Welcome to the Collaborative Research Center TRR 181 ”Energy transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean“
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About the project
Energy does not vanish
The energy of a closed system is steady. It is not lost but rather converted into other forms, such as when kinetic energy is transferred into thermal energy or vice versa heat results in a force.
However, this fundamental principle of natural science is often still a problem for climate research. For example, in case of the calculation of ocean currents, where small-scale vortices as well as mixing processes they induce need to be considered, without fully understanding where the energy for their creation originates from. This is similar in the atmosphere, the only difference being that air is moving instead of water. Again, local turbulences can drive larger movements or vice versa waves on a larger scale can disintegrate into small structures.
All these processes are important for the Earth’s climate and determine how temperatures will rise in the future.
Existing climate models show energetic and mathematical inconsistencies which may lead to fundamental errors in climate forecasts. Now is the right time to combine recent efforts in Meteorology, Oceanography and applied Mathematics and to go new ways.
News
Open Position at TRR181
The Collaborative Research Center TRR 181 "Energy transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean" invites applications for 1 Postdoc position at Universität Hamburg. more ›
Collaborative Workshop on "Scales and scaling cascades in geophysical systems" a full success
Our fourth annual workshop on "Scales and scaling cascades in geophysical systems" was held from April 4-6, 2018 at "Haus des Sports" in Hamburg, Germany. more ›
TRR 181 Newsletter "Energy Inflow" - December 2017
Our newsletter comes out every three months and includes information about the work done in our project and more. more ›
Upcoming Events
TRR 181 seminar - Tobias Kukulka: "Tidal influence on Langmuir circulation in a coastal ocean"
The TRR 181 seminar is held every two weeks in the semester and as announced during semester break. The locations of the seminar changes between the three TRR 181 locations, but is broadcasted online for all members of the TRR. more ›
TRR 181 seminar: Stephane Vannitsem - "Predictability at seasonal, interannual and decadal time scales"
The TRR 181 seminar is held every two weeks in the semester and as announced during semester break. The locations of the seminar changes between the three TRR 181 locations, but is broadcasted online for all members of the TRR. more ›
TRR 181 Annual Retreat
Our annual retreat is held from September 24-26 at Schlossgut Groß Schwansee. more ›
Latest Publications
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Faranda, D., Lembo, V., Iyer, M., Kuzzay, D., Chibbaro, S., Daviaud, F., Dubrulle, B. (2018). Computation and Characterization of Local Subfilter-Scale Energy Transfers in Atmospheric Flows. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol 75, 2175-2186, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0114.1
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Xu, J., Koldunov, N. V., Remedio, A.R.C., Sein, D.V., Zhi, X., Jiang, X., Xu, M., Zhu, X., Fraedrich, K., Jacob, D. (2018). On the role of horizontal resolution over the Tibetan Plateau in the REMO regional climate model, Climate Dynamics, February 8, 2018, 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4085-7
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Schaefer-Rolffs, U. and Becker, E., (2018). Scale-invariant Formulation of Momentum Diffusion for High-Resolution Atmospheric Circulation Models , Mon. Wea. Rev., 146, 1045-1062, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-17-0216.1.
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