Multi-scale pattern simulation and parameterization of convection over heterogeneous land surfaces (D06)

• Subject Area: Atmospheric Science
• Term: from 2011 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 15232683

We study convection and convective cloud patterns in order to understand how land-surface heterogeneity affects such patterns and how they can be parameterized. The large-eddy atmosphere and land-surface model (LES-ALM) will be further developed and run for surfaces with different heterogeneity scales. The model capability in reproducing convective clouds in response to land-surface processes will be tested against measurements. A scheme for cloud pattern parameterization will be developed and tested in a weather-prediction model for selected regions.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 32: Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: Monitoring, Modelling and Data Assimilation
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Co-Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Stefan J. Kollet, until 12/2014; Professor Dr. Yaping Shao