By Professor Katrin Meissner

Journal articles

Meissner K; Lippmann T; Sen Gupta AR, 2012, 'Large-scale stress factors affecting coral reefs: open ocean sea surface temperature and surface seawater aragonite saturation over the next 400 years', Coral Reefs, 31, pp. 309 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-011-0866-8

Brennan ; Weaver ; Eby M; Meissner K, 2012, 'Modelling oxygen isotopes in the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model for Pre-industrial and Last Glacial Maximum Conditions', Atmosphere - Ocean, 50, pp. 447 - 465, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2012.707611

Meissner K; McNeil BI; Eby M; Wiebe EC, 2012, 'Multi-millennial coral reef habitat recovery: the importance of the terrestrial weathering feedback', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, pp. GB3017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011GB004098

Meissner K; Eby M; Wiebe EC; McNeil BI, 2012, 'The importance of the terrestrial weathering feedback for multimillennial coral reef habitat recovery', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, pp. Article numberGB3017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011GB004098

Montenegro A; Spence P; Meissner K; Eby M; Melchin MJ; Johnston ST, 2011, 'Climate simulations of the Permian-Triassic boundary: Ocean acidification and the extinction event', Paleoceanography, 26, pp. PA3207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010PA002058

Avis CA; Weaver AJ; Meissner K, 2011, 'Reduction in areal extent of high-latitude wetlands in response to permafrost thaw', Nature Geoscience, 4, pp. 444 - 448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1160

Kvale K; Meissner K; Dorgeville M; Matear R; McNeil BI; England MH, 2011, 'The combined impact of CO2-dependent parameterisations of Redfield and Rain ratios on ocean carbonate saturation', Biogeosciences Discussions, 8, pp. 6265 - 6280, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-8-6265-2011

Dorgeville M; Sijp WP; England MH; Meissner K, 2010, 'On the control of glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO2 variations by the Southern Hemisphere westerlies', Geophysical Research Letters, 37, pp. L21703 - L21708, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010GL045261

Fyke J; Carter L; Macintosh A; Weaver AJ; Meissner K, 2010, 'Surface Melting over Ice Shelves and Ice Sheets as Assessed from Modeled Surface Air Temperatures', Journal of Climate, 23, pp. 1929 - 1936, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI3122.1

Eby M; Zickfeld K; Montenegro A; Archer D; Meissner KJ; Weaver AJ, 2009, 'Lifetime of anthropogenic climate change: Time-scales of CO2 and temperature perturbations', IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, 6, pp. 042015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/4/042015

Eby M; Zickfeld K; Montenegro A; Archer D; Meissner K; Weaver AJ, 2009, 'Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Millennial Time Scales of Potential CO2 and Surface Temperature Perturbations', Journal of Climate, 22, pp. 2501 - 2511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2554.1

Meissner K; Eby M; Weaver AJ; Saenko OA, 2008, 'CO2 threshold for millennial-scale oscillations in the climate system: implications for global warming scenarios', Climate Dynamics, 30, pp. 161 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-007-0279-0

Carlson AE; Clark PU; Haley BA; Klinkhammer GP; Simmons K; Brook EJ; Meissner K, 2007, 'Geochemical proxies of North American freshwater routing during the Younger Dryas cold event', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, pp. 6556 - 6561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0611313104

Meissner K, 2007, 'Younger Dryas: A data to model comparison to constrain the strength of the overturning circulation', Geophysical Research Letters, 34, pp. L21705-1 - L21705-5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031304

Montenegro A; Eby M; Kaplan JO; Meissner K; Weaver AJ, 2006, 'Carbon storage on exposed continental shelves during the glacial-interglacial transition', Geophysical Research Letters, 33, pp. L08703-1 - L08703-, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005GL025480

Meissner K; Clark PU, 2006, 'Impact of floods versus routing events on the thermohaline circulation', Geophysical Research Letters, 33, pp. L15704-1 - L15704-4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006GL026705

Meissner K; Galbraith ED; Volker C, 2005, 'Denitrification under glacial and interglacial conditions: A physical approach', Paleoceanography, 20, pp. PA3001-1 - PA3001-13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004PA001083

Damon Matthews H; Weaver AJ; Meissner K, 2005, 'Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Dynamics under Recent and Future Climate Change', Journal of Climate, 18, pp. 1609 - 1628, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3359.1

Matthews HD; Weaver AJ; Meissner KJ; Gillett NP; Eby M, 2004, 'Natural and anthropogenic climate change: Incorporating historical land cover change, vegetation dynamics and the global carbon cycle', Climate Dynamics, 22, pp. 461 - 479, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-004-0392-2

Meissner KJ; Weaver AJ; Matthews HD; Cox PM, 2003, 'The role of land surface dynamics in glacial inception: A study with the UVic Earth System Model', Climate Dynamics, 21, pp. 515 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-003-0352-2

