Miren Vizca’no, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral researcher
Department of Geography
and Berkeley Atmospheric Center,
University of California
531 McCone Hall; Berkeley CA 94720
Fax: + 1-510-642-3370
Email: mirenvt[ATsign]berkeley.edu
Currently working from The Netherlands
tel: +31 (0)6 83320176
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)
á
Alumni
of the International
Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) (2002-2006)
Universidad
Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Licenciada, Physics, Atmospheric Physics
(1995-2001)
RESEARCH PROJECTS
á (since 02/2009) Investigation of the
response of the Greenland ice sheet to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing with
the new CCSM including interactive ice sheets. Funded by NSF, SGER program.
á
(11/2006-01/2009)
Investigation of the role of the Tropics on the onset of Northern Hemisphere
glaciation. Funded by the Gary Comer Abrupt Climate Change Fellowship program.
á
(11/2001-10/2006)
Coupling an ice sheet model to the AOGCMs ECHAM5/MPIOM and ECHAM3/LSG and
application to the study of the interactions between ice sheets and climate
under anthropogenic greenhouse forcing. Funded by BMBF (German Federal Ministry
of Education and Research), CLIMCYC project.
PUBLICATIONS
In review, submitted
Vizca’no, M., S. Rupper, and J. Chiang
ÓPermanent El Ni–oÓ and the onset of
Northern Hemisphere glaciations:
mechanism and comparison with other
hypotheses
Revised, Paleoceanography, Sep 2009. pdf
In peer-reviewed journals
Vizca’no, M., U. Mikolajewicz, J. Jungclaus, and G.
Schurgers
Climate
modification by future ice sheet changes and consequences for ice sheet mass
balance
Clim Dyn, online
first, doi: 10.1007/s00382-009-0591-y (in
press). pdf
Vizca’no, M., U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gršger, E.
Maier-Reimer, G. Schurgers, and A. Winguth
Long-term ice
sheet-climate interactions under anthropogenic greenhouse forcing simulated
with a complex Earth Sytem Model
Clim Dyn, 31,
665-690, doi: 10.1007/s00382-008-0369-7 (2008). pdf
Mikolajewicz, U., M. Vizca’no, 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. Gršger, E. Maier-Reimer, G.
Schurgers, A. Winguth, and M. Vizca’no:
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). pdf
Schurgers G, U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gršger,
E. Maier-Reimer, M. Vizca’no,
and A. Winguth:
The effect of land surface changes on Eemian
climate
Clim Dyn
29 (4), 357-373 (2007)
Gršger, M., E. Maier-Reimer, U. Mikolajewicz, G.
Schurgers, M. Vizca’no, and A. Winguth
Changes in the hydrological cycle, ocean
circulation and carbon/nutrient cycling during the
Last Interglacial and Glacial Transition
Paleoceanography, 22, PA4205, doi:10.1029/2006PA001375 (2007)
Schurgers G, U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gršger,
E. Maier-Reimer, M. Vizca’no,
and A. Winguth
Long-term effects of biogeophysical and
biogeocheical interactions between terrestrial
biosphere and climate under anthropogenic climate
change
Glob Planet Change, 64, 26-37, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.01.009 (2008)
Schurgers G, U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gršger,
E. Maier-Reimer, M. Vizca’no,
and A. Winguth
Changes in terrestrial carbon storage during interglacials:
a comparison between
Eemian and Holocene
Clim Past, 2,
205-220 (2006)
Winguth, A., U. Mikolajewicz,
M. Gršger, E. Maier-Reimer, G. Schurgers, and M. Vizca’no
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)
In Books
Gršger, M., E. Maier-Reimer, U. Mikolajewicz, G.
Schurgers, M. Vizca’no, and A. Winguth
Vegetation-climate feedbacks in transient
simulations over the last interglacial (128,000-113,000 yr BP)
The climate of past interglaciasl, Elsevier, 563-572. Edited by Sirocko, T. Litt, M.
Claussen,
M.F. and Sanchez-Goni
doi:10.1029/2006PA001375 (2007)
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 and seminars
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
Relaci—n de la cubierta de hielo con el
cambio clim‡tico en un modelo complejo
(Interactions between ice sheets and
climate change simulated with a complex Earth System Model)
International Conferences
Selected among ŇPapers of Special InterestÓ, EGU
Annual Meeting,Vienna, 04/05
Vizca’no, M., U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gršger, 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
Vizca’no, 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
Vizca’no, M., U. Mikolajewicz, M. Gršger, 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
Vizca’no, M., S. Rupper, J. Chiang
Permanent
El Ni–o and the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciations (poster)
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
12/07
Vizca’no, M., S. Rupper, J. Chiang
Comparison of different mechanisms proposed to
explain the onset of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, 04/08
Vizca’no, M., U. Mikolajewicz, J.
Jungclaus, and G. Schurgers
Climate modification by future ice sheet
changes and consequences for their mass balance
Vizca’no, M., S. Rupper, J. Chiang
Comparison of different mechanisms
proposed to explain the onset of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation (poster)