Research Topics
Research on 鈥渢oo much and too little water" for too many people in the climate system under change.
The objective of our research is to bridge the boundaries between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and solid earth. By doing so, we aim to gain a deeper understanding of the processes that shape the climate system and improve our predictions and to improve seasonal, decadal, and longer-term climate predictions and story lines.
We develop alternative futures under different assumptions1). But, we accept the following: 鈥淭he key here is a simple matter: in such a complex issue we cannot have certainty, and we don't claim it" (S. Weart, AIP, 2006).
1) F. D眉rrenmatt in Das Versprechen, 1958: 鈥淓in Geschehen kann schon allein deshalb nicht wie eine Rechnung aufgehen, weil wir nie alle notwendigen Faktoren kennen, sondern nur einige wenige, meistens recht nebens盲chliche."
Instruments and Methods
Our work is based on the interpretation of meteorological observation data, on theoretical concepts and, in particular, on the application and further development of atmospheric models.
Staff
Group in Jan. 2023 - left to right: Prashant Singh, Abhiyan Poudel, Bodo Ahrens, Vanessa Voss, Arathi R, Fanni Kelemen, Richard Lohmann, Danny Risto, Christian Czakay, Mostafa Hamouda, Luo Zhicheng. Missing: Manpreet Kaur, Anika Obermann-Hellhund, Thomas Jungh盲nel (DWD)
Faculty
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bodo Ahrens
Mesoscale Meteorology and Climate
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
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Room: 3.227
Phone number:+49-(0)69-798-40244
Fax: +49-(0)69-798-40262
E-Mail: bodo.ahrens@iau.uni-frankfurt.de
Staff
| Name | Raum / room | Telefon / phone number +49-(0)69-798- | E-Mail name@iau.uni-frankfurt.de |
| Ahrens, Prof. Bodo | 3.227 | 40244 | bodo.ahrens |
| Czakay, Christian | 3.231 | 40235 | czakay |
| Kelemen, Dr. Fanni | 3.229 | kelemen | |
| Lohmann, Richard | 3.229 | lohmann | |
| Luo, Zhicheng | 3.230 | 40234 | luo |
| Mahmoud, Dr. Yassmin | 3.230 | 40234 | mahmoud |
| Parmar, Mittal | 3.231 | 40235 | parmar |
| Risto, Danny | 3.231 | 40235 | risto |
| Singh, Dr. Prashant | 3.232 | 40236 | p.singh |
- Rajput, Neelam: Research Associate
- Pothapakula, Praveen Kumar: Research Associate
- Purr, Christopher: Research Associate
- Krug, Dr. Amelie: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Kirschner, Moritz: Research Associate
- Brisson, Dr Erwan: Research Associate, Meteo France
- Leps, Nora: Research assistant, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Primo Ramos, Dr Cristina: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Akhtar, Dr Naveed: Research Associate, Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht
- Asharaf, Dr Shakeel: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Brauch, Dr Jennifer: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Brendel, Christoph: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Brinckmann, Dr Sven: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Casanova, Dr Sophie: Research Associate, Universit茅 de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Dobler, Dr Andreas: Research Associate, Institute for Meteorology, FU Berlin
- Herzog, Stephan: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach, Germany
- Hamouda, Dr. Mostafa Essam: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Kalinka, Frank: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Kaur, Dr. Manpreet: CCC Education Foundation
- Kothe, Dr Steffen: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Kr盲henmann, Dr Stefan: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Pham van, Dr Trang: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Pfeifroth, Dr Uwe: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Schulz, Dr Jan-Peter: Research Associate, German Weather Service, Offenbach
- Schr枚der, Dr Jana: Research Associate
- T枚dter, Dr Julian: Research Associate, d-fine GmbH Frankfurt
Publications
- Praveen K. Pothapakula (2022) Exploring Information Exchange in Climate System and Climate Models
- Christopher Purr (2022) Towards the Intensification of Convective Rain Events with Rising Temperatures in Germany
- Isabelle Kramer (2021) Adaptation of dengue virus transmitting Aedes mosquitoes to a climate gradient in Central Nepal (with Prof. Ruth M眉ller, GUF)
- Amelie Hoff (2021) Hydro-Climatic Causes of Widespread Floods in Central Europe: On Rain-on-Snow and Vb-Cyclone Events
- Trang van Pham (2019) The consideration of North and Baltic Seas in regional climate modelling with the coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice model COSMO-CLM/NEMO
- Naveed Akhtar (2018) Climate Modeling over the Mediterranean Sea: Impact of Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling and Atmospheric Grid Resolution on Sea Surface Heat Fluxes, Medicanes, and Vb Cyclones
