Prof. Dr. Stephanie Fiedler

Head of research unit Marine Meteorology

 

Office:
Phone: +49-431 600 4054
E-Mail: sfiedler(at)geomar.de

Address:
GEOMAR
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstr. 1-3
24148 Kiel, Germany  

Research interests

  • Climate response to radiative forcing
  • Weather and climate modelling
  • Natural and anthropogenic aerosol effects on climate
  • Dynamics of desert-dust storms across different scales
  • Meteorological risk assessments with focus on renewable power

Recent Publications

K. Bechir Ferchichi, T. Böhnert, B. Ritter, D. Harpke, A. Stoll, P. Morales, S. Fiedler, F. Mu, J. Bechteler, C. Münker, M.A. Koch, T. Wiehe, D. Quandt (2024) Genetic diversity of the Atacama Desert shrub Huidobria chilensis in the context of geography and climate, Global and Planetary Change, 104385, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104385

Ho-Tran, L., Fiedler, S. A climatology of weather-driven anomalies in European photovoltaic and wind power production. Commun Earth Environ 5, 63 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01224-x

Kanngießer, F., & Fiedler, S. (2024): “Seeing” beneath the clouds—Machine-learning-based reconstruction of North African dust plumes. AGU Advances, 5, e2023AV001042. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV001042

Scheele, R., and Fiedler, S. (2024): What drives historical and future changes in photovoltaic power production from the perspective of global warming? Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (1), DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad10d6

Hohenegger, C. et al. incl. Fiedler, S. (2023) FESSTVaL: the Field Experiment on Submesoscale Spatio-Temporal Variability in Lindenberg. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104 (10). E1875-E1892. DOI 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0330.1.

Richardson, K. et al. incl. Fiedler, S. (2023) Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries. Sci. Adv., 9 (37), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458

Fiedler, S.,  van Noije, T., Smith, C.J.,  Boucher, O., Dufresne, J., Kirkevåg, A.,  Olivié, D., Pinto, R., Reerink, T.,  Sima, A.,  Schulz, M. (2023) Historical Changes and Reasons for Model Differences in Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing in CMIP6. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (15), https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104848

Boroughani, M., Mirchooli, F., Hadavifar, M. and Fiedler, S. (2023) Mapping land degradation risk due to land susceptibility to dust emission and water erosion. SOIL, 9 (2), 411–423, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-411-2023

Mu, F., Weide Luiz, E., and Fiedler, S. (2023) On the dynamics and air-quality impact of the exceptional East Asian dust outbreak in mid-March 2021. Atmospheric Research, 292, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106846.

Dommo, A., Klutse, N.A.B., Fiedler, S., Koffi, H.A., Vondou, D.A. (2023) The seasonal cycle of cloud radiative effects over Congo Basin based on CERES observation and comparison to CMIP6 models. Atmospheric Research, 291, 106820, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106820.

 

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Education

  • 2014: PhD from School of Earth and Environment at University of Leeds, United Kingdom
  • 2011: Diplom in Meteorology from Leibniz-University Hannover, Germany

Employment

  • Since 2023: Professor at CAU and GEOMAR
  • 2021-2022: Professor at University of Cologne, Germany
  • 2020-2021: Junior Professor on tenure track at University of Cologne, Germany
  • 2015-2019: Postdoctoral scientist at Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2014-2015: Postdoctoral scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Other positions of responsibility

Recent Awards and recognitions

  • 2022: Tenure at the University of Cologne
  • 2021-2022: Member of “Junges Kolleg” of the NRW Academy of the Sciences and Arts following nomination by University of Cologne

Current projects

Memberships

  • Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)
  • Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft (DMG)
  • World Energy & Meteorology Council (WEMC)
  • European Geosciences Union (EGU)
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Expeditions

  • Chief Scientist, MSM68/2 (Germany - Cape Verde)
  • Instrument scientist, MSM79/2 (Cape Verde - Panama)
  • Instrument scientist, PS102 (Germany - South Africa)