Matthews HD; Weaver AJ; Eby M; Meissner KJ, 2003, 'Radiative forcing of climate by historical land cover change', Geophysical Research Letters, 30, pp. 1 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002GL016098

Meissner KJ; Schmittner A; Weaver AJ; Adkins JF, 2003, 'Ventilation of the North Atlantic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum: A comparison between simulated and observed radiocarbon ages', Paleoceanography, 18, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002PA000762

Meissner KJ; Schmittner A; Wiebe EC; Weaver AJ, 2002, 'Simulations of Heinrich Events in a coupled ocean-atmosphere-sea ice model', Geophysical Research Letters, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001GL013514

Meissner KJ; Schmittner A; Wiebe EC; Weaver AJ, 2002, 'Simulations of Heinrich Events in a coupled ocean-atmosphere-sea ice model', Geophysical Research Letters, 29, pp. 16-1-16-3

Meissner K; Gerdes R, 2002, 'Coupled climate modelling of ocean circulation changes during ice age inception', Climate Dynamics, 18, pp. 455 - 473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-001-0192-x

Schmittner A; Meissner KJ; Eby M; Weaver AJ, 2002, 'Forcing of the deep ocean circulation in simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum', Paleoceanography, 17, pp. 5-5-15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001pa000633

Weaver AJ; Eby M; Wiebe EC; Ewen TL; Fanning AF; MacFadyen A; Matthews HD; Meissner KJ; Saenko O; Schmittner A; Yoshimori M; Bitz CM; Holland MM; Duffy PB; Wang H, 2001, 'The UVic earth system climate model: Model description, climatology, and applications to past, present and future climates', Atmosphere Ocean, 39, pp. 361 - 428, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2001.9649686

Conference Presentations

Missiaen L; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Bouttes N; Roche DM; Dutay J-C; Quiquet A; Lhardy F; Waelbroeck C; Pichat S, 2020, 'Modelling the impact of biogenic particle flux intensity and composition on sedimentary Pa/Th', presented at EGU General Assembly, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-290

Working Papers

Green RA; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Crosta X, 2020, Evaluating seasonal sea-ice cover over the Southern Ocean from the Last Glacial Maximum, Copernicus Publications, http://dx.doi.org10.5194/cp-2020-155

Choudhury D; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Yeung NKH; Chamberlain M; Ziehn T, Marine carbon cycle response to a warmer Southern Ocean: the case of the Last Interglacial, Copernicus Publications, http://dx.doi.org10.5194/cp-2021-98

Preprints

Berg JR; Hutchinson DK; Meissner KJ; Pasquier B; Holzer M; Auderset A, 2026, Simulated Ocean Oxygen under Miocene Boundary Conditions, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.15001923/v2

Berg JR; Hutchinson DK; Meissner KJ; Pasquier B; Holzer M; Auderset A, 2026, Simulated Ocean Oxygen under Miocene Boundary Conditions, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.15001923/v1

Hutchinson DK; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Wright NM; Berg J; Acosta RP, 2025, Pacific and Atlantic Modes of Overturning in the Miocene Climatic Optimum, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.174835067.77609404/v1

Niemeyer D; Kemena TP; Meissner KJ; Oschlies A, A model study of warming-induced phosphorus-oxygen feedbacks in open-ocean oxygen minimum zones on millennial timescales, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-2016-50

Kageyama M; Sime LC; Sicard M; Guarino M-V; de Vernal A; Schroeder D; Stein R; Malmierca-Vallet I; Abe-Ouchi A; Bitz C; Braconnot P; Brady E; Chamberlain MA; Feltham D; Guo C; Lohmann G; Meissner K; Menviel L; Morozova P; Nisancioglu KH; Otto-Bliesner B; O'ishi R; Sherriff-Tadano S; Stroeve J; Shi X; Sun B; Volodin E; Yeung N; Zhang Q; Zhang Z; Ziehn T, A multi-model CMIP6 study of Arctic sea ice at 127 ka: Sea ice data compilation and model differences, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-165

Anthonisz BW; Hutchinson DK; Meissner KJ; Khatiwala S; Pasquier B, A warm stagnant ocean leads to deep-ocean deoxygenation without widespread anoxia, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3378

Crosta X; Kohfeld KE; Bostock HC; Chadwick M; Du Vivier A; Esper O; Etourneau J; Jones J; Leventer A; Müller J; Rhodes RH; Allen CS; Ghadi P; Lamping N; Lange C; Lawler K-A; 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 M-E; Xiao W; Yang J, Antarctic sea ice over the past 130,000 years, Part 1: A review of what proxy records tell us, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-99

