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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Robert Jnglin Wills

Robert Jnglin Wills is an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich and leads the Climate Dynamics Group. Robert and his group use a combination of climate modeling, physics-based theoretical understanding, and data science methods to pursue research on a broad range of topics in climate science. Current projects focus on mechanisms determining the pattern of tropical climate variability and change, the up-scale influence of mesoscale processes on large-scale dynamics, future changes in climate variability, and statistical methods for separating forced and unforced components of climate change. These research topics are part of a broader mission to understand how global climate change manifests at the regional scale.

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

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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 have struggled to simulate this feature cor ...[Read More]