Dr Olaf Morgenstern

Principal Scientist - Atmosphere and Climate

+64-4-386-0928

Qualifications:

<p>PhD, Meteorology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland</p><p>Diploma in Physics, Freiburg University, Germany</p>

Biography:

Olaf holds a PhD in meteorology and worked in the UK and Germany on the development of atmospheric chemistry and chemistry-climate models. He is leading the NIWA Climate Variability and Change Programme, which focusses on using global and regional climate models and a hydrology model to predict climate globally and for the New Zealand region, ranging from seasonal to centennial timescales. He is leading the Earth System Modelling and Predictions programme for the Deep South National Science Challenge, which is tasked with developing and exploiting the New Zealand Earth System Model and to downscale these results. He is a Lead Author of the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is representing NIWA in the Unified Model Global Model Configuration Group, is on the Science Management Group of the UK Chemistry and Aerosols (UKCA) project as its only overseas member, and is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI). He has been involved in the past three WMO Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion, in 2010 as a Lead Author.

Articles:

Morgenstern, O. (2021), The Southern Annular Mode in 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project models, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., in press, doi:10.1002/essoar.10504632.1

Garfinkel, C. I., Harari, O., Ziskin, S., Rao, J., Morgenstern, O., Zeng, G., Tilmes, S., Kinnison, D., O'Connor, F. M., Butchart, N., Deushi, M., Jöckel, P., and Pozzer, A. (2021), Influence of ENSO on entry stratospheric water vapor in coupled chemistry-ocean CCMI and CMIP6 models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., in press, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-801.

Keeble, J., B. Hassler, A. Banerjee, R. Checa-Garcia, G. Chiodo, S. Davis, V. Eyring, P. T. Griffiths, O. Morgenstern, P. Nowack, G. Zeng, J. Zhang, G. Bodeker, D. Cugnet, G. Danabasoglu, M. Deushi, L. W. Horowitz, L. Li, M. Michou, M. J. Mills, P. Nabat, S. Park, and T. Wu (2021), Evaluating stratospheric ozone and water vapor changes in CMIP6 models from 1850-2100, Atmos. Chem. Phys., in press.

Kuma, P., McDonald, A. J., Morgenstern, O., Querel, R., Silber, I., and Flynn, C. J. (2021), Ground-based lidar processing and simulator framework for comparing models and observations (ALCF 1.0), Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 43–72, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-43-2021.

O'Connor, F. M., Abraham, N. L., Dalvi, M., Folberth, G. A., Griffiths, P. T., Hardacre, C., Johnson, B. T., Kahana, R., Keeble, J., Kim, B., Morgenstern, O., Mulcahy, J. P., Richardson, M., Robertson, E., Seo, J., Shim, S., Teixeira, J. C., Turnock, S. T., Williams, J., Wiltshire, A. J., Woodward, S., and Zeng, G. (2021) Assessment of pre-industrial to present-day anthropogenic climate forcing in UKESM1, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 1211–1243, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1211-2021.

Morgenstern, O., F. M. O'Connor, B. T. Johnson, G. Zeng, J. P. Mulcahy, J. Williams, M. Michou, P. Nabat, L. Horowitz, V. Naik, L. Sentman, M. Deushi, S. E. Bauer, K. Tsigaridis, D. T. Shindell, and D. E. Kinnison. (2020). Reappraisal of the climate impacts of ozone‐depleting substances, Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL088295. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088295.

Archibald, A., J. L. Neu, Y. Elshorbany, O. R. Cooper, P. J. Young, H. Akiyoshi, R. A. Cox, M. Coyle, R. Derwent, M. Deushi, A. Finco, G. J. Frost, I. E. Galbally, G. Gerosa, C. Granier, P. T. Griffiths, R. Hossaini, L. Hu, P. Jöckel, B. Josse, M. Y. Lin, M. Mertens, O. Morgenstern, M. Naja, V. Naik, S. Oltmans, D. A. Plummer, L. E. Revell, A. Saiz-Lopez, P. Saxena, Y. M. Shin, I. Shaahid, D. Shallcross, S. Tilmes, T. Trickl, T. J. Wallington, T. Wang, H. M. Worden, and G. Zeng (2020) Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Critical review of changes in the tropospheric ozone burden and budget from 1960-2100, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, in press.

Seo, J., S. Shim, S.-H. Kwon, K.-O. Boo, Y. Kim, F. O’Connor, B. Johnson, M. Dalvi, G. Folberth, J. Teixeira, J. Mulcahy, C. Hardacre, S. Turnock, S. Woodward, L. Abraham, J. Keeble, P. Griffiths, A. Archibald, M. Richardson, C. Dearden, K. Carslaw, J. Williams, G. Zeng, and O. Morgenstern (2020), The impacts of aerosol emissions on historical climate in UKESM1, Atmosphere, in press.

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