Dr Peter Pfleiderer
Data Analyst and Programmer
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Peter’s research focuses on climate change extreme events, such as tropical cyclones. Currently, he is working on mapping the impacts of climate change in emissions pathways that would ‘overshoot’ the 1.5°C temperature limit before returning below it by 2100, as part of the PROVIDE project. Peter has also developed approaches and open source tools to share and communicate climate projections. Since 2020, he has published seasonal forecasts for the Atlantic hurricane season.
Peter completed his master degree in physics at the Freie Universität Berlin. He completed his PhD at the at Humboldt University, where he studied different aspects of weather extremes in a warming climate with a focus on methodological challenges,
Blog posts
- El Niño is contributing to the hottest temperatures ever recorded – what does this mean for the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit? Kai Kornhuber, Peter Pfleiderer, Bill Hare, 25 July 2023
- How extreme weather conditions could last longer due to climate change Peter Pfleiderer, Kai Kornhuber, Carl Schleussner, 19 August 2019
- Stayin' alive: heatwave makes searing case for 1.5°C Claire Fyson, Fahad Saeed, Robert Brecha, Peter Pfleiderer, Quentin Lejeune, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, 15 August 2018
Publications
- Peer reviewed
- Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections Kai Kornhuber, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Peter Pfleiderer, Nature Communications, (2023)
- Uncertainty in near-term temperature evolution must not obscure assessments of climate mitigation benefits Alexandrine Lanson, Peter Pfleiderer, Flavio Lehner, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (2022)
- Extreme Atlantic hurricane seasons made twice as likely by ocean warming Peter Pfleiderer, Shruti Nath, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Weather and Climate Dynamics, (2022)
- Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies Max Callaghan, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Shruti Nath, Quentin Lejeune, Thomas R. Knutson, Markus Reichstein, Gerrit Hansen, Emily Theokritoff, Marina Andrijevic, Robert J. Brecha, Michael Hegarty, Chelsea Jones, Kaylin Lee, Agathe Lucas, Nicole van Maanen, Inga Menke, Peter Pfleiderer, Burcu Yesil and Jan C. Minx, Nature, (2021)
- Pathways of climate resilience over the 21st century Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Peter Pfleiderer, Marina Andrijevic, Martha Vogel, Friederike Otto and Sonia Seneviratne (2021)
- Simulating compound weather extremes responsible for critical crop failure with stochastic weather generators Jezequel, A., Legrand, J., Legrix, N., Markantonis, I., Vignotto, E. and Yiou, P. (2021)
- Incremental improvements of 2030 targets insufficient to achieve the Paris Agreement goals Andreas Geiges, Alexander Nauels, Paola Yanguas Parra, Marina Andrijevic, William Hare, Peter Pfleiderer, Michiel Schaeffer, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Earth System Dynamics, (2020)
- Robust predictors for seasonal Atlantic hurricane activity identified with causal effect networks Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Peter Pfleiderer, Tobias Geiger, Marlene Kretschmer, Weather and Climate Dynamics, (2020)
- Recommended temperature metrics for carbon budget estimates, model evaluation and climate policy Katarzyna B. Tokarska, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Joeri Rogelj, Martin B. Stolpe, H. Damon Matthews, Peter Pfleiderer, Nathan P. Gillett , Nature Geoscience, (2019)
- Increasing risks of apple tree frost damage under climate change Peter Pfleiderer, Inga Menke, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner , Climatic Change, (2019)
- Incremental improvements of 2030 targets insufficient to achieve the Paris Agreement goals Andreas Geiges, Paola Yanguas Parra, Marina Andrijevic, Bill Hare, Alex Nauels, Peter Pfleiderer, Michiel Schaeffer, Carl Schleussner, Earth System Dynamics, (2019)
- Boreal summer weather becomes more persistent in a warmer world Peter Pfleiderer, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Kai Kornhuber & Dim Coumou, Nature Climate Change, (2019)
- 1.5°C Hotspots: Climate Hazards, Vulnerabilities, and Impacts Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Delphine Deryng, Sarah D'haen, William Hare, Tabea Lissner, Mouhamed Ly, Alexander Nauels, Melinda Noblet, Peter Pfleiderer, Patrick Pringle, Martin Rokitzki, Fahad Saeed, Michiel Schaeffer, Olivia Serdeczny, Adelle Thomas, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 43:135-163, doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025835, (2018)
- Global mean temperature indicators linked to warming levels avoiding climate risks Pfleiderer, P., Schleussner, C-F, Mengel, M., Rogelj, R, Environmental Research Letters, http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aac319, (2018)
- In the observational record half a degree matters Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Peter Pfleiderer & Erich M. Fischer , Nature Climate Change, 7, 460–462 (2017), doi:10.1038/nclimate3320, (2017)
- Briefing papers
- Carbon budgets for the 1.5°C limit Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Katarzyna B. Tokarska, Martin Stolpe, Peter Pfleiderer, Quentin Lejeune, Bill Hare (2018)
- Tropical Cyclones: Impacts, the link to Climate Change and Adaptation Adelle Thomas, Patrick Pringle, Peter Pfleiderer, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (2017)