Linda van Garderen, PhD student in our working group Coordination of Storm Themes has won the award for the best poster presentation! Her poster was awarded at the 9th REKLIM Workshop, 6 – 8 May 2019, Herrsching (Ammersee). Linda gave us a brief statement of her work:
“In my poster “Storms of the Future” I present the results of my master thesis work done an the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, as well as the method I am now applying for my PhD at Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht. During my MSc thesis work I was looking at the ‘what’ question. What will change in the future concerning storm characteristics for the Netherlands. I compare high (T799) and medium (T159) resolution EC-Earth model output to answer this questions. For the Netherlands we expect less storm, but the storms that do come contain significantly more precipitation. This combination of storm and precipitation may lead to compound events. For the methodology of my PhD at HZG, I am looking at the ‘what’ question. What is actually happening when climate change influence extreme weather events. How are processes and thermodynamics influence. For this I will use the ECHAM6 T255 spectrally nudged model within a storyline approach. I model an event as it happend, and I model the same event but in a world without climate change. My job is to find how the two version are different. Answering this question is therefore part of fundamental science, as the changes in these processes are not known.”