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

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PALM Developers

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PALM Headquarters

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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

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Institution
Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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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)

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Institution
for Human Biometeorological Research, German Meteorological Service (DWD), Freiburg, Germany

PALM components

  • Biometeorological analysis products


Contact
Andreas Matzarakis

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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)

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Institution
Fluid Dynamics Group, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

PALM components

  • LES-LES self-nesting


Contact
Antti Hellsten

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Institution
Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

PALM components

  • Chemistry


Contact
Sabine Banzhaf (sabine.banzhaf (at) met.fu-berlin.de)

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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

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Institution
Institut für Energiesystemtechnik, Offenburg University, Offenburg, Germany

PALM components

  • Indoor climate
  • Building energy demand


Contact
Jens Pfafferott

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Institution
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

PALM components

  • Radiative transfer
  • Double canyon building parameterization


Contact
Sebastian Schubert

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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)

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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)

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