About us

The 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).

PALM and PALM-4U developers

• Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
  • Components: LES-LES nesting
  • Contact: Antti Hellsten
  • Developers:
    • Antti Hellsten

• ​Universität Oldenburg, Institute of Physics, Energy Meteorology Unit, Oldenburg, Germany
  • Components: Wind turbine model
  • Contact: Detlef Heinemann
  • Developers:
    • Björn Witha
    • Gerald Steinfeld
    • Lukas Vollmer
    • Hauke Wurps

• German Meteorological Service (DWD), Germany
  • Components: Biometeorological analysis, COSMO coupling Z/ forcing
  • Contact: Andreas Matzarakis (Biometeorology), Kristina Trusilova (COSMO coupling)
  • Developers:
    • Eckhard Kadasch

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