Dr. Nicole Albern

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) 
    Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung

    Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
    D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

Research Interests

  • Cloud-radiative interactions and their coupling with the extratropical circulation

  • Global and regional climate change

  • Climate modeling

Projects

  • High definition clouds and precipitation for advancing climate prediction, HD(CP)²

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 11/2020: Research Associate, IMK-TRO, KIT, Germany

  • 04/2017-10/2020: Research Associate and PhD student, IMK-TRO, KIT, Germany

  • 10/2014-02/2017: M.Sc. in Meteorology, Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany

  • 10/2011-09/2014: B.Sc. in Meteorology, Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany

Teaching

  • WS 2018/2019: tutorial for “Climate Modeling and Dynamics with ICON”

  • WS 2017/2018: tutorial for “Atmosphere and Climate Dynamics with ICON”

Publications

  • Albern, N., A. Voigt, and J. G. Pinto (2021): Tropical cloud-radiative changes contribute to robust climate change-induced jet exit strengthening over Europe during boreal winter. Environ. Res. Lett., 16, 084041. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f0

  • Voigt, A., N. Albern, P. Ceppi, K. Grise, Y. Li, and B. Medeiros (2021): Clouds, radiation, and atmospheric circulation in the present‐day climate and under climate change. WIREs Clim Change, 12:e694. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.694

  • Albern, N., A. Voigt, D. W. J. Thompson, and J. G. Pinto (2020): The Role of Tropical, Midlatitude,and Polar Cloud-Radiative Changes for the Midlatitude Circulation Response to Global Warming. J. Climate, 33 (18), 7927-7943. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0073.1

  • Voigt, A., and N. Albern (2019): No Cookie for Climate Change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 14751-14761. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084987

  • Albern, N., A. Voigt, and J. G. Pinto (2019): Cloud‐radiative impact on the regional responses of the midlatitude jet streams and storm tracks to global warming. J. Adv. Model. Earth Sy., 11, 1940– 1958. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001592

  • Voigt, A., N. Albern, and G. Papavasileiou (2019): The Atmospheric Pathway of the Cloud-Radiative Impact on the Circulation Response to Global Warming: Important and Uncertain. J. Climate, 32, 3051–3067. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0810.1

  • Albern, N., A. Voigt, S. A. Buehler, and V. Grützun (2018). Robust and nonrobust impacts of atmospheric cloud-radiative interactions on the tropical circulation and its response to surface warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 8577–8585. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079599

  • Klepp, C., S. Michel, A. Protat, J. Burdanowitz, N. Albern, A. Dahl, M. Kähnert, V. Louf, S. Bakan, and, S.A. Buehler (2018): OceanRAIN, a new in-situ shipboard global ocean surface-reference dataset of all water cycle components. Sci. Data, 5:180122. https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018122