Peer-Reviewed Publications:
	Branch, O., K. Warrach-Sagi, V. Wulfmeyer, and S. Cohen, 2014: Simulation of semi-arid biomass plantations and irrigation using the WRF-NOAH model - a comparison with observations from Israel. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sc. 18, 1761-1783.
	DOI:10.5194/hess-18-1761-2014
	Gayler, S., T. Woehling, M. Grzeschik, J. Ingwersen, H.-D. Wizemann, K. Warrach-Sagi, P. Hoegy, S. Attinger, T. Streck, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Incorporating dynamic root growth enhances the performance of Noah-MP ensemble simulations at two contrasting winter wheat field sites. Water Resour. Res. 50(2), 1337-1356.
	DOI:10.1002/2013WR014634
	Helbig, C., H.-S. Bauer, K. Rink, V. Wulfmeyer, M. Frank, and O. Kollditz, 2014: Concept and workflow for 3D visualization of atmospheric data in a virtual reality environment for analytical approaches. Environ. Earth Sci. 72, 3767-3780.
	DOI:10.1007/s12665-014-3136-6
	Kotlarski, S., K. Keuler, M. Déqué, A. Gobiet, K. Goergen, D. Jacob, D. Luethi, E. van Meijgard, G. Nikulin, M. Suklitsch, C. Teichmann, R. Vautard, K. Warrach-Sagi, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Regional climate modeling on European scales: A joint standard evaluation of the Euro-CORDEX RCM ensemble. Geosci. Model Dev. 7, 1297-1333.
	DOI:10.5194/gmd-7-1297-2014
	Schwitalla, T. and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Radar data assimilation experiments using the IPM WRF Rapid Update Cycle. Meteorol. Z. 23(1), 79-102.
	DOI:10.1127/0941-2948/2014/0513
	Spaeth, F., A. Behrendt, S. K. Muppa, S. Metzendorf, A. Riede, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: High-resolution atmospheric water vapor measurements with a scanning differential absorption lidar. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 14, 29057-29099.
	DOI:10.5194/acpd-14-29057-2014
	Turner, D. D., R. A. Ferrare, V. Wulfmeyer, and A. J. Scarino, 2014: Aircraft evaluation of ground-based Raman lidar water vapor turbulence profiles in convective mixed layers. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech. 31(5), 1078-1088.
	DOI:10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00075.1
	Turner, D. D., V. Wulfmeyer, L. K. Berg, and J. H. Schween, 2014: Water vapor turbulence profiles in stationary continental convective mixed layers. J. Geophys. Res. 119(19), 11151-11165.
	DOI:10.1002/2014JD022202
	Warrach-Sagi, K., K. Goergen, and R. Vautard, 2014: "Experiences with WRF in EURO-CORDEX". In:"Climate change perspectives from the Atlantic: past, present and future". Eds: J. M. Fernandez-Palacios, L. de Nascimento, J. C. Hernandez, S. Clemente, A. Gonzalez and J. P.Diaz-Gonzales. ISBN: 978-84-15910-54-1.
	Wulfmeyer, V., O. Branch, K. Warrach-Sagi, H.-S. Bauer, T. Schwitalla, and K. Becker, 2014: The impact of plantations on weather and climate in coastal desert regions. J. Appl. Meteorol. Clim. 53(5), 1143-1169.
	DOI:10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0208.1
	Zehe, E., U. Ehret, L. Pfister, T. Blume, B. Schroeder, M. Westhoff, C. Jackisch, S. J. Schymanski, M. Weiler, K. Schulz, N. Allroggen, J. Tronicke, P. Dietrich, U. Scherer, J. Eccard, V. Wulfmeyer, and A. Kleidon, 2014: Functional units: a novel framework to explore the link between spatial organization and hydrological functioning of intermediate scale catchments. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 18, 4635-4655.
	DOI:10.5194/hess-18-4635-2014
	Contributions to Conferences:
	Bakhshaii, A. and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: WRF dual polarized radar forward operator. International Symposium on Data Assimilation, Munich, Germany, February 24-28, 2014.
