currently at Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

CV

1999 - 2001	Studium Meteorologie, Freie Universität Berlin
2001 - 2002	Auslandsstudium Physik, Instituto Superior Técnico in Lissabon / Portugal
2002-2006	Studium Meteorologie, Nebenfach Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin
01/2006-12/2010	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Meteorologie, FU Berlin
06/2010	Promotion, Institut für Meteorologie, FU Berlin
seit 01/2011	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of New South Wales

Arbeits- und Interessen-Schwerpunkte

• Abschätzung von Unsicherheiten in Klimasimulationen

• Modellierung des Erd-/Klimasystems

• Analyse / Bewertung von Sturmschaden-Potentialen

• Naturkatastrophen und Klimawandel

Donat MG, Leckebusch GC, Wild S, Ulbrich U. 2010. Future changes of European winter storm losses and extreme wind speeds in multi-model GCM and RCM simulations. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (under review)

Donat MG, Leckebusch GC, Wild S, Ulbrich U. 2010. Benefits and limitations of regional multi-model ensembles for storm loss estimations. Climate Research 44:211-225. DOI: 10.3354/cr00891

Donat MG, Leckebusch GC, Pinto JG, Ulbrich U. 2010. European storminess and associated circulation weather types: future changes deduced from a multi-model ensemble of GCM simulations. Climate Research 42:27-43. DOI:10.3354/cr00853

Donat MG, Leckebusch GC, Pinto JG, Ulbrich U. 2009: Examination of Wind Storms over Central Europe with respect to Circulation Weather Types and NAO phases. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.1982 (in press)

Leckebusch GC, Donat MG, Ulbrich U, Pinto JG. 2008. Mid-latitude Cyclones and Storms in an Ensemble of European AOGCMs under ACC. CLIVAR Exchanges Vol. 13, No. 3, 3-5. ISSN 1026-0471

Donat, M., Kaspar, F. 2006: Simulations of the last interglacial and the subsequent glacial inception with the Planet Simulator. Climate of the Past Discuss., 2, 1347-1369

Tagungsbeiträge

M.G. Donat, G.C. Leckebusch, U. Ulbrich: High-resolution refinement of a storm loss model and its application to climate scenario simulations, EGU2010-9000, 2010

S. Parey, P. Bernardara, M.G. Donat: Climate change impact on economical and industrial activities, EGU2010-10069, 2010 U. Ulbrich, M.G. Donat, G.C. Leckebusch: Climate Change and the Risk of European Wind Storms, EGU2010-15448, 2010

T. Pardowitz, M.G. Donat, T. Kruschke, D. Renggli, G.C. Leckebusch, U. Ulbrich: Severe European Wind Storms in RCM ensemble simulations, EGU2010-14558, 2010

G.C. Leckebusch, T. Pardowitz, M.G. Donat, D. Renggli, T. Kruschke, U. Ulbrich: Multi-model ensemble extreme value analysis of European storm events, EGU2010-12128, 2010

M.G. Donat, G.C. Leckebusch, J.G. Pinto, S. Wild, U. Ulbrich, 2009: European winter storm losses in relation to extreme wind speeds in a multi-model ensemble of GCM and RCM simulations, 9th Annual Meeting of the EMS / 9th ECAC, 2009

G.C. Leckebusch, M.G. Donat, D. Renggli, U. Ulbrich, J.G. Pinto, 2009: Diagnosis of spatial distribution and severity of mid-latitude storms in an ensemble of European AOGCMs under anthropogenic climate change, 9th Annual Meeting of the EMS / 9th ECAC, 2009

J.G. Pinto, U. Ulbrich, G.C. Leckebusch, M.G. Donat, K.M. Nissen, T. Spangehl, S. Ulbrich, S. Zacharias, 2009: Sensitivities and applications of a cyclone tracking algorithm, 9th Annual Meeting of the EMS / 9th ECAC, 2009

M.G. Donat, G.C. Leckebusch, J.G. Pinto, S. Wild, U. Ulbrich, 2009: European Wind Storms in Climate Change Simulations: Estimation of Occurrence and Impacts in Multi-Model Simulations, MOCA-09, IAMAS/IAPSO/IACS Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, July 19-29, 2009

M.G. Donat, G.C. Leckebusch, S. Wild, and U. Ulbrich: European winter storm losses in a multi-model ensemble of GCM and RCM simulations,  EGU2009-7604, 2009

Wild, S., T. Kruschke, M. Donat, D. Renggli, G.C. Leckebusch and U. Ulbrich, 2009: Losses due to Severe Wind Storms over Europe in a Future Climate. Copenhagen, 2009. International Scientific Congress /Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions. SESSION (Nr. 32): Economic Costs of Adapting and not Adapting to Climate Change, 10.-12.03.2009 Copenhagen, Denmark.

