Norman J. Steinert

I am a physical climate scientist, currently working at the CICERO Center for International Research in Oslo, Norway. My research investigates climate change mitigation scenarios and Earth system reversibility, and the role of tipping points in shaping long-term Earth system responses to climate change. This work focuses on self-amplifying climate feedbacks and their implications for climate mitigation scenarios. By combining Earth system models with reduced-complexity climate emulators, my research advances the understanding of climate feedbacks, their potential irreversibility under overshoot, and the risks they pose to achieving climate stabilization. Another major strand of my research focuses on the role of the land surface in the Earth system, with an emphasis on land-climate interactions, terrestrial carbon cycle dynamics, including permafrost-carbon release and high-latitude ecosystem stability under climate change.

Previously at NORCE, ETH Zürich, AWI Bremerhaven, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, and the Complutense University of Madrid, where I completed my PhD in Physics in 2021.