Prof. Dr. habil. Veronika Eyring Head of Earth System Model Evaluation and Analysis Departement Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA) Oberpfaffenhofen 82234 Wessling, Germany Phone:    +49-8153-28-2533  Email: Veronika Eyring http://www.pa.op.dlr.de/~VeronikaEyring/ ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0002-6887-4885

and: Professor and Chair of Climate Modelling University of Bremen Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) Otto-Hahn-Allee 1 28359 Bremen, Germany Phone:  +49-421-218-62733 http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/   Scopus Author ID: 13402933200 ResearcherID: O-9999-2016 Google Scholar: see here

Biography:

Veronika Eyring is Head of the Earth System Model Evaluation and Analysis Department at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Professor of Climate Modelling at the University of Bremen. Veronika's research focuses on improving climate models and projections with machine learning and spaceborne Earth observations for actionable climate science and technology assessments in aeronautics, space, transport, and energy research. She has authored many peer-reviewed journal articles and has contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments since many years, including her role as Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 3 “Human influence on the climate system” in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report of Working Group I published in 2021. Veronika is involved in the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) since many years, for example through her roles as Chair of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Panel (2014-2020) and member of scientific steering committees including the Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM) from 2008-2018. She is corresponding PI of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant on "Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning (USMILE)", Fellow of the European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Worldfund. Veronika received the German Research Foundation (DFG) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2021 for her significant contributions to improving the understanding and accuracy of climate projections through process-oriented modeling and model evaluation (see film portrait here). She urged world leaders to take action at the COP27 World Leaders Summit Opening Ceremony in 2022. She received the AGU Ambassador Award and was inducted in the group of AGU Fellows in 2024, recognizing her outstanding contributions to climate science, the research community and society (see 2024 Honors Ceremony here). In 2024, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) appointed her as TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor. Veronika maintains a strong collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA) as Affiliate Scientist.

PUBLICATIONS and CV: 

• List of Publications
• CV
• GitHub repository Eyring ML Group

MEDIA and OUTREACH:

• COP27 World Leaders Summit Opening Ceremony in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 7 November 2022

  • See Veronika's speech here

  • See full video of the opening ceremony here                                                                                                                          

• Media Coverage

RESEARCH AND PROJECTS:

(I) Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning (USMILE)

• European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant on "Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning (USMILE)"
• German Research Foundation (DFG) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2021

(II) Earth System Model Evaluation and Analysis

• Research themes of the Department Earth System Model Evaluation and Analysis (see here)

• Current projects (selected)
  • Coupled Model Intercomparison Project of the World Climate Research Programme (CMIP)
  • Development of the community-wide Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool)
  • EU Horizon 2020 Earth system models for the future (ESM2025)
  • European Union's Horizon Europe Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Enhanced Representation of Processes and Extremes in Earth System Models (AI4PEX)
  • BMBF funded German contribution to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CAP7)
  • ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Climate Modelling User Group (CMUG)

• Previous Projects (selected)
  • EU Horzizon 2020 InfraStructure for the European Network for Earth System Modelling (IS-ENES)
  • EU Horizon 2020 Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Current Century (4C)
  • Helmholtz-Society Advanced Earth System Model Evaluation for CMIP (EVal4CMIP)
  • BMBF Verbundprojekt CMIP6: Bereitstellung des nationalen Beitrags zur Datenbasis des IPCC/AR6  und Unterstützung der CMIP6+-Aktivitäten in Deutschland
  • EU Horizon 2020 Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, kNowledge, Dissemination and Outreach (CRESCENDO)
  • IGAC/SPARC Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI)
    
  • Chemistry Climate Model Validation Activity for SPARC (CCMVal)
  • Copernicus Climate Change Service Metrics and Access to Global Indices for Climate Projections (C3S-MAGIC)
  • DLR Project Earth System Model Validation (ESMVal)
  • EU FP7 Project Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate change (EMBRACE)
  • MiKlip - Decadal Predictions, Climate Model Validation by confronting globally Essential Climate Variables from models with observations (ClimVal)
    
  • SCOUT-O3 Validation and Intercomparison of Coupled Chemistry Climate Models (Work package 1.1)
  • Atmospherical processes in a changing climate (AFO 2000/KODYACS, TOPOZ III)

(III) Impact of Ship Emissions on Atmosphere and Climate (until 2012)

• Projects:
• Helmholtz-University Young Investigators Group SeaKLIM
• European Assessment of Transport Impacts on Climate Change and Ozone Depletion (ATTICA), ATTICA Chapter 3 Shipping
• Reducing the emissions of gaseous and particulate emissions from large diesel engines for navigation and stationary application through alternative fuels (BIOCLEAN)
• Download ship emissions from Eyring et al. 2005 JGR papers:
• Historical emissions from Eyring, V., H.W. Köhler, J. van Aardenne, and A. Lauer (2005), Emissions from international shipping: 1. The last 50 years, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D17305, doi:10.1029/2004JD005619. Donwload emission totals from 1950 to 2100 as xls-file here ...
• Future emissions from Eyring, V., H. W. Köhler, A. Lauer, and B. Lemper (2005), Emissions from international shipping: 2. Impact of future technologies on scenarios until 2050, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D17306, doi:10.1029/2004JD005620. Download emission totals from from 2001 to 2050 as tar.gz-file here...

LECTURES:

University of Bremen:

• Since 2018: Climate Modelling: Part 2 (Winter term)
• Since 2017: Climate Modelling: Part 1 (Summer term)
• Climate Physics (Summer term 2008)
• An Introduction to Global Atmospheric Modeling, Part 1 (Summer term 2009)
• An Introduction to Global Atmospheric Modeling, Part 2
• Atom- und Molekülphysik (Sommersemester 2005)
• Climate and Chemistry (Summer term 2005)
• Tropospheric Chemistry (Winter term 2005/2006)
• An Introduction to Global Atmospheric Modeling (Winter term 2004/2005)

LMU (until 2017):

• An Introduction to Global Atmospheric Modeling (Sommersemester 2011)
• An Introduction to Global Atmospheric Modeling (Sommersemester 2012)
• An Introduction to Global Atmospheric Modeling (Sommersemester 2013)
• An Introduction to Global Earth System Modeling (Sommersemester 2014-2017)