Published in Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 219–233, 2024: In order to improve observations of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), the European Meteorological Network, EUMETNET, and…
Published in Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E1875–E1892, 2023: Numerical weather prediction models operate on grid spacings of a few kilometers, where deep convection begins…
Published in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1– 19, 2022: This work focuses on the potential of a network of Doppler lidars for…
Published in Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 3243–3260, 2022: Doppler wind lidars (DWLs) have increasingly been used over the last decade to derive the mean wind…
Published in Solar Energy, Volume 232, 444–458, 2022: Model estimates of expected photovoltaic (PV) power production rely on accurate irradiance data. Reanalysis and satellite products freely provide irradiance data…
Published in Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Volume 27, Issue 2, 2022: Many applications require wind gust estimates at very different atmospheric height levels. For example,…
Press release, November, 2021: Scientists at the University of Cologne are investigating how an energy system with a high share of renewables can work even…
Published in Renewable Energy, Volume 163, 674–684, 2021: The increasing use of wind and solar power requires interventions to balance the associated variability in energy…
Published in Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 2, 37, 2021: Spring 2020 broke sunshine duration records across Western Europe. The Netherlands recorded the highest surface irradiance…
Published in Geosci. Model Dev.,14, 6765–6780, 2021: The verification of high-resolution meteorological models requires highly resolved validation data and appropriate tools of analysis. While much…
Published in Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc.,147,1150–1169, 2021: One important attribute of meteorological forecasts is their representation of spatial structures. While several existing verification methods…
Published in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 59, 7, 2020: Atmospheric stability plays an essential role in the evolution of weather events. While the…
Published in Advances in Science and Research, 17, 115–128, 2020: Based on the numerical weather prediction model COSMO of Germany’s national meteorological service (Deutscher Wetterdienst,…
Published in Adv. Stat. Clim. Meteorol. Oceanogr., 6, 13–30, 2020: Recently developed verification tools based on local wavelet spectra can isolate errors in the spatial…
Published in Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 3401–3418, 2019: The quality of precipitation forecasts is difficult to evaluate objectively because images with disjointed features surrounded by…