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Overview

Burkhardt Rockel is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research in Germany. Their research centers on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences with a focus on global and planetary change alongside atmospheric science.

Their work extensively covers topics including climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, cryospheric studies and observations, as well as atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics. Additionally, they have contributed to studies related to hermeneutics and narrative identity, aging and elder care, and intersections of health, medicine, and society.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Accelerating deployment of offshore wind energy alter wind climate and reduce future power generation potentials, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • The CORDEX-Australasia ensemble: evaluation and future projections, 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • Internal Model Variability of the Regional Coupled System Model GCOAST-AHOI, 2020, Atmosphere

Frequent publication venues where Burkhardt Rockel's research has appeared include:

  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Scientific Reports
  • Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Regional Environmental Change
  • Climate Dynamics

Burkhardt Rockel often collaborates with researchers such as Beate Geyer, Klaus Keuler, Corinna Schrum, Ivonne Anders, and Erika Coppola.

Best Publications

  • An intercomparison of regional climate simulations for Europe: assessing uncertainties in model projections

    M. Déqué;D. P. Rowell;D. Lüthi;F. Giorgi

  • An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate

    Daniela Jacob;Lars Bärring;Ole Bøssing Christensen;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

  • Regional climate models add value to global model data, A Review and Selected Examples

    Frauke Feser;Burkhardt Rockel;Hans von Storch;Joerg Winterfeldt

  • Simulation of the present-day climate with the ECHAM model: Impact of model physics and resolution

    Erich Roeckner;Klaus Arpe;Lennart Bengtsson;S. Brinkop

  • Future global meteorological drought hot spots: A study based on CORDEX data

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • A comprehensive model inter-comparison study investigating the water budget during the BALTEX-PIDCAP period

    D. Jacob;B. J. J. M. Van den Hurk;U. Andræ;G. Elgered

  • A first-of-its-kind multi-model convection permitting ensemble for investigating convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean

    Erika Coppola;Stefan Sobolowski;E. Pichelli;F. Raffaele

  • Global high resolution versus Limited Area Model climate change projections over Europe: quantifying confidence level from PRUDENCE results

    M Deque;R G Jones;M Wild;F Giorgi

  • Progress in regional downscaling of west African precipitation

    Heiko Paeth;Nicholas M.J. Hall;Miguel Angel Gaertner;Marta Dominguez Alonso

  • Extremes of near-surface wind speed over Europe and their future changes as estimated from an ensemble of RCM simulations

    Burkhardt Rockel;Katja Woth

  • Analysis of ERA40-driven CLM simulations for Europe

    Eric B. Jaeger;Ivonne Anders;Daniel Lüthi;Burkhardt Rockel

  • Dynamical downscaling: Assessment of model system dependent retained and added variability for two different regional climate models

    Burkhardt Rockel;Christopher L. Castro;Roger A. Pielke;Hans von Storch

  • Tropical and Subtropical Cloud Transitions in Weather and Climate Prediction Models: The GCSS/WGNE Pacific Cross-Section Intercomparison (GPCI)

    J. Teixeira;S. Cardoso;S. Cardoso;M. Bonazzola;J. Cole

  • The performance of the regional climate model CLM in different climate regions, based on the example of precipitation

    Burkhardt Rockel;Beate Geyer

  • Accelerating deployment of offshore wind energy alter wind climate and reduce future power generation potentials.

    Naveed Akhtar;Beate Geyer;Burkhardt Rockel;Philipp S. Sommer

  • A dynamical link between the Arctic and the global climate system

    K. Dethloff;A. Rinke;A. Benkel;M. Køltzow

  • COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review

    Silje Lund Sørland;Roman Brogli;Praveen Kumar Pothapakula;Emmanuele Russo

  • Soil Control on Runoff Response to Climate Change in Regional Climate Model Simulations

    B Van den Hurk;M Hirschi;C Schar;G Lenderink

  • Evaluating reanalysis-driven CORDEX regional climate models over Australia: model performance and errors

    Giovanni Di Virgilio;Jason P. Evans;Alejandro Di Luca;Roman Olson;Roman Olson

  • Characterization of the rainy season in Burkina Faso and it’s representation by regional climate models

    B. Ibrahim;J. Polcher;H. Karambiri;B. Rockel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen University of Copenhagen
Annette Rinke
Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Daniela Jacob
Daniela Jacob Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Ute Karstens
Ute Karstens Lund University
Filippo Giorgi
Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Erik Kjellström
Erik Kjellström Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Hans von Storch
Hans von Storch Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Bodo Ahrens
Bodo Ahrens Goethe University Frankfurt
B. J. J. M. van den Hurk
B. J. J. M. van den Hurk Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

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