Prof. Dr. Raphaela Vogel

Profile

Research interests

My research focuses on better understanding clouds and convective processes. I combine observations, high-resolution numerical simulations and simple conceptual models to study how clouds respond to changes in their large-scale environment, for example under climate change or across the diurnal cycle. I’m particularly interested in constraining the influence of rain and mesoscale convective organization on climate and the hydrological cycle. 

I received an ERC Starting Grant in 2023 to elucidate how the evaporation of tiny rain drops influences our life on Earth (link to the ROTOЯ project, see also UHH press release and TAZ article). With Jan Kazil I organize the Cold Pool Model Intercomparison Project CP-MIP (link). I'm the PI of SCORE (Sub-Cloud Observations of Rain Evaporation), a component of the ORCESTRA field campaign taking place in August-September 2024 in the tropical Atlantic.  I’m also a new climate physics editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (link).

Key publications

Vogel, R., Albright, A., Vial, J., George, G., Stevens, B., Bony, S. (2022), Strong cloud-circulation coupling explains weak trade cumulus feedback, Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05364-y  [see also our Research briefing explaining the study in an accessible way, and the story in Forschung aktuell of the Deutschlandfunk radio and the MPI focus article]

Vogel, R., Konow, H., Schulz, H., and Zuidema, P. (2021), A climatology of trade-wind cumulus cold pools and their link to mesoscale cloud organization, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 16609–16630, doi:10.5194/acp-21-16609-2021

Vogel R., Nuijens L., Stevens B. (2016). The role of precipitation and spatial organization in the response of trade-wind clouds to warming,  J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 8, 843-862, doi:10.1002/2015MS000568

(see below or here for the full list)

Short CV:

since 07/2024 Tenure-track professorship (W2) , University of Hamburg

2022-2024 Research Scientist and Lecturer, University of Hamburg

2018-2022 Postdoc at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) Jussieu, Paris

2014-2017 PhD at Max Planck Institut for Meteorology, Hamburg

2013 M.Sc. in Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich

2010 B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich and University of Edinburgh (ERASMUS)

Teaching:

Grundlagen fuer Meteorologie und Klima, BSc course, Winter semester, 2022 - present

Tropical Clouds and Convection [syllabus], MSc course, Summer semester, 2023 - present 

Supervision:

Clara Bayley, PhD student, co-advised with Bjorn Stevens and Ann Kristin Naumann

Nina Robbins-Blanch, PhD student (previously MSc student and student assistant)

Nils Niebaum, MSc student at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, co-advised with Clara Bayley

Kirill Viting, MSc student and student assistant

Tanisha Garg, MSc student from IISER Kolkata, co-advised with Julia Windmiller

Katharina Schmitt, MSc student, co-advisor with James Ruppert (University of Oklahoma)

Karina Böcker, BSc student

Past students
Jule Radtke, PhD Student at UHH and MPI-M (co-advised with Ann Kristin Naumann and Felix Ament)
Charlotte Rivera, BSc student at ETH Zurich (External co-advisor with Franziska Aemisegger)

Feel free to contact me if you’re interested in a thesis or intern project!

Publications 

2024

Vogel, R. (in press): Wie beeinflusst die Verdunstung von Regen das Klima und die Wetterextreme? In: J. L. Lo- zán, H. Graßl, D. Kasang, M. Quante & J. Sillmann (Hrsg.). Warnsignal Klima. Wetterextreme.

2023

Radtke, J., R. Vogel, F. Ament, A. K. Naumann (2023), Spatial organisation affects the pathway to precipitation in simulated trade-wind convection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL103579, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103579

Myers, T.A., Vogel, R., Brient, F., Parishani, H., Scott, R.C. (2023), Tropical Marine Low Clouds: Feedbacks to Warming and on Climate Variability. In Clouds and their Climatic Impacts, S.C. Sullivan (Ed.). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119700357.ch7

George, G., B. Stevens, S. Bony, R. Vogel, and A. K. Naumann (2023), Widespread shallow mesoscale circulations observed in the trades. Nat. Geosci., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01215-1

Albright, A. L., B. Stevens, S. Bony, and R. Vogel (2023), A New Conceptual Picture of the Trade Wind Transition Layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 80, 1547–1563, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0184.1

Vial, J., Albright, A., Vogel, R., Musat, I., Bony, S. (2023), Cloud transition across the daily cycle illuminates model responses of trade cumuli to warming, PNAS, 120 (8) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209805120

Hohenegger, C., Korn, P., Linardakis, L., et al. (2023), ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 779–811, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-779-2023.

