Dr. David Leutwyler

Dr.  David Leutwyler

Dr. David Leutwyler

Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Systems Science

ETH Zürich

Professur f. Hydrologie&Klimat.

CHN L 16.3

Universitätstrasse 16

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

Clouds, Convection and Climate

Convection-Resolving Climate Models

Supercomputing and Heterogeneous Computing

 

Selected peer-reviewed Publications (A more up to date list is available on Google Scholarcall_made):

Leutwyler, D., Hohenegger, C. (2021). Weak cooling of the troposphere by tropical islands in simulations of the radiative‐convective equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 12. Abstract and downloadcall_made

 

Leutwyler, D., Imamovic, A. and Schär, C. (2021). The Continental-Scale Soil Moisture–Precipitation Feedback in Europe with Parameterized and Explicit Convection. Journal of Climate, 12. Abstract and download |call_madeVideo| Slides

 

Leutwyler, D.,  Beucler, T. and Windmiller, J. M. (2020). Quantifying convective aggregation using the tropical moist margin's length. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12. Abstract and downloadcall_made

 

Leutwyler, D. and Schär, C. (2019). Barotropic instability of a cyclone core at kilometre-scale resolution. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 3390– 3402. Abstract and downloadcall_made

 

Leutwyler D., D. Lüthi, N. Ban, O. Fuhrer, and C. Schär (2017): Evaluation of the Convection-Resolving Climate Modeling Approach on Continental Scales, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, doi:10.1002/2016JD026013. Abstract and downloadcall_made | CSCS Highlightcall_made | Eos Research Spotlightcall_made| PRACE Success Storycall_made

 

Leutwyler, D., O. Fuhrer, X. Lapillonne, D. Lüthi, and C. Schär (2016): Towards European-Scale Convection-Resolving Climate Simulations with GPUs: A Study with COSMO 4.19, Geosci. Model Dev. , doi:10.5194/gmd-2016-119. Abstract and downloadcall_made| CSCS Highlightcall_made |

 

Public Outreach:

Presentation at 34C3 2017: On the Prospects and Challenges of Weather and Climate Modeling at Convection-Resolving Resolution. Video available at media.ccc.decall_made

 

Animations:

Leutwyler, D., O. Fuhrer, X. Lapillonne, D. Lüthi, C. Schär, 2015: Continental-Scale Climate Simulation at Kilometer-Resolutioncall_made.

 

Course Catalogue

Spring Semester 2024

Number Unit
701-1216-00L Weather and Climate Models
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