Dr. David Leutwyler

Research area

Clouds, Convection and Climate

Convection-Resolving Climate Models

Supercomputing and Heterogeneous Computing

Selected peer-reviewed Publications (A more up to date list is available on Google Scholar):

Leutwyler, D., Hohenegger, C. (2021). Weak cooling of the troposphere by tropical islands in simulations of the radiative‐convective equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 12. Abstract and download

Leutwyler, D., Imamovic, A. and Schär, C. (2021). The Continental-Scale Soil Moisture–Precipitation Feedback in Europe with Parameterized and Explicit Convection. Journal of Climate, 12. Abstract and download |Video| Slides

Leutwyler, D.,  Beucler, T. and Windmiller, J. M. (2020). Quantifying convective aggregation using the tropical moist margin's length. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12. Abstract and download

Leutwyler, D. and Schär, C. (2019). Barotropic instability of a cyclone core at kilometre-scale resolution. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 3390– 3402. Abstract and download

Leutwyler D., D. Lüthi, N. Ban, O. Fuhrer, and C. Schär (2017): Evaluation of the Convection-Resolving Climate Modeling Approach on Continental Scales, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, doi:10.1002/2016JD026013. Abstract and download | CSCS Highlight | Eos Research Spotlight| PRACE Success Story

Leutwyler, D., O. Fuhrer, X. Lapillonne, D. Lüthi, and C. Schär (2016): Towards European-Scale Convection-Resolving Climate Simulations with GPUs: A Study with COSMO 4.19, Geosci. Model Dev. , doi:10.5194/gmd-2016-119. Abstract and download| CSCS Highlight |

Public Outreach:

Presentation at 34C3 2017: On the Prospects and Challenges of Weather and Climate Modeling at Convection-Resolving Resolution. Video available at media.ccc.de

Animations:

Leutwyler, D., O. Fuhrer, X. Lapillonne, D. Lüthi, C. Schär, 2015: Continental-Scale Climate Simulation at Kilometer-Resolution.