Congratulations!Linda van Garderen successfully defended her doctoral thesis

11 July 2022

Photo: Linda van Garderen

We are proud to announce the successful disputation of our SICSS member Linda van Garderen

Her dissertation “Climate Change Attribution of Extreme Weather Events Using Spectrally Nudged Event Storylines” was supervised by Dr. Frauke Feser (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon), Prof. Dr. Ted Shepherd (University of Reading) and Prof. Dr. Nedjeljka Zagar (UHH).

Linda analysed the effect that climate change has on specific extreme weather events that occured in recent history. Spectrally nudged storylines make it possible to study inidvidual extreme weather events, where traditional statistical methods cannot. This method that Linda helped develop can answer previously unanswered questions from society such as: ' Was this event, that I have experienced, made worse because of climate change?' 

Linda was a member of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Institute of Coastal Systems - Analysis and Modelling.

Linda’s future plans?

Linda starts a postdoc position at Hereon to widen the storylines method for extreme weather attribution, and create collaborations with other research institutes, as well as other specialities to connect the meteorological research to hydrological or agricultural impacts.