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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
  • Hydrologic surface mass redistribution
  • Time-variable gravity (GRACE)
  • Assessing the skill of Earth System Model simulations: 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)
  • GRACE Follow-on (2012)
  • obs4MIPs Science Team (2012)

Selected Awards
  • Contributing Author to the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report (2012)
  • NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008)
  • Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for outstanding scientific achievements (2008)

Selected Publications
  1. Boening, C., J.K. Willis, F.W. Landerer, R.S. Nerem, J. Fasullo, 2012: The 2011 La Niña: So Strong, the Oceans Fell, submitted.
  2. Perrette, M., Riva, R., Landerer, F.W., Frieler, K., Meinshausen, M., 2012: Probabilistic projections of sea-level change along the world’s coastlines, submitted.
  3. Zlotnicki V., S. Bettadpur, F. Landerer and M. Watkins, 2012: Remote Sensing of Earth's Gravity Field (GRACE). Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Springer, in press
  4. Landerer, F. W., Swenson. S., 2011: Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates, J. Water Resources Res., in press.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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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