Dr. Julian Quinting

Dr. Julian Quinting

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
    Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research
     
    Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
    76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

Research Interests

  • dynamics of tropical and extratropical weather systems
  • subseasonal predictability
  • tropical-extratropical interactions
  • statistical models and machine learning

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Curriculum Vitae

  • since 09/2023: Group leader "Meteorological data science", IMK-TRO, KIT, Germany
  • 02/2018-08/2023: Research Associate, IMK-TRO, KIT, Germany, in Christian Grams' group
  • 01/2016-01/2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in Michael Reeder's group
  • 01/2015-12/2015: Postdoctoral Researcher, IAC, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in Heini Wernli's group
  • 11/2011-01/2015: PhD student, IMK-TRO, KIT, Germany; supervised by Sarah C. Jones
  • 10/2006-10/2011: studies of Meteorology, KIT, Germany

Complete CV can be found here.

Peer-reviewed publications

To, D., Quinting, J., Hoshyaripour, G. A., Götz, M., Streit, A., and Debus, C. (2024) Architectural insights into and training methodology optimization of Pangu-Weather, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 8873–8884, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8873-2024
 
Mockert, F., Grams, C.M., Lerch, S., Osman, M. and Quinting, J. (2024) Multivariate post–processing of probabilistic sub-seasonal weather regime forecasts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 150(765), 4771-4787. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4840
 

Schäfler, A., Krüger, K., Oertel, A., Quinting, J. F., & Raveh-Rubin, S. (2024). Indication for biases in dry intrusions and the marine boundary layer over the Azores in ECMWF short-term forecasts and analyses. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109601. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109601

 

Henderson, C.R., Reeder, M.J., Parker, T.J., Quinting, J.F. & Jakob, C. (2024) Summer Heatwaves in Southeastern Australia. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1–21. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4816

 

Wandel, J., Büeler, D., Knippertz, P., Quinting, J. F., & Grams, C. M. (2024). Why moist dynamic processes matter for the sub-seasonal prediction of atmospheric blocking over Europe. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039791. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039791

 

Hermes, K., Quinting, J., Grams, C.M., Hoose, C. & Hoshyaripour, G.A. (2024) Impact of Saharan dust outbreaks on short-range weather forecast errors in Europe. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1–20. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4666

 

Quinting, J. F., Grams, C. M., Chang, E. K.-M., Pfahl, S., and Wernli, H. (2024) Warm conveyor belt activity over the Pacific: modulation by the Madden–Julian Oscillation and impact on tropical–extratropical teleconnections, Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 65–85, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-65-2024

 

Matsunobu, T., Quinting, J.F., Grams, C.M., Matsueda, M. (2023) Regional extreme precipitation events in wintertime Japan facilitated by East-Asian large-scale flow patterns, SOLA, Article ID 2023-033, Advance online publication September 16, 2023, Online ISSN 1349-6476, https://doi.org/10.2151/sola.2023-033

 

Pickl, M., Quinting, J.F. & Grams, C.M. (2023) Warm conveyor belts as amplifiers of forecast uncertainty. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4546

 

Seifert, A., Bachmann, V., Filipitsch, F., Förstner, J., Grams, C. M., Hoshyaripour, G. A., Quinting, J., Rohde, A., Vogel, H., Wagner, A., and Vogel, B. (2023). Aerosol–cloud–radiation interaction during Saharan dust episodes: the dusty cirrus puzzle, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 6409–6430, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6409-2023

 

Ludwig, P., Ehmele, F., Franca, M. J., Mohr, S., Caldas-Alvarez, A., Daniell, J. E., Ehret, U., Feldmann, H., Hundhausen, M., Knippertz, P., Küpfer, K., Kunz, M., Mühr, B., Pinto, J. G., Quinting, J., Schäfer, A. M., Seidel, F., and Wisotzky, C. (2023). A multi-disciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood event of July 2021 in central Europe – Part 2: Historical context and relation to climate change, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 1287–1311, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1287-2023

 

Oertel, A., Pickl, M., Quinting, J. F., Hauser, S., Wandel, J., Magnusson, L., et al. (2023). Everything hits at once: How remote rainfall matters for the prediction of the 2021 North American heat wave. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL100958. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100958

 

