Dr. Sebastian Helgert

Research Interests

  • High impact weather (e.g. heavy precipitation events and heat waves)
  • Land-atmosphere interactions and feedback mechanisms
  • High-resolution modelling on sub-seasonal to climate time scales


Projects

  • HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment (HyMeX) link
  • PREMIUM – Predictive Models for Extremes and High-Impact Weather under Climate Change link


Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2019: Research Associate (PhD), IMK-TRO, KIT, Germany
  • 2015 - 2019: Scientific assistant and doctorate, IMK-TRO, KIT, Germany
  • 2012 - 2014: M.Sc. in Meteorology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2008 - 2012: B.Sc. in Meteorology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany


Teaching

  • WS 2016/2017: tutorial for “Allgemeine Meteorologie”, IMK-TRO, KIT
  • WS 2015/2016: tutorial for “Theoretische Meteorologie”, IMK-TRO, KIT
  • WS 2012/2013: tutorial for “Allgemeine Metorologie”, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • SS 2012: tutorial for “Allgemeine Klimatologie”, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • WS 2011/2012: tutorial for “Allgemeine Metorologie”, Goethe University Frankfurt

Publications


2022
Understanding summer wind systems over the eastern Mediterranean in a high‐resolution climate simulation
Latt, M. R.; Hochman, A.; Caldas-Alvarez, A.; Helgert, S.; Pinto, J. G.; Corsmeier, U.
2022. International Journal of Climatology, 42 (15), 8112–8131. doi:10.1002/joc.7695
2020
Interdisciplinary Regional Collaboration for Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean
Hochman, A.; Alpert, P.; Baldi, M.; Bucchignani, E.; Coppola, E.; Dahdal, Y.; Davidovitch, N.; Georgiades, P.; Helgert, S.; Khreis, H.; Levine, H.; Materia, S.; Negev, M.; Salah, I.; Shaheen, M.; Giorgi, F.
2020. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101 (10), E1685-E1689. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0065.1
Improvement of the soil-atmosphere interactions and subsequent heavy precipitation modelling by enhanced initialization using remotely sensed 1 km soil moisture information
Helgert, S.; Khodayar, S.
2020. Remote sensing of environment, 246, Article no: 111812. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.111812
2018
Multi-scale Observations of Atmospheric Moisture Variability in relation to Heavy Precipitating Systems in the north-western Mediterranean during HyMeX IOP12
Khodayar, S.; Czajka, B.; Caldas-Alvarez, A.; Helgert, S.; Flamant, C.; Di Girolamo, P.; Bock, O.; Chazette, P.
2018. Quarterly journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144 (717), 2761–2780. doi:10.1002/qj.3402

Other Publications


2020
The benefits of high-resolution simulations for the representation of extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean
Helgert, S.
2020, January 27. Public Health and Water Resources- Adaptation to Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean (2020), Trieste, Italy, January 27–28, 2020
2018
Impact of soil moisture initialization on the convection-permitting COSMO representation of heavy precipitation over the Iberian Peninsula
Helgert, S.; Khodayar, S.
2018. 13th General Assembly of the CLM Community (2018), Karlsruhe, Germany, September 18–21, 2018
Convection-permitting simulation of heavy precipitation events with 1km-SMOS soil moisture initialization over the Iberian Peninsula
Helgert, S.; Khodayar, S.
2018. 11th HyMeX Workshop (2018), Lecce, Italy, May 29–June 2, 2018
Improving the model representation of heavy precipitation in the western Mediterranean: soil moisture-atmosphere interactions and atmospheric water vapour evolution
Khodayar, S.; Caldas-Alvarez, A.; Helgert, S.
2018. 11th HyMeX Workshop (2018), Lecce, Italy, May 29–June 2, 2018
Role of Mediterranean soil moisture-atmosphere interactions on the representation of dry and wet extremes
Helgert, S.; Khodayar, S.
2018. ICCARUS User Seminar (2018), Offenbach, Germany, February 26–28, 2018
2017
Impact of simulations with realistic soil moisture initialization on soil-atmosphere interactions favouring extreme events
Helgert, S.; Khodayar, S.
2017. HyMeX Workshop 2017, Barcelona, E, July 4-7, 2017
Impact of realistic soil moisture initialization on the representation of extreme events in the western Mediterranean
Helgert, S.; Khodayar, S.
2017. European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU 2017), Vienna, Austria, April 23–28, 2017
2016
Soil-atmosphere interactions in the Mediterranean area
Helgert, S.; Khodayar, S.
2016. COSMO/CLM/ART User Seminar (2016), Offenbach, Germany, March 7–9, 2016