Hans von Storch
Hans von Storch is Director of the Institute of Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Centre and Professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg. His research interests are climate diagnostics and statistical climatology, specifically detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change, variability and change in storminess and related marine variables (storm surges, ocean waves), regional climate change; the use of paleo proxy data to study climate variability and change. Hans has published eleven books and numerous articles. He is member of the advisory boards of Journal of Climate and Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Annals of Geophysics, and organiser of the GKSS School on Environmental Research. He is also a member of the steering committee of the International Meeting on Statistical Climatology and of the Committee for the Eduard Brückner award.