Malte Jansen Associate Professor

Research Focus:

Ocean and atmospheric dynamics; climate

Email:

mfj@uchicago.edu

Office:

HGS 443

Research Interests

My research aims to improve our understanding of the dynamics of the oceans, the atmosphere, and the coupled climate system. I am particularly interested in the processes that govern the transport of heat and other constituents in the ocean. Understanding the mechanisms of these transport processes is key to our understanding of changes in the climate system during Earth’s past and future. I tackle these questions using a combination of theoretical fluid dynamics, numerical simulations and analysis of observational data.

Recent Publications

• Fan, Bowen, Malte F. Jansen, Michael A. Mischna, and Edwin S. Kite, 2023. "Why are mountaintops cold? The transition of surface lapse rate on dry planets." Geophysical Research Letters 50(23)

• Miyawaki, O., Shaw, T.A. and Jansen, M.F., 2023. The emergence of a new wintertime Arctic energy balance regime. Environmental Research: Climate, 2(3)

• Jansen, M.F., Kang, W., Kite, E.S. and Zeng, Y., 2023. Energetic constraints on ocean circulations of icy ocean worlds. The Planetary Science Journal, 4(6), p.117.

• Loose, N., Bachman, S., Grooms, I. and Jansen, M., 2023. Diagnosing scale-dependent energy cycles in a high-resolution isopycnal ocean model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 53(1), pp.157-176.