Clouds and radiation
We conduct fundamental research to gain detailed understanding of the governing cloud processes, from the interactions of individual cloud droplets to the organisation of clouds spanning entire oceans.
Through precipitation, radiation, and atmospheric dynamics, clouds influence our daily life. Cloud-radiation-interactions are a leading uncertainty in climate change projections and clouds play key roles in the hydrological cycle, renewable energy production, hazardous weather, and land surface processes. We aim to unravel cloud processes at every scale, from droplet interactions to the organisation of cloud systems.
Topics
Our group covers a diversity of research topics, such as cloud microphysics, moist convection, turbulence and mixing, interactions with wildfires, spatial organisation, surface coupling and radiation. These broad research domains are brought together in comprehensive numerical simulations, which we innovate in terms of flexibility, process fidelity and performance. The simulations are often combined or guided by field observations and laboratory experiments.