Ulrike Lohmann

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Ulrike Lohmann
Born1966[1]
Alma materMax-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
Scientific career
InstitutionsETH Zurich
ThesisSensitivität des Modellklimas eines globalen Zirkulationsmodells der Atmosphäre gegenüber Änderungen der Wolkenmikrophysik (1996)

Ulrike Lohmann is a climate researcher and professor for atmospheric physics at the ETH Zurich. She is known for her research on aerosol particles in clouds.

Early life, education, and career

Lohmann comes from Kiel as the daughter of a teacher and a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.[2] She did a volunteer year in an SOS Children's Village in Nigeria, and then studied ethnology and geography.[2] Inspired by environmental reports on climate change, she studied meteorology at the University of Mainz from 1988 to 1993.[2][3] She received her doctorate in 1996 at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.[4] She initially worked as assistant professor and associate professor for atmospheric sciences at Dalhousie University.[3] She has been a full professor of atmospheric physics at the Institute for Atmosphere and Climate at ETH Zurich since 2004.[3]

Research

Lohmann's research centers on the interactions between global warming, aerosols, and cloud formation. Her early research modeled the influence of

geoengineering by thinning cirrus clouds.[9] 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".[9]

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),[10] and she shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to the IPCC reports.[11]

Lohmann supports the young people striking to draw attention to climate change,[2] 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.[12]

Selected publications

  • Lohmann, U.; Feichter, J. (2005-03-03). "Global indirect aerosol effects: a review". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 5 (3): 715–737.
    ISSN 1680-7324
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  • Lohmann, Ulrike; Gasparini, Blaž; Haberland, G. (21 July 2017). "A cirrus cloud climate dial?". Science. 357 (6348): 248–249.
    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.
    doi:10.1038/ngeo2670
    .
  • Lohmann, Ulrike (2016). An Introduction to Clouds : From the Microscale to Climate. Cambridge.
    ISBN 9781139087513.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )

Awards

Personal life

She lives on Lake Zurich, and her passions are endurance sports and rowing.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lohmann" (PDF). Retrieved September 10, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e Martin, Läubli (August 31, 2019). "Die Wolkenfrau". Der Bund (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d Switzerl, Address ETH Zürich Dep of Environmental Systems Science Prof Dr Ulrike Lohmann Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima CHN O. 11 Universitätstrasse 16 8092 Zürich. "Lohmann, Ulrike, Prof. Dr. | ETH Zurich". usys.ethz.ch. Retrieved 10 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. OCLC 35848750
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  5. ISSN 0148-0227
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  6. ISSN 1680-7324
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  7. S2CID 129250027
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  8. ISSN 1680-7324
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  9. ^
    S2CID 5090908
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  10. ^ "IPCC Authors (beta)". archive.ipcc.ch. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  11. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2007". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2021-06-28. the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades
  12. ^ Rahmstorf, Stefan (2019-03-12). "12 000 Wissenschaftler stellen sich hinter die streikenden Schüler". KlimaLounge (in German). Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  13. ^ "Lohmann". Honors Program. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  14. ^ "The Golden Tricycle Award". ethz.ch. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  15. ^ Langholz, Thomas (December 17, 2013). ""Strong performance, high expectations"". ethz.ch. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  16. ^ "List of Members". Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  17. ^ "Peter V. Hobbs Memorial Endowed Lecture in Experimental Meteorology". Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  18. ^ "Honorary doctorate for Ulrike Lohmann". ethz.ch. May 8, 2018. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
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