Matthias Kuhle

Matthias Kuhle

Matthias Kuhle (Everest north slope, Central Rongbuk Glacier)
Born (1948-04-20)April 20, 1948
Died April 25, 2015(2015-04-25) (aged 67)

Matthias Kuhle (20 April 1948 – 25 April 2015) was a German geographer and professor at the University of Göttingen. He edited the book series Geography International published by Shaker Verlag.

Kuhle died on 25 April 2015 in a major earthquake in Nepal, five days after his 67th birthday.[1][2]

Education and career

Kuhle studied German philology, geography, and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He graduated in 1972 (Staatsexamen) and moved to the University of Göttingen for Ph.D. work. His Ph.D. in the natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat) was conferred in 1975 for work on geography, geology and philosophy. His Ph.D. dissertation was a monograph on the geomorphology and former glaciation of South-Iranian high mountains. In 1980 he achieved his habilitation in Geography with a monograph titled Dhaulagiri- and Annapurna Himalaya: A Contribution to the Geomorphology of Extreme High Mountains. He was appointed Professor of Geography at the University of Göttingen in 1983, and promoted to the chair for Geography and High Mountain Geomorphology in 1990.

His main areas of research were the mountain ranges and plateaus of High- and Central Asia, the Andes and the Arctic. Since 1973 he undertook several multi-months research expeditions.[3][4]

Kuhle’s priority program of research was High Mountain Ecology, Periglacial and Glacial Geomorphology, Climatology, Ice Age research (Paleoclimatology), Glaciology and Science Theory. His work focusses on the reconstruction of the former ice cover of High and Central Asia, caused by the plate tectonic-induced uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountain areas above the snowline. His theory of Ice Age Development during the Pleistocene is based on this reconstruction and his measurements of radiation energy and budget in subtropic areas of high altitude. Kuhle's idea of an ice sheet[5][6][7][8] covering practically the entire Tibetan Plateau has been opposed by several glacial geologists (cf. Derbyshire et al. 1991; Rutter 1995; Zheng and Rutter 1998; Owen et al. 2005; Lehmkuhl and Owen 2005). These doubts however ignore earlier geomorphological evidences and are based on uncalibrated numerical datings, which up to now lack a reliable calibration technique.[9][10][11][12][13]

Publications

References

  1. Britta Bielefeld (27 April 2015). "Erbeben in Nepal: Göttinger Professor Matthias Kuhle stirbt im Epizentrum". Göttinger Tageblatt.
  2. "In Memoriam: Matthias Kuhle". AAG. 8 May 2015.
  3. "Ist Tibet eine Kälteschaukel?". Die Zeit. 6 September 1985. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  4. Quaestiones Geographicae. Adam Mickiewicz University. 1984. p. 46. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  5. Nesje, A. & Dahl, S. O., 2000. Glaciers and Environmental Change. Arnold, pp. 1-203
  6. J. Ehlers 2011: Das Eiszeitalter, cf. http://www.springer.com/popular/book/978-3-8274-2326-9.
  7. Anderson, Goudie, Parker (2013): Global Environments Through the Quaternary: Exploring Evironmental Change, page 86–87, cf. , p. 87, at Google Books
  8. Kuhle, M. 2013: The uplift of High Asia above the snowline and its Glaciation as an albedo-dependent cause of the Quaternary ice ages. Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, 1-240, Hardcover and E-book; see: https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=39855
  9. Schröder, N. (2007): The discrepancy between the method of Cosmogenic Nuclide Exposure Dating on moraines and morphodynamics, weathering, glacierdynamics, erosion and global climate, Quaternary International 167–168, page 369.
  10. Kuhle, M., Kuhle, S. (2010): Review on Dating methods: Numerical Dating in the Quaternary of High Asia. In: Journal of Mountain Science (2010) 7: 105-122.
  11. Chevalier, Marie-Luce; et al. (2011). "Constraints on the late Quaternary glaciations in Tibet from cosmogenic exposure ages of moraine surfaces". Quaternary Science Reviews. 30: 528–554. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.005. line feed character in |title= at position 81 (help)
  12. Seidler, C., (2011). http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/riesige-sonneneruption-kosmischer-streifschuss-fuer-mutter-erde-a-767415.html
  13. Seidler, C., (2014). http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/swarm-esa-satelliten-messen-magnetfeld-der-erde-a-976116.html

Derbyshire, E., Shi, Y.F., Li, J.J., Zheng, B.X., Li, S.J., Wang, J.T. (1991): Quaternary glaciation of Tibet: the geological evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 10, 485-510.

