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Volkmar Wirth

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DE
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Atmospheric Science
Research interest
Research interests include Rossby wave, Climatology, Environmental science, Meteorology, Potential vorticity, and Physics.
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citations
1,783
works
40
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Two different perspectives on heatwaves within the Lagrangian framework
Weather and Climate Dynamics 2025cited by 5position: lastdoi
The MatterHEX Experiment—Investigating Atmospheric Flow Patterns in Highly Complex Terrain Related to Banner Cloud Formation
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2025cited by 3position: lastdoi
Contrasting Drivers of Consecutive Pre‐Monsoon South Asian Heatwaves in 2022: Waveguide Interaction and Soil Moisture Depletion
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
Quasi-Resonance in a Leaky Waveguide?
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2025cited by 1position: lastdoi
Banner Cloud Formation at the Matterhorn: Measurements versus Large-Eddy Simulations
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2025cited by 1position: lastdoi
A linear assessment of barotropic Rossby wave propagation in different background flow configurations
Weather and Climate Dynamics 2024cited by 3position: middledoi
Similarity and variability of blocked weather-regime dynamics in the Atlantic–European region
Weather and Climate Dynamics 2023cited by 8position: lastdoi
The Onset of a Blocking Event as a “Traffic Jam”: Characterization with Ensemble Sensitivity Analysis
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2023cited by 8position: lastdoi
A New Atmospheric Background State to Diagnose Local Waveguidability
Geophysical Research Letters 2023cited by 5position: lastdoi
From Atmospheric Waves to Heatwaves: A Waveguide Perspective for Understanding and Predicting Concurrent, Persistent, and Extreme Extratropical Weather
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2021cited by 119position: lastdoi
The Problem of Diagnosing Jet Waveguidability in the Presence of Large-Amplitude Eddies
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2021cited by 55position: firstdoi
Waves to Weather: Exploring the Limits of Predictability of Weather
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2021cited by 23position: lastdoi
Waveguidability of idealized midlatitude jets and the limitations of ray tracing theory
Weather and Climate Dynamics 2020cited by 56position: firstdoi
Local Rossby Wave Packet Amplitude, Phase Speed, and Group Velocity: Seasonal Variability and Their Role in Temperature Extremes
Journal of Climate 2020cited by 47position: lastdoi
Extreme precipitation events over northern Italy. Part <scp>II</scp>: Dynamical precursors
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2020cited by 42position: middledoi
Daytime air pollution transport mechanisms in stable atmospheres of narrow versus wide urban valleys
Environmental Fluid Mechanics 2020cited by 22position: lastdoi
Quantitative View on the Processes Governing the Upscale Error Growth up to the Planetary Scale Using a Stochastic Convection Scheme
Monthly Weather Review 2019cited by 84position: middledoi
A Budget Equation for the Amplitude of Rossby Wave Packets Based on Finite-Amplitude Local Wave Activity
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2019cited by 16position: lastdoi
Rossby Wave Packets on the Midlatitude Waveguide—A Review
Monthly Weather Review 2018cited by 290position: firstdoi
Linking Northern Hemisphere temperature extremes to Rossby wave packets
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2018cited by 124position: middledoi
Potential Vorticity Dynamics of Forecast Errors: A Quantitative Case Study
Monthly Weather Review 2018cited by 76position: middledoi
Large‐scale Rossby wave and synoptic‐scale dynamic analyses of the unusually late 2016 heatwave over Europe
Weather 2018cited by 44position: lastdoi
Local Finite-Amplitude Wave Activity as a Diagnostic for Rossby Wave Packets
Monthly Weather Review 2018cited by 28position: lastdoi
Diagnosing the Horizontal Propagation of Rossby Wave Packets along the Midlatitude Waveguide
Monthly Weather Review 2017cited by 32position: lastdoi
The tropopause inversion layer in baroclinic life-cycle experiments: the role of diabatic processes
Atmospheric chemistry and physics 2016cited by 34position: lastdoi
What Flow Conditions are Conducive to Banner Cloud Formation?
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2016cited by 13position: lastdoi
HErZ: The German Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2015cited by 73position: middledoi
Effects of Urbanization on the Temperature Inversion Breakup in a Mountain Valley with Implications for Air Quality
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2014cited by 71position: middledoi
Temperature Inversion Breakup with Impacts on Air Quality in Urban Valleys Influenced by Topographic Shading
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2014cited by 46position: lastdoi
Adaptive discontinuous evolution Galerkin method for dry atmospheric flow
Journal of Computational Physics 2014cited by 39position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Michael Riemer · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz6 papers (2018–2023)Christopher Polster · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz5 papers (2021–2025)Georgios Fragkoulidis · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz5 papers (2018–2020)Franziska Teubler · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz4 papers (2018–2023) · 3 papers (2018–2021)Marlene Baumgart · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz3 papers (2018–2019)George C. Craig · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München3 papers (2019–2021)Paolo Ghinassi · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz3 papers (2018–2019) · 3 papers (2014–2020) · 3 papers (2014–2020) · 2 papers (2012–2014)Gabriel Wolf · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz2 papers (2014–2017)Peter Hoor · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz2 papers (2014–2016) · 2 papers (2025–2025)Daniel Kunkel · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz2 papers (2014–2016)Olivia Martius · Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research2 papers (2018–2021)Björn Brötz · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz2 papers (2014–2014)Marius Levin Thomas · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz2 papers (2025–2025) · 2 papers (2014–2014) · 2 papers (2025–2025)