The OceanRAIN dataset of our colleague Dr. Christian Klepp, for which global ocean water cycle data were measured for seven years, has now been published in Nature's Scientific Data. Thanks to the rapidly growing dataset of already more than 6.8 million measurements, recorded by 8 ships, a...
For about two years, the Meteorological Institute has been recording the turbulent wind field in the Hafencity in a series of measurement campaigns in order to evaluate a novel urban climate model. On Saturday, the institute went on a completely different mission in the Hafencity: we took part...
The new release of the end user mesoscale meteorological model METRAS-PCL is available. The most prominent changes are a new surface cover representation with over 50 material classes, a simplified user interface and a topography pre-processor. METRAS-PCL has been evaluated according to VDI...
Researchers have come to the conclusion in the past that humidity measurements are inconsistent between in-situ sensors and satellite-based microwave sensors. It was assumed that some aspect hasn't been fully understood yet, e.g. in the radiative transfer model that is used to compare the two...
An article about the latest version of the ARTS radiative transfer model was published in the GMD Journal. This version offers a new planetary toolbox that allows simulations for the planets Venus, Mars and Jupiter, in addition to Earth. Further new features are radio link budgets...
First joint workshop of HALO, FAAM and the French Falcon 20 research aircrafts' communities took place at the Meteorological Institute. An international group of scientists visited the Meteorological Institute for a workshop to discuss the results of a joint research flight of three European...
An article about the latest version of the ARTS Model is now in review in the GMD Discussions Journal. This version offers a new planetary toolbox that allows simulations for the planets Venus, Mars and Jupiter, in addition to Earth. Further new features are radio link budgets, back-scattering...
The new ESA project "ESA Wide-Swath High-Resolution Cloud Profiling - Scientific Concept Study" startet on April 3rd within the Radiation and Remote Sensing working group. The project has a duration of two years. Together with the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and the...
At the ICDC a new archive for atmospheric observational data is available. The archive, SAMD stands for Standardized Atmospheric Measurement Data, is one result of the project HD(CP)², funded by the BMBF. SAMD is freely available for the whole research community. For the download of the data...
Jörg Burdanowitz successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Point-to-area validation of passive microwave satellite precipitation with shipboard disdrometers". He did his research project at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology within the International Max Planck Research School on...
Repeated observations of the Moon with weather satellites can be used to monitor certain properties of their scientific payload in flight. In an article for the Summer 2016 Issue of the GSICS Quarterly Newsletter, Martin Burgdorf describes how this concept - already well-tried with visible...
Since August 08th, the research aircraft HALO is flying from Barbados (Caribbean) to nine research flights around the tropical Atlantic. Researchers from the meteorological institute are investigating together with colleagues of the Max-Planck institute, clouds and their development. Several...
On July 12-14, the FIDUCEO team holds a Science Meeting at the Meteorological Institute. Main topics are the Fundamental Climate Data Records and data harmonisation. Details can be found on the workshop homepage.
Our colleague Richard Larsson (Luleå University of Technology) successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 'Modeling the Zeeman Effect in Planetary Atmospheric Radiative Transfer and Applications' in Kiruna last week. Congratulations Richard! We look forward to continuing our...
On June 7-8, the ISMAR/HAMP workshop 2016 is taken place at the Meteorological Institute. A group of international researchers come together to discuss the progress on the two new mm/submm airborne radiometers ISMAR/HAMP. More details can be found on the workshop homepage.
A post by Prof. Stefan Bühler about "Orbit drift and diurnal cycle aliasing" has been published on the blog of the FIDUCEO project.
We are looking for a new postdoc for project HD(CP)^2, related to satellite measurements and model simulations of cloud ice. For details, see (pdf)
