Stockholm university

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.

Our research is done in an international setting and we collaborate with many institutes, organisations and centers both within Sweden and internationally. The main collaborators are listed in the righthand panel under "Partners".

This research has been going on since 1991.

Group members

Group managers

Annica Ekman

Professor of Meteorology

Department of Meteorology
AnnicaEkman

Casey Wall

Assistant professor

Department of Meteorology
Casey Wall profile picture. Photo: Emma Wall

Gunilla Svensson

Professor of Meteorology

Department of Meteorology
Gunilla Svensson

Jörg Gumbel

Professor of Atmospheric physics

Department of Meteorology
Jörg Gumbel, MISU

Linda Megner

Researcher, docent

Department of Meteorology

Members

Björn Linder

PhD student

Department of Meteorology

Jacek Stegman

Researcher

Department of Meteorology
Jacek Stegman, MISU

Joachim Dillner

Research engineer

Department of Meteorology

Joakim Pyykkö

PhD student

Department of Meteorology

Jonas Hedin

Researcher

Department of Meteorology
Jonas Hedin

Maura Dewey

PhD student

Department of Meteorology
maura

Michail Karalis

PhD student

Department of Meteorology

Ole Martin Christensen

Researcher Consultant

Department of Meteorology

Research projects