Prof. Dr. Stephanie Fiedler

Leiterin der Forschungseinheit: Maritime Meteorologie

 

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

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)