Friederike Otto
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 42 |
| Born | Kiel |
| Germany | |
| Affiliations | Imperial College London |
| Interests | Climate Science |
| Books | Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change |
| Education | Freie Universität Berlin |
| University of Potsdam | |
| Date of birth | January 1,1982 |
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| ID | 926109 |
Friederike Otto Life story
Friederike Elly Luise Otto is a climatologist who as of December 2021 works as a Senior Lecturer at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. Previously she was Associate Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.
'Virtually certain' that 2023 will be warmest year after October record
... " The fact that we re seeing this record hot year means record human suffering, " said Dr Friederike Otto from Imperial College London, commenting on the findings...
Climate change played major role in Libya floods
... The scientists warned their findings had large mathematical uncertainties, as: " After a summer of devastating heatwaves and wildfires with a very clear climate-change fingerprint, quantifying the contribution of global warming to these floods proved more challenging, " one of the study s authors, Friederike Otto, of Imperial College London, said...
Climate change: July set to be world's warmest month on record
... 5C because that is understood as the long-term increase in global warming, " explains Dr Friederike Otto, a climate scientist from Imperial College London...
Europe and US heatwaves near 'impossible' without climate change
... It shows again just how much climate change plays a role in what we are currently experiencing, " said Friederike Otto from Imperial College London...
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists
... This is exactly what was forecast to happen in a world warmed by more greenhouse gases, says climate scientist Dr Friederike Otto, from Imperial College London...
How warming oceans are driving the climate juggernaut
... And the higher the global temperature, the higher the risk of heatwaves, says Friederike Otto, a climatologist at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change at Imperial College London...
World records hottest day for third time in a week
... " Climate scientists aren t surprised about the global daily temperature record being broken, but we are very concerned, " Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London, said...
Five things we've learned from UN climate report
... " The message in terms of urgency, I think, is stop burning fossil fuels as fast as humanly possible, " Dr Friederike Otto, one of the report s authors told BBC News...
Climate change played major role in Libya floods
By Justin Rowlatt Climate editor, BBC News
Climate Change made The Storm that devastated the Libyan city of Derna, killing thousands of people, up to 50 times more likely, experts say.
Up to 50% More Rain had fallen as a result of human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions, climate scientists at found.
Years of conflict in the region compounded the vulnerability of people to flooding, the WWA report says.
And it turned the Extreme Weather into a full-scale humanitarian disaster.
The Scientists used computer simulations to assess how much more likely such a storm was now compared with before the 1. 1C of warming Climate Change has already brought.
But they cautioned a lack of data, particularly in Libya, meant considerable uncertainties in their findings.
Storm Daniel , which brought the deadly rains, had already dumped, killing 28 people.
And the study found Climate Change had made this up to 10 times more likely, bringing up to 40% More Rain .
Storms of this intensity are now reasonably common for this region and can be expected once every 10 Years , it warns.
But The Weather event in northern Libya was much more exceptional, bringing a storm of an intensity such as would be expected to hit northern Libya once every 300-600 years.
As Storm Daniel travelled slowly over The Mediterranean , it drew additional energy from sea temperatures two to three degrees above the September average.
" Storm Daniel was [a] Low Pressure [weather system], as we usually have in The Mediterranean , " Kostas Lagouvardos, from The National Observatory of Athens, says. " It was not very Deep - But it was very early in the season and it was stagnant and stayed over The South Ionian Sea for four, Five Days . "
That extra warmth fuelled stronger winds and meant the air could hold more moisture.
And when it hit the northern coast of Libya, it dumped an estimated 400mm of rain on Derna in just 24 hours.
The average for September in The City is just 1. 5mm, according to Nasa's Earth Observatory.
The huge impact shows how intense weather can combine with a vulnerable population with Disastrous Consequences , The Scientists say.
In Libya, the ousting of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi , in 2011, was followed by political instability and Civil War .
Two dams in The River above Derna were old and poorly maintained. Many houses had been built on the flood-plain. And when they burst, tens of millions of cubic metres of water poured into The City , sweeping away entire neighbourhoods.
The Scientists warned their findings had large mathematical uncertainties, as:
" After a summer of devastating heatwaves and wildfires with a very clear climate-change fingerprint, quantifying the contribution of Global Warming to these floods proved more challenging, " one of the study's authors, Friederike Otto , of Imperial College London, said.
" While we have some weather station data over Greece, we don't have any weather station data over Libya. "
Instead, The Scientists had to rely on data based on satellite readings.
But they are confident Climate Change played a significant role, because there is very strong evidence higher temperatures lead to heavier rainfall and other studies have shown Climate Change increases the intensity of Weather Systems such as Storm Daniel .
Source of news: bbc.com
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