News

24.05.2023

Annette Miltenberger is Junior Professor!

23.05.2023

Annika Oertel receives funding for a junior group!

06.12.2022

The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Benedikt Schulz!

His poster/PICO entitled: "Machine learning for postprocessing ensemble forecasts of wind gusts with a focus on European winter storms" won the price. more

30.11.2022

8th Annual Meeting of W2W (28-30th Nov. 2022)

The 8th Annual Meeting of W2W took place from 28-30 November 2022 in Würzburg. more

22.11.2022

Presentation at the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecast (22.11.2022)

Andreas Fink presented results about projects C2 and C3. more

21.11.2022

Interview about the relationship between global warming and Mediterranean extreme events

Federico Grazzini gave an interview to the EGU blog of Nonlinear Processes. more

24.09.2022

W2W welcomes Linus Magnusson as a W2W Fellow!

Starting 1 January 2023, Linus Magnusson (ECMWF) will contribute to W2W as a Fellow. more

18.07.2022

Interview of Andreas Fink about how to prepare for heatwaves

Read the interview... more

13.07.2022

Interview in the "Stuttgarter Zeitung"

Andreas Fink gave an interview about the early warning of heat waves. more

12.07.2022

Mini-DWD at "Mini-Munich": a weather headquarters for children

W2W and the meteorological institute will operate a weather service at the "Spielstadt Mini-München" where children between 7-15 years old will produce their own weather forecast. more

05.07.2022

Interview in the KIT Campus-Report serie

Benedikt Schulz gave an interview about the early warning of hurricane gusts. more

01.07.2022

Third announcement for the Mathematics of the Weather conference

The registration deadline has been postponed to 08 August 2022. Submit an abstract! more

15.06.2022

Interview about heat waves in the "Badischen Neuesten Nachrichten"

Andreas Fink gave an interview about the recent heat wave in Germany, and extreme events in the context of climate change. more

01.06.2022

Second announcement for MOW2022

Register for the "Mathematics of the Weather" conference! more

16.05.2022

New RA-B coordinator!

Christian Keil takes over the coordination of RA-B. more

29.04.2022

Poster exhibition at Diversity4Research@LMU

Read inspiring stories about becoming a scientists from 30 May to 01 July 2022. more

20.04.2022

Andreas Fink is a Fellow of the American Meteorogical Society!

19.04.2022

Maicon Hieronymus received an "Outstanding Poster Award"

12.04.2022

Another top-cited article

The recent paper of Mirjam Hirt and her colleagues was one of the most cited recently! more

01.04.2022

Top-cited article

The recent paper of Federico Grazzini and his colleagues from ARPAE was one of the most cited recently! more

21.03.2022

Movies about the LMU, JGU and KIT

The University Partnership for Atmospheric Sciences produced movies about the institutes in Munich, Mainz and Karlsruhe involved in W2W. more

15.03.2022

Press release about "Better predicting wind gusts with AI"

Benedikt Schulz and Sebastian Lerch were featured in a press release of KIT. more

09.03.2022

Presentation at SUNY Stony Brook University (09.03.2022)

George Craig talked about "What limits the predictability of weather in the mid-latitude?". more

07.03.2022

Presentation at "KIT im Rathaus"

Sebastian Lerch gave a presentation on “The mathematics of weather forecast: from folk sayings to artificial intelligence". more

01.03.2022

Two new postdocs in W2W

We welcome Maria Madsen and Joshua Dorrington in W2W! more

22.02.2022

Girls' Day 2022

This year, workshops will be offered by W2W scientists in Munich, Mainz and Karlsruhe. more

21.12.2021

Mathematics of Weather conference (4-6 Oct. 2022)

Stay tuned for more information about this conference co-organized by W2W! Registration opens in 1 March 2022. more

07.11.2021

Article in "Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung"

Volkmar Wirth was interviewed in the FAZ on 7 November 2021. more

29.10.2021

Article in the "Badische Neueste Nachrichten"

Peter Knippertz was interviewed and W2W was presented in detail. more

06.10.2021

Interview in "MIT Technology Review"

Sebastian Lerch was interviewed on AI and weather forecasting. more

28.09.2021

Blog post on the AEOLUS campaign

Maurus Borne is featured in a blog post of the ESA. more

27.09.2021

Interview by the YESS community

Several W2W scientists were interviewed by the YESS community, leading to a complete and inspiring portrait of W2W. more

