1166: Cloud-cloud interaction in convective precipitation (INTERACTION)

Principal investigator: Jan Haerter

Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 7/2021 to 6/2022
Report 7/2022 to 6/2023
Report 7/2023 to 6/2024
Report 7/2024 to 6/2025

Publications

• DOI: 10.1029/2024MS004369, Kruse, I. L., R. Fiévet, and J. O. Haerter. "Tipping to an aggregated state by mesoscale convective systems." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17.3 (2025): e2024MS004369.
• DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01686-4, Da Silva, N.A., Haerter, J.O. Super-Clausius–Clapeyron scaling of extreme precipitation explained by shift from stratiform to convective rain type. Nat. Geosci. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01686-4
• DOI: 10.5194/gmd-18-1333-2025, Börner, Reyk, Jan O. Haerter, and Romain Fiévet. "DiuSST: a conceptual model of diurnal warm layers for idealized atmospheric simulations with interactive sea surface temperature." Geoscientific Model Development 18.5 (2025): 1333-1356.
• DOI: e2023JD040126, Hoeller, Jannik, et al. "U‐net segmentation for the detection of convective cold pools from cloud and rainfall fields." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 129.1 (2024): e2023JD040126.
• DOI: e2023GL107308, Hoeller, Jannik, Jan O. Haerter, and Nicolas A. Da Silva. "Characteristics of station‐derived convective cold pools over equatorial Africa." Geophysical Research Letters 51.6 (2024): e2023GL107308
• DOI: e2023MS003682, Hoeller, Jannik, Romain Fiévet, and Jan O. Haerter. "Detecting cold pool family trees in convection resolving simulations." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 16.1 (2024): e2023MS003682
• DOI: e2023JD039045, Da Silva, Nicolas A., and Jan O. Haerter. "The precipitation characteristics of mesoscale convective systems over Europe." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128.23 (2023): e2023JD039045
• DOI: e2023GL105996, Vraciu, Cristian V., Irene L. Kruse, and Jan O. Haerter. "The role of passive cloud volumes in the transition from shallow to deep atmospheric convection." Geophysical Research Letters 50.23 (2023): e2023GL105996
• DOI: e2021JD035331, Nissen, Silas Boye, and Jan O. Haerter. "Circling in on Convective Self‐Aggregation." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126.20 (2021): e2021JD035331
• DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10512898.1, Hoeller, Jannik, Romain Fiévet, and Jan O. Haerter. "U-Net Segmentation for the Detection of Convective Cold Pools From Cloud and Rainfall Fields." Authorea Preprints (2022).
• DOI: 10.22541/essoar.167768111.14938799/v1, Hoeller, Jannik, Romain Fiévet, and Jan O. Haerter. "Detecting Cold Pool Family Trees in Convection Resolving Simulations." (2023).
• under review
• DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10512460.1, Haerter, Jan O., and Romain Fiévet. "Precipitation resonance for an idealized ITCZ model." Authorea Preprints (2022).
• DOI: e2021MS002923, Jensen, Gorm Gruner, Romain Fiévet, Jan O. Haerter. “The diurnal path to persistent convective self-aggregation”, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2022) 14 (5), e2021MS002923
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.034314, Niehues, Jakob, Gorm Gruner Jensen, and Jan O. Haerter. "Self-organized quantization and oscillations on continuous fixed-energy sandpiles." Physical Review E 105.3 (2022): 034314.
• DOI: 10.1038/s41612-020-00132-z, Haerter, Jan O., Bettina Meyer, and Silas Boye Nissen. "Diurnal self-aggregation." npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 3.1 (2020): 1-11.
• DOI: 10.1029/2021JD035331, Nissen, Silas Boye, and Jan O. Haerter. "Circling in on Convective Self‐Aggregation." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126.20 (2021): e2021JD035331. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021JD035331
• Haerter, Jan O., Bettina Meyer, and Silas Boye Nissen. "Diurnal self-aggregation." npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 3.1 (2020): 1-11. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-020-00132-z
• Jensen, Gorm Gruner, Romain Fiévet, and Jan O. Haerter, "The diurnal path to persistent convective self-aggregation", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (accepted, in production)