Bringing light to NWP – improving radiation to improve midlatitude weather prediction (B04)

• Subject Area: Atmospheric Science
• Term: from 2015 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 257899354

Diabatic heating and cooling by radiation is a main driver of atmospheric circulation. The project focuses on aspects of radiation that will become increasingly important as models move to higher and higher resolution. It will identify ways to calculate radiation more efficiently and more accurately, including 3-dimensional radiative effects, and it will study the dynamical impact through simulations of midlatitude cyclones. The twin-project combines the expertise of LMU and UNIVIE in radiative transfer, high-resolution modeling with ICON, and cloud-radiation-circulation coupling.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 165: Waves to Weather
• International Connection: Austria
• Applicant Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Bernhard Mayer; Professor Dr. Aiko Voigt