13.09.2021

Presentation at the Deutsches Museum (13.10.2021)

Corinna Hoose will talk about "clouds: water, ice, weather and climate" in the seminar series of the Deutsches Museum "Wissenschaft für jedermann". more

03.09.2021

Interview in Focus Online

Andreas Fink was interviewed about heatwaves and droughts. more

01.09.2021

W2W Alumni: Juliane Rosemeier

Congratulations, Juliane for your Walter Benjamin stipend! more

28.08.2021

Interview in the "Berliner Zeitung"

Andreas Fink was interviewed about artificial intelligence and weather forecast. The article of Rasp and Lerch (2018) was also used. more

11.08.2021

Follow W2W on Twitter!

Online since 9 August, W2W writes about research highlights, exciting news, upcoming workshops and meetings, equal opportunity activities, and much more

06.08.2021

Our second transfer project is funded!

A collaboration between W2W (LMU, KIT), ARPAE-SIMC Emilia-Romagna and ECMWF more

04.08.2021

TV interview in "alle wetter!" on weather pattern blockings (4 Aug. 2021)

Volkmar Wirth gave an interview on Christopher Polster's PhD thesis. more

17.07.2021

Article on extreme precipitation in the Eiffel region

Volkmar Wirth was invited to talk about the recent flooding in the Eiffel region. more

09.07.2021

A BAMS article about W2W

Read more about "Waves to Weather: Exploring the limits of predictability of weather" more

08.06.2021

T. Janjic-Pfander awarded the Quarterly Journal Editor’s Award for 2020

28.05.2021

Science Summer at the Deutsches Museum

Scientists from the meteorological institute in Munich and from W2W will offer a program to the general public on 20 June 2021. more

16.04.2021

Webinar on "Addressing gender imbalance in science" (16.04.2021)

W2W and equal opportunity measures and activities, in particular the comic book "Of course!" was presented at a webinar. more

11.04.2021

Open PhD position in the C3 project !

A PhD position is available at KIT. more

07.04.2021

Blog post on "Of course!" on EGU Blogs

The project was featured in the EGU Blogs (Atmospheric Sciences). more

22.03.2021

The comic book "Of course!" is available online!

This 2nd edition is available in English and in German. more

12.03.2021

W2W Fellows

A W2W Fellows program has been established. more

08.03.2021

Interview in the "Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag" (08.03.2021)

17.02.2021

MünchnerUni Magazin

The comic book "Doch!" has been featured in the magazine of the LMU. more

17.02.2021

Girls' Day 2021 (22.04.2021)

This year, online workshops will be offered by W2W scientists in Munich, Mainz and Karlsruhe. more

11.02.2021

Equal Opportunity Lunch Seminar (18.02.2021)

Erica Madonna (Univ. Bergen) invited Audine Laurian to present the comic book "Of course!" featuring inspiring scientists at a lunch seminar. more

27.01.2021 at 00:00

The comic book "Of course!" featured in an Italian newspaper

One of the female role models featured in the comic book has been interviewed. more

01.01.2021

New professorship at the University of Vienna

Aiko Voigt (KIT) has accepted a professorship in Vienna. more

14.12.2020

Christian Grams becomes ECMWF Fellow

11.12.2020

Picture A Scientist (20.-23.12.2020)

A showing of the film has been organized for the W2W community. more

04.12.2020

Sebastian Lerch receives funding to start his research group

Starting in April 2021 Sebastian Lerch will start his young investigator group "Artificial Intelligence for Probabilistic Weather Forecasting". more

02.12.2020

Presentations at the science festival EFFEKTE in Karlsruhe (08.12.2020)

Christian Grams, Michael Kunz and Peter Knippertz gave presentations on 8 December 2020. more

09.10.2020

Newsletter of the KIT Climate and Environment Center (1/2020)

The aim and challenges of W2W, as well as a former PhD student were presented in the latest issue of the newsletter of the KIT Climate and Environment Center. more

21.07.2020

Article in "Welt am Sonntag" (05.07.2020)

Andreas Fink has been interviewed about the current heat wave in Siberia. more

07.07.2020

Martin Hanke-Bourgeois becomes Dean of his Faculty

02.07.2020

Presentation at the Ulm University (10.07.2020)

Tilmann Gneiting will give a presentation at the mathematical colloquium of the Ulm University on July 10th 2020. more