Mohr, S., Ehret, U., Kunz, M., Ludwig, P., Caldas-Alvarez, A., Daniell, J. E., Ehmele, F., Feldmann, H., Franca, M. J., Gattke, C., Hundhausen, M., Knippertz, P., Küpfer, K., Mühr, B., Pinto, J. G., Quinting, J., Schäfer, A. M., Scheibel, M., Seidel, F., and Wisotzky, C. (2023). A multi-disciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood event of July 2021 in central Europe – Part 1: Event description and analysis, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 525–551, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-525-2023

 

Quinting, J. F., Grams, C. M., Oertel, A., & Pickl, M. (2022). EuLerian Identification of ascending AirStreams (ELIAS 2.0) in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models. Part II: Model application to different data sets, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 731-744 https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-731-2022

Quinting, J. F., & Grams, C. M. (2022). EuLerian Identification of ascending Air Streams (ELIAS 2.0) in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models. Part I: Development of deep learning model, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 715-730, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-715-2022

Hochman, A., Messori, G., Quinting, J. F., Pinto, J. G., & Grams, C. M. (2021). Do Atlantic-European weather regimes physically exist?. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL095574. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095574

Büeler, D., Ferranti, L., Magnusson, L., Quinting, J.F., & Grams, C.M. (2021). Year-round sub-seasonal forecast skill for Atlantic-European weather regimes. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 147, 4283-4309, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4178

Wandel, J., Quinting, J. F., & Grams, C. M. (2021). Toward a systematic evaluation of warm conveyor belts in numerical weather prediction and climate models. Part II: Verification of operational reforecasts, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78, 3965-3982,  https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0385.1

Quinting, J. F., & Grams, C. M., 2021: Toward a systematic evaluation of warm conveyor belts in numerical weather prediction and climate models. Part I: Predictor selection and logistic regression model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78, 1465-1485,  https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0139.1

Hochman, A., Scher, S., Quinting, J., Pinto, J. G., and Messori, G., 2021: A new view of heat wave dynamics and predictability over the eastern Mediterranean, Earth Syst. Dynam., 12, 133–149, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-133-2021

Hochman, A., Scher, S., Quinting, J., Pinto, J. G., Messori, G., 2020: Dynamics and predictability of cold spells over the Eastern Mediterranean. Clim. Dyn.. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05465-2

Mohr, S., Wilhelm, J., Wandel, J., Kunz, M., Portmann, R., Punge, H. J., Schmidberger, M., Quinting, J. F., and Grams, C. M., 2020: The role of large-scale dynamics in an exceptional sequence of severe thunderstorms in Europe May–June 2018, Weather Clim. Dynam., 1, 325–348, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-325-2020 External Link

Spensberger, C., Madonna, E., Boettcher, M., Grams, C.M., Papritz, L., Quinting, J.F., Röthlisberger, M., Sprenger, M. and Zschenderlein, P., 2020: Dynamics of concurrent and sequential Central European and Scandinavian heatwaves. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 146, 2998-3013, doi:10.1002/qj.3822 External Link

Hauser, S., Grams, C.M., Reeder, M.J., McGregor, S., Fink, A.H. and Quinting, J.F., 2020: A weather system perspective on winter‐spring rainfall variability in southeastern Australia during El Niño. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 146, 2614-2633, doi:10.1002/qj.3808 External Link

Andersen, H., Cermak, J., Fuchs, J., Knippertz, P., Gaetani, M., Quinting, J., Sippel, S., and Vogt, R., 2020: Synoptic-scale controls of fog and low-cloud variability in the Namib Desert. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 3415-3438, https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/20/3415/2020/ 

Catto, J. L., Ackerley, D., Booth, J. F., Champion, A. J., Colle, B. A., Pfahl, S., Pinto, J. G., Quinting, J. F., Seiler, C., 2019: The Future of Midlatitude Cyclones. Curr. Clim. Change Rep., 5, 407-420,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-019-00149-4

Babić, K., Kalthoff, N., Adler, B., Quinting, J. F., Lohou, F., Dione, C., and Lothon, M., 2019: What controls the formation of nocturnal low-level stratus clouds over southern West Africa during the monsoon season? Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 13489–13506, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13489-2019

Parker, T. J., Quinting, J. F., and Reeder, M. J., 2019: The synoptic-dynamics of summertime heat waves in the Sydney area (Australia), J. Southern Hemis. Earth Sys. Sci., 69, 116-130, https://doi.org/10.1071/ES19004 