	Bakhshaii, A., Y. Jung, T. Schwitalla, H.-S. Bauer, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: WRF dual polarized radar forward operator evaluation on a supercell event in Central Europe. The World Weather Open Science Conference, 16-21 August, 2014, Montreal, Canada.
	Bauer, H.-S., V. Wulfmeyer, T. Schwitalla, A. Bakhshaii, U. Ehret, and M. Neuper, 2014: Status CAOS Project C. Presentation at the CAOS Project Meeting. Luxembourg, 12-14 March 2014.
	Bauer, H.-S. , T. Schwitalla, V. Wulfmeyer, A. Bahkshaii, U. Ehret, and M. Neuper, 2014: Comparing and combining of observation-based QPE methods with high-resolution numerical weather prediction and data assimilation. The World Weather Open Science Conference, Montreal, Canada, 16-21 August, 2014.
	Branch, O., K. Warrach-Sagi, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Irrigated coastal plantations and their impact on mesoscale climate in arid regions - validated 3D model simulations. 7th International Scientific Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle, Den Haag, The Netherlands, July 14-17, 2014.
	Kotlarski, S., K. Keuler, O. B. Christensen, A. Colette, M. Déqué, A. Gobiet, K. Goergen, D. Jacob, D. Luethi, E. van Meijgaard, G. Nikulin, C. Schaer, C. Teichmann, R. Vautard, K. Warrach-Sagi, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Regional climate modeling on European scales: A joint standard evaluation of the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble. EGU General Assembly 2014, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-11799, April 2014.
	Kawabata, T., T. Schwitalla, H.-S. Bauer, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Development of a model forward observational operator for dual polarimetric radar. 8th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, September 1-5, 2014.
	Ivanov, M., K. Warrach-Sagi, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Field significance of performance measures in the context of regional climate model verification. 14th EMS Annual Meeting & 10th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC), Prague, Czech Republic, October 06-10, 2014.
	Milovac, J., K. Warrach-Sagi, J. Ingwersen, A. Behrendt, F. Spaeth, V. Wulfmeyer, and H.-D. Wizemann, 2014a: Sensitivity of the WRF model to boundary layer and land surface parameterizations: comparisons with Differential Absorption Lidar and Eddy Covariance measurements. 21st AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Leeds, UK, June 9-13, 2014.
	Milovac, J., K. Warrach Sagi, J. Ingwersen, A. Behrendt, F. Spaeth, H.-D. Wizemann, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014b: Sensitivity of the WRF model to boundary-layer and land-surface parameterizations: comparisons with Differential Absorption Lidar and Eddy covariance measurements. 7th International Scientific Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle, Den Haag, The Netherlands, July 14-17, 2014.
	Milovac, J., K. Warrach-Sagi, A. Behrendt, F. Spaeth, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Sensitivity of WRF to PBL schemes and LSMs in simulating humidity profiles, Comparisons with water vapour DIAL measurements, 21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Leeds, Great Britain, (June 09-13, awarded a “Commended Student Poster Presentation at AMS 21BLT”.
	Milovac, J., K. Warrach-Sagi, A. Behrendt, F. Spaeth, F. and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Sensitivity of the WRF model to PBL schemes and LSMs: Comparisons with water vapour DIAL measurements, GEWEX conference, The Hague, Netherlands, July 14-17, awarded a “Certificate of Achievement” and second prize at the 7th GEWEX conference.
	Park, C.-H, A. Behrendt, M. Pause, S. Gayler, Ellsworth LeDrew, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Observation operator for land surface remote-sensing. XX. International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2014), University of Stuttgart, Germany, June 10-13, 2014.
	Schwitalla, T., H.-S. Bauer, J. Milovac, V. Wulfmeyer, A. Bahkshaii-Shahrbabaki, U. Ehret, and M. Neuper, 2014: Quantitative precipitation estimation by combining observations and a high-resolution numerical weather prediction model with 3DVAR. World Weather Open Science Conference, 16-21 August 2014, Montreal, Canada.
