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Heatwave research - a hot topic at IAC
IAC researchers gathered on 16 January 2024 to discuss current state and prospects of heatwave research at the institute. Overview presentations by five groups, more than 20 poster presentations from IAC researchers, and lively round table discussions underlined the importance of heatwave research at IAC and fostered the exchange of ideas and visions for future heatwave research across groups.
Colette Heald started as new professor at IAC
Colette Heald has started on 1st January as a Full Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IAC) at D-USYS. Colette was a Full Professor (2015-2023) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
New High-Resolution Model for Weather and Climate Research
In the PASC project KILOS, the ECMWF, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), and ETH Zurich are teaming up to develop FVM, a new weather and climate model of ECMWF, adapted to the latest computer architectures. First simulations can simulate small-scale orographic windstorms as observed in northeastern Switzerland (Laseyer storms).
Robb Jnglin Wills started as new professor at IAC
Robb Jnglin Wills has started on 1st April as Assistant Professor of Climate Dynamics at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IAC) at D-USYS. In 2021, he received an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship. His appointment will substantially broaden ETH Zurich’s expertise in the fields of atmospheric dynamics and climate modeling.
Towards eliminating a decade-old climate model bias
Climate models have many persistent and systematic biases, but a new study shows that allowing for a physical rather than statistical representation of energy transport reduces one of them.