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Uwe Mikolajewicz

Uwe Mikolajewicz

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Earth Science

D-Index
68
Citations
20628
World Ranking
1109
National Ranking
70

Overview

Uwe Mikolajewicz is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research topics cover several areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate variability and models, Cryospheric studies and observations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Climate change and permafrost.

Among recent publications by Uwe Mikolajewicz are:

  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations, 2021, Climate of the past
  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • The ICON Earth System Model Version 1.0, 2022, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Terrestrial methane emissions from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial period, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Coupling of the Subpolar Gyre and the Overturning Circulation During Abrupt Glacial Climate Transitions, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Uwe Mikolajewicz frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Climate of the past
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Cryosphere
  • Climate Dynamics

Collaborations have been a significant part of their scholarly activity. Frequent co-authors include Marie-Luise Kapsch, Florian Ziemen, Lauren Gregoire, Ruza Ivanovic, and Gerrit Lohmann.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide

    David Archer;Michael Eby;Victor Brovkin;Andy Ridgwell

  • Ocean Circulation and Tropical Variability in the Coupled Model ECHAM5/MPI-OM

    J. H. Jungclaus;Noel Keenlyside;M. Botzet;H. Haak

  • Response of ocean ecosystems to climate warming

    Jorge L. Sarmiento;Richard D. Slater;Richard T. Barber;Laurent Bopp

  • Characteristics of the ocean simulations in the Max Planck Institute Ocean Model (MPIOM) the ocean component of the MPI-Earth system model

    J. H. Jungclaus;Nils Fischer;Helmuth Haak;K. Lohmann

  • Time-dependent greenhouse warming computations with a coupled ocean-atmosphere model

    Ulrich Cubasch;Klaus Hasselmann;Heinke Höck;Ernst Maier-Reimer

  • Tuning the climate of a global model

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Bjoern Stevens;Erich Roeckner;Traute Crueger

  • Mean Circulation of the Hamburg LSG OGCM and Its Sensitivity to the Thermohaline Surface Forcing

    Ernst Maier-Reimer;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Klaus Hasselmann

  • The stability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation in a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model

    Andreas Schiller;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Reinhard Voss

  • Estimates of anthropogenic carbon uptake from four three‐dimensional global ocean models

    James C. Orr;Ernst Maier-Reimer;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Patrick Monfray

  • Modelling teleconnections between the North Atlantic and North Pacific during the Younger Dryas

    Uwe Mikolajewicz;Thomas J. Crowley;Andreas Schiller;Reinhard Voss

  • 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

  • Tropical stabilization of the thermohaline circulation in a greenhouse warming simulation

    Mojib Latif;Erich Roeckner;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Reinhard Voss

  • Ocean General Circulation Model Sensitivity Experiment with an open Central American Isthmus

    Ernst Maier-Reimer;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Thomas Crowley

  • Arctic–North Atlantic Interactions and Multidecadal Variability of the Meridional Overturning Circulation

    Johann H. Jungclaus;Helmuth Haak;Mojib Latif;Uwe Mikolajewicz

  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: Preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations

    Masa Kageyama;Sandy P. Harrison;Marie L. Kapsch;Marcus Lofverstrom

  • EPICA Dome C record of glacial and interglacial intensities

    V. Masson-Delmotte;B. Stenni;K. Pol;P. Braconnot

  • Internal secular variability in an ocean general circulation model

    Uwe Mikolajewicz;Ernst Maier-Reimer

  • Effect of drake and panamanian gateways on the circulation of an Ocean model

    Uwe Mikolajewicz;Ernst Maier-Reimer;Thomas J. Crowley;Kwang-Yul Kim

  • How much deep water is formed in the Southern Ocean

    W. S. Broecker;S. L. Peacock;S. Walker;R. Weiss

  • The PMIP4 Contribution to CMIP6-Part 4: Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum Experiments and PMIP4 Sensitivity Experiments

    Masa Kageyama;Samuel Albani;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P Harrison

  • Borehole versus isotope temperatures on Greenland: Seasonality does matter

    Martin Werner;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Martin Heimann;Georg Hoffmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst Maier-Reimer
Ernst Maier-Reimer Max Planck Society
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Guy Schurgers
Guy Schurgers University of Copenhagen
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society
Thorsten Mauritsen
Thorsten Mauritsen Stockholm University
Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Hauke Schmidt
Hauke Schmidt Max Planck Society
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society

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