29.06.2020

Mini-München (27.07.-17.08.2020)

Two workshops will be offered by W2W early career scientists in July and August 2020 in Munich to introduce children and teenagers to meteorology and numerical weather forecasting. more

08.06.2020

P. Knippertz awarded the Quarterly Journal Editor’s Award for 2019

15.05.2020

Joint Project of the WWRP (WMO)

W2W becomes the first "Joint Project" of the World Weather Research Program of the WMO! more

23.04.2020

Mädchen machen Meteorologie 2020

Researchers from W2W and the meteorological institute in Munich (LMU) will offer a 2-day workshop to school girls on 2-3 Sept. 2020. more

17.03.2020

Official partner of the Deutsches Museum (Mar. 2020)

W2W becomes an official partner of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. more

08.01.2020

Girls' Day 2020

The partner institutes of W2W would have offered workshops on Girls' Day (26 March 2020). Unfortunately, this event was cancelled. more

07.10.2019

Scientific Advisory Board

A SAB has been established to assure the quality of W2W as a whole. more

27.09.2019

Public lecture on the role of chance in weather forecasting (29.01.2020)

Tilmann Gneiting will give a public lecture at the Carl Bosch museum in Heidelberg on January 29th 2020. more

13.09.2019

"Mädchen machen Technik": summer program for school girls (4-5th Sept. 2019)

W2W and the meteorological institute at the LMU in Munich offered a two-day workshop for school girls between 12 and 14 years old. more

03.09.2019

New Copernicus Journal Weather and Climate Dynamics (WCD)

This journal is now ready for submissions. more

09.08.2019

New professorship at the University of Vienna

Martin Weissmann (LMU/DWD) has accepted a professorship in Vienna. more

12.07.2019

W2W Special Online Collection in QJRMS

The W2W Special Collection in QJ is now online! more

26.06.2019 at 00:00

Current heat wave in the news

W2W experts from KIT have been interviewed about the heat wave currently hitting Europe. more

11.06.2019 at 00:00

Open positions within W2W

21 positions are offered within the W2W consortium, starting July 1st 2019 or as soon as possible. more

06.06.2019

Article in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"

Volkmar Wirth was interviewed in the FAZ on June 4th 2019. more

23.05.2019

Phase 2 of W2W

The DFG has renewed the funding for W2W for another 4 years. Phase 2 starts on July 1st 2019! more

11.04.2019

Schmidt Science Fellow 2019

Andreas Schlüter (PhD student in Project C2) has been selected as one of 20 Schmidt Science Fellows 2019. more

21.03.2019

Open Day at LMU Munich

On May 4th 2019, the Faculty of Physics at LMU will present its research to the general public. Presentations, stands and an exhibit on the physics of climate change are part of the program. more

21.03.2019

"Wissenschaft für jedermann"

Bernhard Vogel has been invited to give a presentation at the Deutsches Museum on October 16th 2019. more

20.12.2018

Heisenberg program

Tijana Janjic-Pfander has been accepted to the Heisenberg program of the DFG. more

11.12.2018

Girls' Day 2019

W2W researchers in Munich and in Mainz are offering workshops on weather, weather forecasting, and climate change for school girls on March 28th 2019. more

19.11.2018

New W2W members

Researchers from the Munich area, Karlsruhe, Mainz and Hamburg have joined the consortium. more

10.10.2018

19th Cyclone Workshop (Sep. - Oct. 2019)

The first call for papers for the 19th Cyclone Workshop is out! more

15.09.2018

Interview in the "Nürnberger Zeitung" (15.09.2018)

George Craig gave an interview for the newspaper. more

14.09.2018

Speeding up climate computations

Stephan Rasp's article in PNAS on "Deep learning to represent sub-grid processes in climate models” received some attention in the news. more

14.09.2018

"Mädchen machen Technik": summer program for school girls (3-4th Sep. 2018)

W2W offered a two-day program for ten school girls between 12 and 14 years old at the meteorological institute in Munich. more

13.07.2018

AMS Special Collection "W2W"

The AMS special collection “W2W” is now online! more

16.05.2018

Met Office Scientific Advisory Committee

George Craig accepted to be part of the Met Office Scientific Advisory Committee for a period of four years. more

09.05.2018

Article in "Earth System Knowedge Platform" (09.05.2018)

