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Volker Wulfmeyer

Volker Wulfmeyer

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
61
Citations
13621
World Ranking
2769
National Ranking
184

Overview

Volker Wulfmeyer is affiliated with the University of Hohenheim in Germany. Their research centers on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant focus on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

Their work spans multiple subfields, including environmental engineering, plant science, and computational mechanics. The primary topics covered in their research include meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, wind and air flow studies, and climate change and permafrost.

Volker Wulfmeyer's research output is published predominantly in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Meteorologische Zeitschrift
  • Climate Dynamics

They have collaborated extensively with a number of coauthors whose frequent collaborations are documented as follows:

  • Andreas Behrendt
  • Kirsten Warrach-Sagi
  • Thomas Schwitalla
  • Florian Späth
  • Oliver Branch

Among Volker Wulfmeyer's recent papers are the following, illustrating the range and focus of their research:

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • Evaluation of the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Model Ensemble, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Assessment of the European Climate Projections as Simulated by the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional and Global Climate Model Ensemble, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Biogeophysical impacts of forestation in Europe: first results from the LUCAS (Land Use and Climate Across Scales) regional climate model intercomparison, 2020, Earth System Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Regional climate modeling on European scales: a joint standard evaluation of the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble

    S. Kotlarski;K. Keuler;O. B. Christensen;A. Colette

  • HESS Opinions "Should we apply bias correction to global and regional climate model data?"

    Uwe Ehret;Erwin Zehe;V. Wulfmeyer;K. Warrach-Sagi

  • Land–Atmosphere Interactions: The LoCo Perspective

    Joseph A. Santanello;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Craig R. Ferguson;Kirsten L. Findell

  • The simulation of European heat waves from an ensemble of regional climate models within the EURO-CORDEX project

    Robert Vautard;Andreas Gobiet;Daniela Jacob;Michal Belda

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

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • The Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study. A Research and Development Project of the World Weather Research Program for Improving Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting in Low-Mountain Regions

    Volker Wulfmeyer;Andreas Behrendt;Hans-Stefan Bauer;Christoph Kottmeier

  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation

    Nikolina Ban;Cécile Caillaud;Erika Coppola;Emanuela Pichelli

  • Measuring Second- through Fourth-Order Moments in Noisy Data

    Donald H. Lenschow;Volker Wulfmeyer;Christoph Senff

  • Evaluation of the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Model Ensemble

    Robert Vautard;Nikolay Kadygrov;Carley Iles;Fredrik Boberg

  • Large-eddy simulations over Germany using ICON: a comprehensive evaluation

    Rieke Heinze;Rieke Heinze;Anurag Dipankar;Cintia Carbajal Henken;Christopher Moseley

  • The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS): the scientific strategy, the field phase, and research highlights

    Volker Wulfmeyer;Andreas Behrendt;Christoph Kottmeier;Ulrich Corsmeier

  • Assessment of the European Climate Projections as Simulated by the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional and Global Climate Model Ensemble

    Erika Coppola;Rita Nogherotto;James M. Ciarlo;Filippo Giorgi

  • A review of the remote sensing of lower-tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles

    Volker Wulfmeyer;R. Michael Hardesty;David D. Turner;Andreas Behrendt

  • Understanding the global hydrological droughts of 2003?2016 and their relationships with teleconnections

    Ehsan Forootan;Ehsan Forootan;M. Khaki;M. Schumacher;V. Wulfmeyer

  • Should we apply bias correction to global and regional climate model data

    U. Ehret;E. Zehe;V. Wulfmeyer;K. Warrach-Sagi

  • The impact of standard and hard-coded parameters on the hydrologic fluxes in the Noah-MP land surface model

    Matthias Cuntz;Matthias Cuntz;Juliane Mai;Luis Samaniego;Martyn Clark

  • Scanning rotational Raman lidar at 355 nm for the measurement of tropospheric temperature fields

    M. Radlach;A. Behrendt;V. Wulfmeyer

  • MAP D-PHASE: Real-Time Demonstration of Weather Forecast Quality in the Alpine region

    Mathias W. Rotach;Paolo Ambrosetti;Felix Ament;Christof Appenzeller

  • Evaluation of a climate simulation in Europe based on the WRF–NOAH model system: precipitation in Germany

    Kirsten Warrach-Sagi;Thomas Schwitalla;Volker Wulfmeyer;Hans Stefan Bauer

  • Biogeophysical impacts of forestation in Europe: first results from the LUCAS (Land Use and Climate Across Scales) regional climate model intercomparison

    Edouard Léopold Davin;Diana Rechid;Marcus Breil;Rita M. Cardoso

  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, Part I: Evaluation of precipitation

    Nikolina Ban;Erwan Brisson;Cécile Caillaud;Erika Coppola

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Behrendt
Andreas Behrendt University of Hohenheim
Paolo Di Girolamo
Paolo Di Girolamo University of Basilicata
Ulrich Corsmeier
Ulrich Corsmeier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Joachim Ingwersen
Joachim Ingwersen University of Hohenheim
David D. Turner
David D. Turner National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thilo Streck
Thilo Streck University of Hohenheim
Cyrille Flamant
Cyrille Flamant Sorbonne University
Susanne Crewell
Susanne Crewell University of Cologne
Norbert Kalthoff
Norbert Kalthoff Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Sabine Attinger
Sabine Attinger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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