Regional Climatology

The Chair of Climatology works with methods of regional climate research mainly in areas of the earth where the limited availability of data makes direct observation of climate phenomena difficult. # For this reason, numerical modelling of the atmosphere and remote sensing methods ( IT Services ) play an important role in addition to measurement data. We address questions concerning the improvement of data quality (e.g. HARv2 ), the influence on regional water balance (e.g. QTIP ) or the interaction between land cover and atmosphere (e.g. Morocco, Central Europe, South America).

Current and completed projects and activities of the Regional Climate Research Group:

Arctic/N-Europe

: Vestfonna glacier; © TU Berlin

High Asia

: CaTeNA; © GFZ, Potsdam

Central Europe

: Freiburg and Southwestern Germany; © TU Berlin

North Africa

: Casablanca; © Urban Agriculture, Casablanca

South America

: Peruvian Andes; © TU Berlin

Head:

Prof. Dr. Dieter Scherer

Lead and contact:

Dr. Marco Otto

Publications:

Scherer, D. (2020):
Survival of the Qaidam mega-lake system under mid-Pliocene climates and its restoration under future climates. Hydr. and Earth System Sc., 24(7), 3835-3850. DOI: 10.5194/HESS-24-3835-2020. Link

Wang, X., Tolksdorf, V., Otto, M., Scherer, D. (2020):
WRF-based Dynamical Downscaling of ERA5 Reanalysis Data for High Mountain Asia: Towards a New Version of the High Asia Refined Analysis. Int. J. Climatol. DOI: 10.1002/joc.6686.
Link

Otto, M. and R. E. Gibbons (2017):
Potential Effects of Projected Decrease in Annual Rainfall on Spatial Distribution of High Andean Wetlands in Southern Peru, Wetlands 37 (4), 647-659. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-017-0896-2.
Link

Mölg, T., Maussion, F. & D. Scherer (2014):
Mid-latitude westerlies as a driver of glacier variability in monsoonal High Asia. Nature Clim Change 4 (1), pp.68-73. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2055. Link