By Professor Katrin Meissner

Book Chapters

Weaver AJ; Eby M; Wiebe EC; Bitz CM; Duffy PB; Ewen TL; Fanning AF; Holland MM; MacFadyen A; Matthews HD; Meissner KJ; Saenko O; Schmittner A; Wang H; Yoshimori M, 2019, 'The UVic Earth System Climate Model: Model Description, Climatology, and Applications to Past, Present and Future Climates', in Data, Models and Analysis, Routledge, pp. 169 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315170206-12

Hoegh-Guldberg O; Jacob D; Taylor M; Bindi M; Brown S; Camilloni I; Diedhiou A; Djalante A; Ebi K; Engelbrecht F; Guiot J; Hijioka Y; Mehrotra S; Payne A; Seneviratne S; Thomas A; Warren R; Zhou G; Halim SA; Achlatis M; Alexander LV; Allen M; Berry P; Boyer C; Byers E; Brilli L; Buckeridge M; Cheung W; Craig M; Ellis N; Evans J; Fischer H; Fraedrich K; Fuss S; Ganase A; Gattuso JP; Greve P; Bolaños TG; Hanasaki N; Hasegawa T; Hayes K; Hirsch A; Jones C; Jung T; Kanninen M; Krinner G; Lawrence D; Lenton T; Ley D; Liverman D; Mahowald N; McInnes K; Meissner K; Millar R; Mintenbeck K; Mitchell D; Mix AC; Notz D; Nurse L; Okem A; Olsson L; Oppenheimer M; Paz S; Petersen J; Petzold J; Preuschmann S; Rahman MF; Rogelj J; Scheuffele H; Schleussner C-F; Scott D; Séférian R; Sillmann J; Singh C; Slade R; Stephenson K; Stephenson T; Sylla MB; Tebboth M; Tschakert P; Vautard R; Wartenburger R; Wehner M; Weyer NM; Whyte F; Yohe G; Zhang X; Zougmoré RB, 2018, 'Impacts of 1.5ºC global warming on natural and human systems', in Masson-Delmotte V; Zhai P; Pörtner HO; Roberts D; Skea J; Shukla PR; Pirani A; Moufouma-Okia W; Péan C; Pidcock R; Connors S; Matthews JBR; Chen Y; Zhou X; Gomis MI; Lonnoy E; Maycock T; Tignor M; Waterfield T (ed.), Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty, IPCC Secretariat, pp. 175 - 311, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SR15_Chapter3_Low_Res.pdf

Meissner KJ; Montenegro A; Avis C, 2009, 'Paleoceanography', in Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, pp. 448 - 472, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4411-3_167

Meissner K; Montenegro A; Avis CA, 2008, 'Paleoceanography', in Gornitz V (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 690 - 696

Meissner KJ, 2007, 'Conclusion Reconstructing and Modeling Past Oceans', in , pp. 799 - 811, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1572-5480(07)01025-1

Meissner K, 2007, 'Conclusion: Reconstructing and Modelling Past Oceans', in Hillaire-Marcel C; de Vernal A (ed.), Proxies in Late Cenozoic Paleoceanography, Volume 1 (Developments in Marine Geology), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 199 - 812

Clark PU; Hostetler SW; Pisias NG; Schmittner A; Meissner K, 2007, 'Mechanisms for an ~7-kyr climate and sea-level oscillation during marine isotope stage 3', in Schmittner A; Chiang JCH; Hemmings S (ed.), Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts Past and future Changes of Meridional Overturning (Geophysical Monograph), Amer Geophysical Union, pp. 209 - 246

Journal articles

Singh T; Van Buskirk J; Morgan G; Meissner K; Green D; Jegasothy E, 2025, 'Quantifying the association between pregnancy exposure to biomass-attributable PM2.5 and the risk of preterm birth and stillbirth A case-control study in Sydney, Australia for 2010–2020', Environmental Epidemiology, 9, pp. e381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EE9.0000000000000381

