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Palaeoclimate dynamics and variability

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Publications

2021

  • Adam, M., Weitzel, N., and Rehfeld, K.: Identifying Global-Scale Patterns of Vegetation Change During the Last Deglaciation from Paleoclimate Networks, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2021PA004265, doi:10.1029/2021PA004265, 2021.

  • Weitzel, N., Brierley, C., Bühler, J., Chevalier, M., Ellerhoff, B., Skiba, V., and Rehfeld, K.: Beyond paleoclimate ping pong , Past Glob. Chang. Mag., 29(2), 107, doi:10.22498/pages.29.2.107, 2021.

  • Jonkers, L., Rehfeld, K., Kageyama, M., and Kucera, M.: The last glacial ocean: The challenge of comparing multiproxy data synthesis with climate simulations, Past Glob. Chang. Mag., 29(2), 82-83, doi:10.22498/pages.29.2.82, 2021.

  • Bühler, J.C., Axelsson, J.M., Lechleitner, F.A., Fohlmeister, J., LeGrande, A.N., Midhun, M., Sjolte, J., Werner, M., Yoshimura, K., and Rehfeld, K.: Investigating oxygen-carbon isotopic relationships in speleothem records over the last millennium using multiple isotope-enabled climate models, Clim. Past Discuss., doi:10.5194/cp2021-152, 2021.

  • Rehfeld, K., and Brown, J.: Interannual-to-interdecadal variability in PMIP simulations at the local to global scale, Past Glob. Chang. Mag., 29(2), 98, doi:10.22498/pages.29.2.98, 2021.

  • Bothe, O.,Rehfeld, K., Konecky, B., and Jonkers, L.: Towards increased interoperability of paleoenvironmental observation data, Past Glob. Chang. Mag., 29(1), 59, doi:10.22498/pages.29.1.59, 2021.

  • Kölbach, M., Rehfeld, K., and May, M.M.: Efficiency gains for thermally coupled solar hydrogen production in extreme cold, Energy Environ. Sci., 14, 4410–4417, doi:10.1039/D1EE00650A, 2021.

  • Brovkin, V., Brook, E., Williams, J.W., ..., Rehfeld, K., ..., et al.: Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system, Nat. Geosci., 14, 550-558, doi:10.1038/s41561-021-00790-5, 2021.

  • Ziegler, E. and Rehfeld, K.: TransEBM v. 1.0: Description, tuning, and validation of a transient model of the Earth’s energy balance in two dimensions, Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 2843-2866, doi:10.5194/gmd-14-2843-2021, 2021.

  • Bühler, J. C., Roesch, C., Kirschner, M., Sime, L., Holloway, M. D., and Rehfeld, K.: Comparison of the oxygen isotope signatures in speleothem records and iHadCM3 model simulations for the last millennium, Clim. Past, 17, 985-1004, doi:10.5194/cp-17-985-2021, 2021.

  • Bessac, J., Christensen, H. M., Endo, K., Monahan, A. H., and Weitzel, N. Scale‐aware space‐time stochastic parameterization of subgrid‐scale velocity enhancement of sea surface fluxes. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:10.1029/2020MS002367, 2021.

  • Hébert, R., Rehfeld, K. and Laepple, T.: Comparing estimation techniques for timescale-dependent scaling of climate variability in paleoclimate time series, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 28, 311-328, doi:10.5194/npg-28-311-2021, 2021.

  • Ellerhoff, B. and Rehfeld, K.: Probing the timescale-dependent stability of local and global surface air temperature from climate simulations and reconstructions of the last millennia, Phys. Rev. E, 104, 064136, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.104.064136, 2021.

2020

  • Cantalloube, F., Milli, J., Böhm, C., Crewell, S., Navarrete, J., Rehfeld, K. Sarazin, M. and Sommani, A.: The impact of climate change on astronomical observations, Nature Astronomy 4, 826–829, doi:10.1038/s41550-020-1203-3, 2020.

