Further models

Mesoscale models

Mesoscale models are numerical tools which resolve atmospheric processes of spatial scales between 2 and 1000 km. They solve the conservation equations of mass, momentum, internal energy and diverse air constituents with different physical approximations.

Microscale models

Microscale models of the atmosphere are designed to simulate small-scale flow systems (e.g. turbulence, vortices, air flows over obstacles) with a horizontal length scale ranging between a few meters and some 100 m.

Sound propagation models

The Institute of Atmospheric Physics develops and operates advanced sound propagation models. In combination with meteorological mesoscale and microscale models they describe the system of atmosphere, topography and sound waves in a consistent manner.

Radiative transfer models

Various numerical models are used at the institute to study radiative transfer in the atmosphere and the interaction between radiation and clouds or aerosol. Our workhorse is the program package libRadtran (Library for Radiative Transfer), which already includes a selection of different methods.

Contrail Cirrus Prediction Model (CoCiP)

The "Contrail Cirrus Prediction Tool" CoCiP has been developed to simulate contrail cirrus resulting from a single flight as well as from a fleet of cruising aircraft, flight by flight, regionally or globally. The method predicts contrail cirrus for given air traffic and weather prediction data.