Hoogakker BAA; Davis C; Wang Y; Kusch S; Nilsson-Kerr K; Hardisty DS; Jacobel A; Reyes MacAya D; Glock N; Ni S; Sepúlveda J; Ren A; Auderset A; Hess AV; Meissner KJ; Cardich J; Anderson R; Barras C; Basak C; Bradbury HJ; Brinkmann I; Castillo A; Cook M; Costa K; Choquel C; Diz P; Donnenfield J; Elling FJ; Erdem Z; Filipsson HL; Garrido S; Gottschalk J; Govindankutty Menon A; Groeneveld J; Hallmann C; Hendy I; Hennekam R; Lu W; Lynch-Stieglitz J; Matos L; Martínez-García A; Molina G; Muñoz P; Moretti S; Morford J; Nuber S; Radionovskaya S; Raven MR; Somes CJ; Studer AS; Tachikawa K; Tapia R; Tetard M; Vollmer T; Wang X; Wu S; Zhang Y; Zheng XY; Zhou Y, 2025, 'Reviews and syntheses: Review of proxies for low-oxygen paleoceanographic reconstructions', Biogeosciences, 22, pp. 863 - 957, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-863-2025

Matthews T; Ramsay EE; Saeed F; Sherwood S; Jay O; Raymond C; Abram N; Lee JKW; Barley S; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S; Khan MS; Meissner KJ; Roberts C; Mavalankar D; Smith KGC; Ullah A; Sadad A; Turner V; Forrest A, 2025, 'Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality', Nature Climate Change, 15, pp. 4 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02215-8

Hutchinson DK; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Hogg AMC, 2024, 'East Antarctic warming forced by ice loss during the Last Interglacial', Nature Communications, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45501-x

Yeung NKH; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Choudhury D; Ziehn T; Chamberlain MA, 2024, 'Last Interglacial subsurface warming on the Antarctic shelf triggered by reduced deep-ocean convection', Communications Earth and Environment, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01383-x

Dutta D; Sherwood SC; Meissner KJ; Jucker M, 2024, 'Low latitude mesospheric clouds in a warmer climate', Atmospheric Science Letters, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asl.1209

Goosse H; Brovkin V; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Mouchet A; Muscheler R; Nilsson A, 2024, 'Atmospheric Δ¹⁴C in the northern and southern hemispheres over the past two millennia: Role of production rate, southern hemisphere westerly winds and ocean circulation changes', Quaternary Science Reviews, 326, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108502

Saini H; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Kvale K, 2024, 'Transient Response of Southern Ocean Ecosystems During Heinrich Stadials', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004754

Kageyama M; Braconnot P; Chiessi CM; Rehfeld K; Ait Brahim Y; Dütsch M; Gwinneth B; Hou A; Loutre MF; Hendrizan M; Meissner K; Mongwe P; Otto-Bliesner B; Pezzi LP; Rovere A; Seltzer A; Sime L; Zhu J, 2024, 'Lessons from paleoclimates for recent and future climate change: opportunities and insights', Frontiers in Climate, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2024.1511997

Dutta D; Jucker M; Sherwood SC; Meissner KJ; Sen Gupta A; Zhu J, 2023, 'Early Eocene low orography and high methane enhance Arctic warming via polar stratospheric clouds', Nature Geoscience, 16, pp. 1027 - 1032, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01298-w

Saini H; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Kvale K, 2023, 'Impact of iron fertilisation on atmospheric CO2 during the last glaciation', Climate of the Past, 19, pp. 1559 - 1584, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1559-2023

Dutta D; Sherwood SC; Jucker M; Gupta AS; Meissner KJ, 2023, 'Can Polar Stratospheric Clouds Explain Arctic Amplification?', Journal of Climate, 36, pp. 2313 - 2332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0497.1

Singh T; Jalaludin B; Hajat S; Morgan GG; Meissner K; Kaldor J; Green D; Jegasothy E, 2023, 'Acute air pollution and temperature exposure as independent and joint triggers of spontaneous preterm birth in New South Wales, Australia: a time-to-event analysis', Frontiers in Public Health, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1220797

Meissner KJ; Oschlies A, 2022, 'Plate tectonics controls ocean oxygen levels', Nature, 608, pp. 480 - 481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02187-9

Crosta X; Kohfeld KE; Bostock HC; Chadwick M; Vivier AD; Esper O; Etourneau J; Jones J; Leventer A; Müller J; Rhodes RH; Allen CS; Ghadi P; Lamping N; Lange CB; Lawler KA; Lund D; Marzocchi A; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Nair A; Patterson M; Pike J; Prebble JG; Riesselman C; Sadatzki H; Sime LC; Shukla SK; Thöle L; Vorrath ME; Xiao W; Yang J, 2022, 'Antarctic sea ice over the past 130 000 years - Part 1: a review of what proxy records tell us', Climate of the Past, 18, pp. 1729 - 1756, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1729-2022

