| Name | PhD Topic | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dacie, Sally | Understanding effects of climate change on the tropopause and ist potential feedback | ||||||||
| Cioni, Guido | Impact of soil moisture on the triggering of convection and ensuing precipitation | ||||||||
| Fodor, Katherine | Convection Cells in the Planetary Boundary Layer: Origin and Reduced Modeling | ||||||||
| Galfi, Vera | Extreme events in different atmospheric models | ||||||||
| George, Geet | tbd | ||||||||
| Haghshenas, Armin | Wind effects on the structure and dynamics of the convective boundary layer | ||||||||
| Hansen, Akio | Identifying the added value of large eddy resolving regional climate simulation using ICON HiRes simulation | ||||||||
| Haufschild, Tobias | Stratospheric controls on northern hemispheric storm tracks | ||||||||
| Jiménez de la Cuesta Otero, Diego | Historical warming and climate sensitivity | ||||||||
| Kluft, Lukas | Benchmark Calculations of the Climate Sensitivity of Radiative Convective Equilibrium | ||||||||
| Li, Cathy | Atmospheric Chemistry Reactions in a Turbulent Flow: Application to an Urban Environment | ||||||||
| Mieslinger, Theresa | Testing Ideas on Shallow Convection to Constrain Climate Sensitivity | ||||||||
| Müller, Sebastian | Tropical dynamics: Role of deep convection in wave generation | ||||||||
| Paccini Peña, Laura | Sensitivity of resolved convection in the Atlantic Basin to modes of Atlantic SST variability | ||||||||
| Schulz, Hauke | Interplay between shallow convection and stratiform cloud layers | ||||||||
| Schulz, Bernhard | The role of wind shear in the entrainment zone of stratocumulus | ||||||||
| Vissio, Gabriele | Statistical mechanical models of convection: a multiscale approach | ||||||||
Completed PhD studies related to atmospheric systems and processes
IMPRS-ESM alumni hold a Dr. rer. nat. from the Department of Geosciences.
| Name | PhD Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Fläschner, 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 | |
| Sakradija, 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 Jürgen | 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 | |