Gabriele Hegerl facts for kids
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Gabriele Hegerl
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Hegerl in 2018
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Gabriele Clarissa Hegerl
9 January 1962 Munich, Germany
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| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
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Thomas Crowley
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| Children | 2 |
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| Fields | Climate science |
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| Thesis | Numerische Lösung der kompressiblen zweidimensionalen Navier-Stokes-Gleichungen in einem zeitabhängigen Gebiet mit Hilfe energievermindernder Randbedingungen (1991) |
Gabriele Clarissa Hegerl is a German scientist who studies the Earth's climate. She was born on January 9, 1962. She is a professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where she teaches about the climate system. Before 2007, she worked at Texas A&M University and Duke University in the United States. She also helped write important reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is a group that studies climate change for the United Nations.
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Early Life and Education
Gabriele Hegerl was born in Munich, Germany. She went to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. There, she earned her first degrees and then a PhD in 1991. Her PhD research involved using math to solve complex equations about how fluids move.
Researching Earth's Climate
Professor Hegerl's work focuses on how Earth's climate naturally changes. She also studies how human activities and natural events affect the climate. For example, she looks at how greenhouse gas emissions from human activities warm the planet. She also studies the climate effects of volcanic eruptions and changes in the sun's energy.
Understanding Climate Change
Gabriele Hegerl has led important research on why our climate is changing today. She helps figure out how much of this change is due to human activities. Her work shows that greenhouse gases released by people are a big reason for modern climate change.
In 2006, she led a study about "climate sensitivity." This term describes how much the Earth's temperature might rise if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles. Her team used computer models to understand past temperature changes. They compared these models to old climate records. This helped them estimate how sensitive the climate is to changes. Their findings suggested that the Earth's temperature would likely rise between 1.5 and 6.2 degrees Celsius if carbon dioxide doubled.
Contributing to IPCC Reports
Professor Hegerl was a main author for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. This report helps governments understand climate change. Her 2006 research was used in the report. It supported the idea that the 20th century was likely the warmest in the Northern Hemisphere in over 1,300 years.
She also worked with a team that looked at past temperature records. In 2007, they published their own findings. They showed that recent temperatures, measured with instruments, were much higher than any temperatures recorded in the last 1,000 years before the industrial age.
Awards and Recognition
Gabriele Hegerl has received many honors for her important work.
- In 2013, she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
- In 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). These are very respected science groups in the UK.
- In 2018, she joined the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
- In 2016, she won the Hans Sigrist Prize. This award recognized her amazing work on how humans affect the Earth's climate system.
- In 2018, Leeds University gave her an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
- In 2025, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). This honor was for her services to climate science.
Personal Life
Gabriele Hegerl was married to Thomas Crowley, who passed away. She has two sons, who were born in 2000 and 2003.
See also
In Spanish: Gabriele C. Hegerl para niños