Mackallah C; Chamberlain MA; Law RM; Dix M; Ziehn T; Bi D; Bodman R; Brown JR; Dobrohotoff P; Druken K; Evans B; Harman IN; Hayashida H; Holmes R; Kiss AE; Lenton A; Liu Y; Marsland S; Meissner K; Menviel L; O'farrell S; Rashid HA; Ridzwan S; Savita A; Srbinovsky J; Sullivan A; Trenham C; Vohralik PF; Wang YP; Williams G; Woodhouse MT; Yeung N, 2022, 'ACCESS datasets for CMIP6: Methodology and idealised experiments', Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 72, pp. 93 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ES21031

Goosse H; Barriat PY; Brovkin V; Klein F; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Mouchet A, 2022, 'Changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration over the past two millennia: contribution of climate variability, land-use and Southern Ocean dynamics', Climate Dynamics, 58, pp. 2957 - 2979, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-06078-z

Green RA; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Crosta X; Chandan D; Lohmann G; Peltier WR; Shi X; Zhu J, 2022, 'Evaluating seasonal sea-ice cover over the Southern Ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum', Climate of the Past, 18, pp. 845 - 862, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-845-2022

Choudhury D; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Yeung NKH; Chamberlain M; Ziehn T, 2022, 'Marine carbon cycle response to a warmer Southern Ocean: The case of the last interglacial', Climate of the Past, 18, pp. 507 - 523, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-507-2022

Menviel L; Govin A; Avenas A; Meissner KJ; Grant KM; Tzedakis PC, 2021, 'Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods', Communications Earth and Environment, 2, pp. 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00309-1

Aguiar W; Meissner KJ; Montenegro A; Prado L; Wainer I; Carlson AE; Mata MM, 2021, 'Magnitude of the 8.2 ka event freshwater forcing based on stable isotope modelling and comparison to future Greenland melting', Scientific Reports, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84709-5

Kvale K; Keller DP; Koeve W; Meissner KJ; Somes CJ; Yao W; Oschlies A, 2021, 'Explicit silicate cycling in the Kiel Marine Biogeochemistry Model version 3 (KMBM3) embedded in the UVic ESCM version 2.9', Geoscientific Model Development, 14, pp. 7255 - 7285, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-7255-2021

Saini H; Kvale K; Chase Z; Kohfeld KE; Meissner KJ; Menviel L, 2021, 'Southern Ocean Ecosystem Response to Last Glacial Maximum Boundary Conditions', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004075

Dutta D; Sherwood SC; Meissner KJ; Gupta ASEN; Lunt DJ; Tourte GJL; Colman R; Narsey S; Fuchs D; Brown JR, 2021, 'A multimodel investigation of atmospheric mechanisms for driving arctic amplification in warmer climates', Journal of Climate, 34, pp. 5723 - 5740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0354.1

King-Hei Yeung N; Menviel L; J Meissner K; Taschetto AS; Ziehn T; Chamberlain M; Yeung N; Meissner K, 2021, 'Land-sea temperature contrasts at the Last Interglacial and their impact on the hydrological cycle', Climate of the Past, 17, pp. 869 - 885, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-869-2021

Misra R; Sérazin G; Meissner KJ; Sen Gupta A, 2021, 'Projected Changes to Australian Marine Heatwaves', Geophysical Research Letters, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091323

Meissner KJ; Brook E; Finkelstein SA; Rae J, 2021, 'Carbon cycle dynamics during episodes of rapid climate change', Environmental Research Letters, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abeade

Goosse H; Lyu Z; Menviel L; Meissner K; Mouchet A, 2021, 'Influence of Southern Ocean dynamics on Antarctic temperatures and on the global carbon cycle over the past two millennia.', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1180

Bengtson SA; Menviel LC; Meissner KJ; Missiaen L; Peterson CD; Lisiecki LE; Joos F, 2021, 'Lower oceanic 13C during the last interglacial period compared to the Holocene', Climate of the Past, 17, pp. 507 - 528, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-507-2021

