Kai-Uwe Eiselt
Job description
I am employed as a researcher at UiT under the scope of the IMPETUS project (https://climate-impetus.eu/). My research concerns how machine-learning models can be utilised to predict avalanche danger in northern Norway. Troms county is the "Arctic Demonstration Site" within IMPETUS and avalanche danger and its change comprise one of the main climate risks identified in the region to be tackeled by the project.
Within IMPETUS I also act as demonstration site co-leader.
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Publications outside Cristin
The work I did for my bachelor's thesis was published here:
- Eiselt, K.-U., F. Kaspar, T. Mölg, S. Krähenmann, R. Posada, and J. O. Riede (2017): Evaluation of gridding procedures for air temperature over Southern Africa, Adv. Sci. Res., 14, 163–173, https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-163-2017.
Research interests
My main research interests are currently:
- avalanche danger
- machine learning
I have two publications on this, one of which is still a pre-print:
- Eiselt, K.-U. and R. G. Graversen (2025): Predicting avalanche danger in northern Norway using statistical models. The Cryosphere, 19, 1849-1871, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1849-2025.
- Eiselt, K.-U. and R. G. Graversen (2025): Past and future changes in avalanche problems in northern Norway estimated with machine-learning models. EGUSphere [preprint]: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4685.
My further research interests include (mainly from my PhD work):
- climate modelling
- climate sensitivity
On these topics I have published three articles and was involved in two further articles as a contributing author:
- Eiselt, K.-U. and R. G. Graversen (2022): Change in climate sensitivity and its dependence on lapse-rate feedback in 4xCO2 climate model experiments. J. Climate, 35, 2919–2932, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0623.1.
- Eiselt, K.-U. and R. G. Graversen (2023): On the Control of Northern Hemispheric feedbacks by AMOC: Evidence from CMIP and slab ocean modeling. J. Climate, 36, 6777-6795, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0884.s1.
- Eiselt, K.-U. and R. G. Graversen (2024): On the impact of net-zero forcing Q-flux change. Clim. Dyn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07117-1.
- Rypdal, M., N. Boers, H.-B. Fredriksen, K.-U. Eiselt, A. Johansen, A. Martinsen, E. F. Mentzoni, R. G. Graversen and K. Rypdal (2021): Estimating remaining carbon budgets using temperature responses informed by CMIP6. Front. Clim., 3, 686058, https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.686058.
- Fredriksen, H.B., K.-U. Eiselt, and P. Good (2025): Exploring Global Temperature Oscillations Using a Generalized Linear Box Model. Geophys. Res. Let., 52, e2024GL113994, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113994.
My PhD thesis based on the first three articles can be found here:
- Eiselt, K.-U. (2023): On the time-dependence of climate sensitivity. PhD thesis. https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31607.
Teaching
As teaching assisstant:
- FYS-3030/8030 - Fluid dynamics of atmospheres and oceans