Dr. rer. nat. Sabine Bischof

Research Division 1: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics
Research Unit: Marine Meteorology

POF Topic 2

Office:

Room: 4.301 (ENB/Building 5)
Phone: +49 431 600 1254
Phone (Office): +49 431 600 4071
E-Mail: sbischof(at)geomar.de

Address:

Wischhofstr. 1-3, 24148 Kiel

ORCID: 0000-0002-7035-5224

Research Gate

Research Interests

Climate and Earth Sytem Modelling
Climate variability on inter-annual to multi-decadal time scales
Impact of external drivers on atmospheric dynamics
Extreme Events in the troposphere and stratosphere
Stratosphere-ocean interaction
Role of interactive chemistry on stratosphere-troposphere coupling

Project: RESCUE

Personal Information

Date and place of birth: 17.07.1985 in Neubrandenburg
married (2021)
2 children (2019, 2021)

Education and Work Experience

since 2024		Postdoctoral Researcher, Project: RESCUE, Group: Erdsystem Dynamics (PI: N. Mengis), Marine Meteorology, GEOMAR
2023-2024		Postdoctoral Researcher, Group: Physics of the Atmosphere (PI: S. Fiedler), Marine Meteorology, GEOMAR
2019-2022		Postdoctoral Researcher, Project: Helmholtz Initiative for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation (HI-CAM), Group: Physics of the Atmosphere (PI: K. Matthes), Marine Meteorology, GEOMAR
2014-2019		Doctoral Researcher in the group Physics of the Atmosphere, Marine Meteorology, GEOMAR
2011-2014		Master of science study "Climate Physics" at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel
2008-2011		Bachelor of science study "Physik des Erdsystems" at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel
2005-2008		Bachelor of science study "Environmental and Resource Management" at Brandenburgische Technischen Universität, Cottbus

Publications

Number of items: 7.

[thumbnail of J Adv Model Earth Syst - 2025 - Fiedler - First Analysis of Climate Forcing and Response to Updated Historical.pdf]

Fiedler, S.

, Pham, T. V., Schlund, M., Wahl, S.

, Sudarchikova, N., Bischof, S.

and Hoesly, R. M. (2025) First Analysis of Climate Forcing and Response to Updated Historical Anthropogenic Aerosol With the New CMIP7 Model ICON XPP.

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17 (10). Art.Nr.: e2025MS005067. DOI 10.1029/2025MS005067.

[thumbnail of Geophysical Research Letters - 2025 - Xu - Robustness and Mechanisms of the Atmospheric Response Over the Southern Ocean to.pdf]

Xu, X., Martin, T.

, Beadling, R. L., Liu, J., Bischof, S.

, Hattermann, T., Huo, W.

, Li, Q., Marshall, J. C., Muilwijk, M., Pauling, A. G., Purich, A., Swart, N. C. and Thomas, M. (2025) Robustness and mechanisms of the atmospheric response over the Southern Ocean to idealized freshwater input around Antarctica.

Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (10). Art.Nr. e2024GL113734. DOI 10.1029/2024GL113734.

[thumbnail of Geophysical Research Letters - 2023 - Bischof - The Role of the North Atlantic for Heat Wave Characteristics in Europe an.pdf]

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Bischof, S.

, Pilch Kedzierski, R.

, Hänsch, M., Wahl, S.

and Matthes, K.

(2023) The Role of the North Atlantic for Heat Wave Characteristics in Europe, an ECHAM6 Study.

Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (23). Art.Nr. e2023GL105280. DOI 10.1029/2023GL105280.

[thumbnail of acp-20-14043-2020-supplement.pdf]

Haase, S.

, Fricke, J., Kruschke, T.

, Wahl, S.

and Matthes, K.

(2020) Sensitivity of the southern hemisphere circumpolar jet response to Antarctic ozone depletion: prescribed versus interactive chemistry.

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20 . pp. 14043-14061. DOI 10.5194/acp-20-14043-2020.

Haase, S.

and Matthes, K.

(2019) The importance of interactive chemistry for stratosphere–troposphere–coupling.

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19 (5). pp. 3417-3432. DOI 10.5194/acp-19-3417-2019.

[thumbnail of 10.1175_JCLI-D-17-0520.s1.pdf]

Haase, S.

, Matthes, K.

, Latif, M.

and Omrani, N. E. (2018) The Importance of a Properly Represented Stratosphere for Northern Hemisphere Surface Variability in the Atmosphere and the Ocean.

Journal of Climate, 31 (20). pp. 8481-8497. DOI 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0520.1.

[thumbnail of art_10.1007_s00382-014-2057-0.pdf]

Dommenget, D., Haase, S.

, Bayr, T.

and Frauen, C. (2014) Analysis of the Slab-Ocean El Nino Atmospheric Feedbacks in Observed and Simulated ENSO Dynamics. Climate Dynamics, 42 (11-12). pp. 3187-3205. DOI 10.1007/s00382-014-2057-0.

This list was generated on Thu Dec 4 12:37:00 2025 CET.

A complete list including talks and posters can be found in OceanRep.

Teaching

Climate Physics Master

climAME-TROP (summer 2024, lecture)
climAME-STRAT (winter 2023/24, seminar)
climGD (winters 2020/21, 2022/23, exercise)

Supervised Theses

Bachelor theses

Annabelle d'Heureuse (2024): Southern Hemispheric Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in an Ensemble of the FOCI Coupled Climate Model.
Josina Hörnemann (2025): Disentangling the impacts of aerosols on European climate. [co-supervisor]
Oliver Walde (2025): Veränderungen des Jetstreams durch den Klimawandel – Auswirkungen auf Europa

Master theses

Jaika Fricke (2021): Relevance of Interactive Chemistry for Climate Variability. [co-supervisor]

Expeditions

2012: MSM23 (Mindelo – Walvis Bay)
2010: M83/1 (Las Palmas – Mindelo)