Kageyama M; Sime LC; Sicard M; Guarino MV; De Vernal A; Stein R; Schroeder D; Malmierca-Vallet I; Abe-Ouchi A; Bitz C; Braconnot P; Brady EC; Cao J; Chamberlain MA; Feltham D; Guo C; Legrande AN; Lohmann G; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Morozova P; Nisancioglu KH; Otto-Bliesner BL; O'Ishi R; Buarque SR; Melia DSY; Sherriff-Tadano S; Stroeve J; Shi X; Sun B; Tomas RA; Volodin E; Yeung NKH; Zhang Q; Zhang Z; Zheng W; Ziehn T, 2021, 'A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127 ka: Sea ice data compilation and model differences', Climate of the Past, 17, pp. 37 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-37-2021

Otto-Bliesner BL; Brady EC; Zhao A; Brierley CM; Axford Y; Capron E; Govin A; Hoffman JS; Isaacs E; Kageyama M; Scussolini P; Tzedakis PC; Williams CJR; Wolff E; Abe-Ouchi A; Braconnot P; Ramos Buarque S; Cao J; De Vernal A; Vittoria Guarino M; Guo C; Legrande AN; Lohmann G; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Morozova PA; Nisancioglu KH; O'Ishi R; Mélia DSY; Shi X; Sicard M; Sime L; Stepanek C; Tomas R; Volodin E; Yeung NKH; Zhang Q; Zhang Z; Zheng W, 2021, 'Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: Results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4)', Climate of the Past, 17, pp. 63 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-63-2021

Abram NJ; Henley BJ; Gupta AS; Lippmann TJR; Clarke H; Dowdy AJ; Sharples JJ; Nolan RH; Zhang T; Wooster MJ; Wurtzel JB; Meissner KJ; Pitman AJ; Ukkola AM; Murphy BP; Tapper NJ; Boer MM, 2021, 'Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia', Communications Earth and Environment, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00065-8

Menviel L; Govin A; Avenas A; Meissner K; Grant K; Tzedakis P, 2021, 'Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods', , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-665330/v1

Yeung NKH; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Taschetto AS; Ziehn T; Chamberlain M, 2020, 'Weak Southern Hemispheric monsoons during the Last Interglacial period', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-2020-149

Aguiar W; Prado LF; Wainer I; Liu Z; Montenegro A; Meissner KJ; Mata MM, 2020, 'Freshwater forcing control on early-Holocene South American monsoon', Quaternary Science Reviews, 245, pp. 106498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106498

Dhame S; Taschetto AS; Santoso A; Meissner KJ, 2020, 'Indian Ocean warming modulates global atmospheric circulation trends', Climate Dynamics, 55, pp. 2053 - 2073, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05369-1

Mengis N; Keller DP; Macdougall AH; Eby M; Wright N; Meissner KJ; Oschlies A; Schmittner A; Macisaac AJ; Damon Matthews H; Zickfeld K, 2020, 'Evaluation of the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model version 2.10 (UVic ESCM 2.10)', Geoscientific Model Development, 13, pp. 4183 - 4204, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4183-2020

Missiaen L; Menviel LC; Meissner KJ; Roche DM; Dutay JC; Bouttes N; Lhardy F; Quiquet A; Pichat S; Waelbroeck C, 2020, 'Modelling the impact of biogenic particle flux intensity and composition on sedimentary Pa/Th', Quaternary Science Reviews, 240, pp. 106394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106394

Bengtson SA; Menviel LC; Meissner KJ; Missiaen L; Peterson CD; Lisiecki LE; Joos F, 2020, 'Lower oceanic 𝛿¹³C during the Last Interglacial compared to the Holocene', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-2020-73

Mengis N; Keller DP; MacDougall A; Eby M; Wright N; Meissner KJ; Oschlies A; Schmittner A; Matthews HD; Zickfeld K, 2020, 'Evaluation of the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model version 2.10 (UVic ESCM 2.10)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5583

Saini H; Kvale KF; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Missiaen L, 2020, 'Modelled response of marine ecosystems to Last Glacial Maximum forcing', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-1370

Shevenell A; Delaney P; Meissner K; Menviel L; Mix AC, 2020, 'Paleoceanography lessons for a changing world', Oceanography, 33, pp. 13 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2020.226

Yeung NKH; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Sikes E, 2019, 'Assessing the Spatial Origin of Meltwater Pulse 1A Using Oxygen-Isotope Fingerprinting', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, pp. 2031 - 2046, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003599

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