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Doctoral Alumni (for copies of theses see 'Publications')

Graduation Name Nationality Thesis Title
November 2004 Wetzel, Patrick German Interannual and Decadal Variability in the Air-Sea Exchange of CO2 - a Model Study
February 2005 Stier, Philip German Towards the Assessment of the Aerosol Radiative Effects - A Global Modelling Approach
June 2005 Zuo, Xinjuan Chinese Annual Hard Frosts and Economic Growth
September 2005 Jung, Martina German Carbon sequestration options in the international climate regime
October 2005 Devasthale, Abhay Indian Aerosol Indirect Effect in the Thermal Spectral Range as Seen from Satellites
October 2005 Zandersen, Marianne Danish Valuing Forest Recreation in Europe: Time and Spatial Considerations
November 2005 Zhou, Yuan Chinese Economic analysis of selected environmental issues in China
November 2005 Stehfest, Elke German Modelling of global crop production and resulting N2O emissions
December 2005 Cui, Xuefeng Chinese Interactions between Climate and Land Cover Changes on the Tibetan Plateau
December 2005 Grossmann, Iris German Future Perspectives for the Lower Elbe Region 2000-2030: Climate trends and Globalisation
February 2006 Criscuolo, Luca Italian Assessing the agricultural system and the carbon cycle under climate change in Europe using a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model
February 2006 Kloster, Silvia German The Dimethylsulfide (DMS) cycle in the ocean-atmosphere system and its response to anthropogenic perturbations
February 2006 Tiwari, Yogesh Indian Constraints of satellite derived CO2 on carbon sources and sinks
February 2006 Gaslikova, Lidia Russian High-resolution wave climate analysis in the Helgoland area
February 2006 Woth, Katja German Regionalization of global climate change scenarios: An ensemble study of possible changes in the North Sea storm surge statistics
June 2006 Ronneberger, Kerstin German The Global Agricultural Land Use Model KLUM - A Coupling Tool for Integrated Assessment
June 2006 Hoelzemann, Judith German Global Wildland Fire Emission Modeling for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies
June 2006 Narayan, Caroline Fijian CO2 fluxes and concentration patterns over Eurosiberia: A study using terrestrial biosphere models and the regional atmosphere model REMO
July 2006 Schurgers, Guy Dutch Long-term interactions between vegetation and climate - Model simulations for past and future
October 2006 Vizcaino, Miren Spanish Long-term interactions between ice sheets and climate under anthropogenic greenhouse forcing. Simulations with two complex Earth System Models
November 2006 Schwoon, Malte German Simulating the Adoption of Fuel Cell Vehicles
November 2006 Link, Peter Michael German Modeling the economic impacts of changes in thermohaline circulation with an emphasis on the Barents Sea fisheries
December 2006 Weis, Philipp German Ocean Tides and the Earth's Rotation - Results of a High-Resolving Ocean Model forced by the Lunisolar Tidal Potential
December 2006 Li, Qian Chinese Climatological analysis of planetary wave propagation in Northern Hemisphere
December 2006 Trusilova, Kristina Russian Urbanization impacts on the climate in Europe
December 2006 Heistermann, Maik German Modelling the Global Dynamics of Rain-fed and Irrigated Croplands
January 2007 Mueller, Christoph German Climate change and global land-use patterns - quantifying the human impact on the terrestrial biosphere
February 2007 Zhu, Xiuhua Chinese Low frequency variability of the Meridional Overturning Circulation
April 2007 Kotlarski, Sven German A Subgrid Glacier Parameterisation for Use in Regional Climate Modelling
April 2007 Matei, Daniela Romanian Pacific Decadal Variability: Internal Variability and Sensitivity to Subtropics
April 2007 Tanaka, Katsumasa Japanese Inverse estimation for the Simple Earth System Model ACC2 and its applications
May 2007 Aghedo, Adetutu Nigerian The impact of African air pollution: a global chemistry climate model study.
