Centerfor Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)

Jana Sillmann has taken up her position as the new professor of “climate statistics and climate extremes” – at a time when heavy rain, heat waves and forest fires have, more than ever before, raised people’s awareness of the consequences of climate change. In the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS, the geo-ecologist is...

For his doctoral thesis, Bastian Kirsch is investigating thunderstorms and the ‘pools’ of cold air that form beneath them, the so-called cold pools. To do so, he spent several weeks monitoring and maintaining measurement stations in Brandenburg. In the following, he reports on warm air masses and a cold pool named Jogi.

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EUREC4A, the world's largest measurement campaign to investigate the role of clouds in the climate system, began in early 2020. It took place on and off the Caribbean island of Barbados. More than 40 partner institutions were involved, four research aircraft and four research vessels were deployed, combined with ground...