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Dr.-Ing. Michael Schindelegger

Scientific Staff Member

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Biography

Dr. Michael Schindelegger joined the Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation as a junior professor (fixed-tem) in February 2018. His research is devoted to exploring the dynamics and causal relationships in the physical Earth system using numerical models and geodetic observations. 

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Schindelegger

 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6250-7921.

  • Since 2025: Lecturer/Researcher, Center for Earth System Observation and Computational Analysis, University of Bonn, Germany.

  • 2018–2025: Junior Professor for Geodetic Earth System Science, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn.

  • 2014–2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Austria.

  • 2009–2014: Research/University Assistant, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Austria.

  • Large-scale dynamics and interactions in the Earth system.

  • Ocean modeling, sea level, tides.

  • Earth rotation.

  • Alumni

    • Lara Börger: Doctorate 03/2026, funded by DFG (project DISCLOSE).
    • Lana Opel: Doctorate 07/2025, funded by DFG (project SCOOP)
  • Development and execution of four individual modules and one additional lecture:
    • Earth Rotation and Global Geodynamic Processes (lecture and excercise), 2014–2017
    • Understanding and Modeling Ocean Dynamics (lecture and exercise), 2018–2019
    • Hydrographie (lecture and excursion), summer terms 2020, 2022, 2024
    • Ice Sheet Signals (seminar), 2018–2024
    • Globale Geodätische 3D-Positionsbestimmung (lecture), 2019–2023

  • Since 2020: Associate Editor ‘Journal of Geodesy’.

  • 2019–2024: Selection Committee of the Bonn Graduate Center, University of Bonn.

  • 2021–2024: Steering Committee, Geoverbund ABC/J (geoscientific network of the Aachen-Bonn-Cologne-Jülich research region).

  • 2015 – 2023: Vice-Chair of IAG Sub-Commission 3.3 ‘Earth Rotation and Geophysical Fluids’.

  • 2016: Karl Rinner Preis der Österreichischen Geodätischen Kommission.

  • 2015: Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis: Verleihung des Doktorates unter den Auspizien des österreichischen Bundespräsidenten Dr. Heinz Fischer.

  • 2014: Würdigungspreis des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (Österreich).

  1. Lopes, F. d. S., Schindelegger, M., Gutknecht, B., Kusche, J. (2026). Dynamically downscaled European water budget quantities in the presence of sea surface temperature uncertainty. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 27, 129–149. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-25-0018.1.

  2. Opel, L., Schindelegger, M., MacPherson, L. R., Vafeidis, A. T., Green, J. A. M., Rietbroek, R., et al. (2026). Three drivers of 21st-century changes in ocean tides. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 131, e2025JC022719. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC022719.

  3. Liu, L., Schindelegger, M., Börger, L., Foth, J., Gou, J. (2025). Assessment of ocean bottom pressure variations in CMIP6 HighResMIP simulations, Ocean Science. 21, 2149–2167, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2149-2025.

  4. Börger, L., Lentge, K. M., Schindelegger, M., Dobslaw, H. (2025). ENSO modulates the oceanic excitation of polar motion. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL118576. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL118576.

  5. Shihora, L., Martin, T., Hans, A. C., Hummels, R., Schindelegger, M., Dobslaw, H. (2025). Relating Atlantic meridional deep-water transport to ocean bottom pressure variations as a target for satellite gravimetry missions. Ocean Science, 21, 1533–1548. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1533-2025.

  6. Börger, L., Schindelegger, M., Zhao, M., Ponte, R. M., Löcher, A., Uebbing, B., Molines, J.-M., Penduff, T. (2025). Chaotic oceanic excitation of low-frequency polar motion variability. Earth System Dynamics, 16, 75–90. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-75-2025.

  7. Sakazaki, T., Schindelegger, M. (2025). Global atmospheric normal modes identified in surface barometric observations. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 103, 371–388. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2025-019.

  8. Sulzbach, R., Bagge, M., Schindelegger, M., Klemann, V. (2025). The amplified glacial Arctic tide regime – sensitivities and feedback on the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 55, 435–449. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0122.1.

  9. Gou, J., Börger, L., Schindelegger, M., Soja, B. (2025). Downscaling GRACE-derived ocean bottom pressure anomalies using self-supervised data fusion. Journal of Geodesy, 99, 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-025-01943-9.

  10. Ray, R. D., Schindelegger, M. (2025). Trends in the M2 ocean tide observed by satellite altimetry in the presence of systematic errors. Journal of Geodesy, 99, 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-025-01935-9.

  11. Ponte, R. M., Schindelegger, M. (2024). Seasonal cycle in sea level across the coastal zone. Earth and Space Science, 11, e2024EA003978. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EA003978.

