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 2023
Contributions to Books / Journals
Journal Article (Original Paper)
- Bolibar, J.; Sapienza, F.; Maussion, F.; Lguensat, Redouane; Wouters, Bert; Pére, Fernando (2023): Universal differential equations for glacier ice flow modelling.
In: Geoscientific Model Development 16/22, pp. 6671 - 6687. (DOI) (Web link) - Hock, Regine; Maussion, Fabien; Marzeion, Ben; Nowicki, Sophie (2023): What is the global glacier ice volume outside the ice sheets?
In: Journal of Glaciology 69/273, pp. 204 - 210. (DOI) (Web link) - Klein, Cornelia; Hänchen, Lorenz; Potter, Emily; Junquas, Clémentine; Harris, Bethan; Maussion, Fabien (2023): Untangling the importance of dynamic and thermodynamic drivers for wet and dry spells across the Tropical Andes.
In: Environmental Research Letters 18/3, No. 034002. (DOI) (Web link) - Li, F.; Maussion, F.; Wu, G.; Chen, W.; Yu, Z.; Li, Y.; Liu, G. (2023): Influence of glacier inventories on ice thickness estimates and future glacier change projections in the Tian Shan range, Central Asia.
In: Journal of Glaciology 69/274, pp. 266 - 280. (DOI) (Web link) - Malles, J.; Maussion, F.; Ultee, L.; Kochtitzky, W.; Copland, L.; Marzeion, B. (2023): Exploring the impact of a frontal ablation parameterization on projected 21st-century mass change for Northern Hemisphere glaciers.
In: Journal of Glaciology 68/277, pp. 1317 - 1332. (DOI) (Web link) - Recinos, B.; Maussion, F.; Marzeion, B. (2023): Advances in data availability to constrain and evaluate frontal ablation of ice-dynamical models of Greenland’s tidewater peripheral glaciers.
In: Annals of Glaciology 63, pp. 87 - 89. (DOI) (Web link) - Rounce, D. R.; Hock, R.; Maussion, F.; et al (2023): Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters.
In: Science 379/6627, pp. 78 - 83. (DOI) (Web link) - Windnagel, A.; Hock, R.; Maussion, F.; Paul, F.; Rastner, P.; Raup, B.; Zemp, M. (2023): Which glaciers are the largest in the world?
In: Journal of Glaciology 69/274, pp. 301 - 310. (DOI) (Web link)
Journal Article (Other)
- Klein, Cornelia; Potter, Emily; Zauner, Cornelia; Gurgiser, Wolfgang; Cruz Encarnación, Rolando; Cochachín Rapre, Alejo; Maussion, Fabien (2023): Farmers' first rain: investigating dry season rainfall characteristics in the Peruvian Andes.
In: Environmental Research Communications 5/7, No. 071004. (DOI) (Web link)
Proceedings Article (Abstract)
- Maussion, F.; Schmitt, P.; Schuster, L. (2023): Global glacier response to temperature goals overshoot.
In: EGUsphere: EGU - General Assembly 2023 - Book of Abstracts. 23–28 April 2023, Wien. Göttingen: Copernicus., No. EGU23-15477. (DOI) (Web link) - Mojtabavi, Seyedhamidreza; Rounce, David; Maussion, Fabien; Marzeion, Ben (2023): Uncertainty assessment of modeling the impact of debris cover on global glacier mass change: challenges and solutions.
In: EGUsphere: EGU - General Assembly 2023 - Book of Abstracts. 23–28 April 2023, Wien. Göttingen: Copernicus., No. EGU23-9828. (Web link) - Schuster, L.; Rounce, D.; Maussion, F. (2023): Glacier projections sensitivity to temperature-index model and climate downscaling parameter calibration choices.
In: EGUsphere: EGU - General Assembly 2023 - Book of Abstracts. 23–28 April 2023, Wien. Göttingen: Copernicus., No. EGU23-11983. (DOI) (Web link) - Vlug, Anouk; Schmitt, Patrick; Schuster, Lilian; Holmgren,, Erik; Schroeder, Marie; Ultee, Lizz; Champollion, Nicolas; Marzeion, Ben; Maussion, Fabien (2023): OGGM-Edu: an open-source educational platform about glaciers and glacier modelling.
In: EGUsphere: EGU - General Assembly 2023 - Book of Abstracts. 23–28 April 2023, Wien. Göttingen: Copernicus., No. EGU23-14344. (DOI) (Web link) - Zemp, M.; Windnagel, A.; Welty, E.; Raup, B.; Paul, F.; Nussbaumer, S.; Maussion, F.; Hoelzle, M.; Hock, R.; Gärtner-Roer, I.; Berthier, E. (2023): Insights into and findings from global datasets on glacier distribution and changes.
In: EGUsphere: EGU - General Assembly 2023 - Book of Abstracts. 23–28 April 2023, Wien. Göttingen: Copernicus., No. EGU23-2326. (DOI) (Web link)
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)