Dittmann, A., Kraas, F. and Schmiedecken, W. (Ed.) (2006): Wer ist wo? Geographinnen und Geographen an Universitäten, Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Bonn 2006.

Ehlers, J. and Gibbard, P.L (Eds.) (2004). Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology, Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Development in Quaternary Science 2; Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, 1-380.

Gupta, S.K., Sharma, P. (1992): On the nature of the ice cap on the Tibetian Plateau during the late Quaternary. In: Global and Planetary Change, Vol. 5, Issue 4, pages 339-343.

Hughes, T.J. (1998): Ice Sheets, Oxford University Press, New York, 343 pages.

Kaufmann, G. (2004): Geodetic signatures of a Late Pleistocene Tibetan ice sheet. In Journal of Geodynamics, Volume 39, Issue 2, 111-125.

Kuhle, M.(1988): The Pleistocene Glaciation of Tibet and the Onset of Ice Ages- An Autocycle Hypothesis. In: GeoJournal 17 (4), Tibet and High-Asia. Results of the Sino-German Joint Expeditions (I). Kuhle, M., Wang Wenjing (eds.); Kluwer, Dordrecht/ Boston/ London: 581-596.

Kuhle, M. (2002): A relief-specific model of the ice age on the basis of uplift-controlled glacier areas in Tibet and the corresponding albedo increase as well as their positiv climatological feedback by means of the global radiation geometry.- Climate Research 20: 1-7.

Kuhle, M. (2004): The High Glacial (Last Ice Age and LGM) ice cover in High and Central Asia. Development in Quaternary Science 2 (c, Quaternary Glaciation - Extent and Chronology, Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Eds: Ehlers, J.; Gibbard, P.L.), 175-199. (Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam).

Lautenschlager, M., Santer, B.D. (1991): Atmospheric Response to a Hypothetical Tibetian Ice Sheet.In: Journal of Climate, Vol. 4, Issue 4,pp. 386–394.

Lehmkuhl, F., Owen, L.A. (2005): Late Quaternary glaciation of Tibet and the bordering mountains: a review. Boreas, 34, 87-100.

Liedke, H. (2001): Besprechung des Bandes "Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie" 'Glaciation and Periglacial in Asian High Mountains', Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geomorphology, Tokyo, Japan, August 23 to 28, 2001, Vol. 130, Supplementbände und Synopsis: Bespr.: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie vol. 48 no. 2 Contents.

Marsiat, I. (1994). Simulation of the northern hemisphere continental ice sheets over the last glacial-interglacial cycle: experiments with a latitude-longitude vertically integrated ice sheet model coupled to a zonally averaged climate model. Palaeoclimates 1, 59-98.

Owen, L.A., Finkel, R.C., Barnard, P.L., Ma, H.Z., Asahi, K., Caffee, M.W., Derbyshire, E. (2005): Climatic and topographic controls on the style and timing of Late Quaternary glaciation throughout Tibet and the Himalaya defined by 10Be cosmogenic radionuclide surface exposure dating. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 1391-1411.

Rutter, N. (1995): Problematic ice sheets. Quaternary International, 28, 19-37.

Wang, Hansheng (2001): Effects of glacial isostatic adjustment since the late Pleistocene on the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau. Geophys. J. Int. (2001) 144, 448-458.

Xu Daoming & Shen Yongping (1995). On Ancient Ice-Sheet and Ice Age in the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology Vol.17 No.3 Sept. 1995, 17 p (in Chinese, Abstract in English).

Zheng, B.X., Rutter, N. (1998): On the problem of Quaternary glaciations, and the extent and patterns of Pleistocene ice cover in the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) plateau. Quaternary International, 45/46, 109-122.

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