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ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7057-194X
ResearcherID: I-2656-2013
Google Scholar: hbOfD1cAAAAJ
Professional career
- 11/2003 - 04/2004
Post-doc, "Allocation jeune post-doc" grant of the École Polytechnique, working at Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique / IPSL, Palaiseau, France, 2003 - 2004 - 04/2004 - 05/2006
"Emmy Noether" phase I grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, working atMax Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg; Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada; and Hadley Centre / Met Office, Exeter, UK - 06/2006 - 08/2006
Cloud research scientist, Hadley Centre / Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom - 09/2006 - 04/2011
"Emmy Noether" phase II grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Junior Research Group at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology - since 04/2011
Full Professor for Theoretical Meteorology, University of Leipzig - 03/2015 - 07/2015
Visiting scientist (research semester) NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences/Columbia University, New York, USA - 09/2019 - 02/2020
Visiting scientist (research semester) NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences/Columbia University, New York, USA
Education
- 10/1994 - 09/1996
Studies of Physics, University of Essen - 10/1996 - 07/2000
Studies of Meteorology, University of Cologne - 09/1998 - 07/2000
Diploma thesis at Scientific Computing and Algorithms Institute of the GMD-National Research Center for Information Technology, St. Augustin (now Fraunhofer-Institute) - 07/2000 - 11/2003
Ph.D.Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique / IPSL, École Polytechnique, Paris, France, November 2003Ph.D. thesis: L’effet indirect des aérosols : paramétrisation dans des modèles de grande échelle et évaluation avec des données satellitales (The ae - 11/2011
Habilitation, University of Hamburg.Habilitation thesis: The role of clouds in climate forcings and feedbacks
- Cloud processes and cloud-climate feedbacks.
- Cloud process parameterizations in large-scale models.
- Satellite observations.
- Aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions (aerosol indirect effects)
- Global climate change.
- Constrained aerosol forcing for improved climate projections (FORCES)Quaas, JohannesDuration: 10/2019 - 02/2024Funded by: EU Europäische UnionInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
- Constraining uncertainty of multi decadal climate projections (CONSTRAIN)Quaas, JohannesDuration: 06/2019 - 05/2023Funded by: EU Europäische UnionInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
- FOR 2820 Teilprojekt: Cloud response to Volcanic eruptions (VolCloud)Quaas, JohannesDuration: 03/2019 - 11/2022Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
- Climate model PArameterizations informed by RAdar (PARA)Quaas, JohannesDuration: 01/2019 - 06/2022Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
- Atmospheric model data: data quality, curation criteria, and doi-brandingQuaas, JohannesDuration: 06/2019 - 05/2022Funded by: BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Theoretische Meteorologie
- Quaas, J.; Gryspeerdt, E.; Vautard, R.; Boucher, O.Climate impact of aircraft-induced cirrus assessed from satellite observations before and during COVID-19Environmental Research Letters. 2021. p. 064051
- Bellouin, N.; Quaas, J.; Gryspeerdt, E. et al.Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change2020.DOI: 10.1029/2019rg000660
- Gulev, S.; Thorne, P. W.; Ahn, J. et al.Changing State of the Climate SystemClimate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp. 287-422
- Mahecha, M.; Bastos, A.; Bohn, F. J. et al.Biodiversity loss and climate extremes - study the feedbacksNature. 2022. pp. 30-32
- Linke, O.; Quaas, J.The impact of increasing CO2 levels on the Arctic atmospheric energy budget in CMIP6 climate model simulationsTellus. 2022. pp. 106-118DOI: 10.16993/tellusa.29
Professor for Theoretical Meteorology
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Differential equations
Summer terms
Meteorology Bachelor 2nd semester
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Dynamics 1
Summer terms
Meteorology Bachelor 2nd semester
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Global climate dynamics
Summer terms
Meteorology Master 2nd semester
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Dynamics 2
Winter terms
Meteorology Bachelor 3rd semester
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Thermodynamics
Winter terms
Meteorology Bachelor 3rd semester
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Data Assimilation
Summer terms
Meteorology Master 2nd semester
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Climate crisis and solution options
Key qualifications module
Bachelor (interdisciplinary)