  12. Kiani Shahvandi, M., Schindelegger, M., Börger, L., Mishra, S., Soja, B. (2024). Revisiting the excitation of free core nutation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 129, e2024JB029583. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB029583.

  13. Ponte, R.M., Zhao, M., Schindelegger, M. (2024). How well do we know the seasonal cycle in ocean bottom pressure? Earth and Space Science. 11, e2024EA003661. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EA003661.

  14. Paul, A., Afroosa, M., Rohith, B., Schindelegger, M., Durand, F.,  Bourdallé-Badie, R., Shenoi, S. S. C (2024). The anomalous 2012–13 boreal winter oceanic excitation of Earth's polar motion. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 181, 433–449. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-024-03429-9.

  15. Opel, L., Schindelegger, M., Ray, R. D. (2024). A likely role for stratification in long-term changes of the global ocean tides. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 261. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01432-5.

  16. Wilmes, S.-B., Pedersen, V. K., Schindelegger, M., Green, J. A. M. (2023). Late Pleistocene evolution of tides and tidal dissipation. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38, e2023PA004727. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004727.

  17. Schindelegger, M. (2023). Earth Rotation, Excitation, Tidal. In: Sideris, M. G. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geodesy. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham., https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02370-0_101-1.

  18. Börger, L., Schindelegger, M., Dobslaw, H., Salstein, D. (2023). Are ocean reanalyses useful for Earth rotation research? Earth and Space Science, 10, e2022EA002700. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002700.

  19. Brus, S. R., Barton, K. N., Pal, N., Roberts, A. F., Engwirda, D., Petersen, M. R., Arbic, B. K., Wirasaet, D., Westerink, J. J., Schindelegger, M. (2023). Scalable self attraction and loading calculations for unstructured ocean tide models. Ocean Modelling, 182, 102160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2023.102160.

  20. Lau, H. C. P., Schindelegger, M. (2023). Solid Earth tides. In: Green, M., Duarte, J. (eds.), A Journey Through Tides. Elsevier, pp. 365–387. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90851-1.00016-9.

  21. Schindelegger, M., Sakazaki, T., Green, M. (2023). Atmospheric tides–An Earth system signal. In: Green, M., Duarte, J. (eds.), A Journey Through Tides. Elsevier, pp. 389–416. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90851-1.00007-8.

  22. Schindelegger, M., Kotzian, D. P., Ray, R. D., Mattias Green, J. A., Stolzenberger, S. (2022). Interannual Changes in Tidal Conversion Modulate M2 Amplitudes in the Gulf of Maine. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL101671. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101671.

  23. Ponte, R. M., Schindelegger, M. (2022). Global ocean response to the 5‐day Rossby‐Haurwitz atmospheric mode seen by GRACE. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2021JC018302. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018302.

  24. Barton, K. N., Pal, N., Brus, S. R., Petersen, M. R., Arbic, B. K., Engwirda, D., Roberts, A. F., Westerink, J. J., Wirasaet, D., Schindelegger, M. (2022). Global barotropic tide modeling using inline self-attraction and loading in MPAS-Ocean. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2022MS003207. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003207.

  25. Piecuch, C. G., Fukumori, I., Ponte, R. M., Schindelegger, M., Wang, O., Zhao, M. (2022). Low-frequency dynamic ocean response to barometric-pressure loading. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52, 2627–2641. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0090.1.

  26. Harker, A. A., Schindelegger, M., Ponte, R. M., Salstein, D. A. (2021). Modeling ocean-induced rapid Earth rotation variations: an update. Journal of Geodesy, 95, 110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01555-z.

  27. Daher, H., Arbic, B. K., Williams, J. G., Ansong, J. K., Boggs, D. H., Müller, M., Schindelegger, M., Austermann, J., Cornuelle, B. D., Crawford, E. B., Fringer, O. B., Lau, H. C. P., Lock, S. J., Maloof, A. C., Menemenlis, D., Mitrovica, J. X., Green, J. A. M., Huber, M. (2021). Long-term Earth-Moon evolution with high-level orbit and ocean tide models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126, e2021JE006875. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE006875.

  28. Schindelegger, M., Harker, A. A., Ponte, R. M., Dobslaw, H., Salstein, D. A. (2021). Convergence of daily GRACE solutions and models of submonthly ocean bottom pressure variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC017031. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC017031.

  29. Jänicke, L., Ebener, A., Dangendorf, S., Arns, A., Schindelegger, M., Niehüser, S., Haigh, I.D., Woodworth, P.L., Jensen, J. (2021). Assessment of tidal range changes in the North Sea from 1958 to 2014. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC016456. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016456.

