Research interests

• dynamics of tropical and extratropical weather systems
• medium-range to subseasonal predictability
• tropical-extratropical interactions

• statistical models and machine learning

   

Research projects

• ASPIRE – Advancing Subseasonal Predictions at Reduced Computation Effort (ERC Starting Grant)
• NAWDIC – North Atlantic Waveguide, Dry Intrusion and Downstream Impact Campaign (DFG HALO SPP)
• DICHOTOMI – Dry Intrusions and Cloud Head winds On Top Of Marine Interfaces (DFG-ANR)
• ClimXtreme – Climate change and extreme events (BMBF)
• WarmWorld - Exascale Earth System Models to anticipate changes in a Warmer World (BMBF)

Education

09/2023-08/2025: Group leader "Meteorological data science", KIT, Germany

02/2018-08/2023: Research Associate, KIT, Germany, in Christian Grams' group

01/2016-01/2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in Michael Reeder's group

01/2015-12/2015: Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in Heini Wernli's group

11/2011-01/2015: PhD student, KIT, Germany; supervised by Sarah C. Jones

10/2006-10/2011: studies of Meteorology, KIT, Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed journal articles

1. Oldham-Dorrington J., Quinting J., Sobolowski S. (2025) “The work of thought”–The machine learning revolution can be a revolution for our understanding of the Earth System. PLOS Clim 4(9): e0000710. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000710

2. Bülte, C., N. Horat, J. Quinting, and S. Lerch (2025) Uncertainty quantification for data-driven weather models. Artif. Intell. Earth Syst., https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-24-0049.1, in press.

3. Dolores-Tesillos, E., Martius, O., and Quinting, J. (2025) On the role of moist and dry processes in atmospheric blocking biases in the Euro-Atlantic region in CMIP6, Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 471–487, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-471-2025 

4. Li, S., Knippertz, P., Kunz, M., Wilhelm, J., and Quinting, J. (2025) A machine learning model for the prediction of hail-affected area in Germany. Front. Earth Sci., 13, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1527391.

5. Henderson, C.R., Barnes, M.A., Reeder, M.J., Quinting, J.F. & Jakob, C. (2025) Heavy summer rainfall in southeastern Australia. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, e4936. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4936

6. Mass, A., Andersen, H., Cermak, J., Formenti, P., Pauli, E., and Quinting, J. (2025) A satellite-based analysis of semi-direct effects of biomass burning aerosols on fog and low-cloud dissipation in the Namib Desert, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 491–510, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-491-2025

7. To, D., Quinting, J., Hoshyaripour, G. A., Götz, M., Streit, A., and Debus, C. (2024) Architectural insights into and training methodology optimization of Pangu-Weather, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 8873–8884, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8873-2024

8. Mockert, F., Grams, C.M., Lerch, S., Osman, M. and Quinting, J. (2024) Multivariate post–processing of probabilistic sub-seasonal weather regime forecasts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 150(765), 4771-4787. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4840

9. Schäfler, A., Krüger, K., Oertel, A., Quinting, J. F., & Raveh-Rubin, S. (2024). Indication for biases in dry intrusions and the marine boundary layer over the Azores in ECMWF short-term forecasts and analyses. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109601. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109601

10. Henderson, C.R., Reeder, M.J., Parker, T.J., Quinting, J.F. & Jakob, C. (2024) Summer Heatwaves in Southeastern Australia. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1–21. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4816

11. Wandel, J., Büeler, D., Knippertz, P., Quinting, J. F., & Grams, C. M. (2024). Why moist dynamic processes matter for the sub-seasonal prediction of atmospheric blocking over Europe. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039791. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039791

12. Hermes, K., Quinting, J., Grams, C.M., Hoose, C. & Hoshyaripour, G.A. (2024) Impact of Saharan dust outbreaks on short-range weather forecast errors in Europe. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1–20. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4666

13. Quinting, J. F., Grams, C. M., Chang, E. K.-M., Pfahl, S., and Wernli, H. (2024) Warm conveyor belt activity over the Pacific: modulation by the Madden–Julian Oscillation and impact on tropical–extratropical teleconnections, Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 65–85, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-65-2024

14. Matsunobu, T., Quinting, J.F., Grams, C.M., Matsueda, M. (2023) Regional extreme precipitation events in wintertime Japan facilitated by East-Asian large-scale flow patterns, SOLA, Article ID 2023-033, Advance online publication September 16, 2023, Online ISSN 1349-6476, https://doi.org/10.2151/sola.2023-033

15. Pickl, M., Quinting, J.F. & Grams, C.M. (2023) Warm conveyor belts as amplifiers of forecast uncertainty. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4546

16. Seifert, A., Bachmann, V., Filipitsch, F., Förstner, J., Grams, C. M., Hoshyaripour, G. A., Quinting, J., Rohde, A., Vogel, H., Wagner, A., and Vogel, B. (2023). Aerosol–cloud–radiation interaction during Saharan dust episodes: the dusty cirrus puzzle, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 6409–6430, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6409-2023 

17. Ludwig, P., Ehmele, F., Franca, M. J., Mohr, S., Caldas-Alvarez, A., Daniell, J. E., Ehret, U., Feldmann, H., Hundhausen, M., Knippertz, P., Küpfer, K., Kunz, M., Mühr, B., Pinto, J. G., Quinting, J., Schäfer, A. M., Seidel, F., and Wisotzky, C. (2023). A multi-disciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood event of July 2021 in central Europe – Part 2: Historical context and relation to climate change, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 1287–1311, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1287-2023

18. Oertel, A., Pickl, M., Quinting, J. F., Hauser, S., Wandel, J., Magnusson, L., et al. (2023). Everything hits at once: How remote rainfall matters for the prediction of the 2021 North American heat wave. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL100958. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100958

19. Mohr, S., Ehret, U., Kunz, M., Ludwig, P., Caldas-Alvarez, A., Daniell, J. E., Ehmele, F., Feldmann, H., Franca, M. J., Gattke, C., Hundhausen, M., Knippertz, P., Küpfer, K., Mühr, B., Pinto, J. G., Quinting, J., Schäfer, A. M., Scheibel, M., Seidel, F., and Wisotzky, C. (2023). A multi-disciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood event of July 2021 in central Europe – Part 1: Event description and analysis, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 525–551, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-525-2023

20. Quinting, J. F., Grams, C. M., Oertel, A., & Pickl, M. (2022). EuLerian Identification of ascending AirStreams (ELIAS 2.0) in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models. Part II: Model application to different data sets, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 731-744 https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-731-2022

21. Quinting, J. F., & Grams, C. M. (2022). EuLerian Identification of ascending Air Streams (ELIAS 2.0) in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models. Part I: Development of deep learning model, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 715-730, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-715-2022

22. Hochman, A., Messori, G., Quinting, J. F., Pinto, J. G., & Grams, C. M. (2021). Do Atlantic-European weather regimes physically exist?. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL095574. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095574

23. Büeler, D., Ferranti, L., Magnusson, L., Quinting, J.F., & Grams, C.M. (2021). Year-round sub-seasonal forecast skill for Atlantic-European weather regimes. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 147, 4283-4309, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4178

24. Wandel, J., Quinting, J. F., & Grams, C. M. (2021). Toward a systematic evaluation of warm conveyor belts in numerical weather prediction and climate models. Part II: Verification of operational reforecasts, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78, 3965-3982,  https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0385.1

25. Quinting, J. F., & Grams, C. M., 2021: Toward a systematic evaluation of warm conveyor belts in numerical weather prediction and climate models. Part I: Predictor selection and logistic regression model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78, 1465-1485,  https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0139.1

26. Hochman, A., Scher, S., Quinting, J., Pinto, J. G., and Messori, G., 2021: A new view of heat wave dynamics and predictability over the eastern Mediterranean, Earth Syst. Dynam., 12, 133–149, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-133-2021

27. Hochman, A., Scher, S., Quinting, J., Pinto, J. G., Messori, G., 2020: Dynamics and predictability of cold spells over the Eastern Mediterranean. Clim. Dyn.. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05465-2

28. Mohr, S., Wilhelm, J., Wandel, J., Kunz, M., Portmann, R., Punge, H. J., Schmidberger, M., Quinting, J. F., and Grams, C. M., 2020: The role of large-scale dynamics in an exceptional sequence of severe thunderstorms in Europe May–June 2018, Weather Clim. Dynam., 1, 325–348, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-325-2020   

29. Spensberger, C., Madonna, E., Boettcher, M., Grams, C.M., Papritz, L., Quinting, J.F., Röthlisberger, M., Sprenger, M. and Zschenderlein, P., 2020: Dynamics of concurrent and sequential Central European and Scandinavian heatwaves. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 146, 2998-3013, doi:10.1002/qj.3822   

