KIT researchers and members of national weather services discuss new "playground" to explore the benefits of machine learning in weather forecasting.

Julian Quinting of KIT receives ERC Starting Grant – ASPIRE project increases reliability of weather forecasts, and reduces computing costs and energy consumption

Pilot project at IMKTRO to realize more equal opportunities and appreciation of diversity

IMKTRO's climate research in Africa makes valuable contributions to flood protection and rainforest preservation

New software RAMEFI allows an objective identification and thus detailed analysis of forecast errors in winterstorms

New Studies on the 2021 Floods in the Eifel Region and on Future Trends of Such Extreme Events

Date: September 20, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Location: KIT, Campus South, Geb. 30.10, NTI lecture hall

The South German Climate Office and CEDIM present current projects and results from climate and risk research at the Hannover Messe from 30.05.-02.06.2022.

Meteorological tower at KIT Campus North contributes to research on the microbiome in the atmosphere; the results were recently published in PNAS.

On 21 March 2022 Prof. Dr. Christoph Kottmeier, former head of the IMKTRO institute, received the Alfred-Wegener-Medal of the German Meteorological Society (DMG).

Symmetric perturbations in ensemble forecasts lead to more rapidly ascending air streams and thus change the mean state of the atmosphere in the model

The ash dispersion forecast is challenging for eruptions with complex dynamics. We present a solution here.