Bernd Kärcher, Ph.D.

Bernd Kärcher has many years of experience in developing atmospheric process models, understanding the microphysical and chemical behavior and atmospheric impacts of airborne aerosol particles and ice-phase clouds, and integrating experimental data with cloud physical theory in order to develop parameterization schemes for large-scale models. His contributions to atmospheric ice formation processes and the physics of ice clouds have led to significant changes in cloud schemes within numerical weather prediction and climate models. He was involved in, and received outside funding from, numerous projects in EU framework programs, German Federal Ministry of Science and Education and Research (BMBF) collaborative programs, and the German Helmholtz Society (HGF). He acted as a responsible scientist and administrator of DLR-IPAs Aviation-Climate projects (1999-2009), securing significant internal funding that included several aircraft field campaigns on contrail- and cirrus-related problems.