Project News

ICONKIT
Climate research: ICON weather and climate model goes open source

Public access brings greater transparency to science and enables collaborative efforts to improve environmental forecasting worldwide

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AGU Geophysical Monograph on Clouds and Their Climatic Impacts

New book edited by Sylvia C. Sullivan and Corinna Hoose explores the complexity of clouds.

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Interaction between clouds and radiation affects extratropical cyclones

Cloud radiative heating and cooling have a substantial impact on the dynamics and predictability of an idealized extratropical cyclone.

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 IMK-TRO
Milestone reached in pilot project at IMK-TRO - equal opportunities and appreciation of diversity

The results of the status quo analysis were discussed at a working meeting. Future measures were developed, concretized and classified.

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Relative impact of aerosol, soil moisture and orography on convection

For the first time, the relative impact of orography, soil moisture and aerosols on precipitation over Germany was analyzed for different weather regimes.

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Cloud life cycles and glaciation observed by satellite

The temporal evolution of convective clouds, from initiation via glaciation to dissipation, is inferred using geostationary space-based measurements

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Predictability of large thunderstorm systems

The predictability of a large thunderstorm system (Pentecost Monday, 2014) is extremely sensitive to the small changes in the chosen model domain

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 Riccardo Prevete, KIT
Supercomputer HoreKa inaugurated at SCC

Prof. Corinna Hoose presented first simulations run on HoreKa and pushed the start button together with Minister Theresia Bauer, VP Prof. Oliver Kraft and SCC director Prof. Martin Frank

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Statistical emulation: An alternative approach for sensitivity analyses

Statistical emulation allows for a comprehensive analysis of the sensitivity of deep convective clouds and hail to environmental conditions.

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