  • Comas-Bru, L., Rehfeld, K., Roesch, C., Amirnezhad-Mozhdehi, S., Harrison, S. P., Atsawawaranunt, K., Ahmad, S. M., Ait Brahim, Y., Baker, A., Bosomworth, M., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Burstyn, Y., Columbu, A., Deininger, M., Demény, A., Dixon, B., Fohlmeister, J., Hatvani, I. G., Hu, J., Kaushal, N., Kern, Z., Labuhn, I., Lechleitner, F. A., Lorrey, A., Martrat, B., Novello, V. F., Oster, J., Pérez-Mejías, C., Scholz, D., Scroxton, N., Sinha, N., Ward, B. M., Warken, S., Zhang, H., and the SISAL members: SISALv2: A comprehensive speleothem isotope database with multiple age-depth models, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, doi:10.5194/essd-2020-39, accepted, 2020.

  • Kaufman et al. (incl. Rehfeld K.): A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, Sci Data 7, 115, doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0445-3, 2020.

  • Rehfeld, K., Hébert, R., Lora, J. M., Lofverstrom, M., and Brierley, C. M.: Variability of surface climate in simulations of past and future, Earth Syst. Dynam., 11, 447–468, doi:10.5194/esd-11-447-2020, 2020.

  • Weitzel, N., Hense, A., Herzschuh, U., Böhmer, T., Cao, X., and Rehfeld, K.:  A spatial reconstruction of Siberian Last Glacial Maximum climate from pollen data, doi:10.31223/osf.io/76dfe, preprint, 2020.

2019

  • Roesch, C. and Rehfeld, K.: Automatising age-depth modelling for hundreds of speleothems. 9th International Workshop on Climate Informatics, Paris, 2019, (Poster, Conference paper), link to preprint.

  • Weitzel, N., Hense, A., and Ohlwein, C.: Combining a pollen and macrofossil synthesis with climate simulations for spatial reconstructions of European climate using Bayesian filtering, Clim. Past, 15, 1275–1301, doi:10.5194/cp-15-1275-2019, 2019. 

  • Lu, F., Weitzel, N., and Monahan, A. H.: Joint state-parameter estimation of a nonlinear stochastic energy balance model from sparse noisy data. Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 26, 227–250, doi:10.5194/npg-26-227-2019, 2019.

  • Comas-Bru, L., Harrison, S. P., Werner, M., Rehfeld, K., Scroxton, N., Veiga-Pires, C., and Ersek, V.: Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial, Clim. Past, 15, 1557–1579, doi:10.5194/cp-15-1557-2019, 2019.

  • Mendes, R. V., Sawakuchi, A. O., Chiessi, C. M., Giannini, P. C. F., Rehfeld, K., and Mulitza, S.: Thermoluminescence and Optically Stimulated Luminescence Measured in Marine Sediments Indicate Precipitation Changes Over Northeastern Brazil, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, 1476-1486, doi:10.1029/2019PA003691, 2019.

  • Pages2kConsortium (incl. K. Rehfeld): Consistent multi-decadal variability in global temperature reconstructions and simulations over the common era, Nature geoscience, 12, p.643, doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0400-0, 2019.

  • Reschke, M., Rehfeld, K., and Laepple, T.: Empirical estimate of the signal content of Holocene temperature proxy records, Clim. Past, 15, 521–537, doi:10.5194/cp-15-521-2019, 2019.

Publications prior to 2019 (Kira Rehfeld): ORCID G*Scholar

Conference contributions

2021

  • Heiser, Y., Bühler, J., Casado, M., and Rehfeld, K.: Comparison of isotopic signatures in ice core and speleothem records to an isotope enabled climate model simulation for the last millennium, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-8661, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-8661, 2021 (vPICO).

  • Ellerhoff, B. and Rehfeld, K.: Timescale-dependent stability of surface air temperature and the forced temperature response, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-1939, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1939, 2021 (vPICO).

  • May, M., Weitzel, N., Jonkers, L., and Rehfeld, K.: Evaluating a method for reconstruction of global, zonal and regional mean temperatures from sparse proxy data, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-4361, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-4361, 2021 (vPICO).

