Thorsten Mauritsen (born 1977) is a Danish

climate scientist Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "slope"; and , ''-logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. Climate concerns the atmospheric ...

. He is currently a professor at the Department of Meteorology at

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...

. His research interests include climate dynamics and global circulation,

climate sensitivity Climate sensitivity is a key measure in climate science and describes how much Earth's surface will warm for a doubling in the atmospheric carbon dioxide () concentration. Its formal definition is: "The change in the surface temperature in resp ...

and cloud feedbacks and ocean-atmosphere coupled problems. He is best known for his research on Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity and his research uses the climate of the past to determine climate sensitivity more precisely.

Biography

He was born in

Sønderborg (; ) is a Denmark, Danish town in the Region of Southern Denmark. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Sønderborg Municipality (Kommune). The town has a population of 28,333 (1 January 2025),University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

and

. He received his PhD in Stockholm in 2007. He then joined MPI-M as a postdoctoral researcher, and eventually became a group leader at the institute. He has been cited around 10,000 times. His h-index is 44 as of 2021.

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* Danish climatologists Academic staff of Stockholm University Stockholm University alumni University of Copenhagen alumni People from Sønderborg Municipality 1977 births Living people {{Denmark-scientist-stub