dunne

  • Enhanced poleward moisture transport and amplified northern high-latitude wetting trend

    Xiangdong Zhang;Juanxiong He;Juanxiong He;Jing Zhang;Igor Polyakov

  • Recent radical shifts of atmospheric circulations and rapid changes in Arctic climate system

    Xiangdong Zhang;Asgeir Sorteberg;Jing Zhang;Riidiger Gerdes

  • GFDL's CM2 Global Coupled Climate Models. Part II: The Baseline Ocean Simulation

    Anand Gnanadesikan;Keith W. Dixon;Stephen M. Griffies;V. Balaji

  • Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models

    Baylor Fox-Kemper;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Claus W. Böning;Eric P. Chassignet

  • The influence of numerical advection schemes on the results of ocean general circulation models

    Rüdiger Gerdes;Cornelia Köberle;Jürgen Willebrand

  • Arctic warming: Evolution and spreading of the 1990s warm event in the Nordic seas and the Arctic Ocean

    Michael J. Karcher;Rüdiger Gerdes;Frank Kauker;Cornelia Köberle

  • An assessment of Arctic Ocean freshwater content changes from the 1990s to the 2006―2008 period

    Benjamin Rabe;Michael Karcher;Ursula Schauer;John M. Toole

  • Freshwater fluxes in the East Greenland Current: A decade of observations

    L. de Steur;E. Hansen;Rüdiger Gerdes;Michael Karcher

  • An intercomparison of Arctic ice drift products to deduce uncertainty estimates

    Hiroshi Sumata;Thomas Lavergne;Fanny Girard-Ardhuin;Noriaki Kimura

  • An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations. Part III: Hydrography and fluxes

    Mehmet Ilıcak;Helge Drange;Helge Drange;Qiang Wang;Rüdiger Gerdes

  • Thermohaline circulation and interaction between ice shelf cavities and the adjacent open ocean

    Klaus Grosfeld;Rüdiger Gerdes;Jürgen Determann

  • Mechanisms Determining the Variability of Arctic Sea Ice Conditions and Export

    Cornelia Köberle;Rüdiger Gerdes

  • Adjoint analysis of the 2007 all time Arctic sea‐ice minimum

    Frank Kauker;T. Kaminski;Michael Karcher;R. Giering

  • Recent changes in Arctic Ocean circulation revealed by iodine-129 observations and modeling

    Michael Karcher;John N. Smith;Frank Kauker;Rüdiger Gerdes

  • A primitive equation ocean circulation model using a general vertical coordinate transformation: 2. Application to an overflow problem

    Rüdiger Gerdes

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Karcher
Michael Karcher Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Frank Kauker
Frank Kauker Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Stefan Hendricks
Stefan Hendricks Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Marcel Nicolaus
Marcel Nicolaus Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Thomas Krumpen
Thomas Krumpen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Eric P. Chassignet
Eric P. Chassignet Florida State University
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Helge Drange
Helge Drange University of Bergen

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