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Welcome to the Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research!

About 90 researchers from German universities and research institutions work in the Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research (HErZ) closely with the German Meteorological Service (DWD). We work interdisciplinary in the fields of atmospheric sciences, mathematics, statistics, computer science, and social sciences. Together, we conduct research on improving weather and climate forecasting and its communication to decision-makers and society. With HErZ, the DWD remains innovative and continuously optimizes its weather, climate, and environmental services.

Our research is cutting-edge, exciting, and highly relevant to society. We are particularly committed to the training and education of the next generation of weather and climate enthusiasts and researchers.

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Projects

Project HErZ-DA

Addressing important challenges in Data Assimilation methodology and the use of new and unconventional observations

Image Credit: https://www.meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/datenassimilation/index.html

Project HIRES-APP

Improving the understanding and prediction of relevant km to sub-km processes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Image Credit: https://www.herz.uni-bonn.de/wordpress/

Project ICON-SmART

Addressing the role of aerosols and atmospheric chemistry for the simulation of seasonal to decadal climate variability and change

Project MBL-ICON

Exploring the interactions between cloud physics, radiation and the boundary layer mixing parametrizations in marine stratocumuli in the Southern Ocean and subtropics

Project OceanWeather

Role of a high-resolution ocean and its initialization, and determination of atmospheric cold pools for weather and climate forecasts

Image Credit: https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-atmosphere-in-the-earth-system/working-groups/precipitating-convection

Project SCALABLe

Studying the scale-aware representation of turbulence, clouds, convection for convective conditions over land and cloud-topped marine boundary layers with a focus on regime transitions

Image Credit: https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/60283806/HErZ

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