Bastian Kirsch about his Paper on Cold Pools

5 December 2023

When the air under a thundercloud is being cooled by the falling rain, this cold air moves downwards and spreads out on the ground like tipped-out water. We cannot see these "cold pools", but we can feel them, for example, as a fresh breeze or gust, just before the thunderstorm arrives. Dr. Bastian Kirsch from the Meteorological Institute at Universität Hamburg and his colleagues have studied the structure and development of such cold pools in more detail. In particular, they were able to measure them for the first time in nature using a dense network of 100 weather stations and published the results in the paper "Morphology and growth of convective cold pools observed by a dense station network in Germany". In this video, he talks about his work on this study.

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This video is the second episode of our (M)et al. video series presenting scientists from the Meteorological Institute reporting on their current papers and thus offering an insight into our research topics and working methods.

Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1002/qj.4626