  • Rehfeld, K., Wider, J., Theisen, N., Werner, M., Köthe, U., and Weitzel, N.: The potential of machine learning for modeling spatio-temporal properties of water isotopologue distributions in precipitation, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-2979, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2979, 2021 (vPICO).

  • Baudouin, J.-P., Bothe, O., Chevalier, M., Weitzel, N., Dallmeyer, A., Brierley, C., and Rehfeld, K.: Model-data comparison challenges in paleo-climate analyses: Towards an evaluation toolbox for transient climate model simulations, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-5716, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-5716, 2021 (vPICO).

  • Weitzel, N., Andres, H., Baudouin, J.-P., Bothe, O., Dolman, A., Jonkers, L., Kapsch, M., Kleinen, T., May, M., Mikolajewicz, U., Paul, A., and Rehfeld, K.: Towards model-data comparison of the deglacial temperature evolution in space and time, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-9683, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9683, 2021 (vPICO).

  • Buehler, J., Weitzel, N., Baudouin, J.-P., Werner, M., and Rehfeld, K.: Last Glacial to present-day variability of surface climate from oxygen isotope signatures in speleothems and model simulations, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-9847, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9847, 2021 (vPICO).

  • Ziegler, E., Andres, H., Ellerhoff, B., Kapsch, M.-L., Kutterolf, S., Mikolajewicz, U., Schindlbeck-Belo, J. C., Toohey, M., Wirths, C., Weitzel, N., and Rehfeld, K.: State-dependency of temperature variability in transient simulations of the last Deglaciation from models of varying complexity, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-11006, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-11006, 2021 (vPICO).

  • Wirths, C., Ziegler, E., Toohey, M., Schindlbeck-Belo, J. C., Kutterolf, S., Anders, H., and Rehfeld, K.: Comparing temperature trends and variability over the Holocene in climate models of low and high complexity, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-1842, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1842, 2021 (vPICO).

  • Mehling, O., Ziegler, E., Andres, H., Werner, M., and Rehfeld, K.: Parameterization dependence of the hydrological cycle in a general circulation model of intermediate complexity, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-1328, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1328, 2021 (vPICO).

  • Weitzel, N., Andres, H., Baudouin, J.-P., Bothe, O., Dolman, A., Jonkers, L., Kapsch, M., Kleinen, T., May, M., Mikolajewicz, U., Paul, A., and Rehfeld, K.: Towards model-data comparison of the deglacial temperature evolution in space and time, PalMod seminar series, (Talk).

2020

  • Ziegler, E., Ellerhoff, B., Wirths, C., Andres, H., Kutterolf, S., Toohey, M., Schindlbeck-Belo, J. Christin., and Rehfeld, K.: First results on simulated climate variability since the Last Glacial Maximum from experiments with simple, idealized and comprehensive climate models, AGU Fall Meeting 2020, (Poster), Link to abstract.

  • Weitzel, N., Andres, H., Bühler, J., May, M., Sime, L. C., Sommani, A., Stebich, M., and Rehfeld, K.: The heterogeneous global structure of Dansgaard-Oeschger events in paleoclimate archives and climate simulations, AGU Fall Meeting 2020, (Talk), Link to abstract.

  • Ziegler, E., Ellerhoff, B., Wirths, C., Andres, H., Kutterolf, S., Toohey, M., Schindlbeck-Belo, J. Christin., and Rehfeld, K.: Towards characterizing changes in climate variability since the Last Glacial in simulations of conceptual to comprehensive climate models, Virtual QUIGS-IFG meeting on glacial terminations, (Talk), Link to meeting page.

  • Weitzel, N., Adam, M. and Rehfeld, K.: Inferring spatio-temporal vegetation and hydroclimate changes during the last deglaciation, Virtual QUIGS-IFG meeting on glacial terminations, (Talk), Link to meeting page.

  • Weitzel, N., Adam, M., Sommani, A., and Rehfeld, K.: A spatio-temporal view of variability in pollen records during the last Glacial, PAGES CVAS seminar series, (Talk), Link to schedule.

