Dr. Gerhard Krinner is Deputy Director of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l´Environnement (LGGE) at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble.

 

He is the lead author of the IPCC WG1 Chapter 12 (Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility), a member of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique, Section 19 a well as a member of the CliC/WCRP Scientific Steering Group.

 

Dr. Krinner has extensive experience on earth system modeling, in particular: Ice sheet climate: Surface mass balance, near-surface climate, role of ice sheets in regional and global climate, natural variability; High-latitude surface/atmosphere interactions: open-water surfaces, permafrost, vegetation and Interpretation of ice core archives: water isotopes, air content, atmospheric transport.