Laura Detjen

CL Climate: Past, Present & Future

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Laura Detjen for the poster/PICO entitled:

Heavy and extreme precipitation events in the Sichuan Basin during the 2020 summer season in a set of kilometre-scale simulations (Detjen, L.; Curio, J.; Ou, T.)

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Laura Detjen is a PhD student at the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), an institution of Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, where she is supervised by Dr. Diana Rechid and Prof. Jürgen Böhner (University of Hamburg). Her research focuses on convection-permitting regional climate modeling of meteorological extremes under past and future global warming, as well as the effect of landatmosphere interactions on extreme events.

The work presented at EGU24 is part of the research Laura conducted for her Master’s thesis in “Atmosphere, Climate and Ecosystems” at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). It demonstrates that km-scale simulations from the CORDEX FPS Convection-Permitting Third Pole differ in their representation of extreme precipitation during the 2020 summer in the Sichuan Basin (China), indicating that model performance needs further improvement.