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About

We are a group of climate scientists at Leipzig University in Germany. The motivation of our research is to explain and attribute climate risks, and to reduce uncertainties in regional predictions and projections of extreme weather and climate events. This effort requires an improved causal understanding of the physical drivers and consequences of extreme events. Our research includes several sub-aspects:

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Research

Teleconnections and Regional Climate Change

Detection and Attribution

Causal Data Science

Extreme Weather and Climate Events

Machine Learning

Climate Impacts

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Projects

Jun - Prof. Dr. Marlene Kretschmer

• AC³: Arctic Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and Surface Processes and Feedback Mechanisms
• EXPECT: Towards an Integrated Capability to Explain and Predict Regional Climate Changes
• XAIDA: eXtreme events: Artificial Intelligence for Detection and Attribution

Jun - Prof. Dr. Sebastian Sippel

• CLIMXTREME: Climate Change and Extreme Events
• XAIDA: eXtreme events: Artificial Intelligence for Detection and Attribution
• AI4PEX: Artificial Intelligence for enhanced representation of processes and extremes in Earth System Models
• ECO-N: Economics of Connected Natural Commons
• Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Price of the DFG

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People

The Climate Causality and Climate Attribution Groups of the Leipzig Institute for Meteorology during their group retreat at the Baltic sea in July 2024.

Ernest Agyemang-Oko

PhD Researcher

Richard
Alawode

PhD Researcher

Philine Lou Bommer

PhD Researcher

Dr. István
Dunkl

Post-Doc

Dr. Marina
Friedel

Post-Doc

Florian
Kraulich

PhD Researcher

Jun-Prof. Dr. Marlene
Kretschmer

Junior Professor

Sujata
Kulkarni

PhD Researcher

Frieder
Loer

PhD Researcher

Julius
Mex

Research Fellow

Dr. Julia
Mindlin

Post-Doc

Dr. Julianna
Carvalho Oliveira

Post-Doc

Dr. Peter
Pfleiderer

Post-Doc

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian
Sippel

Junior Professor

Fiona
Spuler

PhD Researcher

Johanna
Beikert

Research Fellow

Juliana
Neild

Research Assistant

Former Group Members

• Dr. Na Li (Postdoctoral researcher, Climate Attribution)
• Bjarne Biskamp (MA student, Climate Causality)
• Xuebang Liu (visiting PhD researcher, Climate Attribution)
• Nadine Theisen (MA student, Climate Attribution)
• Nelly Pomnitz (Research assistant, Climate Causality)

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Contact Us

Address
Climate Causality and Attribution Leipzig University
Leipzig Institute for Meteorology
Talstraße 35, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

Email
marlene.kretschmer@uni-leipzig.de
sebastian.sippel@uni-leipzig.de

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