ATMOSPHERE & CLIMATE DYNAMICS GROUP

New textbook on Physical Meteorology

An open academic textbook entitled "Physical Meteorology" (in Greek) is published in the framework of the funded action Kallipos+ (2023). Bibliographic reference: Katsafados, P., Mavromatidis, E., & Varlas, G. (2023). Physical Meteorology [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-218

New textbook on Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, ISBN 978-1-78630-141-3)

This book establishes a fundamental working knowledge of the theories and applications behind data assimilation and numerical weather prediction. It has been written to support under- and postgraduates in atmospheric or Earth sciences and introduces students to fundamental atmospheric dynamics and modeling. It also covers finite difference methods, numerical parameterizations and optimization technics. All these objectives are given in an introductory and applied approach. Elemental variational analysis on meteorological data assimilation is also examined. The modeling of the desert dust cycle in the atmospheric environment includes the emission patterns, advection methods and deposition processes. The book concludes with real case studies simulating extreme weather events and a dust outbreak in hindcasting, nowcasting and forecasting modes. These cases have been chosen as paradigms of phenomena on different time and spatial scales; they reveal how such processes are eventually resolved in atmospheric simulators using state-of-the-art modeling systems.

European Meteorological Society (EMS) Young Scientist Award 2018

Georgios Varlas, Research Associate of ACDG/HUA, is awarded by EMS Young Scientist Award 2018 for the publication: “Implementation of a two-way coupled atmosphere-ocean wave modeling system for assessing air-sea interaction over the Mediterranean Sea”, G. Varlas, P. Katsafados, A. Papadopoulos, G. Korres, Atmospheric Research (2017),  vol. 208, p. 201-217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.08.019. More information is available through EMS official site.