June 2007 Pfeffer, Melissa U.S. American The Relative Influences of Volcanic and Anthropogenic Emissions on Air Pollution in Indonesia as Studied With a Regional Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model
July 2007 Landerer, Felix German Dynamic Sea Level Changes and the Meridional Overturning Circulation
October 2007 Heil, Angelika German Indonesian Forest and Peat Fires: Emissions, Air Quality, and Human Health
December 2007 Jung, Martin German Uncertainties of terrestrial carbon cycle modelling: Studies on gross carbon uptake of Europe
January 2008 Thomas, Manu Indian Simulation of the climate impact of Mt. Pinatubo eruption using ECHAM5
February 2008 Katrynski, Krzysztof Polish Quantifying the terrestrial carbon budget of middle latitude ecosystems: the role of Volatile Organic Compounds
February 2008 Winterfeldt, Jörg German Comparison of measured and simulated wind speed data in the North Atlantic
April 2008 Hünicke, Birgit German Atmospheric forcing of decadal Baltic Sea level variability in the last 200 years: A statistical analysis
April 2008 Banse, Dorothea German The influence of aerosols on North Atlantic cyclones
June 2008 Guglielmo, Francesca Italian Global cycling of Semivolatile Organic Compounds in the marine and total environment. A study using a comprehensive model
July 2008 Punge, Heinz Jürgen German The quasi-biennial oscillation: Representation in numerical models and effects on stratospheric transport and trace gases
October 2008 Santos, Gabriela Portuguese The effect of halogens on global tropospheric ozone
October 2008 Seiffert, Rita German Impact of small-scale fluctuations on climate sensitivity and its stochastic analysis
December 2008 Schleupner, Christine German GIS as integrating tool in sustainability and global change
January 2009 Wan, Hui Chinese Developing and testing a hydrostatic atmospheric dynamical core on triangular grids
January 2009 Sillmann, Jana German Extreme climate events and Euro-Atlantic atmospheric blocking in present and future climate simulations
April 2009 Pongratz, Julia German A model estimate on the effect of anthropogenic land cover change on the climate of the last millennium.
July 2009 Heinemann, Malte German Warm and sensitive Paleocene-Eocene climate
July 2009 Verzano, Kerstin German Climate Change Impacts on Flood Related Hydrological Processes: Further Development and Application of a Global Scale Hydrological Model
September 2009 Lessmann, Kai German Endogenous Technological Change in Strategies for Mitigating Climate Change
October 2009 Anthoff, David German Equity and Climate Change: Applications of FUND
October 2009 Osmani, Dritan Albanian Stability and Burden Sharing Emissions in International Environmental Agreements: A Game-Theoretic Approach
December 2009 Teichmann, Claas German Climate and Air Pollution Modelling in South America with Focus on Megacities
January 2010 Gupta, Shalini Indian A Modeling Analysis of Changing Global Land Use as affected by Changing Demands for Wood Products
January 2010 Sicardi, Valentina Italian Using Atmospheric Potential Oxygen to Gain Insight into Climate Drivers of Ocean Biogeochemistry
February 2010 O'Donnell, Declan Irish Towards the assessment of the climatic impact of secondary organic aerosol
February 2010 Roß, Ole German Simulation of atmospheric krypton-85 transport to assess the detectability of clandestine nuclear reprocessing
February 2010 Bhend, Jonas Swiss Detection of an anthropogenic influence on the observed changes in near-surface temperature and precipitation in Northern Europe
April 2010 Koldunov, Nikolay Russian Variability of Arctic Sea Ice
June 2010 Lapola, David Brazilian Modeling the interplay between land use, bioenergy production and climate change
June 2010 Otto, Juliane German Interactions between climate and vegetation at high northern latitudes during the mid-Holocene
June 2010 Chidichimo, María Paz Argentinian Eastern-boundary baroclinic variability and the meridional overturning circulation at 26.5N
July 2010 Voigt, Aiko German Snowball Earth - Initiation and Hadley Cell Dynamics
July 2010 Gehlot, Swati Indian Feedbacks between convection and climate: Analysis with global modeling and satellite observations

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