Thorsten Mauritsen

Danish climate scientist

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.

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]

References

^ "Danmarks ukendte klimaekspert har leveret nogle af de tal, som kan redde planeten". Politiken. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
^ "Thorsten Mauritsen is appointed professor at Stockholm University". Retrieved 16 October 2021.
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