Daniela Jacob
German climatologist
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Daniela Jacob (born 20 June 1961[1]) is a German[2] climate scientist. She heads the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)[3] and is a visiting professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.[4]
Daniela Jacob | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 June 1961 |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Darmstadt University of Hamburg |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Climate scientist |
Biography
Jacob studied meteorology from 1980 to 1986 at the Technical University of Darmstadt and received her doctorate in 1991 from the University of Hamburg.[1]
She is married and has one daughter.[1]
Work
Jacob's research focuses on regional climate modeling and the water cycle.[3]
Jacob was one of the lead authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report[3] and was a coordinating lead author of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (2018).[2]
Jacob is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Elsevier journal Climate Services.[5] She is also a coordinator, along with Eleni Katragkou and Stefan Sobolowski, of EURO-CORDEX, a scientific community for European regional climate modeling.[6]
Selected publications
- Jacob, Daniela (16 November 2022). "Paris lebt". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- Jacob, Daniela; Bärring, Lars; Christensen, Ole Bøssing; Christensen, Jens Hesselbjerg; de Castro, Manuel; Déqué, Michel; Giorgi, Filippo; Hagemann, Stefan; Hirschi, Martin; Jones, Richard; Kjellström, Erik; Lenderink, Geert; Rockel, Burkhardt; Sánchez, Enrique; Schär, Christoph; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Somot, Samuel; van Ulden, Aad; van den Hurk, Bart (17 March 2007). "An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate". Climatic Change. 81 (S1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 31–52. Bibcode:2007ClCh...81S..31J. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.582.5706. doi:10.1007/s10584-006-9213-4. ISSN 0165-0009. S2CID 153768889.
