
Research Interests
- Climate – Cryosphere interactions
- Precipitation dynamics and variability
- Tibetan Plateau – High Asia – Tropical Andes
- Dynamical and statistical downscaling
- Atmospheric modelling with WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting model)
- Scientific programming, Open Source, Open Science
- Meteorological and glaciological field work (Tibetan Plateau, Peru, Svalbard)
Projects
- Atmospheric drivers of glacier change
- Certainties and uncertainties in the future surface mass balance of mountain glaciers
- Atmospheric Downscaling for Glacierized mountain environments – DoG
- Modelling glacier length changes in Alps on the base of tree-ring based temperature reconstructions for the last 2500 years
- The Upper Grindelwald Glacier as indicator for Holocene climate variability
- Spatio-temporal variability in water availability and demand in the Peruvian Andes (AgroClim)
- Multidecadal to Centennial Climate Variability: Assessing the Conditions for the Glaciation of Tropical Mountains
Courses
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Publications 2022
Contributions to Books / Journals
Journal Article (Original Paper)
- Furian, W.; Maussion, F; Schneider, C. (2022): Projected 21st-Century Glacial Lake Evolution in High Mountain Asia.
In: Frontiers in Earth Science 10, Nr. 821798. (DOI) (Web link) - Gangadharan, N.; Goosse, H.; Parkes, D.; Goelzer, H.; Maussion, F.; Marzeion, B. (2022): Process-based estimate of global-mean sea-level changes in the Common Era.
In: Earth System Dynamics 13/4, pp. 1417 - 1435. (DOI) (Web link) - Hänchen, L.; Klein, C.; Maussion, F.; Gurgiser, W.; Calanca, P.; Wohlfahrt, G. (2022): Widespread greening suggests increased dry-season plant water availability in the Rio Santa valley, Peruvian Andes.
In: Earth System Dynamics 13/1, pp. 595 - 611. (DOI) (Web link)
Publications 2021
Contributions to Books / Journals
Journal Article (Original Paper)
- Edwards, T. L; Nowicki, S.; Marzeion, B.; ..., ...; Maussion, F.; ..., ...; Zwinger, T. (2021): Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise.
In: Nature 593/7857, pp. 74 - 82. (DOI) (Web link) - Eis, J.; van der Laan, L.; Maussion, F.; Marzeion, B. (2021): Reconstruction of Past Glacier Changes with an Ice-Flow Glacier Model: Proof of Concept and Validation.
In: Frontiers in Earth Science 9, No. 595755. (DOI) (Web link) - Recinos, B.; Maussion, F.; Noël, B.; Möller, M.; Marzeion, B. (2021): Calibration of a frontal ablation parameterization applied to Greenland’s peripheral calving glaciers.
In: Journal of Glaciology 67/266, pp. 1177 - 1189. (DOI) (Web link) - Rounce, D. R.; Hock, R.; McNabb, R. W.; Millan, R.; Sommer, C.; Braun, M. H.; Malz, P.; Maussion, F.; Mauginot, J.; Seehaus, T.C.; Shean, D.E. (2021): Distributed global debris thickness estimates reveal debris significantly impacts glacier mass balance.
In: Geophysical Research Letters 48/8, Nr. e2020GL091311. (DOI) (Web link) - Schuster, L.; Maussion, F.; Langhamer, L.; Moseley, G. E. (2021): Lagrangian detection of precipitation moisture sources for an arid region in northeast Greenland: relations to the North Atlantic Oscillation, sea ice cover, and temporal trends from 1979 to 2017.
In: Weather and Climate Dynamics 2/1, pp. 1 - 17. (DOI) (Web link)