Research group Dynamic Meteorology
How and why the atmosphere moves is studied within dynamic meteorology. The atmosphere is never still and its movement can be described by partial differential equations which describe how changes in speed, density, pressure and temperature occur. We study these movements from the smallest scale of turbulence to planetary waves.
We study the basic aspects of atmospheric dynamics and how that controls the general circulation and the exchange of heat, water vapor, gases and momentum between different parts of the atmosphere.
The research questions are, for example:
- the exchange between the turbulent layer closest to the surface, the so-called boundary layer, and Earth's surface.
- how well synoptic low pressure and high pressure blocking are represented in models and how they affect the meridional transport and the dynamic prerequisites for extreme weather events.
- the importance of graviational waves for the general circulation and the coupling between different layers of the atmosphere.
We study the research questions by combining theory, numerical simulations with analysis of observations.
This research has been going on since 1991.
Group description
Additional international collaborators for this research:
Atmospheric and Environmental Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock (IAP)
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan
NorthWest Research Associates (NWRA)
Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University
Group members
Group managers
Annica Ekman
Professor of Meteorology
Gunilla Svensson
Professor of Meteorology
Jörg Gumbel
Professor of Atmospheric physics
Linda Megner
Researcher, docent
Members
Björn Linder
PhD student
Colin Zarzycki
Assistant professor
Donal Murtagh
Professor
Jacek Stegman
Researcher
Joachim Dillner
Research engineer
Joakim Pyykkö
PhD student
Jonas Hedin
Researcher
Jonathan Day
Scientist
Julio Bachmeister
Senior scientist
Maura Dewey
PhD student
Michail Karalis
PhD student
Nickolay Ivchenko
Associate professor
Ole Martin Christensen
Researcher Consultant
Sonja Murto
Postdoctor
Vincent Larson
Professor
