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Dr. Felix W. Landerer

Education
  • Ph.D., Oceanography, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology / University of Hamburg / Intl. Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (2004-2007)
  • Diploma (M.Sc.), Geophysics, University of Kiel (1998-2004)
Research Interests
  • Understanding factors contributing to global and regional sea level change: steric and non-steric sources, dynamic sea level adjustments, “fingerprints”;
  • Earth rotation variations due to atmosphere-ocean-land interactions;
  • Climate change: natural variability and human influence;
  • Earth’s water cycle & associated surface mass redistribution;
  • Time-variable gravity (GRACE & geodetic satellites);
  • Comparing Earth System Model simulations against observations: rates and patterns of projected sea level change vs observations
Professional Experience
Positions
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology:
    • Research Scientist (07/2010 - present)
    • NASA Postdoctoral Fellow (08/2008 - 06/2010)
  • Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg):
    • Research Assistant (07/2007 - 07/2008)


Projects
  • GRACE Science Team (2011, Co-I)
  • OST Science Team (2012, Co-I)
  • GRACE Follow-on (2012)
  • Contributing Author to the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report (2012)
  • NASA obs4MIPs Working Group (2012)
  • MEaSURES 2012: “An Earth System Data Record of Earth's Surface Mass Variations from GRACE and Geodetic Satellites” (PI; 2013-2017)
  • ROSES-PO 2011: “Variability of the South Atlantic Overturning Circulation” (PI; 2013-2015)
  • ROSES-PO 2010 (PI: D. Volkov); JPL RTD’s (PI: Larour; PI: Fisher)
Selected Awards
  • NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008)
  • Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for outstanding scientific achievements (2008)
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed
  1. Ivins E. R. T. S. James, J. Wahr, E. J. O. Schrama, F.W. Landerer, K.M. Simon (2013): Antarctic Contribution to Sea-level Rise Observed by GRACE with Improved GIA Correction, JGR - in review.
  2. Landerer, F. W., P. Gleckler, T. Lee., (2013): Evaluation of dynamic sea surface height in CMIP3 and CMIP5 Earth System models against satellite observations, in review.
  3. Lee T., D.E. Waliser, J. Li, F. W. Landerer, and M. M. Gierach (2013): Evaluation of CMIP3 and CMIP5 Wind Stress Climatology Using Satellite Measurements and Atmospheric Reanalysis Products, J. Climate, in press.
  4. Landerer, F. W., and D. L. Volkov (2013), The anatomy of recent large sea level fluctuations in the Mediterranean Sea, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50140.
  5. Perrette, M., Landerer, F., Riva, R., Frieler, K., and Meinshausen, M. (2013): A scaling approach to project regional sea level rise and its uncertainties, Earth Syst. Dynam., 4, 11-29, doi:10.5194/esd-4-11-2013.
  6. Boening, C., M. Lebsock, F. Landerer, and G. Stephens (2012), Snowfall-driven mass change on the East Antarctic ice sheet, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L21501, doi:10.1029/2012GL053316.
  7. Boening, C., J.K. Willis, F.W. Landerer, R.S. Nerem, J. Fasullo (2012): The 2011 La Ni?a: So Strong, the Oceans Fell, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2012GL053055
  8. Zlotnicki V., S. Bettadpur, F. Landerer and M. Watkins (2012): Remote Sensing of Earth''s Gravity Field (GRACE). Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Springer, in press.
  9. Landerer, F. W., and S. C. Swenson (2012), Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates, Water Resour. Res., 48, W04531, doi:10.1029/2011WR011453.
  10. Landerer, F. W., J. O. Dickey, and A. Guentner, 2010: Terrestrial water budget of the Eurasian pan-Arctic from GRACE satellite measurements during 2003-2009, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D23115, doi:10.1029/2010JD014584.
  11. Roemmich, D., Willis, J., Gilson, J., Stammer, D., Koehl, A., Yemenis, T., Chambers, D. P., Landerer, F. W., Marotzke, J., Gregory, J. Suzuki, T., Church, J., White, N., Domingues, C., Cazenave, A. and LeTraon, P.-Y., 2010: Global Ocean warming and sea level rise. In: Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability, Blackwell Publishing.
  12. Landerer, F. W., Jungclaus, J. H., Marotzke, J., 2009: Long-term polar motion excited by ocean thermal expansion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L17603, doi:10.1029/2009GL039692.
  13. Landerer, F. W., Jungclaus, J. H., Marotzke, J., 2008: ENSO Signals in Sea Level, Surface Mass Redistribution, and Degree-Two Geoid Coefficients, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C08014, doi:10.1029/2008JC004767.
  14. Landerer, F. W., Jungclaus, J. H., Marotzke, J., 2007: Ocean Bottom Pressure Changes Lead to a Decreasing Length-of-Day in a Warming Climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L06307, doi:10.1029/2006GL029106.
  15. Landerer, F. W., Jungclaus, J. H., Marotzke, J., 2007: Regional dynamic and steric sea level change in response to the IPCC-A1B scenario, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 296--312.


Other publications:
  1. Landerer, F. W., 2007: Sea level and hydrological mass redistribution in the Earth system: variability and anthropogenic change, Ph.D. thesis, Hamburg.

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