
Christian Seiler
Assistant Professor
School of Environmental Studies
School of Computing
Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
My research explores the role of the land surface in the global climate system under current and future climate conditions. By combining numerical modelling and global earth observations, my work addresses questions that advance our ability to predict how the terrestrial carbon cycle will respond to increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Recent topics include model benchmarking, global sensitivity analysis, mechanisms of forest dieback, and the impact of climate model biases on simulated carbon dynamics. Much of this research support the evaluation and development of the Canadian Earth System Model's land surface scheme.
Contact
- Office: Biosciences Complex, Room 3240
- Phone: 613-533-6000 ext 75661
- Email: christian.seiler@muwangwooden.com
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2023-present Florence Kayode (PhD)
2019-present Raj Deepak (PhD, UVic, with Prof. Adam Monahan)
- 2024 ENSC 841, Climate Change Science and Policy
- 2023 ENSC 480, Land Atmosphere Interactions
- 2021 EOS 491/562, GPHY 890, Land-Atmosphere Interactions
- 2018 EOS 433/550, The Climate System
- 2016 EOS 491/562A, An Introduction to Climate Physics
- Ph.D. Earth System Science Group, Wageningen 카지노게임사이트, The Netherlands, 2009-2014
- M.Sc. Earth System Science Group, Wageningen 카지노게임사이트, The Netherlands, 2006-2008
- B.Sc. Faculty of Forest and Environment, 카지노게임사이트 of Eberswalde, Germany, 2001-2003
- 2024-present Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Queen's 카지노게임사이트 (cross-appointment)
- 2023-present Assistant Professor for Climate Change Science and Policy, School of Environmental Studies, Queen's 카지노게임사이트
- 2018-2022 Research Scientist, Climate Processes Section, Science & Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Government of Canada
- 2016-2018 Research Climatologist, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), 카지노게임사이트 of Victoria (UVic)
- 2013-2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, PCIC, UVic
- 2004-2006; 2008-2009 Consultant for Friends of Nature Foundation, Bolivia
Kou-Giesbrecht, S., Arora, V.K., Seiler, C., Arneth, A., Falk, S., Jain, A.K., Joos, F., Kennedy, D., Knauer, J., Sitch, S. and O'Sullivan, M., 2023. Evaluating nitrogen cycling in terrestrial biosphere models: a disconnect between the carbon and nitrogen cycles. Earth System Dynamics, 14(4), pp.767-795.
Curasi, S.R., Melton, J.R., Humphreys, E.R., Wang, L., Seiler, C., Cannon, A.J., Chan, E. and Qu, B., 2023. Evaluating the Performance of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC) Tailored to the Pan카지노 게임 컬렉션Canadian Domain. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15(4), p.e2022MS003480.
Arora, V.K., Seiler, C., Wang, L. and Kou-Giesbrecht, S., 2022. Towards an ensemble-based evaluation of land surface models in light of uncertain forcings and observations. Biogeosciences, 20, 1313카지노 게임 컬렉션1355.
Seiler, C., Melton, J. R., Arora, V., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., Arneth, A., Goll, D. S., Jain, A., Joetzjer, E., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D., Luyssaert, S., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Tian, H., Vuichard, N., Walker, A. P., Yuan, W., and Zaehle, S. 2022. Are terrestrial biosphere models fit for simulating the global land carbon sink?. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, p.e2021MS002946. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002946
Gillett, N., Cannon, A., Malinina, E., Schnorbus, M., Anslow, F., Sun, Q., Kirchmeier-Young, M., Zwiers, F., Seiler, C., Zhang, X., Flato, G., Wan, H. Li, G. and Castellan, A. 2022. Human Influence on the 2021 British Columbia Floods. Weather and Climate Extremes, p.100441.
Sospedra-Alfonso, R., Merryfield, W.J., Boer, G.J., Kharin, V.V., Lee, W.S., Seiler, C. and Christian, J.R., 2021. Decadal climate predictions with the Canadian Earth System Model version 5 (CanESM5). Geoscientific Model Development, 14(11), pp.6863-6891.
Seiler, C., Melton, J. R., Arora, V. K., and Wang, L., 2021. CLASSIC v1.0: the open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Part 2: Global benchmarking, Geoscientific Model Development, 14, 2371카지노 게임 컬렉션2417, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2371-2021.
Melton, J. R., Arora, V. K., Wisernig-Cojoc, E., Seiler, C., Fortier, M., Chan, E., & Teckentrup, L., 2020. CLASSIC v1. 0: the open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Part 1: Model framework and site-level performance. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(6), 2825-2850.
Swart, N. C., Cole, J. N. S., Kharin, V. V., Lazare, M., Scinocca, J. F., Gillett, N. P., Anstey, J., Arora, V., Christian, J. R., Hanna, S., Jiao, Y., Lee, W. G., Majaess, F., Saenko, O. A., Seiler, C., Seinen, C., Shao, A., Solheim, L., von Salzen, K., Yang, D., and Winter, B, 2019. The Canadian Earth System Model version 5 (CanESM5. 0.3). Geoscientific Model Development, 12(11), 4823-4873.
Seiler, C., 2019. A Climatological Assessment of Intense Extratropical Cyclones from the Potential Vorticity Perspective. Journal of Climate, 32, 2369카지노 게임 컬렉션2380, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0461.1
Seiler, C. , Zwiers FW, Hodges KI, Scinocca J, 2017. How does dynamical downscaling affect model biases and future projections of explosive extratropical cyclones along North America카지노 게임 컬렉션s Atlantic coast?. Climate Dynamics, 1-16.
Rezaee, S., Seiler, C. , Pelot, R., Ghasemi, A., 2016. Will commercial fishing be a safe occupation in future? A framework to quantify future fishing risks due to climate change scenarios. Weather and Climate Extremes 13 (2016): 73-85.
Seiler, C. , Zwiers, F.W., 2016. How well do CMIP5 climate models reproduce explosive cyclones in the extratropics of the Northern Hemisphere?. Climate Dynamics 46 (3-4), 1241카지노 게임 컬렉션1256
Seiler, C. , Zwiers, F.W., 2016. How will climate change affect explosive cyclones in the extratropics of the Northern Hemisphere?. Climate Dynamics 46 (11), 3633카지노 게임 컬렉션3644
Seiler, C. , Hutjes, R.W.A., Kruijt, B., Hickler, T., 2015. The sensitivity of wet and dry tropical forests to climate change in Bolivia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120 (3), 399카지노 게임 컬렉션413
Seiler, C. , Hutjes, R.W.A., Kruijt, B., Quispe, J., Añez, S., Arora, V.K., Melton, J.R., Hickler, T., and Kabat, P., 2014. Modeling forest dynamics along climate gradients in Bolivia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 119 (5), 758카지노 게임 컬렉션775
Seiler, C. , Hutjes, R.W.A., and Kabat, P., 2013. Likely Ranges of Climate Change in Bolivia. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 52 (6), 1303카지노 게임 컬렉션1317
Seiler, C. , Hutjes, R.W.A., and Kabat, P., 2013. Climate Variability and Trends in Bolivia. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 52 (1), 130카지노 게임 컬렉션146
Seiler, C. , Moene, A.F., 2011. Estimating Actual Evapotranspiration from Satellite and Meteorological Data in Central Bolivia. Earth Interactions, 15, 1카지노 게임 컬렉션24