Daniela Jacob

Daniela Jacob
Born	(1961-06-20)20 June 1961
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Technical University of Darmstadt University of Hamburg
Scientific career
Fields	Climate scientist

Daniela Jacob (born 20 June 1961[1]) is a German[2] climate scientist. She heads the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)[3] and is a visiting professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.[4]

Biography

Jacob studied meteorology from 1980 to 1986 at the Technical University of Darmstadt and received her doctorate in 1991 from the University of Hamburg.[1]

She is married and has one daughter.[1]

Work

Jacob's research focuses on regional climate modeling and the water cycle.[3]

Jacob was one of the lead authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report[3] and was a coordinating lead author of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (2018).[2]

Jacob is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Elsevier journal Climate Services.[5] She is also a coordinator, along with Eleni Katragkou and Stefan Sobolowski, of EURO-CORDEX, a scientific community for European regional climate modeling.[6]

Selected publications

• Jacob, Daniela (16 November 2022). "Paris lebt". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 16 November 2022.
• Jacob, Daniela; Bärring, Lars; Christensen, Ole Bøssing; Christensen, Jens Hesselbjerg; de Castro, Manuel; Déqué, Michel; Giorgi, Filippo; Hagemann, Stefan; Hirschi, Martin; Jones, Richard; Kjellström, Erik; Lenderink, Geert; Rockel, Burkhardt; Sánchez, Enrique; Schär, Christoph; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Somot, Samuel; van Ulden, Aad; van den Hurk, Bart (17 March 2007). "An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate". Climatic Change. 81 (S1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 31–52. Bibcode:2007ClCh...81S..31J. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.582.5706. doi:10.1007/s10584-006-9213-4. ISSN 0165-0009. S2CID 153768889.

References

1. Jacob, Daniela. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 November 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
2. "IPCC Authors (beta)". archive.ipcc.ch. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
3. "Daniela Jacob – Climate Service Center Germany". www.climate-service-center.de. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
4. "Daniela Jacob". Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (in German). Retrieved 7 April 2021.
5. "Daniela Jacob, PhD". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
6. Nishat (24 March 2021). "How scientific networks bring cutting-edge science upfront". Open Access Government. Retrieved 7 April 2021.