Curriculum Vitae

Julius Garbe

M.Sc.

PhD candidate and climate researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

julius.garbe@pik-potsdam.de | www.pik-potsdam.de/members/garbe/ | @juliusgarbe

Education

Ph.D. in Climate Physics, 2017-present
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam / Earth System Analysis department, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Supervisors: Prof. Ricarda Winkelmann & Dr. Jonathan F. Donges
M.Sc. in Integrated Climate System Sciences, 2014-2017
School of Integrated Climate System Sciences, University of Hamburg
- Thesis: Long-term evolution and critical thresholds of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Supervisors: Dr. habil. Georg Feulner, Prof. Ricarda Winkelmann, & Prof. Lars Kaleschke
B.Sc. in Physics (major) and Mathematics (minor), 2009-2013
Department of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin
- Thesis: An overview of explanations for the problem of weak temperature gradients in warm climates in Earth history
- Supervisors: Prof. Jürgen Kurths & Dr. habil. Georg Feulner

Relevant Academic Positions

PhD candidate and researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 2017-present
- Working group: Ice Dynamics
- FutureLab: Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene
- Funding: DominoES (Leibniz Association), TiPACCs (EU H2020)
M.Sc. student, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 2016-2017
- Working group: Earth System Modes of Operation

Scientific Background

Physics courses: classical/analytical/fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, electrodynamics, optics, special relativity, quantum mechanics, particle physics, solid-state physics
Mathematics courses: analysis, complex analysis, linear algebra
Climate physics courses: ocean physics and modeling, atmospheric physics, ice dynamics, sea-ice physics and modeling

Computer Skills

Programming languages: Python, C++, Bash/Shell script, LaTeX, R, Fortran
Science: Numpy, Scipy, Matlab, Mathematica
Visualization: Matplotlib, QGIS, PyGMT, Paraview, Panoply
Web development: HTML, CSS, Markdown
Tools: CDO, NCO, Conda, Git
Office: MS Office, iWork

Peer-Reviewed Publications

The evolution of future Antarctic surface melt using PISM-dEBM-simple

Garbe, J., Zeitz, M., Krebs-Kanzow, U., Winkelmann, R.: The evolution of future Antarctic surface melt using PISM-dEBM-simple, The Cryosphere, 17, 4571–4599, DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-4571-2023, 2023.

The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 2: Onset of irreversible retreat of Amundsen Sea glaciers under current climate on centennial timescales cannot be excluded

Reese, R., Garbe, J., Hill, E. A., Urruty, B., Naughten, K. A., Gagliardini, O., Durand, G., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Gudmundsson, G. H., Chandler, D., Langebroek, P. M., Winkelmann, R.: The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 2: Onset of irreversible retreat of Amundsen Sea glaciers under current climate on centennial timescales cannot be excluded, The Cryosphere, 17, 3761-3783, DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-3761-2023, 2023.

The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 1: No indication of marine ice sheet instability in the current geometry

Hill, E. A.*, Urruty, B.*, Reese, R.*, Garbe, J., Gagliardini, O., Durand, G., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Gudmundsson, G. H., Winkelmann, R., Chekki, M., Chandler, D., Langebroek, P. M.: The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 1: No indication of marine ice sheet instability in the current geometry, The Cryosphere, 17, 3739-3759, DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-3739-2023, 2023. *These authors contributed equally to this work.

Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5°C carbon budget over space and time

Bauer, N., Keller, D. P., Garbe, J., Karstens, K., Piontek, F., von Bloh, W., Thiery, W., Zeitz, M., Mengel, M., Strefler, J., Thonicke, K., and Winkelmann, R.: Exploring risks and benefits of overshooting a 1.5°C carbon budget over space and time, Environ. Res. Lett., 18, 054015, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/accd83, 2023.

The hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Garbe, J., Albrecht, T., Levermann, A., Donges, J. F., and Winkelmann, R.: The hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Nature, 585, 538–544, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2727-5, 2020.