  • Sommani, A., Weitzel, N., and Rehfeld, K.: Northern Hemisphere temperature to precipitation relationships during the last Glacial from pollen records and climate simulations, EGU 2020, Display: view, doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7293.

  • Ziegler, E., and Rehfeld, K.: Evaluation of simulated climate variability since the Last Glacial using climate models of varying complexity, EGU 2020, Display: view, doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8615.

  • Rehfeld, K., Kirschner, M., Holloway, M. D., and Sime, L.: Quantifying the influence of natural forcing on oxygen isotope variability in alpine and polar ice core sites, EGU 2020, Display: view, doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19341.

  • Buehler, J., Kirschner, M., Roesch, C., Holloway, M. D., Sime L., and Rehfeld, K.: Comparison of isotopic signatures in speleothem records and model simulations for the past millennium, EGU 2020, Display: view,  doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8982. 

  • Rehfeld, K., Hébert, R., Lora, J. M., Lofverstrom, M., and Brierley, C. M.: Variability of surface climate in simulations of past and future, EGU 2020, Display: view, doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8592.

  • Ermis, R. S., Moffa-Sánchez, P., Jahn, A., and Rehfeld, K.: Assessing temperature fingerprints for the Atlantic overturning in the past two millennia, EGU 2020, Display: view, doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6918.

  • Weitzel, N, Adam, M., Sommani, A., and Rehfeld, K.: A spatio-temporal view of variability in pollen records during the last Glacial, EGU 2020, Display: view, doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7492.

  • Ellerhoff B. and Rehfeld K.. Understanding and modeling the scaling spectrum of climate, EGU 2020, Display: view, doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-262.

2019

  • Adam, M., Roesch, C., Stebich, M., Weitzel, N., and Rehfeld, K.: Quantifying the similarity of globally distributed pollen records with paleo-climate networks, 2nd International REKLIM conference Berlin, 2019, (Poster), doi:10.1002/essoar.10501152.1.

  • Bühler, J., Rehfeld, K., and Roesch, C.: Comparison of isotopic signatures in speleothem records and model simulations for the past millennium, 2nd International REKLIM conference Berlin 2019, (Poster), doi:10.1002/essoar.10501079.1.

  • Ziegler, E. and Rehfeld, E.: Transient simulation of climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene with an energy balance climate model, 2nd International REKLIM conference Berlin 2019, (Talk), doi:10.1002/essoar.10500939.1.

  • Kirschner, M., Holloway, M., Sime, L., and Rehfeld, K.: Quantifying the influence of volcanic forcing on water isotopes and climate in polar and alpine regions using HadCM3, 5th YES Congress 2019, Berlin, (Poster), doi:10.1002/essoar.10501038.1.

  • Weitzel, N., Hense, A., and Ohlwein, C.: Combining a proxy synthesis and climate simulations for spatial reconstructions of European climate using Bayesian filtering, INQUA 2019, Dublin, (Talk), link to abstract.

  • Weitzel, N., Adam, M., Stebich, M., and Rehfeld, K.: Estimating climate variability during the last Glacial and Holocene from pollen records, INQUA 2019, Dublin, (Poster), doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.9632078.

  • Rehfeld, K., Roesch, C., Amirnezhad-Mozhdehi, S., Breitenbach, S., Rupprecht, D., Scholz, D., and Comas-Bru, L.: Construction and evaluation of age-depth models for large numbers of speleothems, EGU 2019, Vienna, (PICO), link to abstract.

  • Ziegler, E., and Rehfeld, K.: Transient simulation of climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene with an energy balance climate model, EGU 2019, Vienna, (Poster), doi:10.1002/essoar.10500939.1.

    • Awarded as Outstanding Student Poster and PICO 2019: link to award.

  • Roesch, C. and Rehfeld, K.: Testing the variability of speleothem growth in Glacial versus Interglacial climate, DPG Frühjahrstagung München 2019, (Talk),  link to abstract.