Working group "Climate Dynamics and Statistics"
Our research activities include the statistical and dynamical analysis of atmospheric processes, the statistical post-processing of weather and climate forecasts, and the detection and attribution of climate change signals. An important focus is on extreme events, their drivers and their statistical description and prediction, both in the short term and on climate time scales. In close collaboration with the "Climate Monitoring" group of Prof. Dr. Leonie Esters, we pursue an integrated view of the Earth system by bringing together observations, dynamical and stochastic process understanding, and statistical and numerical modeling to understand and predict processes in the energy, water, and carbon cycles.
Research focus
- Climate dynamics
- extreme weather and climate events
- statistical-dynamic analyses
- statistical post-processing
- extreme value statistics
Teaching focus
- Climate dynamics
- Statistical methods
- Fluid dynamics
- Inverse Modeling
- Thermodynamics
Climate seminar
Staff
PD Dr. Petra Friederichs
Working group leader and Research associate
