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Klaus Hasselmann

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Klaus Hasselmann (born 25 October 1931 in Hamburg)[1] is a leading German oceanographer and climate modeller. He is probably best known for developing the Hasselmann model[2][3] of climate variability, where a system with a long memory (the ocean) integrates stochastic forcing, thereby transforming a white-noise signal into a red-noise one, thus explaining (without special assumptions) the ubiquitous red-noise signals seen in the climate. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Syukuro Manabe and Giorgio Parisi for groundbreaking contributions to the "physical modeling of earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming".[4]

Professional background and climate research

After graduating in 1955, University of Hamburg, Physics and Mathematics, Diplom. Thesis: Isotropic Turbulence and in 1957, University of Göttingen and Max Planck Institute of Fluid Dynamics, PhD Physics and 1964–1975, University of Hamburg, he was ending his education as Full Professor for Theoretical Geophysics and Managing Director, Institute of Geophysics at the University of Hamburg.[1]

From February 1975 to November 1999, Hasselmann was Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg.[1] Between January 1988 and November 1999 he was Scientific Director at the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum), Hamburg.[1] Currently he is Vice-Chairman of the European Climate Forum. The European Climate Forum has been founded in September 2001 by Prof. Carlo Jaeger and Prof. Klaus Hasselmann.

Hasselmann has published papers on climate dynamics, stochastic processes, ocean waves, remote sensing, and integrated assessment studies.

His reputation in oceanography was primarily founded on a set of papers on non-linear interactions in ocean waves. In these he adapted Feynman diagram formalism to classical random wave fields.[5] He later discovered plasma physicists were applying similar techniques to plasma waves, and that he had rediscovered some results of Rudolf Peierls explaining the diffusion of heat in solids by non-linear phonon interactions. This led him to review the field of plasma physics, rekindling an earlier interest in quantum field theory.

"It was really an eye-opener to realize how specialized we are in our fields, and that we need to know much more about what was going on in other fields. Through this experience I became interested in particle physics and quantum field theory. So I entered quantum field theory through the back door, through working with real wave fields rather than with particles."[6]

Hasselmann has won a number of awards over his career. He received the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change; in January 1971 the Sverdrup Medal of the American Meteorological Society; in May 1997 he was awarded the Symons Memorial Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society; in April 2002 he was awarded the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal of the European Geophysical Society.

Papers on climate change modelling and policy

  • M. Welp, K. Hasselmann, C. Jaeger, Climate Change and Paths to Sustainability: the Role of Science- Based Stakeholder Dialogues, The Environment
  • Barnett, Tim; Zwiers, Francis; Hengerl, Gabriele; Allen, Myles; Crowly, Tom; Gillett, Nathan; Hasselmann, Klaus; Jones, Phil; Santer, Ben; Schnur, Reiner; Scott, Peter; Taylor, Karl; Tett, Simon (1 May 2005). "Detecting and Attributing External Influences on the Climate System: A Review of Recent Advances". Journal of Climate. 18 (9). American Meteorological Society: 1291–1314. doi:10.1175/jcli3329.1. ISSN 1520-0442.
  • Weber, Michael; Barth, Volker; Hasselmann, Klaus (2005). "A multi-actor dynamic integrated assessment model (MADIAM) of induced technological change and sustainable economic growth". Ecological Economics. 54 (2–3). Elsevier BV: 306–327. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.12.035. ISSN 0921-8009.
  • Hasselmann, K. (12 December 2003). "The Challenge of Long-Term Climate Change". Science. 302 (5652). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 1923–1925. doi:10.1126/science.1090858. ISSN 0036-8075.
  • Ledley, Tamara S.; Sundquist, Eric T.; Schwartz, Stephen E.; Hall, Dorothy K.; Fellows, Jack D.; Killeen, Timothy L. (28 September 1999). "Climate change and greenhouse gases". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 80 (39). American Geophysical Union (AGU): 453–458. doi:10.1029/99eo00325. ISSN 0096-3941. (This review paper cites several papers coauthored by Hasselmann.)
  • Hasselmann, Klaus (1999). "Linear and nonlinear signatures". Nature. 398 (6730). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 755–756. doi:10.1038/19635. ISSN 0028-0836.
  • Hasselmann, Klaus (1997). "Climate-change research after Kyoto". Nature. 390 (6657). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 225–226. doi:10.1038/36719. ISSN 0028-0836.
  • Hasselmann, K. (9 May 1997). "Are We Seeing Global Warming?". Science. 276 (5314). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 914–915. doi:10.1126/science.276.5314.914. ISSN 0036-8075.

For a complete list of references, refer to "Interview mit Klaus Hasselmann", 59, 2006.[6] or Hasselman's website at Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Klaus Hasselmann". Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  2. ^ Hasselmann, K. (1976). "Stochastic climate models Part I. Theory". Tellus. 28 (6). Informa UK Limited: 473–485. doi:10.3402/tellusa.v28i6.11316. ISSN 0040-2826.
  3. ^ Arnold L. (2001), "Hasselmann's program revisited: The analysis of stochasticity in deterministic climate models", Stochastic Climate Models (editors—P. Imkeller, J.-S. von Storch) 141-157 (Birkhäuser). Citeseer
  4. ^ "All Nobel Prizes in Physics". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  5. ^ Hasselmann, K. (1966). "Feynman diagrams and interaction rules of wave-wave scattering processes". Reviews of Geophysics. 4 (1). American Geophysical Union (AGU): 1. doi:10.1029/rg004i001p00001. ISSN 8755-1209.
  6. ^ a b "Interview mit Klaus Hasselmann am 15. Februar 2006" (PDF). epic.awi.de. 18 July 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2021. (in English with German forward)
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