Andreas Fink wrote an article about flash floods in Africa in ESKP (Earth System Knowledge Platform) with focus on mega cities under pressure. more

04.05.2018

7th Workshop on European Storms (Oct. 2018)

This workshop will take place in Karlsruhe from October 10-12th 2018. more

25.04.2018

Poster award

Andreas Schlüter (project C2) won a poster award at the last AMS Conference. more

10.04.2018

Splinter meeting at EGU (Apr. 2018)

Researchers from four programs funded by the DFG met informally during the EGU in Vienna to get to know each other and to possibly start new collaborations. more

22.03.2018

Girls' Day 2018

W2W researchers in Munich, Mainz and Heidelberg are offering workshops on weather, weather forecasting, climate change and mathematics for school girls on April 26th 2018. more

02.03.2018

Training course for teachers (27.02.2018)

The Faculty of Physics at the LMU together with the meteorological institute and W2W offered a one-day training to teachers on February 27th 2018. more

29.01.2018

The program of the ISDA 2018 is online!

The International Symposium on Data Assimilation will take place in Munich from March 5-9th 2018. The program is now available online! more

19.01.2018

New W2 Professor in Munich

Thomas Birner has been appointed as W2 Professor at the LMU in Munich. more

19.01.2018

New W2W members

Four new members have joined the W2W Consortium on November 2017. more

17.10.2017

Conference on Predictability and Multi-Scale Prediction of High Impact Weather

This international conference took place in Landshut from October 9-12th 2017. more

27.09.2017

The Met.3D website is online!

The website presenting Met.3D, the open-source interactive 3D visualization tool for meteorological (ensemble) simulations, is now online. more

18.09.2017

IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medal Award

Congratulations to Corinna Hoose (KIT) who has been awarded the 2017 IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medal! more

14.09.2017

Save the date: International Symposium on Data Assimilation (5-9th Mar. 2018)

07.09.2017

"Mädchen machen Technik": summer program for school girls (5-6th Sep. 2017)

W2W offered a two-day program for ten school girls between 12 and 14 years old at the meteorological institute in Munich. more

14.06.2017

Submit your abstract for the Conference on Predictability and multi-scale Prediction of High Impact Weather (Oct. 2017)

Together with the HIWeather project (WMO) W2W will organize an international conference on Predictability and multi-scale Prediction of High Impact Weather in October 2017. more

26.05.2017

ECMWF Fellow

The ECMWF Fellow status of Prof. Tilmann Gneiting (C7 project) has been extended through June 2020. more

01.05.2017

W2W at the EGU 2017

The promotion of equal opportunity within W2W has been presented at the EGU 2017 in the session "Promoting and supporting equality of opportunities in geosciences". more

24.04.2017

Building on last year's success, W2W took part in Girls' Day on April 27th 2017. Schoolgirls between 12 and 15 year old learned about studies and research in the fields of Meteorology and Physics thanks to short presentations, hands-on activities, and discussions at the different partner institutions. more

12.04.2017

Interview in MINT (12th Apr. 2017)

Corinna Hoose gave an interview on April 12th 2017 in MINT. more

01.03.2017

"Wissenschaft für jedermann"

Volkmar Wirth will give a presentation to a broad audience on numerical weather forecasting and themes addressed in W2W on March 1st 2017. more

16.11.2016

2nd Annual Meeting of W2W (8-11th Nov. 2016)

The 2nd Annual Meeting of W2W took place from November 08th to 11th, 2016 in Speyer. The program of the meeting and more information can be found below. more

24.10.2016

NAWDEX in ARD-Morgenmagazin (21st Oct. 2016)

George Craig and Andreas Schäfler have been interviewed about the NAWDEX campaign in the ARD-Morgenmagazin on October 21st 2016. more

15.10.2016

W2W Annual Meeting

The next annual meeting of W2W will take place from November 8th to November 11th 2016. More information will be posted in the "Meetings" section. more

19.09.2016

NAWDEX Campaign started!

The international measurement campaign NAWDEX (for North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment) started today in Island. more

03.08.2016

Interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (3rd Aug. 2016)

An interview of George Craig has appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on August 3rd 2016. more

22.07.2016

2 PhD positions available!

One PhD position is available in the A3 project on "Assessment of model errors in warm conveyor belts and their impact on downstream dynamics". One PhD position is available in the A6 project on "Representing forecast uncertainty using stochastic physical parameterizations". more

05.06.2016

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