My research interests

• Past and future variations in the Earth's climate
• The relative importance of internal variability and changes in the external forcings for the variations in Earth's climate
• Abrupt climate change
• Model intercomparsion
• Model-proxy data comparison

Current research projects

Holocene climate evolution and variability

Imprint of global climate transitions on Swedish climate

Publications

In preparation / under review

Peer-reviewed

Chabangborn, N., Brandefelt, J., Wohlfarth, B., 2014,
Asian monsoon climate during the Last Glacial Maximum: paleo data - model comparisons,
Boreas, 43, 220-242, doi:10.1111/bor.12032. (abstract)

Ballarotta, M., Brodeau, L., Brandefelt, J., P. Lundberg, and Döös, K., 2013,
Last Glacial Maximum world ocean simulations at eddy-permitting and coarse resolutions: do eddies contribute to a better consistency between models and paleo-proxies?
Clim. Past., 9, 2669-2686, doi: 10.5194/cp-9-2669-2013. (article)

Näslund, J.-O., Brandefelt, J., Claesson Liljedahl L., 2013,
Climate considerations in long-term safety assessments for nuclear waste repositories,
AMBIO, 42, 393-401, doi:10.1007/s13280-013-0406-6. (article)

Berger, M., Brandefelt, J., Nilsson, J., 2013,
The sensitivity of the Arctic sea-ice to orbitally-induced insolation changes; a study of the mid-Holocene Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project 2 and 3 simulations,
Clim. Past., 9, 969-982, doi:10.5194/cp-9-969-2013. (article)

Brandefelt, J., Kjellström, E., Näslund, J.-O., Strandberg, G., Voelker, A. H. L., and Wohlfarth, B., 2011,
A coupled climate model simulation of Marine Isotope Stage 3 stadial climate,
Clim. Past, 7, 649-670, doi:10.5194/cp-7-649-2011. (article)

Strandberg, G., Brandefelt, J., Kjellström, E., and Smith, B., 2011,
High resolution regional simulation of last glacial maximum climate in Europe,
Tellus 63A, DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2010.00485.x. (article)

Kjellström, E., Brandefelt, J., Näslund, J.-O., Smith, B., Strandberg, G., Voelker, A. H. L, and Wohlfarth, B., 2010,
Simulated climate conditions in Europe during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 stadial,
Boreas, 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00143.x. ISSN 0300-9483. (abstract)

Brandefelt, J., and Otto-Bliesner, B. L., 2009,
Equilibration and variability in a last glacial maximum climate simulation with CCSM3,
Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L19712, doi:10.1029/2009GL040364. (abstract)

Brandefelt, J., and Körnich, H., 2008,
Northern Hemisphere stationary waves in future climate projections,
J. Climate 21, 6341-6353. (abstract)

Brandefelt, J., 2006,
Atmospheric modes of variability in a changing climate,
J. Climate 19, 5933-5942. (abstract)

Brandefelt, J. and Källén, E., 2004,
The response of the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation to an enhanced greenhouse gas forcing,
J. Climate 17, 4425-4442. (abstract)

Brandefelt, J., and Holmén, K., 2001,
Anthropogenic and biogenic winter sources of Arctic CO2 - a model study,
Tellus 53B, 10-21. (abstract)

Thesis

Reports

Kjellström, E., Strandberg, G., Brandefelt, J.,, Näslund, J.-O., Smith, B., and Wohlfarth, B., 2009,
Climate conditions in Sweden in a 100,000-year time perspective,
Svensk kärnbränslehantering AB, report TR-09-04. (pdf)

Näslund, J.-O. (ed), Wohlfarth, B. (ed), Alexanderson, H., Helmens, K., Hättestrand, M., Jansson, P., Kleman, J., Lundqvist, J., Brandefelt, J.,, Houmark-Nielsen, M., Kjellström, E., Strandberg, G., Knudsen, K. L., Krog Larsen, N., Ukkonen, P., and Mangerud, J., 2008,
Fennoscandian paleo-environment and ice sheet dynamics during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3. Report of workshop held September 20-21, 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden,
Svensk kärnbränslehantering AB, report R-08-79. (pdf)