Name: MESSy Symposium 2026
Start: 2026-05-19T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-21T23:30:00+02:00
Location: Scientific Computing Center (SCC), Building 449

MESSy Symposium 2026

from Tuesday, May 19, 2026 (12:00 PM) to Thursday, May 21, 2026 (11:30 PM)

Monday, May 18, 2026
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

12:00 PM Registration: Registration and Welcome
Registration and Welcome
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall R140, Ground floor
1:30 PM First session
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall R140, Ground floor
Contributions

1:30 PM Welcome - Jasmin Hörter (KIT-SCC)

1:45 PM Opening and Logistics - Ole Kirner (KIT-SCC)

2:00 PM Status and future perspectives of the Modular Earth Submodel System - Patrick Joeckel (DLR-IPA)

2:40 PM ICON/MESSy - status of the coupling via ComIn - Astrid Kerkweg (FZJ-ICE-3)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Second session
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall R140, Ground floor
Contributions

3:30 PM Development of a dedicated Importserver for MESSy - Timo Kirfel (FZJ-ICE-3)

3:50 PM DWARF rudi and adaptive-mesh related DWARF developments - Kerstin Hartung (DLR-IPA)

4:10 PM Ozone Forcing Database for CMIP7 – Updates from the EMAC Perspective - Olaf Stein (FZJ-JSC)

4:30 PM Interactive Vegetation in MECO(n) - Holger Tost (JGU Mainz)

4:50 PM Discussion
7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
9:00 AM Third Session
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Lecture Hall R140, Ground floor
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening and Logistics

9:10 AM Unified kinetic framework for gas-aerosol partitioning of organic vapors - Domenico Taraborrelli (FZJ-ICE-3)

9:30 AM Simulating secondary organic aerosol formation with the aerosol submodel MADE3 in EMAC - Christof Beer (DLR-IPA)

9:50 AM Quantifying Aerosol Source Contributions over Europe using the newly implemented tagging submodel STAG - Anna Götz (DLR-IPA)

10:10 AM Brown Carbon in MESSy: Current Status and Evaluation - Vidya Varma (FZJ-ICE-3)
10:30 AM Group Photo and Coffee Break
Group Photo and Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Fourth session
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall R140, Ground floor
Contributions

11:00 AM Iron containing aerosols in MESSy: Updates and lessons learned - Simon Rosanka (FZJ-ICE-3)

11:20 AM Volatility of organics in EMAC - Samuel Ruhl (MPIC)

11:40 AM Effects of Ambient Air Pollution on human health and vegetation in a changing climate - Mariano Mertens (DLR-IPA/TU Delft)

12:00 PM Lagrangian Analysis and Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling of Wildfire Emissions - Bastian Kern (DLR-IPA)

12:20 PM Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Poster Session (incl. Coffee Break)
1:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall R140, Ground floor
Contributions

1:45 PM Sneak preview of posters (1 minute per poster)

2:00 PM Poster Session
4:00 PM Hands-On-Tutorial
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall R140, Ground floor
Contributions

4:00 PM Tools and Utilities in and around MESSy - Kerstin Hartung (DLR-IPA) Patrick Joeckel (DLR-IPA)
7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, May 21, 2026
9:00 AM Seventh session
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Lecture Hall R140, Ground floor
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening and Logistics

9:10 AM Improved simulation of atmospheric hydrogen using Eulerian and Lagrangian models - Robert Reisch (FZJ-ICE-4)

9:30 AM Bromine Explosion's Fingerprint in Arctic Snow - Stefanie Falk (KIT-IMKASF)

9:50 AM Construction of VSLS-Bromine surface emissions from aircraft observations - Jens-Uwe Grooß (FZJ-ICE-4)

10:10 AM Nourishing Updates from the Cloud Microphysics Submodel CHIPS - Dario Sperber (DLR-IPA)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Eighth Session and End of Symposium
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall R140, Ground floor
Contributions

11:00 AM On the cause of climate model wet biases in the lowermost stratosphere - Felix Plöger (FZJ-ICE-4) Hongyue Wang (FZJ-ICE-4)

11:20 AM Stratospheric transport measures in EMAC - Johannes Pletzer (DLR-IPA)

11:40 AM Discussion (Topic to be determined) and End of Symposium
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM