Atmospheric aerosols affect the Earth's climate in many ways, including acting as the seeds
on which cloud droplets form. Since a large fraction of these particles is anthropogenic, the …

Cloud and precipitation processes are still the main source of uncertainties in numerical
weather prediction and climate change projections. The Priority Program" Polarimetric …

A description of the daily cycle of oceanic shallow cumulus for undisturbed boreal winter
conditions in the North Atlantic trades is presented. Modern investigation tools are used …

Advances in high‐performance computing have enabled large‐eddy simulations (LES) of
turbulence, convection, and clouds. However, their potential to improve parameterizations in …

Extreme precipitation is a weather phenomenon with tremendous damaging potential for
property and human life. As the intensity and frequency of such events is projected to …

Representing mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and their multi-scale interaction with
the large-scale atmospheric dynamics is still a major challenge in state-of-the-art global …

In order to enhance our understanding of clouds and their microphysical processes, it is
crucial to exploit both observations and models. Local observations from ground‐based …

Clouds interact with atmospheric radiation and substantially modify the Earth's energy
budget. Cloud formation processes occur over a vast range of spatial and temporal scales …

Climate simulations belong to the most data-intensive scientific disciplines and are—in
relation to one of humankind's largest challenges, ie, facing anthropogenic climate change …