Ongoing PhD studies related to atmospheric systems and processes
| Name | PhDtopic |
| Bayley, Clara | Development of the Superdroplet Model and Understanding its Uncertainties and Influence in Global Climate Simulations |
| Campos, Hernan | Tropical low cloud feedbacks in storm resolving simulations (tentative) |
| Ding, Hairu | Factors influencing the subtropical high-pressure zones in the present and changing climate |
| Dorff, Henning | Clouds and Precipitation in Arctic Atmospheric Rivers at the Hectometer Scale using HALO and ICON |
| Franke, Henning | The quasi-biennial oscillation in a warming climate |
| Gnanaraj, Abisha | Distribution of Humidity in the Tropics |
| Guenther, Moritz | Volcanic radiative forcing, climate sensitivity and atmospheric feedbacks |
| Hemshorn de Sanchez, Anna Luisa | The complex interactions between land cover change and climate variability at the global scale |
| Keil, Paul | The role of the tropical tropospheric stratification for global circulation and ist representation in climate models |
| Kirsch, Bastian | Convective Cold Pools in High-Resolution Observations and Model Simulations |
| Kroll, Clarissa | Understanding the volcanic impact on stratospheric water vapor and the hydrological cycle |
| Lang, Theresa | Processes influencing the distribution of upper tropospheric humidity and clouds in the tropics |
| Morfa Avalos, Yanmichel | Numerical investigations of the two-way interactions between convection and atmospheric waves |
| Peinado Bravo, Angel | Convergence of the simulated tropical convergence zone and ist reponse to climate change with resolution |
| Pistor, Raphael | Stratocumulus clouds and the subtropical highs |
| Prange, Marc | Elevated Moist Layers - Exploring a Blind Spot in the Global Satellite Observing System to Advance Satellite Humidity Retrievals |
| Radtke, Jule | On the organization of shallow convection and its link to precipitation |
| Roemer, Florian | Radiation Spectrum and Atmospheric Circulation |
| Sharma, Shivani | Parameterization of cloud microphysics using Machine Learning |
| Schmidt, Luca | Precipitation over tropical islands |
| Strigunova, Iana | Scale-dependent dynamics of extreme events in a changing climate |
| Vicari, Robert | The coupling between wave- and convection fields on sub-kilometer to mesoscales |
| Winkler, Marius | Boundary layer wind balances and their influence on equatorial sea-surface temperatures |
| Yoon, Arim | Amazon rainforest tipping point |
Completed PhD studies related to atmospheric systems and processes
IMPRS-ESM alumni hold a Dr. rer. nat. from the Department of Earth Sciences.
| Name | PhDtopic |
| Paccini Pena, Laura | Sensitivity of resolved convection in the Atlantic Basin to modes of Atlantic SST variability |
| Schulz, Hauke | Mesoscale organization of shallow convection in the Trades |
| Mieslinger, Theresa | Testing Ideas on Shallow Convection to Constrain Climate Sensitivity |
| Finn, Tobias | Advancing nonlinear methods for data assimilation at the cross-compartemental interface between atmospheric boundary layer and land surface |
| Kluft, Lukas | Benchmark Calculations of the Climate Sensitivity of Radiative Convective Equilibrium |
| Hansen, Akio | Identifying the added value of large eddy resolving regional climate simulation using ICON HiRes simulation |
| Dacie, Sally | Understanding effects of climate change on the tropopause and ist potential feedback |
| Jimenez de la Cuesta Otero, Diego | Historical warming and climate sensitivity |
| Fodor, Katherine | Convection Cells in the Planetary Boundary Layer: Origin and Reduced Modeling |
| Li, Cathy | Atmospheric Chemistry Reactions in a Turbulent Flow: Application to an Urban Environment |
| Haufschild, Tobias | Stratospheric controls on northern hemispheric storm tracks |
| Schulz, Bernhard | The role of wind shear in the entrainment zone of stratocumulus |
| Haghshenas, Armin | Wind effects on the structure and dynamics of the convective boundary layer |
| Mueller, Sebastian | Tropical dynamics: Role of deep convection in wave generation |
| Vissio, Gabriele | Statistical mechanical models of convection: a multiscale approach |
| Galfi, Vera | Extreme events in different atmospheric models |
| Cioni, Guido | Impact of soil moisture on the triggering of convection and ensuing precipitation |
| Becker, Tobias | On the interaction of precipitating convection and the large scale environment |
| Vogel, Raphaela | The role of precipitation in the heat budget of the trades |
| Meraner, Katharina | Climate effects of energetic particle precipitation |
| Van Stratum, Bart | The influence of misrepresenting the nocturnal boundary layer on daytime convection in large-eddy simulation |
| Flaeschner, Dagmar | Intermodel spread in global and tropical precipitation changes |
| Siongco, Angela Cheska | Drivers of Precipitation Biases in the Tropical Atlantic Sector |
| Ansorge, Cedrick | Analyses of turbulence in the neutrally and stably stratified planetary boundary layer |
| Park, Jong-Yeon | West African Monsoon Rainfall in a Warming Climate |
| Keitzl, Thomas | Turbulent Enhancement of the Melt Rate at an Ice-Ocean Interface |
