Stefan Rahmstorf

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Stefan Rahmstorf (born February 22, 1960) is a German oceanographer and climatologist. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University. He holds a PhD in oceanography from Victoria University of Wellington (1990). His work focuses on the role of ocean currents in climate change.

In 1999 Rahmstorf was awarded the $ 1 million Centennial Fellowship Award of the US-based James S. McDonnell foundation. Rahmstorf is a member of the Panel on Abrupt Climate Change and of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).

[edit] Selected publications

Rahmstorf, S. and K. Zickfeld, 2005: Thermohaline circulation changes: a question of risk assessment. Climatic Change, 68, 241-247.
Rahmstorf, S., et al., 2004: Cosmic rays, carbon dioxide and climate. Eos, 85(4), 38, 41.
Zickfeld, K., T. Slawig, and S. Rahmstorf, 2004. A low-order model for the response of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation to climate change. Ocean Dynamics, 54, 8-26.
Rahmstorf, S., 2003: Timing of abrupt climate change: a precise clock. Geophys. Res. Let., 30, 1510.
Rahmstorf, S., 2003: Thermohaline circulation: The current climate. Nature 421, 699.
Rahmstorf, S., 2002: Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years. Nature 419, 207-214.
Ganopolski, A. and S. Rahmstorf, 2002: Abrupt glacial climate changes due to stochastic resonance. Phys. Rev. Let. 88(3), 038501.
Rahmstorf, S., and R.B. Alley, 2002: Stochastic resonance in glacial climate, Eos, 83 Nr. 12, 129-135.
Ganopolski, A. and S. Rahmstorf, 2001: Simulation of rapid glacial climate changes in a coupled climate model. Nature, 409, 153-158.
Rahmstorf, S., 1999: Shifting seas in the greenhouse? Nature, 399, 523-524.
Ganopolski, A., S. Rahmstorf, V. Petoukhov and M. Claussen, 1998: Simulation of modern and glacial climates with a coupled global climate model. Nature, 391, 351-356.
Rahmstorf, S., 1997: Risk of sea-change in the Atlantic. Nature, 388, 825-826.
Rahmstorf, S., 1995: Bifurcations of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to changes in the hydrological cycle. Nature, 378, 145-149.
Rahmstorf, S., 1994: Rapid climate transitions in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. Nature, 372, 82-85.