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Institution
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Fachbereich Physik, Mathematik und Informatik
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
Address
55099 Mainz
Deutschland
GERiT
This institution in GERiT
55099 Mainz
Projects
Research Grants
Current projects
Flow Past a Steep Mountain: Testing Hypotheses by Combining Numerical Simulations with Observations
(Applicant
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Interannual variability and formation mechanism of the Asian tropopause aerosol layer and its global impact
(Applicants
Borrmann, Stephan
;
Vogel, Bärbel
)
Long-lived greenhouse gases in the extra-tropical tropopause region
(Applicant
Schuck, Tanja
)
modellinG-sateLlite-Aircraft approaCh for cIrrus Advanced characTErization
(Applicants
Miltenberger, Annette
;
Rolf, Christian
)
Quantitative climate reconstruction for MIS 3 in Central Europe based on multi-proxy data from precisely dated speleothems (flowstones) from Bleßberg Cave, Germany
(Applicant
Scholz, Denis
)
Completed projects
An Automated Aerosol Mass Spectrometer for the Regular Chemical Characterization of Aerosol Particles in the Upper Troposphere and Lowermost Stratosphere(AMS-CARIBIC)
(Applicants
Borrmann, Stephan
;
Wiedensohler, Alfred
)
ATMOCHEM - POllution: MODeling and ObseRvatiOns (POMODORO)
(Applicant
Hoor, Peter
)
Banner Cloud Dynamics: Steps Towards a Theory and Simulations With Realistic Orography
(Applicant
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Coupling of the LM and ECHAMS/MESSy for consistently investigating chemistry and transport from the global to the regional scale
(Applicants
Bott, Andreas
;
Lelieveld, Ph.D., Johannes
;
Wernli, Heini
)
Dynamik orografischer Bannerwolken
(Applicant
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Experimental and numerical investigation of collision induced and spontaneous raindrop breakup for forecasting and nowcasting of precipitation
(Applicants
Seifert, Axel
;
Szakáll, Miklós
)
Gravity Waves and Trace Gas Mixing in the Arctic Winter Tropopause Region
(Applicant
Hoor, Peter
)
Laboratory studies of the form and oscillations towards breakup of falling raindrops in the Mainz Vertical Wind Tunnel and holographic field measurements of microphysical precipitation properties
(Applicant
Borrmann, Stephan
)
Laboruntersuchungen zur Wechselwirkung atmosphärischer Spurengase mit Eisoberflächen
(Applicant
Jaeschke, Wolfgang
)
Laboruntersuchungen zur Wechselwirkung atmosphärischer Spurengase mit Eisoberflächen
(Applicant
Mitra, Subir Kumar
)
PGS: POLSTRACC / GWLCYCLE and SALSA: University Participation in joint Arctic HALO Mission
(Applicants
Engel, Andreas
;
Pfeilsticker, Klaus
;
Volk, Ph.D., C. Michael
)
Predictability of Rossby wave packets: Climatology and dynamical characteristics
(Applicant
Riemer, Michael
)
Radiative decay of stratospheric filaments in the troposphere
(Applicant
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Rossby Wave Packets in a Changing Climate and Implications for Weather Extremes in Europe
(Applicant
Fragkoulidis, Georgios
)
Spatially Inhomogeneous Cirrus: Influence on Atmospheric Radiation
(Applicants
Borrmann, Stephan
;
Wendisch, Manfred
)
The effect of synoptic-scale wave breaking on cross tropopause transport and trace gas distribution
(Applicant
Hoor, Peter
)
Trace gas transport on global and regional scales in the light of a new model system: mixing and mixing lines at the polar front
(Applicant
Hoor, Peter
)
Turbulent fluxes and thermal convection in a valley
(Applicants
Foken, Thomas
;
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Upper troposphere and lower stratosphere transport pathways of aerosol and tracers associated with the Asian monsoon circulation (AeroTrac)
(Applicants
Hoffmann, Lars
;
Hoor, Peter
)
Wind tunnel investigations on riming of ice particles: Retention of water-soluble organics and the influence of turbulence on the growth of graupels.
