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In the Hans Ertel Centre basic research is carried out so as to improve weather forecasting and climate monitoring. This is prerequisite for the DWD to be able to respond to the future challenges facing its key customers. To this aim an internationally visible competence centre is being established, creating a network between the DWD and leading meteorological research institutions in Germany. University education in meteorology will be strengthened also and personnel development for the DWD and the research institutes assured.
The Hans Ertel Centre supports and concretises the following strategic aims of the DWD:
- Combine effort: through the Hans Ertel Centre the available relevant expertise in the participating research institutes is combined with that of the DWD and is strengthened through the additional resources so as to address key problems in weather research
- Accelerate innovation: the goal-oriented investigation of key problems in weather research supports the provision of new and improved products for weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
- Shape lead markets: the optimal use of new and improved forms of information from weather forecasts and climate monitoring is an important transdisciplinary research area of the Hans Ertel Centre with the perspective for developing new and improved services in support of decision makers in politics, administration, industry and civil protection
The Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research is focused on the following research areas:
- Atmospheric dynamics and predictability
- Data assimilation
- Model development
- Climate monitoring and diagnostic
- Optimal use of information from weather forecasts and climate monitoring for the benefit of society
Along with the cross-cutting theme: “The optimal use of appropriate observing systems”.
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The following institutions and the DWD work together the Hans Ertel Centre:
| Institutions | Projects |
|---|---|
| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Ensemble based convective scale data assimilation and the use of remote sensing observations |
| Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie Universität Hamburg | Advancing the Representation of Convection across Scales (ARCS) |
| Goethe-Universität Frankfurt | The Planetary Boundary Layer in Numerical Weather Prediction |
| Universität Bonn Universität zu Köln | A future-oriented framework for regional climate monitoring |
| Die Freie Universität Berlin Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung | Weather warnings: from EXtreme event Information to COMunication and action – WEXICOM |
The project “Object-based Analysis and Seamless prediction” of the Universität Bonn and the Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung, TROPOS, Leipzig, made significant advances in the research area “Atmospheric Dynamics and Predictability” from 2011 to 2014.