By Professor Katrin Meissner

Journal articles

Naserikia M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Sismanidis P; Bechtel B; Meissner K, 2026, 'Two decades of urban heat intensification and exposure across 1400 cities', Communications Earth and Environment, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03665-y

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 JB; Kelemen FD; Huber M; Greenwood DR; Green M; Boscolo-Galazzo F; Blau MT; Baatsen M, 2026, 'DeepMIP-Eocene-p2: Experimental design for Phase 2 of the early Eocene component of the CMIP7/PMIP7 Deep-time Model Intercomparison Project (DeepMIP-Eocene)', Geoscientific Model Development, 19, pp. 6143 - 6166, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6143-2026

Wilson Kemsley S; Fromentin J; Pastine B; Dong X; Matthews T; Masselot P; Meissner K; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S; Slater L, 2026, 'Mortality under locally unprecedented heat is better estimated with cross-regional learning', Environmental Research Letters, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae8317

Wilson Kemsley S; Fromentin J; Pastine B; Dong X; Guo Y; Matthews T; Meissner K; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S; Slater L, 2026, 'Comparing machine learning and statistical models for quantification of heat-attributable mortality across Europe', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-5812

Naserikia M; Hart MA; Asadi Shamsabadi E; Meissner K; Hobeichi S; Bechtel B; Nazarian N, 2026, 'Machine learning-based temperature mapping in Sydney: Accuracy, transferability, and scalability', Plos Climate, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0001050

Yeung NKH; Teckentrup L; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Pitman AJ; Ziehn T; Chamberlain MA, 2025, 'Simulated Terrestrial Warming at the Last Interglacial Due to Vegetation Change', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025PA005225

Hutchinson DK; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Wright NM; Berg J; Acosta RP, 2025, 'Pacific and Atlantic Modes of Overturning in the Miocene Climatic Optimum', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025PA005220

Abram NJ; Maher N; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S; Falster GM; Hughes TP; Meissner KJ; Slater LJ; King AD; Pitman AJ; Moon G; Morgan W, 2025, 'Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making', npj Climate Action, 4, pp. 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44168-025-00296-5

Duboc B; Meissner KJ; Menviel L; Yeung NKH; Hoogakker B; Ziehn T; Chamberlain M, 2025, 'Simulated ocean oxygenation during the interglacials MIS 5e and MIS 9e', Climate of the Past, 21, pp. 1093 - 1122, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1093-2025

Nazarian N; Anand A; Hobeichi S; Naserikia M; Abram N; Slater L; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S; Meissner KJ, 2025, 'Predicting lethal humidity and associated excess mortality using machine learning and high-resolution datasets', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-1109

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

Singh T; Green DL; Meissner K; Jegasothy E, 2024, 'Association of stillbirths and preterm birth with wildfires in Sydney, Australia between 2010 and 2020', ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/isee.2024.0938

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

Hoogakker B; Davis C; Cardich J; Guo X; Naafs D; Meissner K; Somes C; Moretti S; Auderset A, 2024, 'Past Ocean Oxygenation working group', Past Global Change Magazine, 32, pp. 131 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.22498/pages.32.2.131

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

Dhame S; Taschetto A; Santoso A; Liguori G; Meissner K, 2021, 'Warming of the Indian Ocean weakens the Atlantic Niño - El Niño Southern Oscillation connection', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-13911

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

Loutre M-F; Gell PA; Meissner KJ; Vannière B, 2021, 'Past global changes as indicators for future changes and strategies for sustainability', Past Global Change Magazine, 29, pp. 106 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.22498/pages.29.2.106

Yeung NKH; Menviel L; Meissner KJ; Taschetto AS; Ziehn T; Chamberlain M, 2020, 'Weak Southern Hemispheric monsoons during the Last Interglacial period', , 2020, pp. 1 - 27, 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

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