(Applicant
Mitra, Subir Kumar
)
Wind tunnel studies on the melting of ice hydrometeors: the effect of collision and turbulence on melting (HydroCOMET)
(Applicant
Szakáll, Miklós
)
Research Units
Completed projects
Diagnosing Rossby wave train errors in numerical weather forecasts (RW-FCST)
(Applicant
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Gravity-waves impact on ice clouds in the tropopause region (GW-ICE)
(Applicants
Achatz, Ulrich
;
Spichtinger, Peter
)
Physico-chemical parameters of desert aerosols
(Applicant
Jaenicke, Ruprecht
)
Physico-chemical parameters of mixed mineral, biomass burning and marine aerosols
(Applicants
Schütz, Lothar
;
Weinbruch, Stephan
)
Rossby wave trains and their waveguides: dynamics, predictability and forecast errors (RW-GUIDE)
(Applicants
Riemer, Michael
;
Romppainen-Martius, Olivia
)
The importance of ice nucleating particle types and modes for the initiation of the ice phase and precipitation: Model simulations based on laboratory measurements.
(Applicants
Diehl, Karoline
;
Szakáll, Miklós
)
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
Aerosol particles in the outflow regions of the Asian monsoon: Composition and formation processes
(Applicant
Köllner, Franziska
)
Eddy shedding transport from the Asian monsoon as a source of pollution for the lowermost stratosphere
(Applicants
Hoor, Peter
;
Plöger, Felix
)
PHILEAS (Probing high latitude export of air from the Asian summer monsoon)
(Applicant
Hoor, Peter
)
Towards a quantification of vortex impact on the arctic lowermost stratosphere
(Applicant
Hoor, Peter
)
Trace Gas Budgets and Interhemispheric Differences of Composition and Transport in the UTLS
(Applicant
Hoor, Peter
)
Completed projects
Airborne in-situ characterisation of the microphysical and optical properties of small ice crystals and large hydrometeors (AMOSIL): HALO implementation and analysis methodology
(Applicants
Borrmann, Stephan
;
Schnaiter, Martin
)
Chemical and microphysical properties of natural cirrus and contrail cirrus
(Applicants
Borrmann, Stephan
;
Voigt, Christiane
)
Chemical composition, transformation, and cloud activation properties of submicron aerosol particles in the outflow of large major population centers
(Applicants
Borrmann, Stephan
;
Schneider, Johannes
)
Impact of upper tropospheric jet-front systems on the mesoscale structure of the tropopause inversion layer and cross-tropopause transport [MESO-TIL]
(Applicant
Kunkel, Daniel
)
Mixing processes in the stratosphere from fine to global scales with a fast high precision QCL spectrometer for N2O and CO on HALO
(Applicant
Hoor, Peter
)
NAWDEX
(Applicant
Craig, George
)
Transport and composition of the southern hemisphere UTLS (SOUTHTRAC)
(Applicants
Engel, Andreas
;
Hoor, Peter
)
WISE: Wave driven isentropic exchange
(Applicant
Hoor, Peter
)
CRC/Transregios
Current projects
Aerosol nucleation in the upper troposphere
(Project Heads
Curtius, Joachim
;
Tost, Holger
)
Central coordination and observational data synthesis
(Project Head
Hoor, Peter
)
Data management and computing
(Project Head
Kunkel, Daniel
)
Deriving transport timescales in the UTLS from age tracers and the propagation of the sea-sonal cycle of CO2
(Project Heads
Engel, Andreas
;
Hoor, Peter
)
Fine scale composition gradients and mixing at the tropopause region
(Project Heads
Hoor, Peter
;
Tost, Holger
)
Impact of cirrus clouds on tropopause structure
(Project Heads
Achatz, Ulrich
;
Spichtinger, Peter
)
Impact of small-scale dynamics on UTLS transport and mixing
(Project Heads
Achatz, Ulrich
;
Kunkel, Daniel
;
Schmidli, Ph.D., Juerg
)
Joint model development and modelling synthesis
(Project Heads
Achatz, Ulrich
;
Tost, Holger
)
Lagrangian analysis of the role of extratropical cyclones for UTLS aerosol and humidity
(Project Head
Miltenberger, Annette
)
Large scale variations of water vapour and ice supersaturated regions
(Project Heads
Krämer, Martina
;
Reutter, Philipp
;
Rolf, Christian
)
Processing of organic compounds in ice particles during deep convective transport into the UTLS
(Project Heads
Szakáll, Miklós
;
Theis, Alexander
)
Sources and processes controlling aerosol composition in the UTLS- From tropical monsoon to extratropical regions
(Project Heads
Borrmann, Stephan
;
Köllner, Franziska
;
Schneider, Johannes
)
Structure formation and mixing in the extratropical tropopause region
(Project Heads
Kunkel, Daniel
;
Wirth, Volkmar
)
