Thorsten Mauritsen
Danish climate scientist
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Thorsten Mauritsen (born 1977) is a Danish climate scientist. He is currently a professor at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University. His research interests include climate dynamics and global circulation, climate sensitivity and cloud feedbacks and ocean-atmosphere coupled problems. He is best known for his research on Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity and his research uses the climate of the past to determine climate sensitivity more precisely.
Thorsten Mauritsen | |
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| Occupation | Scientist |
| Known for | Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University |
Biography
He was born in Sønderborg[1] and studied physics and meteorology at the University of Copenhagen and Stockholm University. He received his PhD in Stockholm in 2007. He then joined MPI-M as a postdoctoral researcher, and eventually became a group leader at the institute.[2][3]
He has been cited around 10,000 times. His h-index is 44 as of 2021.[4]