Projecting Antarctica’s contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice shelf melt using linear response functions of 16 ice sheet models (LARMIP-2)

Levermann, A., Winkelmann, R., Albrecht, T., Goelzer, H., Golledge, N. R., Greve, R., Huybrechts, P., Jordan, J., Leguy, G., Martin, D., Morlighem, M., Pattyn, F., Pollard, D., Quiquet, A., Rodehacke, C., Seroussi, H., Sutter, J., Zhang, T., Van Breedam, J., Calov, R., DeConto, R., Dumas, C., Garbe, J., Gudmundsson, G. H., Hoffman, M. J., Humbert, A., Kleiner, T., Lipscomb, W. H., Meinshausen, M., Ng, E., Nowicki, S. M. J., Perego, M., Price, S. F., Saito, F., Schlegel, N.-J., Sun, S., and van de Wal, R. S. W.: Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice shelf melt using linear response functions of 16 ice sheet models (LARMIP-2), Earth Syst. Dynam., 11, 35–76, DOI: 10.5194/esd-11-35-2020, 2020.

Submitted Articles & Preprints

Earth’s hypsometry and what it tells us about global sea level

Pedersen, V. K., Gomez, N., Mitrovica, J. X., Jungdal-Olesen, G., Andersen, J. L., Garbe, J., Aschwanden, A., Winkelmann, R.: Earth's hypsometry and what it tells us about global sea level, in review, 2024.

Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet over the next three centuries from an ISMIP6 model ensemble

Seroussi, H., Pelle, T., Lipscomb, W. H., Abe-Ouchi, A., Albrecht, T., Alvarez-Solas, J., Asay-Davis, X., Barre, J.-B., Berends, C. J., Bernales, J., Blasco, J., Caillet, J., Chandler, D. M., Coulon, V., Cullather, R., Dumas, C., Galton-Fenzi, B. K., Garbe, J., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Gladstone, R., Goelzer, H., Golledge, N., Greve, R., Gudmundsson, G. H., Han, H. K., Hillebrand, T. R., Hoffman, M. J., Huybrechts, P., Jourdain, N. C., Klose, A. K., Langebroek, P. M., Leguy, G. R., Lowry, D. P., Mathiot, P., Montoya, M., Morlighem, M., Nowicki, S., Pattyn, F., Payne, A. J., Quiquet, A., Reese, R., Robinson, A., Saraste, L., Simon, E. G., Sun, S., Twarog, J. P., Trusel, L. D., Urruty, B., Van Breedam, J., van de Wal, R. S. W., Wang, Y., Zhao, C., Zwinger, T.: Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet over the next three centuries from an ISMIP6 model ensemble, in review, 2024.

Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800 kyr warns of future ice loss

Chandler, D. M., Langebroek, P. M., Reese, R., Albrecht, T., Garbe, J., Winkelmann, R.: Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800 kyr warns of future ice loss, in review, DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3042739/v1 (preprint), 2023.

Academic Theses

Long-term evolution and critical thresholds of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Garbe, J.: Long-term evolution and critical thresholds of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hamburg, 2017.

An overview of explanations for the problem of weak temperature gradients in warm climates in Earth history

Garbe, J.: Ein Überblick über Erklärungsversuche für das Problem der flachen Temperaturgradienten in Warmzeiten der Erdgeschichte, B.Sc. Thesis, Department of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2013.

Data & Code

PISM model output data from Garbe et al. (Nature, 2020) publication

Garbe, J.: PISM model output data from Garbe et al. (Nature, 2020) publication [data set], Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10361755, 2023.

Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM)

Khrulev, C., Aschwanden, A., Bueler, E., Brown, J., Maxwell, D., Albrecht, T., Reese, R., Mengel, M., Martin, M., Winkelmann, R., Zeitz, M., Levermann, A., Feldmann, J., Garbe, J., Haseloff, M., Seguinot, J., Hinck, S., Kleiner, T., Fischer, E., Damsgaard, A., Lingle, C., van Pelt, W., Ziemen, F., Shemonski, N., Mankoff, K., Kennedy, J., Blum, K., Habermann, M., DellaGiustina, D., Hock, R., Kreuzer, M., Degregori, E., Schoell, S.: Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) [code], Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1199019, 2023.

Curriculum Vitae

Julius Garbe

Julius Garbe

M.Sc.

Education

Relevant Academic Positions

Scientific Background

Computer Skills

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Submitted Articles & Preprints

Academic Theses

Data & Code

Conference Contributions & Talks

Teaching