Wilhelm May

As a climate scientist, I have been working on various aspects of climate variability and change, in particular the Indian summer monsoon and the variability and extremes of daily precipitation in different regions. I am especially interested in the coupling between the land surface and the atmosphere and the role of the changing land surface for climate variability and change. I have also been working on the adaptation to climate variability and change in parts of Africa and on the mitigation of climate change. I am currently involved in several projects related to land systems, studying, i.e., the role of land surface interactions for simulating near-surface climate, the value of organic soil carbon for mitigating the adverse effects of climate variability for agriculture in Sweden, the impact of forest policies on forests and forestry (with a focus on carbon stocks and biodiversity) in Fennoscandia, and the role of climate variability and change for the efficacy of the push-pull technology in East Africa.