Katrin Meissner

@KatrinJM

Director of the Climate Change Research Centre, @UNSW, Professor of Oceanography and Climate Sciences, EXCOM @PAGES_IPO

Joined July 2012

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Katrin Meissner @KatrinJM Nov 17, 2023

Polar regions warm faster than the rest of the world. This is happening now, and also happened millions of years ago when alligators and turtles used to live in the Arctic. But most climate models are not able to produce the observed warming. Why?

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Nature Geoscience @NatureGeosci Nov 16, 2023

Article: Indirect forcing by low regional orography and high atmospheric methane levels helped amplify Arctic temperatures in the early Eocene by enhancing polar stratospheric cloud formation

nature.com/articles/s4156…
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Katrin Meissner @KatrinJM Nov 7, 2023

Polar regions warm faster than the rest of the world. This is happening now, and also happened millions of years ago when alligators and turtles used to live in the Arctic. Why?
New research by D Dutta, @DrJucker, @StevenSherwood4, A Sen Gupta, @KatrinJM, and J Zhu.
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Katrin Meissner @KatrinJM Sep 4, 2022

Thank you #ICP14 for an amazing week of science… and the opportunity to finally catch up in person again with colleagues from all over the world. 🇳🇴🐟❤️

Katrin Meissner @KatrinJM Aug 17, 2022

Times of plenty or suffocation? Our N&V on Pohl et al.’s article on ocean circulation and oxygenation changes over the past 540 million years @aoschlies @NatureNV @derp_code @ccrc_unsw

Plate tectonics controls ocean oxygen levels nature.com/articles/d4158…

Katrin Meissner @KatrinJM Nov 19, 2021

The green Sahara: why and when did the Sahara transition between a wet state, supporting river systems and vegetation, and a desert as we know it today? This new paper shows it was a combination of slow changes in solar insolation and abrupt changes in ocean circulation.

Communications Earth & Environment @CommsEarth Nov 19, 2021

A strengthening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation was the main driver of the abrupt initiation of African Humid Periods during the last two deglaciations.
@UNSWScience

nature.com/articles/s4324…

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