- Anika Obermann-Hellhund (2017) Mistral and Tramontane: Simulation of Mesoscale Winds in Regional Climate Models
- Uwe Pfeifroth (2016) The Diurnal Cycle of Clouds and Precipitation: An Evaluation of Multiple Data Sources
- Pratibha Warwade (2016) Study of climate change and its impact on a part of Brahmaputra River (with Profs. A. Pandey and N. Sharma, IIT Roorkee)
- Christoph Menz (2016) Entwicklung von regionalen Klimasimulationen f眉r CORDEX--Ostasien auf Basis eines physikalisch dynamischen und eines statistischen Regionalmodells
- Shakeel Asharaf (2016) Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks in Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: A Regional Climate Modelling Perspective
- Julian T枚dter (2015) Nonlinear High-Dimensional Data Assimilation
- Megnath Dhimal (2014) Effects of climatic and non-climatic factors on the spatiotemporal distributions of vector-borne diseases in Nepal
- Hui Tang (2013) The spatio-temporal evolution of the Asian monsoon climate in the Late Miocene and its causes: A regional climate model study
- Stefan Kraehenmann (2013) Gridding of station observations by means of hybrid interpolation
- Steffen Kothe (2012) The radiation budget in a regional climate model
- Andreas Dobler (2011) Downscaling of general circulation models in two alpine regions: The European Alps and the Himalayas
- Nonlinear Ensemble Transform Filter (NETF) for Ocean Assimilation
- Ability of COSMO-CLM to represent convective events
- Mistral and its Siblings in RCMs
- : The Ensemble Transform Particle Filter (ETPF)
- : Mistral in the RCMs COSMO-CLM and ALADIN-Climate
- Representation of monsoon systems in a regional climate model
- Climate change scenarios for the Indian summer monsoon
- The importance of radiation in regional climate models for Africa
- Modelling the future niche distribution of venomous snakes under climate change : a case study of the Greater Black Krait, a recently identified cause of neuromyotoxic envenoming in Bangladesh
- Regional eco-climate modelling
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- Spatial mapping of daily temperature extremes in Europe and the Middle East
- Analysis of the Indian summer monsoon system in the regional climate model COSMO-CLM
- Comparisons of clound diurnal cycles: Satellite, synop and regional climate model data
- Regional climate change impact studies in the upper Danube and upper Brahmaputra river basin using CLM projections.
- The Asian summer Monsoon in ERA40 driven CLM simulations.
- Regional climate model projections for the upper Danube and upper Brahmaputra river basin
- On applications of regional climate change projections in the upper Danube and upper Brahmaputra river basin
- Assessment of the radiation budget in a regional climate mode
- Precipitation modeling in Europe and South-Asia
- Determination of surface radiation anomalies
- Challenges in precipitation modeling in South-Asia
- Downscaling of precipitation - need and use of observational data
Teaching
Courses
B. Sc. Meteorologie
- General climatology
- Numerical Weather Prediction
M. Sc. Atmospheric and Climate Science
- Global Climate Processes, Regional Climate Processes
Bachelor's and Master's theses
We regularly offer Bachelor's and Master's theses in our team. Please contact us for current topic suggestions. Your own ideas are welcome!
- Some printing costs for theses may be covered by QSL funds. Please contact sekretrariat@iau.uni-frankfurt.de.
- Guidelines for writing the MSc thesis (you can use these guidelines as a guide for writing the BSc thesis)
- It is recommended to submit a finalised version with a request for comments to the supervisor in good time before submission.
- If you write your thesis in English the book Gardner (2016) might be of interest. The publication teaches that EU and British English are different 鈥� and nothing is perfect. One rule always helps: keep it simple.
Some notes on the criteria used for evaluation:
- Form: Compliance with formal regulations (see appendix), appearance, neatness, spelling, grammar, punctuation, labelling of figures, graphics, tables or similar.
- Structure: introduction, main part (rough / fine structure), conclusion, table of contents (comprehensible, logical, clear, complete)
- Linguistic design: technical terms and definitions, style (vocabulary, precise expression, sentence structure and 'readability' / 'common thread'), helpful illustrations and explanations
- Professional performance: Topic delimitation / completeness, selection and use of sources (quantitative/qualitative), scientific/ methodological approach (weighing and assessment of facts and causalities, factual correctness, precise and consistent presentation of results), usability of the results, practical relevance, new findings, final consideration/summary, independent and self-initiated work
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