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Luis Kornblueh

Luis Kornblueh is a senior scientific programmer at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, working in the SCLab Modell‑Infrastruktur group. He serves as a gatekeeper of the ICON model, contributing to the development of various configurations from ICON‑Sapphire to ICON‑XPP. He was part of the team awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling (2025) for running a global full Earth system simulation at ~1.25 km resolution, demonstrating a major leap in the realism and resolution of climate simulations. His work combines advanced climate modeling with high‑performance computing, including fully coupled atmosphere, ocean, land, and carbon‑cycle processes.

When small-scale turbulence imprints on the global atmospheric circulation: Uncovering the Cause of the Double Intertropical Convergence Zone Bias in ICON

, , , and January 12, 2026
When small-scale turbulence imprints on the global atmospheric circulation: Uncovering the Cause of the Double Intertropical Convergence Zone Bias in ICON

One feature stands out in any map of tropical rainfall from satellites: a narrow band of intense precipitation encircling the globe near the equator. This is the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a key feature of the global atmospheric circulation that imports moisture into the tropics and exports energy to higher latitudes. But for decades, climate models …[Read More]