Atmospheric Science

The project “MW-Luna”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), was successfully completed in August. A total of 9,000 lunar observations from weather satellites were analyzed, establishing the Moon as a reliable flux reference for microwave and infrared instruments. This approach makes onboard calibration devices...

Kelvin waves (KWs), which belong to the most important circulation patterns in the tropical atmosphere, are traditionally understood as being excited by convective processes. Recent research suggests that they can also be influenced by dynamical processes such as the momentum transport from the subtropics. A new study led...

A recent study led by Peishan Chen, during her PhD internship in the ADP group, reveals that mixed Rossby-gravity and inertia-gravity waves play a key role in cross-equatorial circulation associated with convection over the subtropical western North Pacific in boreal summer — an aspect not captured by the traditional Gill...