2022

Vogel, R., Albright, A., Vial, J., George, G., Stevens, B., Bony, S. (2022), Strong cloud-circulation coupling explains weak trade cumulus feedback, Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05364-y [see also our Research briefing explaining the study in an accessible way, and the story in Forschung aktuell of the Deutschlandfunk radio]

Albright, A. L., S. Bony, B. Stevens, R. Vogel (2022), Observed subcloud layer moisture and heat budgets in the trades. J. Atmos. Sci., 9(9), 2363-2385, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0337.1.

Bony, S., Lothon, M., Delanoë, ..., R. Vogel (2022), EUREC4A observations from the SAFIRE ATR42 aircraft, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 2021–2064, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2021-2022

Touzé-Peiffer, L., Vogel, R., Rochetin, N. (2022). Cold pools observed during EUREC4A: detection and characterization from atmospheric soundings, J. of Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 61(5), 593-610, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0048.1

2021

Konow, H., Ewald, F., George, G., et al. (2021), EUREC4A's HALO, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 5545–5563, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5545-2021

Vogel, R., Konow, H., Schulz, H., and Zuidema, P. (2021), A climatology of trade-wind cumulus cold pools and their link to mesoscale cloud organization, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 16609–16630, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-16609-2021

Stevens, B., Bony, S., Farrel, D., et al., EUREC4A (2021), Earth System Science Data, 13 (8), 4067-4119, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021

Vial, J., Vogel, R., and Schulz, H. (2021), On the daily cycle of mesoscale cloud organization in the winter trades, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 147 (738), 2850–2873, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4103

George, G., Stevens, B., Bony, S., Klingebiel, M., and Vogel, R. (2021), Observed impact of meso-scale vertical motion on cloudiness, J. Atmos. Sci., 78 (8), 2413-2427, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0335.1

Aemisegger, F., Vogel, R., Graf, P., Dahinden, F., Villiger, L., Jansen, F., Bony, S., Stevens, B., and Wernli, H. (2021): How Rossby wave breaking modulates the water cycle in the North Atlantic trade wind region, Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2, 281-309. https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-281-2021 

2020

Vogel, R., Bony, S. & Stevens, B. (2020), Estimating the shallow convective mass flux from the sub-cloud layer mass budget, J. Atmos. Sci., 77, 1559-1574, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-19-0135.1

Vogel, R., Nuijens, L., Stevens B. (2020), Influence of deepening and mesoscale organization of shallow convection on stratiform cloudiness in the downstream trades, Q J R Meteorol Soc., 146: 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3664

2017-2019

Vial, J., Vogel, R., Bony, S., Stevens, B., Winker, D., Cai, X., Hohenegger, C., Naumann, A. & Brogniez, H. (2019), A new look at the daily cycle of tradewind cumuli, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 11, 3148– 3166. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001746

Crueger, T., et al. (2018), ICON-A, the atmosphere component of the ICON Earth System Model. Part II: Model evaluation, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 10, 1638-1662. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017MS001233

Vial, J., S. Bony, B. Stevens, R. Vogel (2017), Mechanisms and model diversity of trade-wind shallow cumulus cloud feedbacks: a review, Surveys in Geophysics, 38, 1331-1353 , https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-017-9418-2

Bony, S., Stevens, B., Ament, F., Crewell, S., Delanoe, J., Farrell, D., Flamant, C., Gross, S., Hirsch, L., Mayer, B., Nuijens, L., Ruppert, J., Sandu, I., Siebesma, P., Speich, S., Szczap, F., Vogel, R., Wendisch, M. & Wirth, M. (2017). EUREC4A: a field campaign to elucidate the couplings between clouds, convection and circulation. Surveys in Geophysics, 38, 1529-1568, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-017-9428-0

2013-2016

Vogel R., Nuijens L., Stevens B. (2016). The role of precipitation and spatial organization in the response of trade-wind clouds to warming, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 8, 843-862, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000568

Isotta F., Vogel R., Frei C. (2015). Evaluation of European regional reanalyses and downscalings for precipitation in the Alpine region, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 24, 15-37. https://doi.org/10.1127/metz/2014/0584

Hilbeck A., Lebrecht T., Vogel R., Heinemann J. A., Binimelis R. (2013). Farmer's choice of seeds in four EU countries under different levels of GM crop adoption, Environmental Sciences Europe 25, 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/2190-4715-25-12

THESES

Vogel, R. (2017). The influence of precipitation and convective organization on the structure of the trades. Phd-Thesis, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg. Berichte zur Erdsystemforschung, 199, doi:10.17617/2.2503092.

Vogel R. (2013). Quantifying the uncertainty of spatial precipitation analyses with radar-gauge observation ensembles, Scientific Report MeteoSwiss 95, 80 pp. link