MIREN VIZCAÍNO

Post-doctoral researcher

Department of Geography, University of California

531 McCone Hall; Berkeley CA 94720

Tel/fax: + 1-510-643-9020/642-3370

Email: mirenvt[ATsign]atmos.berkeley.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Interactions of ice sheets with climate, anthropogenic climate change,

glacial inception, early Pliocene climate

EDUCATION

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology , Hamburg (Germany) (2006)

· Alumni of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) (2002-2006)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Licenciada, Physics, Atmospheric Physics (1995-2001)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

· Role of the Tropics on the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Funded by

the Gary Comer Abrupt Climate Change Fellowship program

· CLIMCYC, Modelling of the last glacial cycle with a complex Earth System Model (11/2001-08/2006)

PUBLICATIONS

In Journals (selection)

Vizcaíno, M., U. Mikolajewicz, J. Jungclaus, and G. Schurgers

Long-term ice sheet-climate interactions under anthropogenic greenhouse forcing simulated

with a complex Earth Sytem Model

Clim Dyn, in press, doi: 10.1007/s00382-008-0369-7

Mikolajewicz, U., M. Vizcaíno, J. Jungclaus, and G. Schurgers

Effect of ice sheet interactions in anthropogenic climate change simulations

Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L18706, doi:10.1029/2007GL031173 (2007)

Mikolajewicz, U., M. Gröger, E. Maier-Reimer, G. Schurgers, A. Winguth, and M. Vizcaíno:

Long-term effects of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions simulated with a complex earth system model

Clim Dyn, 28, 599-633, doi:10.1007/s00382-006-0204-y (2007)

Schurgers G,  U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gröger,  E. Maier-Reimer, M. Vizcaíno, and A. Winguth:

The effect of land surface changes on Eemian climate

Clim Dyn 29 (4): 357-373 (2007)

Gröger, M., E. Maier-Reimer, U. Mikolajewicz, G. Schurgers, M. Vizcaíno, and A. Winguth

Changes in the hydrological cycle, ocean circulation and carbon/nutrient cycling during the

Last Interglacial and Glacial Transition

Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2006PA001375 (2007)

Winguth, A., U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gröger, E. Maier-Reimer, G. Schurgers, and M. Vizcaíno

Centennial-scale interactions between the carbon cycle and anthropogenic climate change

using a dynamic earth system model

Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L23714, doi:10.1029/2005GL023681 (2005)

Thesis

Long-term interactions between ice sheets and climate under anthropogenic greenhouse

forcing. Simulations with two complex Earth System Models

Ph. D. Thesis, (2006) pdf

Adaptative changes in a 3-d ice sheet model for its use in paleosimulations

Master Thesis, University of Hamburg (2004)

PRESENTATIONS

Invited

First Evaluation of the International Max Planck Research School, 03/05

Ice Sheets and the Earth System - Coupling of an Ice Sheet Model and an OAGCM

Scientific Evaluation of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg), Board of Trustees, 11/04

Ice Sheets and Climate: studies of the last glacial cycle

Seminar Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), 11/05

Relación de la cubierta de hielo con el cambio climático en un modelo complejo

(Interactions between ice sheets and climate change simulated with a complex Earth System Model)

International Conferences

Selected among “Papers of Special Interest”, EGU Annual Meeting,Vienna, 04/05

Vizcaíno, M., U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gröger, E. Maier-Reimer, G. Schurgers, and A. Winguth

The Greenland ice sheet and the climate of the next 1000 years: an approach with a

complex Earth System Model

EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, 04/06

Vizcaíno, M., J. Jungclaus, U. Mikolajewicz, E. Maier-Reimer, and G. Schurgers

Evolution of the Ice Sheets of Greenland and Antarctica under anthropogenic climate change:

a study with a new complex Earth System Model

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 12/05

Vizcaíno, M., U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gröger, E. Maier-Reimer, G. Schurgers, and A. Winguth

Long-term Future Sea Level Changes Simulated with a Complex Earth System Model

IODP Topical Symposium: North Atlantic Climate and Arctic Climate Variability, Bremen (Germany), 08/07

Vizcaíno, M., S. Rupper, J. Chiang

Permanent El Niño and the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciations (poster)

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 12/07

Vizcaíno, M., S. Rupper, J. Chiang

Comparison of different mechanisms proposed to explain the onset of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation