Selected Literature
Please note: If you wish to find all articles of our group since its establishment in the year 2004, please look here.
All articles published before the year 2004 can be found on the individual websites of the different group members, only.
The following list is an overview of selected scientific articles from our group on specific research topics:
Interaction of the Thermohaline Circulation (THC) with the Hydrological Cycle
- Hydrological cycle under paleoclimatic conditions. Abstract
- Southern Ocean Origin for Resumption of Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation.
- Influence of vertical mixing on the thermohaline hysteresis.
- Atmospheric and oceanic freshwater transport.
- Stability of the glacial thermohaline circulation.
Interaction of the THC with Sea Ice and Inland Ice
- Sea ice effects on the Sensitivity of the Thermohaline Circulation.
- Response of precipitation over Greenland and the adjacent ocean to North Pacific warm spells.
- A Tropical Mechanism for Northern Hemisphere Deglaciation.
Interaction of Vegetation, Atmosphere Dynamics and the Ocean Circulation
- Modeling climate response to historical land cover change.
- Simulation of an abrupt change in Saharan vegetation.
- Carbon cycle, vegetation, and climate dynamics: Experiments with the CLIMBER-2 model.
- Comparison of the last interglacial climate simulated by a coupled global model of intermediate complexity and an AOGCM.
- Simulation of the global bio-geophysical interactions during the Last Glacial Maximum.
- The Influence of Vegetation–Atmosphere–Ocean Interaction on Climate.
- Climate Change in Northern Africa: The Past is Not the Future.
Interhemispheric Synchronization
- Shift in ENSO teleconnections recorded by a Red Sea coral.
- Southern Ocean Origin for Resumption of Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation.
- Sensitivity of Northern Hemispheric continental ice sheets to tropical SST.
- Intermediate depth warming in the tropical Atlantic related to weakened thermohaline circulation.
Analysis of Characteristical Pattern and Time Scales of Atmospheric Variability
- Arctic Oscillation signature in a Red Sea coral.
- Meteorologische Interpretation geologischer Daten - neue Wege in der Paläoklimaforschung. Promet 28 (3/4), 147-152.
- Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation signature in Holocene sea surface temperature trends.
- Shift in ENSO teleconnections.



