Rate My Professor Malte Meinshausen

Meinshausen's academic interests focus on emission and concentration implications of long-term climate targets like limiting global warming to below 2°C, maintenance and development of the MAGICC6 lower complexity coupled carbon-cycle climate model, analysis of GCM and carbon cycle intercomparison exercises, and creation of greenhouse gas concentration pathways for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). He served as a lead author for Working Group I of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and as a Core Writing Team Member. Key publications include "Climate Change 2021: the physical science basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; technical summary" (2021), "The representative concentration pathways: an overview" (2011), "The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300" (2011), "Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2°C" (2009), and "Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne" (2009). With over 85,000 citations, he has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher and named among the world's top 1% of scientists.