About us

The PALM model system has been mainly developed and is maintained by the ​PALM group at the ​Institute of Meteorology and Climatology (IMUK) of Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. A number of code parts have been contributed by national (German) and international work groups.

Figure 1: the PALM Group 2020 at Leibniz University Hannover

The PALM development community

	PALM Headquarters
	PALM Developers

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PALM Headquarters

Institution ​PALM group, Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany Function Code supervision and administration PALM components PALM core Numerics Parallelization I/O Visualization Land surface modeling Cloud microphysics Model nesting Contact Siegfried Raasch (raasch (at) muk.uni-hannover.de) Björn Maronga (maronga (at) muk.uni-hannover.de)

PALM and PALM-4U Developers

Institution Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic and ​Institute of Computer Science, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic PALM components Urban surface model Radiative transfer Contact Jaroslav Resler (resler (at) cs.cas.cz)

Institution ​for Human Biometeorological Research, German Meteorological Service (DWD), Freiburg, Germany PALM components Biometeorological analysis products Contact Andreas Matzarakis

Institution ​Department for Climate and Environmental Consultancy, German Meteorological Service (DWD), Offenbach, Germany PALM components Coupling to COSMO-DE Contact Eckhard Kadasch (Eckhard.Kadasch (at) dwd.de)

Institution ​Fluid Dynamics Group, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland PALM components LES-LES self-nesting Contact Antti Hellsten

Institution ​Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany PALM components Chemistry Contact Sabine Banzhaf (sabine.banzhaf (at) met.fu-berlin.de)

Institution ​pecanode GmbH, Hannover, Germany PALM components PALM-FASTv8 Coupler strong (offline) turbulent inflow method + palm_cti preprocessor palm_cvd - a pre-processor for virtual measurements driver Visualization PALM installer PALM Documentation server Contact Matthias Sühring Katrin Gehrke Helge Knoop

Institution ​Institut für Energiesystemtechnik, Offenburg University, Offenburg, Germany PALM components Indoor climate Building energy demand Contact Jens Pfafferott

Institution ​Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany PALM components Radiative transfer Double canyon building parameterization Contact Sebastian Schubert

Institution ​Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany PALM components Chemistry Contact Matthias Mauder (matthias.mauder (at) kit.edu) Renate Forkel (renate.forkel (at) kit.edu)

Institution ​Energy Meteorology group, Institute of Physics, Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany PALM components Wind turbine model LES turbulence closure Contact Gerald Steinfeld (gerald.steinfeld (at) uni-oldenburg.de) Björn Witha (bjoern.witha (at) uni-oldenburg.de)