• Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Components: Chemistry
  • Contact: Sabine Banzhaf
  • Developers:
    • Sabine Banzhaf
    • Emmanuele Russo

About us

PALM headquarters

The PALM model system has been developed and is maintained by the ​PALM group at the ​Institute of Meteorology and Climatology (IMUK) of Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. The research at IMUK focuses on studies of micro- and mesoscale turbulent atmospheric boundary layers using large-eddy simulations. The work also involves advancements of the PALM model system, particularly the development of highly scalable and parallelized methods for all parts of the simulation process chain (numerics, I/O, and visualization).

Institution Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany Functions Code supervision and administration PALM components: PALM core Numerics Parallelization I/O Visualization Contact Siegfried Raasch (raaschATmuk.uni-hannover.de) Björn Maronga (marongaATmuk.uni-hannover.de)

PALM and PALM-4U developers

Institution Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland PALM components Self-nesting Contact Antti Hellsten

Institution Universität Oldenburg, Institute of Physics, Energy Meteorology Unit, Oldenburg, Germany PALM components Wind turbine model LES turbulence closure Contact Gerald Steinfeld

Institution German Meteorological Service (DWD), Germany PALM components Biometeorological analysis Coupling to COSMO Contact Andreas Matzarakis Kristina Trusilova

Institution Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany PALM components Chemistry Contact Sabine Banzhaf