| Schubert, Sebastian | Quasi-Geostrophic Model of the Atmosphere: Instabilities and Feedbacks |
| Bittner, Matthias | On the discrepancy between observed and simulated dynamical response of Northern Hemisphere winter climate to large tropical volcanic eruptions |
| Sakradzija, Mirjana | A stochastic parameterization of shallow cumulus convection for high-resolution numerical weather prediction and climate models |
| Naumann, Ann Kristin | Cloud structures and rain formation in the atmospheric boundary layer |
| Rieck, Malte | The role of heterogeneities and land-atmosphere interactions in the development of moist convection |
| Schirber, Sebastian | Tropical waves and their sources |
| Pithan, Felix | On the role of stably stratified turbulence in the climate system |
| Garcia, Jade Rachele | Numerical study of the convective boundary layer |
| Bhattacharya, Ritthik | A two Turbulence Kinetic Energy Model for the Scale Adaptive Treatment of the Planetary Boundary Layer |
| Lonitz, Katrin | Susceptibility of trade wind cumulus clouds to precipitation |
| Schemann, Vera | Towards a scale aware cloud process parameterization for global climate models |
| Krismer, Thomas | Wave-mean flow interactions driving the quasi-biennial oscillation in ECHAM6 |
| Remedio, Armelle Reca | Connections between the mesoscale convective systems and the regional scale flows in South America |
| Cheedela, Suvarchal Kumar | Single column models and low cloud feedbacks |
| Bunzel, Felix | Numerical studies of stratosphere-troposphere dynamical coupling in a changing climate |
| Radermacher, Christine | Causes for regional changes in heavy precipitation over Europe |
| Sudarchikova, Natalia | Modeling of mineral dust in the Southern Hemisphere with focus on Antarctica for interglacial and glacial climate conditions |
| Li, Chao | Climatology analysis of planetary wave propagation in northern hemisphere winter |
| Misios, Stergios | Influences of the 11-year solar cycle on the tropical atmosphere and oceans |
| C. (Chellappan), Seethala | Evaluating the state-of-the-art of and errors in 1D satellite cloud liquid water path retrievals with large eddy simulations and realistic radiative transfer models |
| Moebis, Benjamin | Factors controlling the position of the inter-tropical convergence zone on an aquaplanet |
| Peters, Karsten | Ship emission influence on clouds in satellite and model data |
| Saeed, Sajjad | Relative contribution of the mid-latitude circumglobal wave train to the South Asian summer monsoon |
| Miller, Lee | Limits and consequences of the large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies |
| Klocke, Daniel | Assessing the uncertainty in climate sensitivity |
| Nam, Christine | Using Calipso and CloudSat satellite retrievals to evaluate low-level cloud parameterizations in ECHAM5 for cloud-climate feedback implications |
| Weber, Torsten | Impact of Inhomogeneities on non-linear cloud processes |
| Riemann-Campe, Kathrin | Can convective precipitation variability be deduced from the variability in CAPE and CIN? An analysis of global CAPE and CIN variability in present and future climates |
| Gehlot, Swati | Feedbacks between convection and climate: Analysis with global modeling and satellite observations |
| Ross, Ole | Simulation of atmospheric krypton-85 transport to assess the detectability of clandestine nuclear reprocessing |
| O'Donnell, Declan | Towards the assessment of the climate effects of secondary organic aerosols |
| Teichmann, Claas | Climate and air pollution modelling in South America with focus on megacities |
| Sillmann, Jana | Extreme climate events and Euro-Atlantic atmospheric blocking in present and future climate simulations |
| Wan, Hui | Developing and testing a hydrostatic atmospheric dynamical core on triangular grids |
| Santos, Gabriela | The effect of halogens on global tropospheric ozone |
| Punge, Heinz Juergen | The quasi-biennial oscillation: Representation in numerical models and effects on stratospheric transport and trace gases |
| Banse, Dorothea | The influence of aerosols on North Atlantic cyclones |
| Thomas, Manu | Simulation of the climate impact of Mt. Pinatubo eruption using ECHAM5 |
| Heil, Angelika | Indonesian forest and peat fires: Emission, air quality, and human health |
| Pfeffer, Melissa | The relative influences of volcanic and anthropogenic emissions on air pollution in Indonesia as studied with a regional atmospheric chemistry and climate model |
| Aghedo, Adetutu | The impact of African air pollution: A global chemistry climate model study |
| Kotlarski, Sven | A subgrid glacier parameterisation for use in regional climate modelling |
| Hoelzemann, Judith | Global wildland fire emission modeling for atmospheric chemistry studies |
| Kloster, Silvia | DMS cycle in the ocean-atmosphere system and its response to anthropogenic pertubations |
| Cui, Xuefeng | The impact of African air pollution: A global chemistry climate model study |
| Devasthale, Abhay | Aerosol indirect effect in the thermal spectral range as seen from satellites |
| Stier, Philip | Towards the assessment of the aerosol radiative effects - A global modelling approach |