Prof. Dr. Stephanie Fiedler

Desert-dust outbreak to the North Atlantic from WRF-CHEM experiments performed at DKRZ. Visualisation by Michael Böttinger (DKRZ), based on data from Fiedler and Wahl (2023)

Research interests

Climate response to radiative forcing
Weather and climate modelling
Natural and anthropogenic aerosol effects on climate
Dynamics of desert-dust storms across different scales
Meteorological risk assessments with focus on renewable power

Recent Publications

Ho-Tran, L., Fiedler, S. (2024) More summertime low-power production extremes in Germany with a larger solar power share. Solar Energy, Vol 283, 112979, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2024.112979

Jensen, L., Gerdener, H., Eicker, A., Kusche, J., Fiedler, S. (2024) Observations indicate regionally misleading wetting and drying trends in CMIP6. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 249, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00788-x

Griffiths, P. T., Wilcox, L. J., Allen, R. J., Naik, V., O'Connor, F. M., Prather, M. J., Archibald, A. T., Brown, F., Deushi, M., Collins, W., Fiedler, S., Oshima, N., Murray, L. T., Smith, C. J., Turnock, S. T., Watson-Parris, D., and Young, P. J. (2024) Opinion: The Impact of AerChemMIP on Climate and Air Quality Research. EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2528

Pinto, R., & Fiedler, S. (2024). Why is the dust activity in the Atacama Desert low despite its aridity? Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD040462. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040462

Bayr, T., Lübbecke, J. F., & Fiedler, S. (2024). Is El Niño-Southern Oscillation a tipping element in the climate system? Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107848. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107848

Luiz, E. W., & Fiedler, S. (2024) Global climatology of low-level-jets: Occurrence, characteristics, and meteorological drivers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD040262. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040262

Fiedler, S., Naik, V., O'Connor, F. M., Smith, C. J., Griffiths, P., Kramer, R. J., Takemura, T., Allen, R. J., Im, U., Kasoar, M., Modak, A., Turnock, S., Voulgarakis, A., Watson-Parris, D., Westervelt, D. M., Wilcox, L. J., Zhao, A., Collins, W. J., Schulz, M., Myhre, G., and Forster, P. M. (2024) Interactions between atmospheric composition and climate change – progress in understanding and future opportunities from AerChemMIP, PDRMIP, and RFMIP, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 2387–2417, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2387-2024

K. Bechir Ferchichi, T. Böhnert, B. Ritter, D. Harpke, A. Stoll, P. Morales, S. Fiedler, F. Mu, J. Bechteler, C. Münker, M.A. Koch, T. Wiehe, D. Quandt (2024) Genetic diversity of the Atacama Desert shrub Huidobria chilensis in the context of geography and climate, Global and Planetary Change, 104385, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104385

Ho-Tran, L., Fiedler, S. A climatology of weather-driven anomalies in European photovoltaic and wind power production. Commun Earth Environ 5, 63 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01224-x

Kanngießer, F., & Fiedler, S. (2024): “Seeing” beneath the clouds—Machine-learning-based reconstruction of North African dust plumes. AGU Advances, 5, e2023AV001042. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV001042

Scheele, R., and Fiedler, S. (2024): What drives historical and future changes in photovoltaic power production from the perspective of global warming? Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (1), DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad10d6

Hohenegger, C. et al. incl. Fiedler, S. (2023) FESSTVaL: the Field Experiment on Submesoscale Spatio-Temporal Variability in Lindenberg. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104 (10). E1875-E1892. DOI 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0330.1.

Richardson, K. et al. incl. Fiedler, S. (2023) Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries. Sci. Adv., 9 (37), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458

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Education

2014: PhD from School of Earth and Environment at University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2011: Diplom in Meteorology from Leibniz-University Hannover, Germany

Employment

Since 2023: Professor at CAU and GEOMAR
2021-2022: Professor at University of Cologne, Germany
2020-2021: Junior Professor on tenure track at University of Cologne, Germany
2015-2019: Postdoctoral scientist at Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
2014-2015: Postdoctoral scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Other positions of responsibility

Since 2023: Chair of Aerosol and Chemistry Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (AerChemMIP2), registered for CMIP7
Since 2023: Editor of EGU journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Since 2023: Chair of CACTI committee
Since 2023: Member of CMIP Climate Forcings Task Team
Since 2023: Expert member of MSK actuaries
Since 2021: Member of organising committee for joint workshops of RFMIP, AerChemMIP, and PDRMIP
2020-2022: Research Area Director for Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics, Hans-Ertel-Centre for Weather Research, Bonn/Cologne, Germany
2020-2022: Chief Energy Meteorologist, EWI, Cologne, Germany
2019-2023: Editor of Springer journal „Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics“

Recent Awards and recognitions

2022: Tenure at the University of Cologne
2021-2022: Member of “Junges Kolleg” of the NRW Academy of the Sciences and Arts following nomination by University of Cologne

Current projects

Since 2024: EXPECT "Towards an Integrated Capability to Explain and Predict Regional Climate Changes"
Since 2022: CRC1502 “Regional climate change: Disentangling the role of land use and water management (DETECT)”, project B02: “Radiation budget – Key to understand moisture responses to anthropogenic changes” (DFG Collaborative Research Center)
Since 2020: CRC1211 “Earth - Evolution at the dry limit”, project A03: “Super-ensemble of high-resolution climate simulations for the Atacama Desert and implications for life at the dry limit” (DFG Collaborative Research Center)

Memberships

Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)
Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft (DMG)
World Energy & Meteorology Council (WEMC)
European Geosciences Union (EGU)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Expeditions

Chief Scientist, MSM68/2 (Germany - Cape Verde)
Instrument scientist, MSM79/2 (Cape Verde - Panama)
Instrument scientist, PS102 (Germany - South Africa)