Mourning the Loss of Atmospheric Climate Researcher Astrid Kiendler-Scharr

Forschungszentrum Jülich is mourning the loss of Prof. Astrid Kiendler-Scharr. The internationally renowned atmospheric and climate researcher died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of just 49 on 6 February 2023.

Cooling Particles

A team of researchers from the United States, Norway and Germany has demonstrated for the first time that the increase in atmospheric desert dust since the mid-19th century has had an overall cooling effect on the Earth.

Troposphere

The Institute IEK-8 explores the chemistry of the troposphere, performs global observations, and simulates atmospheric chemistry and transport processes by numerical models.

Stratosphere

IEK-7 conducts research on the chemistry, dynamics and microphysics of the stratosphere and the tropopause region, and on the role these atmospheric layers play in the climate system.

Simulation

Simulation laboratory for climate research

A considerable proportion of climate research at Jülich takes place at the computer: measured data are evaluated, numerical models developed for equations, and model processes simulated and plotted in graphs. For applications requiring high computing power and sophisticated algorithms, Jülich climate researchers can call on the support of experts from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), specifically the Simulation Laboratory (SimLab) Climate Science team.

Helmholtz Research Fields

Topic: The atmosphere in global change

Almost all life on Earth depends on the Earth’s thin protective layer, the atmosphere. The institutes participating in this topic use high-resolution regional climate projections to produce predictions of the state of the atmosphere.