I finally handed in my Physics master’s thesis at Heidelberg University! Let me first say thank you to all the wonderful people at the STACY/SPACY group at Heidelberg and Tübingen University that made my work possible and made the last year such a pleasant experience.
In the last year, I’ve tested a statistical method named Data Assimilation to reconstruct the climate of the last millennium by fusing information from speleothems and ice cores and so-called isotope-enabled climate models.
I hope I will soon have enough free time to present my topic and results in a generally understandable way in this blog.
If you want to have a look at the final product, you can read and download it here: Link to cloud service of Heidelberg University
I hope, that my thesis can also serve as a good introduction to Paleoclimate Data Assimilation in general as I laid out many aspects, including the mathematical basics of the concept rather comprehensively.
Note, that my thesis still needs to be approved by the examiners, and thus has an imprinted watermark.
Update 2023: My thesis has been approved and I thus provide the link to the file without the watermark. Happy reading!