About: Hans von Storch

Hans von Storch
Hans von Storch is a director of the Institute for Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Centre and professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg. His research interests are coastal climate and impact (wind, storm surges and waves) in recent times and in possible futures, and methodical issues of statistical climatology (such as detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change, or utility of proxy data). He is also engaged in transdisciplinary research with social and cultural scientists since many years. Hans von Storch has published 16 books, and numerous articles. He is member of the advisory/review boards of Journal of Climate, Environmental Science and Policy and Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Annals of Geophysics, the Romanian Journal of Meteorology, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews/Climate Change and organizor of the GKSS School on Environmental Research (series published by Springer Verlag), and correspondant of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of AGU Newsletter. He is a member of the steering committees of the Exzellenzzentrum KlimaCampus in Hamburg, of International Meetings on Statistical Climatology and a vice-chair of the BALTEX-programme. He chairs the committee for the Eduard Brückner award, the BALTEX Working Group on BACC II, which will assess in 2008-20011 climate and climate change in the Baltic Sea region, and the committee "Klimabericht für die Metropolregion Hamburg". After having served as a Lead Author for Working Group I of IPCC TAR, he has now been appointed as a Lead Author for Working Group II of IPCC AR5. For more information: http://coast.gkss.de/staff/storch/