Personal
homepage of Hans Renssen
Department
of Earth Sciences
Faculty
of Earth and Life Sciences
VU University Amsterdam
phone +31 20 5987376, fax +31 20 5989940
Profile:
2009-present: Full Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dept. of Earth Sciences.
2007-2009: Associate professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dept. of Earth Sciences
2002-2007: Senior researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dept. of Paleoclimatology and
Geomorphology. Project: Nature and origin of millennial-scale climate
variability ("VIDI - NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls")
2000-2002: Postdoctoral researcher, Institut
d'Astronomie et de Géophysique G. Lemaître, Université Catholique de
Louvain,
1997-2000: Postdoctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dept. of Quaternary Geology and
Geomorphology. Project: Rapid climatic upwarming in
the past: reconstruction and modeling.
1997: PhD
1992: MSc Physical Geography,
Fields of professional interest:
· Multi-disciplinary
research on Earth system dynamics
· Palaeoclimate modelling and
model-data integration
· Impact
of climate change on terrestrial systems
· Quaternary
Geology: understanding the climatic imprint in geological archives
Recently completed projects:
· The
8,200 yr BP
Holocene cooling event
· Holocene climate
instability during the termination of the African Humid Period
· The Atmosphere during stadial-interstadial
transitions
· The effect of deforestation on climate
· The
climatic response to a massive methane release
from hydrates
· Modelling
and reconstructing precipitation and flood frequency in the Meuse catchment
during the late Holocene. Funded by BSIK
Programme 'Klimaat voor Ruimte'
· WARMPAST:
Arctic warming in the past. IPY project. Project
information
· RESOLuTION: Rapid
climatic and environmental shifts during oxygen isotope stages (OIS) 2 and 3 -
linking high-resolution terrestrial, ice core and marine archives. Funded by
ESF-EuroCLIMATE programme. More information is
available on the project
website.
· ORMEN: Ocean Reconstruction and Modelling of the European deglaciatioN. Funded by the RAPID programme. More information
is available on the
Project website
Current projects involved in
· Leverhulme Younger Dryas
project: using glacier-climate proxies to model the Younger Dryas climate in
Europe. Project information
· PATAGON:
NERC-funded project aims to develop a
new regional network of proxy archives and create quantitative climate
reconstructions for southern South America spanning the last ~2000 years. Project information
· CASE
ITN: The Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic Environment. Project information
· Past4Future.
EU-FP7 project. Project information
· HOLOCLIP:
Holocene climate variability at high-southern latitudes: an integrated
perspective. ESF-POLARclimate project. Project
information.
· COST-INTIMATE: INTegrating
Ice core, MArine and TErrestrial
records. Project
information
· MOCA:
Meltwater routing and Ocean-Cryosphere-Atmosphere response. A joint
project of INQUA PALCOM and INQUA TERPRO. Project information
A complete list of
publications can be found here
Key publications:
Renssen, H., Mairesse, A., Goosse, H., Mathiot, P., Heiri, O., Roche, D.M., Nisancioglu,
K.H., Valdes, P.J. (2015) Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period. Nature Geoscience, doi:
10.1038/ngeo2557
Renssen, H., Seppä, H., Crosta, X., Goosse,
H., Roche, D.M., (2012) Global characterization of the Holocene Thermal
Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 48, 7-19. doi:
10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.05.022.
Renssen, H., Goosse, H., Crosta,
X., Roche, D.M. (2010) Early Holocene Laurentide Icesheet deglaciation causes cooling in the high-latitude
Southern Hemisphere through oceanic teleconnection. Paleoceanography
25, PA3204.
doi:10.1029/2009PA001854
Renssen, H., Seppä, H., Heiri, O., Roche,
D.M., Goosse, H., Fichefet,
T. (2009) The temporal and spatial complexity of the Holocene Thermal Maximum. Nature
Geoscience 2, 411-414, doi:
10.1038/ NGEO513 .
Renssen, H., Goosse, H., Fichefet, T. (2007)
Simulation of Holocene cooling events in a coupled climate model. Quaternary
Science Reviews, 26, 2019-2029. doi:
10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.07.011
Renssen, H., Goosse, H. and Muscheler, R.
(2006) Coupled climate model simulation of Holocene cooling events: oceanic
feedback amplifies solar forcing. Climate of the Past 2, 79-90. PDF
Renssen, H., Goosse, H., Fichefet,
T., Brovkin, V., Driesschaert,
E., Wolk, F. (2005) Simulating the Holocene climate
evolution at northern high latitudes using a coupled atmosphere-sea
ice-ocean-vegetation model. Climate Dynamics 24, 23-43
Renssen, H.,
Beets, C.J., Fichefet, T., Goosse,
H., and Kroon, D. (2004) Modeling the climate
response to a massive methane release from gas hydrates. Paleoceanography
19, PA2010, doi: 10.1029/2003PA000968. Abstract
Renssen, H.,
and Bogaart, P.W. (2003) Atmospheric variability over
the ~14.7 kyr BP stadial-interstadial
transition in the
Renssen, H., Brovkin, V., Fichefet, T., and Goosse, H.
(2003) Holocene climate instability during the termination of the African Humid
Period, Geophysical Research Letters 30, 1184, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016636. Abstract
Renssen, H., Goosse, H., and Fichefet,
T. (2003) On the non-linear response of the ocean thermohaline
circulation to global deforestation, Geophysical Research Letters 30,
1061, doi:10.1029/2002GL016155. Abstract
Renssen, H.,
and Vandenberghe (2003) Investigation of the
relationship between permafrost distribution in NW Europe and extensive winter
sea-ice cover in the
Goosse, H., Renssen,
H., Selten, F.M., Haarsma,
R.J., and Opsteegh, J.D. (2002) Potential causes of abrupt
climate events: a numerical study with a three-dimensional climate model. Geophysical
Research Letters 29, 18, 1860, DOI 10.1029/2002GL014993
Renssen, H., Goosse, H. and Fichefet, T.
(2002) Modeling the effect of freshwater pulses on
the early Holocene climate: the influence of high-frequency climate
variability. Paleoceanography 17,
No. 2, art. no 1020, DOI 10.1029/2001PA000649. Abstract
Renssen, H.
and Isarin, R.F.B. (2001). The two major warming
phases of the last deglaciation at ~14.7 and ~11.5 kyr
cal BP in
Renssen, H., Goosse, H., Fichefet, T., and Campin, J.-M. (2001). The 8.2 kyr
BP event simulated by a global atmosphere-sea-ice-ocean model. Geophysical
Research Letters 28, 1567-1570. Abstract
Renssen, H.,
and Isarin, R.F.B. (1998). Surface temperature in NW
Europe during the Younger Dryas: AGCM simulation compared with temperature
reconstruction. Climate Dynamics 14, 33-44.
Renssen, H.
(1997). The global response to Younger Dryas boundary conditions in an AGCM
simulation. Climate Dynamics 13, 587-599.
Renssen, H., Lautenschlager, M., and Schuurmans, C.J.E. (1996). The
atmospheric winter circulation during the Younger Dryas stadial
in the Atlantic/European sector. Climate Dynamics
12, 813-824.
Informatie in het Nederlands: artikel uit Mens & Wetenschap (Dec 2000)
over klimaatsreconstructies en modelsimulaties, met
name over de snelle overgang van het koude klimaat van de laatste ijstijd naar
het huidige, relatief warme, klimaat
Klimaatveranderingen
uit het verleden: een boodschap voor de toekomst?"