Working group "Climate Dynamics and Statistics"
Our research activities include the statistical and dynamical analysis of atmospheric processes, the statistical post-processing of weather and climate forecasts, and the detection and attribution of climate change signals. An important focus is on extreme events, their drivers and their statistical description and prediction, both in the short term and on climate time scales. In close collaboration with the "Climate Monitoring" group of Prof. Dr. Leonie Esters, we pursue an integrated view of the Earth system by bringing together observations, dynamical and stochastic process understanding, and statistical and numerical modeling to understand and predict processes in the energy, water, and carbon cycles.
Research foci and projects
- Extreme weather and climate events
- Detection and attribution of climate change
- Statistical-dynamic analysis of climate
- Verification and evaluation of forecasts
- Statistical post-processing of numerical weather forecasts
- Extreme value statistics
- Description of extremes of spatio-temporal processes
A research network on climate change and extreme events
Coming Decade - Decadal climate predictions for Europe
High-resolution Earth System monitoring and diagnostics for sustainable applications
New Refined Observations of Climate Change from Spaceborne Gravity Missions
Teaching focus
- Climate dynamics
- Statistical methods
- Fluid dynamics
- Inverse Modeling
- Thermodynamics
- Dynamics of the atmosphere
Climate seminar
Staff
PD Dr. Petra Friederichs
Working group leader and Research associate
Dr. Sebastian Buschow
Research associate
