Dr. Felicitas Hansen

Dr. Felicitas Hansen
Klimaextreme und Impacts
WissenschaftlerinTel: +49 (0)4152 87-1845
Research interests
Climate modelling; climate variability, especially over the North Atlantic/Europe: effect of the large-scale circulation on local weather and climate, extreme events, seasonal predictions, teleconnections, stratospheric-troposphere interactions; statistical methods
Projects
Since Oct 2021 | Researcher at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany, in the Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modelling, Department of Climate Extremes and Impacts; EU CLINT project |
Oct 2019 – Sept 2021 | Researcher at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Norrköping, Sweden, in the Rossby Centre’s regional climate modelling group |
Mar 2015 – Sept 2019 | PostDoc at Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, in the Ocean Dynamics group |
Mar 2011 – Feb 2015 | PhD student in the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group NATHAN at Freie Universität Berlin, GFZ Potsdam and Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany; PhD thesis: “The importance of natural and anthropogenic factors for the dynamical coupling between the stratosphere and the troposphere” |
Oct 2008 – Feb 2011 | MSc meteorology at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; thesis: “ Zusammenhang zwischen arktischen Meereisvariationen und nordatlantischen Winterstürmen auf saisonaler Skala” |
Oct 2005 – Sept 2008 | BSc meteorology at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; thesis: “El Niño Telekonnektionen und Klimaänderung unter Berücksichtigung des atmosphärischen Drehimpulses” |
- Hansen, F., Belušić, D., Wyser, K., & Koenigk, T. (2023): Future changes of circulation types and their effects on surface air temperature and precipitation in the SMHI large ensemble. Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-023-06704-y
- Kjellström, E., Hansen, F., & Belušić, D. (2022): Contributions from Changing Large-Scale Atmospheric Conditions to Changes in Scandinavian Temperature and Precipitation Between Two Climate Normals. Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 74, pp 204–221, doi:10.16993/tellusa.49
- F. Hansen & D. Belušić (2021): Tayloring circulation type classification outcomes, International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.7171
- F. Hansen, T. Kruschke, R. J. Greatbatch & A. Weisheimer (2018): Factors influencing the seasonal predictability of Northern hemisphere severe winter storms, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL079415.
- O. Wulff, R. J. Greatbatch, D. I. V. Domeisen, G. Gollan & F. Hansen (2017): Tropical Forcing of the Summer East Atlantic Pattern, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1002/2017GL075493.
- F. Hansen, R. J. Greatbatch, G. Gollan, T. Jung & A. Weisheimer (2016): Remote control of North Atlantic Oscillation predictability via the stratosphere, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, DOI:10.1002/qj.2958.
- H. Ding, R. J. Greatbatch, H. Lin, F. Hansen, G. Gollan & T. Jung (2016): Austral Winter External and Internal Atmospheric Variability between 1980 and 2014, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2016GL067862.
- F. Hansen, K. Matthes & S. Wahl (2016): Tropospheric QBO-ENSO interactions and differences between Atlantic and Pacific, Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0164.1.
- R. Thieblemont, K. Matthes, N.-E. Omrani, K. Kodera & F. Hansen (2015): Solar forcing synchronizes decadal North Atlantic climate variability, Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9268
- F. Hansen, K. Matthes, C. Petrick & W. Wang (2014): The influence of natural and anthropogenic factors on major Stratospheric Sudden Warmings, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 119, 8117-8136, doi:10.1002/2013JD021397.
- F. Hansen, K. Matthes & L. J. Gray (2013): Sensitivity of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry to QBO nudging width in the chemistry-climate model WACCM, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 118, 18, DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50812.
- C. Martin-Puertas, K. Matthes, A. Brauer, R. Muscheler, F. Hansen, C. Petrick, A. Aldahan, G. Possnert & B. van Geel (2012): Regional atmospheric circulation shifts induced by a grand solar minimum, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1460.