Wania R; Meissner KJ; Eby M; Arora V; Ross I; Weaver AJ, Carbon-nitrogen feedbacks in the UVic ESCM, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmdd-5-67-2012

Lunt DJ; Wright NM; Vaes B; Salzmann U; Rae JWB; Hickler T; Hutchinson DK; Brugger J; Zhu J; Steinig S; Meckler AN; Inglis GN; Evans D; de Boer AM; Otto-Bliesner BL; Burls N; Zhang Y; Sluijs A; Reichgelt T; Niezgodzki I; Meissner K; Ladant J-B; Kelemen FD; Huber M; Greenwood D; Green M; Boscolo-Galazzo F; Blau MT; Baatsen M, DeepMIP-Eocene-p2: Experimental design for Phase 2 of the early Eocene component of the the CMIP7/PMIP7 Deep-time Model Intercomparison Project (DeepMIP-Eocene), http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6135

Oschlies A; Frenger I; Getzlaff J; Kemena T; Koeve W; Kvale K; Martin T; Meissner K, Delayed Southern Ocean heat release challenges climate stabilization policies, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10720391/v1

Naserikia M; Hart MA; Shamsabadi EA; Meissner K; Hobeichi S; Bechtel B; Nazarian N, Developing gridded air temperature data over cities using machine learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7987756/v1

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

Mengis N; Keller DP; MacDougall A; Eby M; Wright N; Meissner KJ; Oschlies A; Schmittner A; Matthews HD; Zickfeld K, Evaluation of the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model version 2.10 (UVic ESCM 2.10), http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-373

Kvale KF; Meissner KJ; Keller DP; Eby M; Schmittner A, Explicit planktic calcifiers in the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmdd-7-1709-2014

Kvale K; Keller DP; Koeve W; Meissner KJ; Somes C; Yao W; Oschlies A, Explicit silicate cycling in the Kiel Marine Biogeochemistry Model, version 3 (KMBM3) embedded in the UVic ESCM version 2.9, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-235

Saini H; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Kvale K, Impact of iron fertilisation on atmospheric CO₂ during the last glaciation, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-2022-46

Naughten KA; Meissner KJ; Galton-Fenzi BK; England MH; Timmermann R; Hellmer HH; Hattermann T; Debernard JB, Intercomparison of Antarctic ice shelf, ocean, and sea ice interactions simulated by two models, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2017-268

Otto-Bliesner BL; Brady EC; Zhao A; Brierley C; Axford Y; Capron E; Govin A; Hoffman J; Isaacs E; Kageyama M; Scussolini P; Tzedakis PC; Williams C; Wolff E; Abe-Ouchi A; Braconnot P; Buarque SR; Cao J; de Vernal A; Guarino MV; Guo C; LeGrande AN; Lohmann G; Meissner K; Menviel L; Nisancioglu K; O'ishi R; Melia DSY; Shi X; Sicard M; Sime L; Tomas R; Volodin E; Yeung N; Zhang Q; Zhang Z; Zheng W, Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: Results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for CMIP6-PMIP4, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-174

Yeung N; Menviel L; Meissner K; Choudhury D; Ziehn T; Chamberlain M, Last Interglacial subsurface warming on the Antarctic shelf triggered by reduced deep-ocean convection, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1274081/v1

Burls NJ; Wright NM; Acosta RP; Bradshaw CD; Gasson E; Stap LB; Ramstein G; Halberstadt ARW; De Boer AM; Akgün F; Cantrill DJ; Casas-Gallego M; Doláková N; Erdei B; Farnsworth A; Feakins S; Feng R; Fletcher T; Fluteau F; Green JAM; von der Heydt AS; Huber M; Hutchinson DK; Ivanov D; Kayseri-Özer MS; Knorr G; Kováčová M; Lear CH; LeGrande AN; Li S; Liu X; Lunt DJ; Meissner K; Miao Y; Naik TJ; Navarro JB; Novak JB; Ochoa D; Paxman GJG; Pound MJ; Rae JWB; Reichgelt T; Renoult M; Sangiorgi F; Sarr A-C; Segalla D; Sepulchre P; Shevenell A; Steinig S; Straume E; Strömberg CAE; Tabor C; Utescher T; Weiffenbach JE; Worobiec E; Zhang Y; Zhu F; Zhu J; Auderset A; Colleoni F; Dolan A; Havranek R; Holbourn A; Herold N; Lee D; Marschalek JW; Mitsunaga B; Modestou S; Perez-Angel L; Saslaw M; Sosdian S; Stiles E; Sun Y; Tan N; Zhang Z; Zhao Y, MioMIP2: Experimental design for Phase 1 & 2 of the Miocene component of the CMIP7/PMIP7 Deep-time Model Intercomparison Project (DeepMIP-Miocene), http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3595

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