Dr. Stefan Mulitza

Anthropocene/Humans & climate

Mulitza, S, Heslop, D, Pittauerova, D, Fischer, HW, Meyer, I, Stuut, JB, Zabel, M, Mollenhauer, G, Collins, JA, Kuhnert, H, Schulz, M (2010) Increase in African dust flux at the onset of commercial agriculture in the Sahel region. Nature 466, 226-228. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09213

Narayan N, Paul A, Mulitza S, Schulz M (2010) Trends in coastal upwelling intensity during the late 20th century. Ocean Science 6:815-823. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-6-815-2010

Castañeda IS, Mulitza S, Schefuss E, Lopes dos Santos RA, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Schouten S (2009) Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa. PNAS 106:20159-20163. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905771106

McGregor HV, Dima M, Fischer HW, Mulitza S (2007) Rapid 20th-century increase in coastal upwelling off northwest Africa. Science 315:637-639. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1134839

Atlantic meridional overturning & ocean temperature/density

Max, L, Nürnberg, D, Chiessi, CM, Lenz, MM, Mulitza, S (2022) Subsurface ocean warming preceded Heinrich Events. Nature Communications 13, 4217. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31754-x

Lynch-Stieglitz J, Schmidt MW, Gene Henry L, Curry WB, Skinner LC, Mulitza S, Zhang R, Chang P (2014) Muted change in Atlantic overturning circulation over some glacial-aged Heinrich events. Nature Geoscience 7:144-150. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2045

Maier, E, Zhang, X, Abelmann, A, Gersonde, R, Mulitza, S, Werner, M, Méheust, M, Ren, J, Chapligin, B, Meyer, H, Stein, R, Tiedemann, R, Lohmann, G (2018) North Pacific freshwater events linked to changes in glacial ocean circulation. Nature 559, 241-245. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0276-y

Rühlemann C, Mulitza S, Müller PJ, Wefer G, Zahn R (1999) Warming of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and slowdown of thermohaline circulation during the last deglaciation. Nature 402:511-514. https://doi.org/10.1038/990069

Atlantic meridional overturning & tropical precipitation

Collins JA, Prange M, Caley T, Gimeno L, Beckmann B, Mulitza S, Skonieczny C, Roche D, Schefuss E (2017) Rapid termination of the African Humid Period triggered by northern high-latitude cooling. Nature Communications 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01454-y

Mulitza S, Chiessi CM, Schefuß E, Lippold J, Wichmann D, Antz B, Mackensen A, Paul A, Prange M, Rehfeld K, Werner M, Bickert T, Frank N, Kuhnert H, Lynch-Stieglitz J, Portilho-Ramos RC, Sawakuchi AO, Schulz M, Schwenk T, Tiedemann R, Vahlenkamp M, Zhang Y (2017) Synchronous and proportional deglacial changes in Atlantic meridional overturning and northeast Brazilian precipitation. Paleoceanography 32. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017PA003084

Collins, JA, Schefuß, E, Heslop, D, Mulitza, S, Prange, M, Zabel, M, Tjallingii, R, Dokken, TM, Huang, E, Mackensen, A, Schulz, M, Tian, J, Zarriess, M, Wefer, G (2011) Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years. Nature Geoscience 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1039

Mulitza S, Prange M, Stuut J-B, Zabel M, Dobeneck T von, Itambi AC, Nizou J, Schulz M, Wefer G (2008) Sahel megadroughts triggered by glacial slowdowns of Atlantic meridional overturning. Paleoceanography 23. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008PA001637

Paleoceanographic reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum

Paul A, Mulitza S, Stein R, Werner M (2021) A global climatology of the ocean surface during the Last Glacial Maximum mapped on a regular grid (GLOMAP). Climate of the Past 17:805-824. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-805-2021

