# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geert-jan-van-oldenborgh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:26:19.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geert-jan-van-oldenborgh"
name: "Geert Jan van Oldenborgh"
slug: "geert-jan-van-oldenborgh"
description: "Geert Jan van Oldenborgh was a Dutch climatologist and physicist. Through his career he studied climate modelling of adverse weather events and was known as a pioneer of attribution science, driving public awareness of how climate change is linked to extreme weather events. He was also the creator of a digital platform, Climate Explorer, an online meteorological data repository and platform for climate data analysis."
tagline: "Dutch climate scientist (1961–2021)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-10-22"
deathDate: "2021-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.27
  momentum:             3.211009174311927
  historical:           5.671850666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/gjvoldenborgh"
    handle:    "gjvoldenborgh"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/geert-jan-van-oldenborgh-4036636/"
    handle:    "geert-jan-van-oldenborgh-4036636"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Jan_van_Oldenborgh"
    title: "Geert Jan van Oldenborgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Jan_van_Oldenborgh"
    title: "Geert Jan van Oldenborgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Jan_van_Oldenborgh"
    title: "Geert Jan van Oldenborgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Jan_van_Oldenborgh"
    title: "Geert Jan van Oldenborgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Jan_van_Oldenborgh"
    title: "Geert Jan van Oldenborgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Jan_van_Oldenborgh"
    title: "Geert Jan van Oldenborgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58065756"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump