Dr. Philipp Reutter

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Institute for Atmospheric Physics
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Becherweg 21
55128 Mainz
Germany

Room: 05-173 (old number 527)

Phone +49 6131 39-24664

E-Mail preutter@uni-mainz.de

 

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My Research

Cirrus clouds and ice supersaturated regions

Cirrus clouds over Denmark, August 2022.

Without clouds, the hydrological cycle that makes life on earth possible would be inconceivable. Clouds also play an important role in the Earth's radiation budget. The radiation properties of clouds change depending on their height, time of day and composition. A particular focus of my research is on high ice clouds, known as cirrus clouds, and their formation in ice supersaturated regions (ISSRs).

See also Project C01 of the SFB Transregio TPChange

Weather and climate of Mainz and Rheinhessen

I manage the weather station at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at JGU Mainz.  Here, we have been measuring all key meteorological parameters for two decades. Monthly summaries and analyses of the data are provided. Additionally satellite data, reanalysis data, and data from surrounding measurement stations are also used to contextualize the measurements of our station.

Time series of annual mean temperature from Mainz (JGU), Mainz-Lerchenberg and Frankfurt Airport (DWD) and grid point 50°N 8°E from the ECMWF reanalysis data set ERA5.

My lectures

  • summer term: Atmosphärische Thermodynamik, BSc-Projekt,
  • winter term: Wolken und Hydrometeore, BSc-Projekt,

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Köhler, D., Reutter, P., and Spichtinger, P.: Relative humidity over ice as a key variable for Northern Hemisphere midlatitude tropopause inversion layers, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 10055–10072, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10055-2024, 2024.
  2. Lachnitt, H.-C., Hoor, P., Kunkel, D., Bramberger, M., Dörnbrack, A., Müller, S., Reutter, P., Giez, A., Kaluza, T., and Rapp, M.: Gravity wave induced cross-isentropic mixing: A DEEPWAVE case study, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 355–373, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-355-2023, 2023.
  3. Henneberg, J., Schuhknecht, F., Reutter, P., Brast, N., and Spichtinger, P.: Northlight: Declarative and Optimized Analysis of Atmospheric Datasets in SparkSQL, SSDBM '22: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 13, 1-12, doi: 10.1145/3538712.3538715, 2022.
  4. Reutter, P., Neis, P., Rohs, S., and Sauvage, B.: Ice supersaturated regions: properties and validation of ERA-Interim reanalysis with IAGOS in situ water vapour measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, pp. 787-804, doi:10.5194/acp-20-787-2020, 2020.
  5. Weigel, R., Spichtinger, P., Mahnke, C., Klingebiel, M., Petzold, A., Krämer, M., Costa, A., Molleker, S., Reutter, P., Szakall, M., Port, M., Grulich, L., Jurkat, T., Minikin, A., and Borrmann, S.: Thermodynamic correction of particle concentration measured by undwering probes on fast-flying aircraft, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9,5135-5162, 2016, doi:10.5194/amt-9-5135-2016.
  6. Voigt, C., Schumann, U., Minikin, A., Abdelmonem, A., Afchine, A., Borrmann, S., Boettcher, M., Buchholz, B., Bugliaro, L., Costa, A., Curtius, J., Dollner, M., Dörnbrack, A., Dreiling, V., Ebert, V., Ehrlich, A., Fix, A., Forster, L., Frank, F., Fütterer, D., Giez, A., Graf, K., Grooß, J.-U., Groß, S., Heimerl, K., Heinold, B., Hüneke, T., Järvinen, E., Jurkat, T., Kaufmann, S., Kenntner, M., Klingebiel, M., Klimach, T., Kohl, R., Krämer, M., Krisna, T.C., Luebke, A., Mayer, B., Mertes, S., Molleker, S., Petzold, A., Pfeilsticker, K., Port, M., Rapp, M., Reutter, P., Rolf, C., Rose, D., Sauer, D., Schäfler, A., Schlage, R., Schnaiter, M., Schneider, J., Spelten, N., Spichtinger, P., Stock, P., Walser, A., Weigel, R., Weinzierl, B., Wendisch, M., Werner, F., Wernli, H., Wirth, M., Zahn, A., Ziereis, H., and Zöger M.: ML-CIRRUS - The airborne experiment on natural cirrus and contrail cirrus with the high-altitude long-range research aircraft HALO, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00213.1.
  7. Reutter, P., Skerlak, B., Sprenger, M., and Wernli, H.: Stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) in the vicinity of North Atlantic cyclones, Atmos. Chem. Phys.,15, pp. 10939-10953, doi:10.5194/acp-15-10939-2015, 2015.
  8. D. Chang, Y. Cheng, P. Reutter, J. Trentmann, S. Burrows, S. Nordmann, M. O. Andreae, U. Pöschl, and H. Su: Aerosol and dynamic effects on the formation and evolution of pyro-clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys.15, pp. 10325-10348, doi:10.5194/acp-15-10325-2015, 2015.
  9. Bretl, S., Reutter, P., Raible, C., Ferrachat, S., Schnadt-Poberaj, C., Revell, L.E., and U. Lohmann: The influence of absorbed solar radiation by Saharan dust on hurricane genesis, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 1902-1917, 10.1002/2014JD022441, 2015
  10. Müller, S., Hoor, P., Berkes, F., Bozem, H., Klingebiel, M., Reutter, P., Smit, H.G.J, Wendisch, M., Spichtinger, P., Borrmann, S.: In-situ detection of stratosphere-troposphere-exchange of cirrus particles in the mid-latitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 949-955, doi: 10.1002/2014GL062556, 2015
  11. Reutter, P., Trentmann, J., Seifert, A., Neis, P., Su, H., D. Chang, H., Herzog, M., Wernli, H., Andreae, M. O., and Pöschl, U.: 3-D model simulations of dynamical and microphysical interactions in pyro-convective clouds under idealized conditions, Atmos. Chem. Phys.,14, pp. 7573-7583, doi:10.5194/acp-14-7573-2014, 2014.
  12. Joos, H., Spichtinger, P., Reutter, P., and Fusina, F.: Influence of hetereogenous freezing on the microphysical and radiatve properties of orographic cirrus clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys.,,14, pp. 6835-6852, doi:10.5194/acp-14-6835-2014, 2014.
  13. Reutter, P., Su, H., Trentmann, J., Simmel, M., Rose, D., Gunthe, S. S., Wernli, H., Andreae, M. O., and Pöschl, U.: Aerosol- and updraft-limited regimes of cloud droplet formation: influence of particle number, size and hygroscopicity on the activation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), Atmos. Chem. Phys.,, 9, pp. 7067-7080,  doi:10.5194/acp-9-7067-2009, 2009.

Other Publications

  1. Author of the Book "Wetter - Die Geschichte hinter dem Bild" at Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen.
  2. Author of chapter "Wetter und Chaos" in the companion volume "Alle Wetter!", Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch, Oldenburg
  3. Author of chapter "Wolken" in the companion volume Ein Stück norddeutscher Himmel - Emil Nolde und die Künstler der "Brücke". Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 978-3-7319-03332-1.
  4. Author of chapter "Klima in Rheinland-Pfalz" in the book Die Vogelwelt von Rheinland-Pfalz - Eine umfassende Landesavifauna.