Ulrike Lohmann
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Ulrike Lohmann | |
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| Born | 1966[1] |
| Alma mater | Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie |
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| Institutions | ETH Zurich |
| Thesis | Sensitivität des Modellklimas eines globalen Zirkulationsmodells der Atmosphäre gegenüber Änderungen der Wolkenmikrophysik (1996) |
Ulrike Lohmann (born 1966[2]) is a climate researcher and professor for atmospheric physics at the ETH Zurich. She is known for her research on aerosol particles in clouds.
Lohmann comes from Kiel as the daughter of a teacher and a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.[3] She did a volunteer year in an SOS Children's Village in Nigeria, and then studied ethnology and geography.[3] Inspired by environmental reports on climate change, she studied meteorology at the University of Mainz from 1988 to 1993.[3][4] She received her doctorate in 1996 at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.[5] She initially worked as assistant professor and associate professor for atmospheric sciences at Dalhousie University.[4] She has been a full professor of atmospheric physics at the Institute for Atmosphere and Climate at ETH Zurich since 2004.[4]
Research
Lohmann's research centers on the interactions between global warming, aerosols, and cloud formation. Her early research modeled the influence of cirrus clouds on climate,[6] which she continued in her use of the ECHAM model.[7][8] Her research also considers the global indirect aerosol effects and the connection to climate change.[9] She also deals with the possibility of geoengineering by thinning cirrus clouds.[10] In the 2017 Science article, she notes "for the time being, cirrus cloud thinning should be viewed as a thought experiment that is helping to understand cirrus cloud–formation mechanisms".[10]
She is one of the lead authors on the chapters on Clouds and Aerosols in the fourth and fifth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),[11] and she shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to the IPCC reports.[12]
Lohmann supports the young people striking to draw attention to climate change,[3] and in 2019 she was one of the scientists signing on to a statement on the school protests for climate protection to draw attention to the climate crisis.[13]
Selected publications
- Lohmann, U.; Feichter, J. (3 March 2005). "Global indirect aerosol effects: a review". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 5 (3): 715–737. Bibcode:2005ACP.....5..715L. doi:10.5194/acp-5-715-2005. hdl:20.500.11850/33632. ISSN 1680-7324.
- Lohmann, Ulrike; Gasparini, Blaž; Haberland, G. (21 July 2017). "A cirrus cloud climate dial?". Science. 357 (6348): 248–249. Bibcode:2017Sci...357..248L. doi:10.1126/science.aan3325. PMID 28729496. S2CID 5090908.
- Storelvmo, T.; Leirvik, T.; Lohmann, U.; Phillips, P. C. B.; Wild, M. (April 2016). "Disentangling greenhouse warming and aerosol cooling to reveal Earth's climate sensitivity" (PDF). Nature Geoscience. 9 (4): 286–289. Bibcode:2016NatGe...9..286S. doi:10.1038/ngeo2670.
- Lohmann, Ulrike; Lüönd, Felix; Mahrt, Fabian (30 April 2016). An Introduction to Clouds: From the Microscale to Climate (PDF). Cambridge University Press. Bibcode:2016icfm.book.....L. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139087513. ISBN 978-1-107-01822-8. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
