Gunilla’s contribution to PCAPS concerns the representation of small-scale processes, such as turbulence and clouds, that are not resolved by the computational grid in a numerical model for weather prediction or climate projections. She is also interested in how local processes exchange heat, matter and momentum between the atmosphere and the land or ocean, especially the sea-ice covered one. Gunilla was part of the Steering group of the WMO’s Polar Prediction Project (PPP) where she is chairing the process task team bridging from PPP to PCAPS.

Gunilla got her PhD in meteorology in 1995 at Uppsala University, Sweden. After a postdoc at Caltech, California, USA, she moved back to Sweden and she joined Stockholm University in 1998 where she got her Associate Professor title in 2003 and was promoted to Professor in 2008. Her research group has worked on a range of topics related to weather and climate.

Research interests:
Turbulence | air-sea ice-ocean interactions | model evaluation