The composition of the global UTLS nowadays and at the end of the 21st century
(Project Heads
Jöckel, Patrick
;
Tost, Holger
)
Transport of aerosols and precursors from the planetary boundary layer into the UTLS- BrIdging Surface emissions, Transport and UTLS Matter (BISTUM)
(Project Heads
Fachinger, Friederike
;
Kandler, Konrad
;
Weigel, Ralf
)
Transport processes regulating the lowermost stratospheric ozone reservoir
(Project Heads
Birner, Thomas
;
Hoor, Peter
)
TRR 301: The tropopause region in a changing atmosphere
(Spokesperson
Hoor, Peter
)
Variability in UTLS transport from model age of air and impacts on composition
(Project Heads
Hoor, Peter
;
Plöger, Felix
)
Completed projects
Development of a predictability index for severe weather events over Europe
(Project Heads
Craig, George
;
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Dynamical understanding of “windows of forecast opportunity”
(Project Heads
Grams, Christian
;
Riemer, Michael
;
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Evolution and predictability of storm structure during extratropical transition of tropical cyclones
(Project Heads
Riemer, Michael
;
Schömer, Elmar
)
Impact of microphysical uncertainties on supercell storm predictions around the world
(Project Heads
Hoose, Corinna
;
Kunz, Michael
;
Miltenberger, Annette
;
Vogel, Bernhard
;
Weissmann, Martin
)
Impact of structured heat sources on larger scales in atmospheric dynamics
(Project Heads
Hildebrandt, Andreas
;
Lukacova, Maria
;
Spichtinger, Peter
)
Medium-Range to Subseasonal Predictability of European Heat Waves
(Project Heads
Fink, Ph.D., Andreas
;
Wirth, Volkmar
)
“Piggybacking” clouds to analyze cloud scale parameterization uncertainty
(Project Heads
Hanke-Bourgeois, Martin
;
Spichtinger, Peter
;
Tost, Holger
)
Role of uncertainty in cold front microphysical processes and organization
(Project Heads
Grams, Christian
;
Hoose, Corinna
;
Miltenberger, Annette
)
The variability and relevance of the intrinsic limit of predictability
(Project Heads
Craig, George
;
Riemer, Michael
;
Tost, Holger
;
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Three-dimensional structure of African Easterly Waves and organization of embedded convection
(Project Heads
Fink, Ph.D., Andreas
;
Riemer, Michael
;
Schömer, Elmar
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Completed projects
Bedeutung der troposphärischen Eisphase für die globale Dynamik
(Project Head
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Central Administrative PRoject Of the SFB (CAPROS)
(Project Heads
Bingemer, Heinz
;
Borrmann, Stephan
)
Composition and distribution of ice nuclei in continental air masses and in mineral dust after long-range transport
(Project Heads
Bingemer, Heinz
;
Schütz, Lothar
;
Weinbruch, Stephan
)
Holographische in-situ Messungen der mikrophysikalischen Größen atmosphärischer Partikel in vereisten Wolken
(Project Head
Vössing, Hermann-Josef
)
Mass spectrometric in situ analysis of the chemical composition of ice nuclei and ice particle residuals
(Project Heads
Borrmann, Stephan
;
Curtius, Joachim
)
SFB 641: The Tropospheric Ice Phase - TROPICE
(Spokesperson
Borrmann, Stephan
)
Spatial Inhomogeneities of Cirrus: Effects on Atmospheric Radiation
(Project Heads
de Reus, Marian
;
Spichtinger, Peter
;
Wendisch, Manfred
)
Untersuchungen zum Einfluss der Partikeleigenschaften auf den Strahlungstransport in unterkühlten und vereisten Wolken
(Project Head
Borrmann, Stephan
)
Wind tunnel studies about riming of ice particles. II: Influence of turbulence and retention of water-soluble organics
(Project Heads
Diehl, Karoline
;
Mitra, Subir Kumar
)
Priority Programmes
Current projects
FRAGILE: Exploring the role of FRAGmentation of ice particles by combining super-partIcle modelling, Laborotary studies, and polarimEtric radar observations
(Applicants
Kneifel, Stefan
;
Seifert, Axel
;
Szakáll, Miklós
)
Completed projects
Turbulent Fluxes and thermal convection in a valley
(Applicants
Foken, Thomas
;
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Wechselwirkung von kleinen und großen dynamischen Skalen in einem adaptiven numerischen Modell für atmosphärische Feuchtkonvektion
(Applicants
Behrens, Jörn
;
Wirth, Volkmar
)
Research Training Groups
Completed projects
GRK 826: Trace Analysis of Elemental Species: Development of Methods and Applications
(Spokesperson
Hoffmann, Thorsten
)
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