Afforestation leads to opposing diurnal temperature cycles at the surface and in the lower atmosphere in summer

Size matters: Large data amounts reduce the statistical uncertainty in the analysis of extreme weather phenomena and their impacts.

Martin Kohler

With a new data acquisition concept, the meteorological tower at the CN is well prepared for future tasks.

Forest fires reduce the air quality and the yield of solar plants not only in California. In early September, the forest fires on the American West Coast...

New insights show that month-ahead temperature forecasts for Europe following sudden stratospheric warmings have to be interpreted with caution.

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

Gabi Zachmann, KIT

An international research team with the participation of KIT investigated the connection between weather conditions and influenza waves in the Eastern Mediterranean.

How the current corona pandemic is influencing the work of CEDIM - that and much more is presented in the new CEDIM research report

The CROSSINN project investigates the three-dimensional structure of valley flows in a major Alpine valley

On the usage of high-resolution rain gauges to monitor tropical rainfall and validate satellite-based preipitation products over Ghana.

The representation of aerosol dynamics improves the forecast of volcanic ash dispersion.

Auch wenn die momentane Krise rund um Covid-19 die Medien und uns alle stark beschäftigt, so geht doch auch der Klimawandel weiter.

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

Research on extreme weather events and climate change has made significant steps forward in recent years. However, a better understanding of the influence of large-scale processes on thunderstorm activity is still required.

M. Kleber

A technical requirement profile for plasters was developed that actively intervenes in indoor climate by moisture storage and transport capacity.

The predictability of the 2018 late-winter Eurasian cold spell was increased by stratospheric conditions.In mid-February 2018, there was a change

NASA

A more realistic representation of summertime West African thunderstorms results in improved medium-range weather forecasts for the mid-latitudes

Modeled convective precipitation shows lower precipitation amounts using finer horizontal grid spacing and land-surface representation contributes about 20%.

Climate model simulations indicate strong impact of clouds on the circulation response to global warming and regional climate change

With climate change, an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation is expected in the Western Mediterranean (WMed). Simulating this high impact weather remains a challenge

KIT climatologists found subsiding parcels of upper level air being reponsible for extreme hot spells rather than hot air being transported from the South.

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

Ongoing research aims to identify meteorological quantities for the improvement of short-term thunderstorm forecasts in cooperation with DWD.

In some regions of Germany, heat stress will increase significantly towards the middle of the century

Climate change will have a strong impact on southern European olive producing countries

Simulation of ash dispersion after the eruption of Raikoke volcano, one of the strongest eruptions during the last 30 years

Martin Kohler

HYDREX 2019, Measuring campaign in the Müglitz valley in Saxony is about to be completed. Helmholtz research centres carry out joint measurement campaign on hydrological extremes.

Scientists from meteorology and mathematics at KIT have jointly developed a new method that corrects errors in weather forecasting on the basis of artificial intelligence.

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DAAD joint research project will study the subseasonal predictability of weather regimes in Europe and Asia.

Young investigator group leaders cooperate with mathematicians and energy system modelers.

European heat waves, such as those in summer 2003 and 2015, have a high heat-related mortality rate, e.g. 2003: 70,000 deaths