Howe JNW, Piotrowski AM, Noble TL, Mulitza S, Chiessi CM, Bayon G (2016) North Atlantic Deep Water Production during the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Communications 7. doi:10.1038/ncomms11765

Margo Project Members (2009) Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Geoscience 2:127-132. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo411

Lynch-Stieglitz J, Adkins JF, Curry WB, Dokken T, Hall IR, Herguera JC, Hirschi JJ-M, Ivanova EV, Kissel C, Marchal O, Marchitto TM, McCave IN, McManus JF, Mulitza S, Ninnemann U, Peeters F, Yu E-F, Zahn R (2007) Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science 316:66-69. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1137127

Stable oxygen & carbon isotopes in foraminifera

Chiessi CM, Ulrich S, Mulitza S, Pätzold J, Wefer G (2007) Signature of the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence (Argentine Basin) in the isotopic composition of planktonic foraminifera from surface sediments. Marine Micropaleontology 64:52-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.02.002

Mulitza S, Boltovskoy D, Donner B, Meggers H, Paul A, Wefer G (2003) Temperature:δ¹⁸O relationships of planktonic foraminifera collected from surface waters. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 202:143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00633-3

Schmidt GA, Mulitza S (2002) Global calibration of ecological models for planktic foraminifera from coretop carbonate oxygen-18. Marine Micropaleontology 44:125-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-8398(01)00041-X

Mulitza S, Dürkoop A, Hale W, Wefer G, Stefan Niebler H (1997) Planktonic foraminifera as recorders of past surface-water stratification. Geology 25:335. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0335:PFAROP>2.3.CO;2

Software & data compilations

Muglia J, Mulitza S, Repschläger J, Schmittner A, Lembke-Jene L, Lisiecki L, Mix A, Saraswat R, Sikes E, Waelbroeck C, Gottschalk J, Lippold J, Lund D, Martinez-Mendez G, Michel E, Muschitiello F, Naik S, Okazaki Y, Stott L, Voelker A, Zhao N (2023) A global synthesis of high-resolution stable isotope data from benthic foraminifera of the last deglaciation. Scientific Data 10:131. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02024-2

Mulitza S, Bickert T, Bostock HC, Chiessi CM, Donner B, Govin A, Harada N, Huang E, Johnstone H, Kuhnert H, Langner M, Lamy F, Lembke-Jene L, Lisiecki L, Lynch-Stieglitz J, Max L, Mohtadi M, Mollenhauer G, Muglia J, Nürnberg D, Paul A, Rühlemann C, Repschläger J, Saraswat R, Schmittner A, Sikes EL, Spielhagen RF, Tiedemann R (2022) World Atlas of late Quaternary Foraminiferal Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Ratios. Earth System Science Data 14, 2553-2611. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2553-2022

Jonkers L, Cartapanis O, Langner M, McKay N, Mulitza S, Strack A, Kucera M (2020) Integrating palaeoclimate time series with rich metadata for uncertainty modelling: strategy and documentation of the PalMod 130k marine palaeoclimate data synthesis. Earth System Science Data 12:1053-1081. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1053-2020

Langner, M, Mulitza, S (2019) Technical Note: PaleoDataView – A software toolbox for the collection, homogenization and visualization of marine proxy data, Climate of the Past 15, 2067–2072. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-2067-2019

Complete Publication List

Chief Scientist:

• METEOR M65/1
• MARIA S. MERIAN MSM20/3
• MARIA S. MERIAN MSM39

Scientific Crew Member

• RV METEOR: M15, M23, M38, M46, M49, M57, M75
• RV SONNE: SO164 (RASTA)
• RV MARION DUFRESNE: MD 167 RETRO (Co-Chief Scientist)

Master of Marine Geoscience, University of Bremen

• Abrupt, Past and Future Climate Changes
• Marine Ecosystems

• Winner of the ideas competition of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (~15.000 EUR) during the Brazil-Day of the BMBF in Bonn, March 24, 2017

• PaleoDataView