Our congratulations to two of our community members for receiving an ERC Starting Grant!
The C2SM is delighted to congratulate Daniela Domeisen and Sebastian Schemm that have been awarded an ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant.
Daniela Domeisen’s research focuses on coupling processes in the climate system and their benefit for long-range predictability on timescales of weeks to months. In her ERC project, she investigates the drivers and predictability of heatwaves. While heatwaves are projected to become more severe and more frequent with climate change, models remain unable to predict their occurrence several weeks in advance. This limited predictability is due to the fact that it is currently not fully understood what drives these extreme events and how potential drivers interact, e.g. the land or ocean surface and the atmosphere. Domeisen applies a model hierarchy approach in order to extend predictable lead times through a better understanding of heatwaves.
In his project, Sebastian Schemm investigates – at the interface between weather and climate – the interaction between cloud physics and the atmospheric circulation. He wants to investigate the basic physics principles which underly the almost chaotic nature of the atmospheric flow. In particular, his project aims at illuminating the roles of clouds, convection, radiation and turbulence in the formation of unusual atmospheric conditions. The long-term goal is to gain a better understanding of the primary drivers of rare weather conditions, extreme seasons and fluctuations in the annual cycle. Schemm also wants to formulate a new physical basis for their representation in weather and climate models.
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