Leckebusch, G.C., M. Donat, D. Befort, U. Ulbrich, J.G. Pinto, K. Born, 2009: Sensitivities of European Wind Storm Simulations using CLM . COSMO/CLM User Seminar 2009, BTZ – Langen , 09  – 12 March 2009

M. Donat, G.C. Leckebusch, J.G. Pinto, U. Ulbrich: Auftreten und Wirken von Winterstürmen in Klimaänderungssimulationen: Abschätzung in einem Multi-Modell-Ensemble von GCMs. 9. Forum Katastrophenvorsorge des DKKV, Offenbach, 20./21.11.2008

G.C. Leckebusch, M. Donat, S. Wild and U. Ulbrich: Loss potentials of wind storms over Europe under anthropogenic climate change conditions based on an ensemble of GCMs and RCMs, 8th Annual Meeting of the EMS / 7th ECAC, Vol. 5, EMS2008-A-00469, 2008

Donat, M.; Leckebusch, G.C.; Pinto, J.; Ulbrich, U.: Storminess and related large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns in reanalysis data and an ensemble of global climate models, 8th Annual Meeting of the EMS / 7th ECAC, Vol. 5, EMS2008-A-00287, 2008

Donat, M.; Leckebusch, G.C.; Pinto, J.; Ulbrich, U.: Analysis of extra-tropical cyclones and wind storms in multi-model simulations with global and regional climate models, 8th Annual Meeting of the EMS / 7th ECAC, Vol. 5, EMS2008-A-00285, 2008

Donat, M.; Leckebusch, G.C.; Pinto, J.; Ulbrich, U.: Analysis of the atmospheric circulation and cyclone tracks concerning the occurrence of wind storm events in Central Europe, EGU2008, EGU2008-A-03456

Donat, M.; Leckebusch, G.C.; Pinto, J.; Ulbrich, U.: Occurrence of extratropical cyclones and windstorms in multi-model simulations for recent and future climate, EGU 2008, EGU2008-A-03442

Leckebusch, G.C., U. Ulbrich, and M. Donat, 2008: Extreme Events and Climate Change: A Multi-model Ensemble Analysis. Inha University, Incheon: International Symposium in Climate Change Research, Seoul, South Korea. Conference Proceedings, p69-73.

Leckebusch, G.C., U. Ulbrich, J.G. Pinto, and M. Donat, 2007: Severe Extra-Tropical Storms Under Climate Change and Related Impacts. AGU Fall Meeting, 10.-14.12.2007, San Francisco, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC13B-04.

Leckebusch, G.C.; Donat, M.; Ulbrich, U. ; Pinto, J.G.: Impacts of severe cyclones on property losses: estimations based on global and regional ENSEMBLE modelling, EMS2007

Donat, M., Leckebusch, G.C., Ulbrich U.: Zirkulationsklassen und extreme Sturmereignisse in Europa in einem Multi-Modell-Ensemble von Klimasimulationen für das 20. und das 21. Jahrhundert, DACH2007

Leckebusch, G.C.; Donat, M.; Pinto, J.G.; Ulbrich, U.: Zukünftige Trends europäischer Winterstürme und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Versicherungswirtschaft, DACH2007

Leckebusch, G.C.; Ulbrich, U. ; Fröhlich, L.; Pinto, J.G.; Donat, M.: Estimation of European storms under anthropogenic changed conditions based on an ensemble of global and regional climate model simulations: an analysis of characteristics and related property loss potential, ICESM2007

Donat, M., Leckebusch, G.C., Ulbrich U.: Changing european circulation types in a greenhousegas climate and their relation to the occurrence of extreme wind storms - a multi model ensemble approach, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, EGU2007-A-07039, 2007

Leckebusch, G.C.; Ulbrich, U.; Fröhlich, L.; Pinto, J.G.; Donat, M.: European storms and their property loss potential under enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations – a global and regional climate model analysis, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, EGU2007-A-06477, 2007

 

Promotion

Donat, M.G., 2010: European wind storms, related loss potentials and changes in multi-model climate simulations, Doktorarbeit am Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität Berlin, 175p.

Diplom

Donat, M.G., 2006: Simulation des Eem-Interglazials und des folgenden glazialen Überganges mit einem Erdsystemmodell mittlerer Komplexität, Diplom-Arbeit am Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität Berlin