Quinting, J. F., & Vitart, F., 2019: Representation of synoptic‐scale Rossby wave packets and blocking in the S2S prediction project database. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 1070– 1078. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081381

Keller, J.H., C.M. Grams, M. Riemer, H.M. Archambault, L. Bosart, J.D. Doyle, J.L. Evans, T.J. Galarneau, K. Griffin, P.A. Harr, N. Kitabatake, R. McTaggart-Cowan, F. Pantillon, J. Quinting, C.A. Reynolds, E.A. Ritchie, R.D. Torn, and F. Zhang, 2018: The Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones Part II: Interaction with the midlatitude flow, downstream impacts, and implications for predictability. Mon. Wea. Rev., 147, 1077–1106, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0329.1

Quinting, J. F., Reeder, M. J., and J. L. Catto, 2018: The intensity and motion of hybrid cyclones in the Australian region in a composite potential vorticity framework. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 145, 273–287, doi:10.1002/qj.3430

Quinting, J. F., Catto, J. L., and M. J. Reeder, 2018: Synoptic climatology of hybrid cyclones in the Australian region. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 145, 288–302, doi:10.1002/qj.3431

Quinting, J.F., T. Parker, and M.J. Reeder, 2018: Two Synoptic Routes to Subtropical Heat Waves as Illustrated in the Brisbane Region of Australia, Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 10,700– 10,708, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079261

Schäfler, A., and Coauthors, 2018: The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99, 1607–1637, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0003.1

Portmann R., B. Crezee, J. Quinting, H. Wernli, 2018: The complex life cycles of two long‐lived potential vorticity cut‐offs over Europe. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 144, 701–719, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3239

Evans, C., K.M. Wood, S.D. Aberson, H.M. Archambault, S.M. Milrad, L.F. Bosart, K.L. Corbosiero, C.A. Davis, J.R. Dias Pinto, J. Doyle, C. Fogarty, T.J. Galarneau, C.M. Grams, K.S. Griffin, J. Gyakum, R.E. Hart, N. Kitabatake, H.S. Lentink, R. McTaggart-Cowan, W. Perrie, J.F. Quinting, C.A. Reynolds, M. Riemer, E.A. Ritchie, Y. Sun, and F. Zhang, 2017: The Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones. Part I: Cyclone Evolution and Direct Impacts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 4317–4344, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0027.1

Quinting, J.F. and M.J. Reeder, 2017: Southeastern Australian Heat Waves from a Trajectory Viewpoint. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 4109–4125, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0165.1

Schneidereit, A., D.H. Peters, C.M. Grams, J.F. Quinting, J.H. Keller, G. Wolf, F. Teubler, M. Riemer, and O. Martius, 2017: Enhanced Tropospheric Wave Forcing of Two Anticyclones in the Prephase of the January 2009 Major Stratospheric Sudden Warming Event. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 1797–1815, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0242.1

Quinting, J.F. and S.C. Jones, 2016: On the Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Rossby Wave Packets: A Climatological Perspective. Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 2021–2048, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00298.1

Quinting, J.F., M.M. Bell, P.A. Harr, and S.C. Jones, 2014: Structural Characteristics of T-PARC Typhoon Sinlaku during Its Extratropical Transition. Mon. Wea. Rev., 142, 1945–1961, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-13-00306.1

Other Publications

McTaggart-Cowan, R., C. Evans, S. Aberson, H. Archambault, L. Bosart, S. Camargo, J. Doyle, P. Finocchio, J. Gyakum, N. Kitabatake, T. Loridan, F. Pantillon, J. Quinting, C. Reynolds, E. Ritchie, R. Torn, and C. Zarzycki, 2018: Extratropical Transition. Ninth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones of WMO, available at https://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/wwrp/tmr/documents/IWTC-9_Subtopic_4-3.pdf

Quinting, J.F., 2015: The impact of tropical convection on the dynamics and predictability of midlatitude Rossby waves : a climatological study. PhD dissertation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, available at https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000046046/3439866

Quinting, J. F., 2011: Structural characteristics of Typhoon Sinlaku (2008) during its extratropical transition: an observational study. Diploma Thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, available at http://www.imk-tro.kit.edu/english/5361.php