Dr. Ralf Weisse
Dr. Ralf Weisse
Coastal Climate and Regional Sea Level Changes
Head of DepartmentPhone: +49 (0)4152 87-2819
Research Interests
My research interests comprise all aspects of marine climate and marine climate change. I am curious, in particular, about wind storms, storm surges, ocean waves, or regional mean sea levels and how they vary and change in the past and the future. I am also interested in their impacts on, for example, the coast, how society may adapt to changes, and bringing knowledge into application.
Projects coordinated
Scientific career
| Since 2001 | Head of the Coastal Climate group at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (now Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon) |
| 2000 | Research Scientist at the Institute of Coastal Research at the GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht, Germany |
| 1996-1999 | Research Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1994-1996 | PostDoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany |
| June 1994 | Ph.D. in Geoscience, University of Hamburg, Germany on decadal variability in an ocean general circulation model in the North Atlantic |
| 1990-1994 | Ph.D. student at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany |
| July 1990 | Diploma in Meteorology, Humboldt University zu Berlin, Germany on temperature trends in the European-Atlantic region over the past decades of years |
Services
| Since 2020 | Member of the “Zukunftsforum Ozean” organized by the German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) |
| Since 2016 | Member of the Baltic Earth Science Steering Group (BESSG); Chair of the working group on Sea Level Dynamics and Coastal Erosion in the Baltic Sea |
- Heinrich, P., Hagemann, S., Weisse, R., & Gaslikova, L. (2023): Changes in compound flood event frequency in northern and central Europe under climate change. Front. Clim. 5:1227613, doi:10.3389/fclim.2023.1227613
- Heinrich, P., Hagemann, S., Weisse, R., Schrum, C., Daewel, U., & Gaslikova, L. (2023): Compound flood events: analysing the joint occurrence of extreme river discharge events and storm surges in northern and central Europe. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 1967–1985, doi:10.5194/nhess-23-1967-2023
- Teutsch, I., Brühl, M., Weisse, R., & Wahls, S. (2023): Contribution of solitons to enhanced rogue wave occurrence in shallow depths: a case study in the southern North Sea. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 2053–2073, doi:10.5194/nhess-23-2053-2023
- Krieger, D., Brune, S., Pieper, P., Weisse, R., & Baehr, J. (2022): Skillful decadal prediction of German Bight storm activity. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 3993–4009, doi:10.5194/nhess-22-3993-2022
- Liu, X., Meinke, I., & Weisse, R. (2022): Still normal? Near-real-time evaluation of storm surge events in the context of climate change. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 97–116, doi:10.5194/nhess-22-97-2022
- Meier, H.E.M., Kniebusch, M., Dieterich, C., Gröger, M., Zorita, E., Elmgren, R., Myrberg, K., Ahola, M.P., Bartosova, A., Bonsdorff, E., Börgel, F., Capell, R., Carlén, I., Carlund, T., Carstensen, J., Christensen, O.B., Dierschke, V., Frauen, C., Frederiksen, M., Gaget, E., Galatius, A., Haapala, J. J., Halkka, A., Hugelius, G., Hünicke, B., Jaagus, J., Jüssi, M., Käyhkö, J., Kirchner, N., Kjellström, E., Kulinski, K., Lehmann, A., Lindström, G., May, W., Miller, P.A., Mohrholz, V., Müller-Karulis, B., Pavón-Jordán, D., Quante, M., Reckermann, M., Rutgersson, A., Savchuk, O.P., Stendel, M., Tuomi, L., Viitasalo, M., Weisse, R., & Zhang, W. (2022): Climate change in the Baltic Sea region: a summary. Earth Syst. Dynam., 13, 457–593, doi:10.5194/esd-13-457-2022
- Meyer, E.M.I., Weisse, R., Grabemann, I., Tinz, B., & Scholz, R. (2022): Reconstruction of wind and surge of the 1906 storm tide at the German North Sea coast. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 2419–2432, doi:10.5194/nhess-22-2419-2022
- Teutsch, I., & Weisse, R. (2022): Rogue Waves in the Southern North Sea - The Role of Modulational Instability. Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-22-0059.1
- Jensen, J., Ebener, A., Jänicke, L., Arns, A., Hubert, K., Wurpts, A., Berkenbrink, C., Weisse, R., Yi, X., & Meyer, E. (2021): Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Tidedynamik an der deutschen Nordseeküste (ALADYN). Die Küste, 89, doi:10.18171/1.089105
- Weisse, R., Dailidienė, I., Hünicke, B., Kahma, K., Madsen, K., Omstedt, A., Parnell, K., Schöne, T., Soomere, T., Zhang, W., & Zorita, E. (2021): Sea level dynamics and coastal erosion in the Baltic Sea region. Earth Syst. Dynam., 12, 871–898, doi:10.5194/esd-12-871-2021
- Yi, X., & Weisse, R. (2021): Modellgestütze Untersuchungen zum Einfluss großräumiger Faktoren auf die Tidedynamik in der Deutschen Bucht. Karlsruhe: Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau, doi:10.18171/1.089107
Publications 2016-2020
Publications 2011 - 2015
Publications 1994 - 2010