Research interests

1. Interactions and feedbacks between clouds and dynamics
2. Mathematical modeling of cloud processes
3. Quantitative modeling of complex multiscale systems
4. Emergence of pattern in atmospheric systems

Seminar Mathematics and Atmospheric Physics

For the community seriously interested in mathematics and atmospheric physics, a virtual seminar is held regularly. For more information, please have a look on the seminar web page

BINARY Seminar

As part of the BINARY project, we run a monthly seminar on interdisciplinary work in the field of machine learning and atmospheric physics. For more information, please have a look on the seminar web page

Projects

Current projects

• Big Data in Atmospheric Physics (BINARY) funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (March 2020 - August 2025)


• TransRegio The Tropopause Region in a Changing Atmosphere (TPChange), first phase (2021-2025)
   Subproject B7: Impact of cirrus clouds on tropopause structure


• TransRegio Waves to Weather (W2W), first/second phase (2015-2019/2019-2023)
  1. Subproject A2: Impact of structured heat sources on larger scales in atmospheric dynamics
  2. Subproject B7: Identification of robust cloud and precipitation states via inverse methods

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Finished projects

• DFG Research project (2012-2015): Spatially Inhomogeneous Cirrus: Influence on Atmospheric Radiation


• Multiscale Dynamics of Gravity Waves (MS-GWaves), DFG Research Group
   First phase (2014-2017) Subproject Modification of gravity waves propagating across the tropopause (GW-TP)
   Second phase (2018-2021) Subproject Gravity-waves impact on ice clouds in the tropopause region (GW-ICE)


• High definition clouds and precipitation for advancing climate prediction (HD(CP)²), BMBF Initiative
   First phase (2012-2015)
  1. Subproject M6: Consistent treatment of diffusional growth of water droplets and ice crystals for simulating clouds containing ice particles
  2. Subproject S4: Ice processes in clouds - investigations using multiscale asymptotics
   Second phase (2016-2019)
  1. Subproject S1/TP1: Fast Cloud Adjustment to Aerosols (Revising the cloud scheme)
  2. Subproject S3/TP2: Anvil Cirrus and Stratiform Convective Outflow (Impact of embedded convection on warm conveyor belt outflow)