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Thomas Raddatz

Thomas Raddatz

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
43
Citations
16790
World Ranking
6905
National Ranking
446

Overview

Thomas Raddatz is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany, contributing to research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work notably addresses Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, and Anthropology, with a strong emphasis on climate variability and modeling.

Their main research topics include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Raddatz has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including Julia Pongratz, Christian H. Reick, Veronika Gayler, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, and Reiner Schnur.

The research output spans a variety of respected scientific journals and venues, such as:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Max Planck Digital Library
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Among their recent papers are:

  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • JSBACH 3 - The land component of the MPI Earth System Model: documentation of version 3.2 (2021), published by Max Planck Digital Library
  • Global temperature modes shed light on the Holocene temperature conundrum (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • The ICON Earth System Model Version 1.0 (2022), published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Assessment of JSBACHv4.30 as a land component of ICON-ESM-V1 in comparison to its predecessor JSBACHv3.2 of MPI-ESM1.2 (2022), published in Geoscientific Model Development

Raddatz's publications often intersect with advanced climate modeling and Earth system sciences, contributing to the understanding of carbon feedback mechanisms, land components in earth system models, and global temperature patterns through a variety of comprehensive studies.

Best Publications

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • 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

  • The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

    C. D. Jones;J. K. Hughes;Nicolas Bellouin;S. C. Hardiman

  • Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

    Jens Kattge;Wolfgang Knorr;Thomas Raddatz;Christian Wirth

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

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

  • Will the tropical land biosphere dominate the climate-carbon cycle feedback during the twenty-first century?

    T. J. Raddatz;C. J. Reick;W. Knorr;J. Kattge

  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models

    Vivek K. Arora;Anna Katavouta;Anna Katavouta;Richard G. Williams;Chris D. Jones

  • Representation of natural and anthropogenic land cover change in MPI‐ESM

    Christian Reick;Thomas Raddatz;Victor Brovkin;Veronika Gayler

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

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

  • Climate and carbon-cycle variability over the last millennium

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

  • Global biogeophysical interactions between forest and climate

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

  • C4MIP – The Coupled Climate–Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project: Experimental protocol for CMIP6

    Chris D. Jones;Vivek K. Arora;Pierre Friedlingstein;Laurent Bopp

  • Biogeophysical versus biogeochemical climate response to historical anthropogenic land cover change

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

  • Effects of anthropogenic land cover change on the carbon cycle of the last millennium

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

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

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

  • Combined biogeophysical and biogeochemical effects of large-scale forest cover changes in the MPI earth system model

    S. Bathiany;M. Claussen;V. Brovkin;T. Raddatz

  • JSBACH 3 - The land component of the MPI Earth System Model: documentation of version 3.2

    Christian H. Reick;Veronika Gayler;Daniel Goll;Stefan Hagemann

  • Limited temperature response to the very large AD 1258 volcanic eruption

    Claudia Timmreck;Stephan J. Lorenz;Thomas J. Crowley;Stefan Kinne

  • Evaluation of vegetation cover and land‐surface albedo in MPI‐ESM CMIP5 simulations

    Victor Brovkin;Lena Boysen;Thomas Raddatz;Veronika Gayler

  • Global temperature modes shed light on the Holocene temperature conundrum

    Jürgen Bader;Jürgen Bader;Johann Jungclaus;Natalie A. Krivova;Stephan Lorenz

  • Effects of anthropogenic land cover change on the carbon cycle of the last millennium Global Biogeochem

    J. Pongratz;C. H. Reick;T. Raddatz;M. Claussen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Christian Reick
Christian Reick Max Planck Society
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society
Monika Esch
Monika Esch Max Planck Society
Thorsten Mauritsen
Thorsten Mauritsen Stockholm University

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