Thomas Stocker

Thomas F. Stocker ( * 1959 in Zurich ) is a Swiss climatologist.

In 1987 he completed his studies in environmental physics at the ETH Zurich with a doctorate. After that, he was at University College London, working at McGill University and at Columbia University. Since 1993 he is Professor at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern, where he heads the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics. His team is concerned with modeling past and future climate changes, including inter alia ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland are used.

He was awarded the National Latsis Prize in 1993, Hans Oeschger Medal of the 2009 of the European Geosciences Union. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Since 1998 he takes part in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ). In 2008 he was Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group I ( Physical Science Basis ), a post he will hold until September 2015. Together with the Working Group II in 2012 he laid before the Special Report for Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation ( SREX ), in which the relationship between global warming and extreme weather events was investigated.

Stocker is a member of the Academia Europaea and the American Meteorological Society and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.

Writings

• Markus Leuenberger, Silvio Borella, Matthias Saurer, Rolf Siegwolf, Fritz Schweingruber & Rainer Matyssek: Stable isotopes in tree rings as climate and stress indicators. vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 372812639X
• With Richard B. Alley, Jochem Marotzke, William Nordhaus, Jonathan Overpeck, Dorothy Peteet, Roger Pielke Jr., Raymond Pierrehumbert, Peter Rhines, Lynne Talley & J. Michael Wallace: Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises. The National Academies Press, 2002, ISBN 0309074347
• Introduction to climate modeling. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-00772-9