  30. Haigh, I.D., Pickering, M.D., Green, J.A.M., Arbic, B.K., Arns, A., Dangendorf, S., Hill, D., Horsburgh, K., Howard, T., Idier, D., Jay, D.A., Jänicke, L., Lee, S.B., Müller, M., Schindelegger, M., Talke, S.A., Wilmes, S.-B., Woodworth, P.L. (2020). The tides they are a-changin': A comprehensive review of past and future non-astronomical changes in tides, their driving mechanisms and future implications. Reviews of Geophysics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018RG000636.

  31. Harker, A., Green, J.A.M., Schindelegger, M., Wilmes, S.-B. (2019). The impact of sea-level rise on tidal characteristics around Australia. Ocean Science, 15, 147–159. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-147-2019.

  32. Schindelegger, M., Green, J. A. M., Wilmes, S.-B., Haigh, I. D. (2018). Can we model the effect of observed sea level rise on tides? Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123, 4593–4609. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC013959.

  33. Girdiuk A., Schindelegger, M., Madzak M., Böhm J. (2018). Detection of the atmospheric S1 tide in VLBI polar motion time series. In: Freymueller J.T., Sánchez L. (eds.) International Symposium on Earth and Environmental Sciences for Future Generations. International Association of Geodesy Symposia , vol. 147, 163–169. doi:10.1007/1345_2016_234.

  34. Schindelegger, M., Salstein D., Einšpigel D., Mayerhofer C. (2017). Diurnal atmosphere-ocean signals in Earth’s rotation rate and a possible modulation through ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters , 44(6), 2755–2762. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL072633.

  35. Schindelegger, M. (2017). Erdrotation – ein Sprungbrett zur Studie von Ozeangezeiten. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Vermessung und Geoinformation (VGI), 2017(4), 218–229.

  36. Madzak M., Schindelegger, M., Böhm J., Bosch W., Hagedoorn J. (2016). High-frequency Earth rotation variations deduced from altimetry-based ocean tides. Journal of Geodesy , 90(11), 1237–1253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-016-0919-4.

  37. Schindelegger, M., Einšpigel, D., Salstein, D., Böhm, J. (2016). The  global S1 tide in Earth’s nutation. Surveys in Geophysics, 37(3), 643–680. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-016-9365-3.

  38. Schindelegger, M., Dobslaw, H. (2016). A global ground truth view of the lunar air pressure tide L2. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121 (1), 95–110. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD024243.

  39. Böhm, J., Möller, G., Schindelegger, M., Pain, G., Weber, R. (2015). Development of an improved empirical model for slant delays in the troposphere (GPT2w). GPS Solutions, 19 (3), 433–441. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-014-0403-7.

  40. Schindelegger, M., Ray, R. D. (2014). Surface pressure tide climatologies deduced from a quality-controlled network of barometric observations. Monthly Weather Review, 142 (12), 4872–4889. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00217.1.

  41. Schindelegger, M.  (2014). Atmosphere-induced  short  period  variations  of  Earth  rotation.  Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, Heft 96, Department für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, TU Wien, 172 pp.

  42. Schindelegger, M., Salstein, D., Böhm, J. (2013). Recent estimates of Earth-atmosphere interaction torques and their use in studying polar motion variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118 (8), 4586–4598. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrb.50322.

  43. Schindelegger, M., Böhm, J., Salstein, D. (2013). Seasonal and intra-seasonal polar motion variability as deduced from atmospheric torques. Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation, 1 (2), 89–95. doi.10.9733/jgg.231112.1.

  44. Lagler, K., Schindelegger, M., Böhm, J., Krásná, H., Nilsson, T. (2013). GPT2: Empirical slant delay model for radio space geodetic techniques. Geophysical Research Letters, 40 (6), 1069–1073. https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50288.

  45. Schindelegger, M., Böhm, S., Böhm, J., Schuh, H. (2013). Atmospheric effects on Earth rotation. In : Böhm J.,   Schuh H. (eds.) Atmospheric effects in space geodesy. Springer, pp. 181–231. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36932-2_6.

  46. Karbon, M., Wijaya, D., Schindelegger, M., Böhm, J., Schuh, H. (2011). Atmospheric effects on the Earth gravity field featured by TU Vienna. In: Böhm, J., Reiterer, A., Rottensteiner, F., Woschitz, H. (eds.) Österreichische Zeitschrift für Vermessung und Geoinformation, Special Issue for the  XXV  General  Assembly  of  the  International  Union  of  Geodesy  and  Geophysics  (IUGG), Melbourne, Australia, Heft 2/2011, pp. 122–130.

  47. Schindelegger, M., Böhm, J., Salstein, D., Schuh, H. (2011). High-resolution atmospheric angular momentum functions related to Earth rotation parameters during CONT08. Journal of Geodesy, 85 (7) , 425–433. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-011-0458-y.

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