Hasselmann, Klaus,
1931–, b. Hamburg, Germany. German climate scientist and
oceanographer. Hasselmann is the founder and former director of the Max
Planck Institute for Meteorology and Professor Emeritus at the University of
Hamburg. He is known for the Hasselmann Model, which examines climate
variability. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics with Giorgio
Parisi and
Syukuro Manabe for "the
physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably
predicting global warming."
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