	Thober, S., J. Mai, L. Samaniego, M. Clark, O. Branch, V. Wulfmeyer, and M. Cuntz, 2014: Sensitivity analysis of NOAH-MP land surface model for different fluxes at multiple scales. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 15-19, 2014.
	Wulfmeyer, V., A. Behrendt, H.-S. Bauer, T. Schwitalla, and K. Warrach-Sagi, 2014: Observations and simulations of soil-vegetation-atmosphere feedback with a new lidar sensor synergy and the WRF-NOAH-MP model in the grey zone. 7th International Scientific Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle, Den Haag, The Netherlands, July 14-17, 2014.
	Wulfmeyer, V., K. Warrach-Sagi, T. Schwitalla, H.-S. Bauer, and J. Milovac, 2014: Towards seamless mesoscale prediction of the land system for Europe. The World Weather Open Science Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 16-21, 2014.
	Wulfmeyer, V., and many coauthors, 2014: Consistent hydro-meteorological large eddy simulation of water budgets in mesoscale catchments: Overkill or necessity? AGU Chapman Conference, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, September 23-26, 2014.
	Monographs and Reports:
	Warrach-Sagi, K., J. Milovac, H.-S. Bauer, A. Behrendt, T. Schwitalla, F. Spaeth, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: High-resolution climate predictions and short-range forecasts. inSide 12, 12-17.
	Wulfmeyer, V., 2014: Der Wasser- und Stoffkreislauf im Erdsystem: Stand des Wissens und der Wirkungsanalyse. In: Risiko und Verantwortung in der modernen Gesellschaft. Schriften der Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 26, 13-22, ISBN: 978-3-658-06321-4 (Print) 978-3-658-06322-1 (Online), DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-06322-1.
	Selected Presentations:
	Behrendt, A., F. Spaeth, E. Hammann, S. Muppa, A. Riede, S. Metzendorf und V. Wulfmeyer, 2014: Untersuchung der atmosphaerischen Grenzschicht mit kombinierten Wasserdampf-, Temperatur- und Windlidarscans vom Boden. DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen, Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, May 21, 2014.
	Wulfmeyer, V., 2014: Large Eddy Measurements and Simulations of the Water Cycle in the Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere System for Weather and Hydrological Forecasting. Viennese Seminars in Hydrology, Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur (BOKU), Vienna, Austria, May 6, 2014.
	Award for Presentations of IPM Members:
	At the 21st Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, our PhD student Josipa Milovac was winner of the Commended Student Poster Presentation for her presentation entitled “Sensitivity of the WRF model to boundary layer and land surface parameterizations: comparisons with Differential Absorption Lidar and Eddy Covariance measurements” (Milovac et al. 2014a).
	At the 7th International Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle in July 2014 (see gewex.org/2014conf/home.html), a Certificate of Achievement was awarded to our PhD student Josipa Milovac for her presentation of turbulence parameterization sensitivity studies (Milovac et al., 2014b).
	At the same conference, a Certificate of Achievement was awarded to our PhD student Oliver Branch for his presentation of irrigated coastal plantations and their impact on mesoscale climate in arid regions (Branch et al., 2014).
	Data sets:
	Milovac, J., Ingwersen, J. and Warrach-Sagi, K., 2014: Soil texture forcing data for the whole world for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model of the University of Hohenheim (UHOH) based on the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD) at 30 arc-second horizontal resolution, World Data Center for Climate (WDCC).
	DOI:10.1594/WDCC/WRF_NOAH_HWSD_world_TOP_SOILTYP
	Milovac, J., Ingwersen, J. and Warrach-Sagi, K., 2014: Top soil texture forcing data for the area of Germany for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model based on the Bodenubersichtskarte (BUK) at a scale 1:1000000 (BUK1000) and provided by the University of Hohenheim (UHOH), World Data Center for Climate (WDCC).
	DOI:10.1594/WDCC/WRF_NOAH_BUK_Ger_top_SOILTYP