Christian Kuehnlein

Senior Scientist
Research Department, Earth System Modelling Section, Numerical Methods Group

Summary:

Dr Christian Kühnlein joined the Research Department of ECMWF in November 2012. He works on various aspects of dynamical core development, physics-dynamics coupling and high-performance computing. The focus of his work is on the development of the nonhydrostatic finite-volume IFS-FVM ​dynamical core.

Professional interests:
  • Dynamical core development 
  • Physics-dynamics coupling
  • High-performance computing for NWP and climate models
Career background:

Christian received his PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany in 2011. His PhD research at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) was on adaptive moving meshes for weather and climate models. During and after his PhD, he was a visiting scientist at the Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO, USA. Later, he worked on regional ensemble prediction in the Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research of the German Weather Service (DWD) at the Meteorological Institute of LMU Munich. Christian joined ECMWF in November 2012. 

 

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • Linus Magnusson, Sharanya Majumdar, Rebecca Emerton, David Richardson, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Calum Baugh, Peter Bechtold, Jean Bidlot, Antonino Bonanni, Massimo Bonavita, Niels Bormann, Andy Brown, Philip Browne, Hilda Carr, Mohamed Dahoui, Giovanna De Chiara, Michail Diamantakis, David I. Duncan, Stephen English, Richard Forbes, Alan Geer, Thomas Haiden, Sean Healy, Timothy Hewson, Bruce Ingleby, Martin Janousek, Christian Kühnlein, Simon Lang, Sarah-Jane Lock, Tony McNally, Kristian S. Mogensen, Florian Pappenberger, Inna Polichtchouk, Fernando Prates, Christel Prudhomme, Florence Rabier, Patricia de Rosnay, Tiago Quintino, Michael Rennie (October 2021) Tropical cyclone activities at ECMWF, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 888. DOI: 10.21957/zzxzzygwv
    • Thomas Rackow, Nils Wedi, Kristian Mogensen, Peter Dueben, Helge F. Goessling, Jan Hegewald, Christian Kühnlein, Lorenzo Zampieri, Thomas Jung (March 2021) DYAMOND-II simulations with IFS-FESOM2. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9672
    • Hilary Weller, James Woodfield, Christian Kuehnlein (March 2021) Long Time Steps for Advection: MPDATA with implicit time stepping. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-8815
  • 2019
    • Christian Kühnlein (January 2019) Final Response. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2018-237-AC1
    • Andreas Müller, Willem Deconinck, Christian Kühnlein, Gianmarco Mengaldo, Michael Lange, Nils Wedi, Peter Bauer, Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz, Michail Diamantakis, Sarah-Jane Lock, Mats Hamrud, Sami Saarinen, George Mozdzynski, Daniel Thiemert, Michael Glinton, Pierre Bénard, Fabrice Voitus, Charles Colavolpe, Philippe Marguinaud, Yongjun Zheng, Joris Van Bever, Daan Degrauwe, Geert Smet, Piet Termonia, Kristian P. Nielsen, Bent H. Sass, Jacob W. Poulsen, Per Berg, Carlos Osuna, Oliver Fuhrer, Valentin Clement, Michael Baldauf, Mike Gillard, Joanna Szmelter, Enda O'Brien, Alastair McKinstry, Oisín Robinson, Parijat Shukla, Michael Lysaght, Michał Kulczewski, Milosz Ciznicki, Wojciech Piątek, Sebastian Ciesielski, Marek Błażewicz, Krzysztof Kurowski, Marcin Procyk, Pawel Spychala, Bartosz Bosak, Zbigniew P. Piotrowski, Andrzej Wyszogrodzki, Erwan Raffin, Cyril Mazauric, David Guibert, Louis Douriez, Xavier Vigouroux, Alan Gray, Peter Messmer, Alexander J. Macfaden, Nick New (October 2019) The ESCAPE project: Energy-efficient Scalable Algorithms for Weather Prediction at Exascale, Geoscientific Model Development n. 10, pp. 4425-4441. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-4425-2019
    • Andreas Müller, Willem Deconinck, Christian Kühnlein, Gianmarco Mengaldo, Michael Lange, Nils Wedi, Peter Bauer, Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz, Michail Diamantakis, Sarah-Jane Lock, Mats Hamrud, Sami Saarinen, George Mozdzynski, Daniel Thiemert, Michael Glinton, Pierre Bénard, Fabrice Voitus, Charles Colavolpe, Philippe Marguinaud, Yongjun Zheng, Joris Van Bever, Daan Degrauwe, Geert Smet, Piet Termonia, Kristian P. Nielsen, Bent H. Sass, Jacob W. Poulsen, Per Berg, Carlos Osuna, Oliver Fuhrer, Valentin Clement, Michael Baldauf, Mike Gillard, Joanna Szmelter, Enda O'Brien, Alastair McKinstry, Oisín Robinson, Parijat Shukla, Michael Lysaght, Michał Kulczewski, Milosz Ciznicki, Wojciech Pia̧tek, Sebastian Ciesielski, Marek Błażewicz, Krzysztof Kurowski, Marcin Procyk, Pawel Spychala, Bartosz Bosak, Zbigniew Piotrowski, Andrzej Wyszogrodzki, Erwan Raffin, Cyril Mazauric, David Guibert, Louis Douriez, Xavier Vigouroux, Alan Gray, Peter Messmer, Alexander J. Macfaden, Nick New (January 2019) The ESCAPE project: Energy-efficient Scalable Algorithms for Weather Prediction at Exascale. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2018-304
    • Christian Kühnlein, Willem Deconinck, Rupert Klein, Sylvie Malardel, Zbigniew P. Piotrowski, Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz, Joanna Szmelter, Nils P. Wedi (February 2019) FVM 1.0: a nonhydrostatic finite-volume dynamical core for the IFS, Geoscientific Model Development n. 2, pp. 651-676. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-651-2019
  • 2018
  • 2016
    • Malardel S., Nils Wedi, Willem Deconinck, Michail Diamantakis, Christian Kühnlein, Mozdzynski G., Hamrud M., PIOTR SMOLARKIEWICZ (April 2016) A new grid for the IFS, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 146, pp. 23-28. DOI: 10.21957/zwdu9u5i
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013