Gerd Wendler
Professor of Geophysics Emeritus
Director, Alaska Climate Research Center
Biographical Sketch:
- 1959 Abitur, Hansa Gymnasium, Hamburg, Germany
- 1964 Ph.D, Atmospheric Science and Astronomy
- Leopold Franzens Universität zu Innsbruck, Austria
Present Research Interests:
- Climatology
- Micro-meteorology
- Glacio-meteorology
- Climate-sea ice interactions
Positions Held:
- 2000 Professor Emeritus
- 1998 Director, Alaska Climate Research Center
- 1981 Professor of Geophysics
- 1971 Associate Professor of Geophysics
- 1967 Assistant Professor of Geophysics
- 1966 Assistant Geophysicist, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska
- 1964 Research Associate, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
Selected Publications:
- Wendler, G., J. Conner, B. Moore, M. Shulski and M. Stuefer 2011: Climatology of Alaskan wildfires with special emphasis on the extreme year of 2004. Theor. Appl. Clim DOI 10.1007/s00704
- Wendler, G., M. Shulski and B. Moore 2010: Changes in the climate of the Alaskan North Slope and the ice concentration in the adjacent Beaufort Sea. Theor. Appl. Clim 99: 67-74
- Wendler, G and M. Shulski 2009. A Century of Climate Change for Fairbanks, Alaska: Arctic, 62 (3), 295-300
- Weller, G., M. Nolan, G. Wendler, C. Benson, K. Echelmeyer and N. Untersteiner 2007: Fifty years of McCall Glacier Research: From the International Geophysical Year to the International Polar Year 2007-2008. Artic, 60(1), 1001-1011
- Shulski, M. and G. Wendler, 2007. The Climate of Alaska. University of Alaska Press, 216pp.
- Wendler, G., 2006. Book Review of The Arctic Climate System by Serreze and Barry, Polar Rec., 42(223), 370-372.
- Wendler, G., 2006. Climate of the Polar Realms. Chapter 5 In: The Global Climate System by H. Bridgman and J. Oliver, Cambridge University Press, 131-169.
- Stuefer, M. and G. Wendler 2005: MM5 Contrail forecasting in Alaska. Mon. Wea. Rev., 3517-3526
- Hartmann, B. and G. Wendler 2005: On the significance of the 1976 Pacific climate shift in the climatology of Alaska. : J. Clim.18,4824-4839
- Wendler, G., M. Shulski and B. Hartmann 2004: Potential climatic effects of cirrus contrails for the subarctic setting of Fairbanks, Alaska, Theor. Appl. Clim. 81, 149-159
- Nakanishi, S., J. Curtis and G. Wendler 2001: The influence of increased jet airline traffic on the amount of high cloudiness in Alaska. Theor. Appl. Clim., 68, 197-205
- Stafford, J., G. Wendler and J. Curtis 2000: Temperature and precipitation of Alaska: 50 year trend analyses. Theor. Appl. Clim., 67, 33-44
- Magee, N., J. Curtis and G. Wendler 1999: The urban heat island effect at Fairbanks, Alaska. Theor. Appl. Clim., 64, 39-47
- Dissing, D., and G. Wendler 1998: Solar radiation climatology of Alaska. Theor. Appl. Clim., 61, 161-175.
- Curtis, J., G. Wendler, R. Stone and E. Dutton 1998: Precipitation decrease in the Western Arctic, with special emphasis on Barrow and Barter Island, Alaska. Intl. J. Clim., 18, 1687-1707
