Thomas L Frölicher

Biographic Data

ID3430874
NAMEThomas L Frölicher
GIVEN NAMESThomas L
FAMILY NAMEFrölicher
SIGNATUREFRÖLICHER T L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bern
ORCID0000-0003-2348-7854
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Ten new insights in climate science 2025

    Open AccessDorian Ospina, Paula Mirazo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Sustainability2026

    Non-Technical Summary This review highlights 10 recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, spanning diverse topics: (1) the global temperature jump of 2023–2024; (2) sea surface warming and marine heatwaves; (3) land carbon sinks; (4) interactions between climate change and biodiversity loss; (5) accelerated groundwater decline; (6) global dengue incidence; (7) income and labour productivity loss; (8) strategic conside…

  • Frot

    Open AccessEstela A Monteiro, Yona Silvy et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Different human activities and associated emissions of CO 2 and non-CO 2 radiative forcing agents and feedbacks determine the final state of Earth’s climate. To understand and explain contributions to global temperature changes, many emission-based metrics have been employed, such as CO 2 -equivalent or -forcing equivalent. None of these metrics, however, include dynamic responses from Earth system feedbacks in terms of carbon and heat redistribu…

  • Modelling marine heatwaves impact on shallow and upper mesophotic tropical coral reefs

    Open AccessNicolas Colombi, Chahan M Kropf et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Coral reefs ecosystems, often compared to rain forests for their high biodiversity, are threatened by ocean warming causing coral bleaching when the symbiotic relationship between dinoflagellates and corals breaks under high ocean temperatures. Thermal stress from marine heatwaves (MHWs) occur both at the surface and subsurface with subsurface MHWs lasting longer with potentially higher cumulative intensities. However, global coral bleaching mode…

  • Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios

    Open AccessJens Terhaar, Thomas L Frölicher et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Future ocean acidification mainly depends on the continuous ocean uptake of CO 2 from the atmosphere. The trajectory of future atmospheric CO 2 is prescribed in traditional climate projections with Earth system models, leading to a small model spread and apparently low uncertainties for projected acidification, but a large spread in global warming. However, climate policies such as the Paris Agreement define climate targets in terms of global war…

  • Adaptive emission reduction approach to reach any global warming target

    Open AccessJens Terhaar, Thomas L Frölicher et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2022

  • Tambora 1815 as a test case for high impact volcanic eruptions

    Open AccessChristoph C Raible, Brönnimann et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2016

    The eruption of Tambora (Indonesia) in April 1815 had substantial effects on global climate and led to the ‘Year Without a Summer’ of 1816 in Europe and North America. Although a tragic event—tens of thousands of people lost their lives—the eruption also was an ‘experiment of nature’ from which science has learned until today. The aim of this study is to summarize our current understanding of the Tambora eruption and its effects on climate as exp…

  • Extending the relationship between global warming and cumulative carbon emissions to multi-millennial timescales

    Open AccessThomas L Frölicher, David Paynter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    The transient climate response to cumulative carbon emissions (TCRE) is a highly policy-relevant quantity in climate science. The TCRE suggests that peak warming is linearly proportional to cumulative carbon emissions and nearly independent of the emissions scenario. Here, we use simulations of the Earth System Model (ESM) from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) to show that global mean surface temperature may increase by 0.5 C afte…

  • Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics

    Open AccessFortunat Joos, R Roth et al.ARTICLEAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics2013

    The responses of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other climate variables to an emission pulse of CO2 into the atmosphere are often used to compute the Global Warming Potential (GWP) and Global Temperature change Potential (GTP), to characterize the response timescales of Earth System models, and to build reduced-form models. In this carbon cycle-climate model intercomparison project, which spans the full model hierarchy, we quantify responses to emissio…

  • The declining uptake rate of atmospheric CO 2 by land and ocean sinks

    Michael Raupach, M R Raupach et al.PREPRINT2013

    Through 1959–2012, an airborne fraction (AF) of 44% of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions remained in the atmosphere, with the rest being taken up by land and ocean CO2 sinks. Understanding of this uptake is critical because it greatly alleviates the emissions reductions required for climate mitigation. An observable quantity that reflects sink properties more directly than the AF is the CO2 sink rate (kS), the combined land-ocean CO2 sink flux pe…