30. Hauser, S., Grams, C.M., Reeder, M.J., McGregor, S., Fink, A.H. and Quinting, J.F., 2020: A weather system perspective on winter‐spring rainfall variability in southeastern Australia during El Niño. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 146, 2614-2633, doi:10.1002/qj.3808   

31. Andersen, H., Cermak, J., Fuchs, J., Knippertz, P., Gaetani, M., Quinting, J., Sippel, S., and Vogt, R., 2020: Synoptic-scale controls of fog and low-cloud variability in the Namib Desert. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 3415-3438, https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/20/3415/2020/ 

32. Catto, J. L., Ackerley, D., Booth, J. F., Champion, A. J., Colle, B. A., Pfahl, S., Pinto, J. G., Quinting, J. F., Seiler, C., 2019: The Future of Midlatitude Cyclones. Curr. Clim. Change Rep., 5, 407-420,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-019-00149-4

33. Babić, K., Kalthoff, N., Adler, B., Quinting, J. F., Lohou, F., Dione, C., and Lothon, M., 2019: What controls the formation of nocturnal low-level stratus clouds over southern West Africa during the monsoon season? Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 13489–13506, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13489-2019

34. Parker, T. J., Quinting, J. F., and Reeder, M. J., 2019: The synoptic-dynamics of summertime heat waves in the Sydney area (Australia), J. Southern Hemis. Earth Sys. Sci., 69, 116-130, https://doi.org/10.1071/ES19004 

35. Quinting, J. F., & Vitart, F., 2019: Representation of synoptic‐scale Rossby wave packets and blocking in the S2S prediction project database. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 1070– 1078. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081381

36. Keller, J.H., C.M. Grams, M. Riemer, H.M. Archambault, L. Bosart, J.D. Doyle, J.L. Evans, T.J. Galarneau, K. Griffin, P.A. Harr, N. Kitabatake, R. McTaggart-Cowan, F. Pantillon, J. Quinting, C.A. Reynolds, E.A. Ritchie, R.D. Torn, and F. Zhang, 2018: The Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones Part II: Interaction with the midlatitude flow, downstream impacts, and implications for predictability. Mon. Wea. Rev., 147, 1077–1106, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0329.1

37. Quinting, J. F., Reeder, M. J., and J. L. Catto, 2018: The intensity and motion of hybrid cyclones in the Australian region in a composite potential vorticity framework. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 145, 273–287, doi:10.1002/qj.3430

38. Quinting, J. F., Catto, J. L., and M. J. Reeder, 2018: Synoptic climatology of hybrid cyclones in the Australian region. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 145, 288–302, doi:10.1002/qj.3431

39. Quinting, J.F., T. Parker, and M.J. Reeder, 2018: Two Synoptic Routes to Subtropical Heat Waves as Illustrated in the Brisbane Region of Australia, Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 10,700– 10,708, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079261

40. Schäfler, A., and Coauthors, 2018: The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99, 1607–1637, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0003.1

41. Portmann R., B. Crezee, J. Quinting, H. Wernli, 2018: The complex life cycles of two long‐lived potential vorticity cut‐offs over Europe. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 144, 701–719, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3239

42. Evans, C., K.M. Wood, S.D. Aberson, H.M. Archambault, S.M. Milrad, L.F. Bosart, K.L. Corbosiero, C.A. Davis, J.R. Dias Pinto, J. Doyle, C. Fogarty, T.J. Galarneau, C.M. Grams, K.S. Griffin, J. Gyakum, R.E. Hart, N. Kitabatake, H.S. Lentink, R. McTaggart-Cowan, W. Perrie, J.F. Quinting, C.A. Reynolds, M. Riemer, E.A. Ritchie, Y. Sun, and F. Zhang, 2017: The Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones. Part I: Cyclone Evolution and Direct Impacts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 4317–4344, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0027.1

43. Quinting, J.F. and M.J. Reeder, 2017: Southeastern Australian Heat Waves from a Trajectory Viewpoint. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 4109–4125, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0165.1

44. Schneidereit, A., D.H. Peters, C.M. Grams, J.F. Quinting, J.H. Keller, G. Wolf, F. Teubler, M. Riemer, and O. Martius, 2017: Enhanced Tropospheric Wave Forcing of Two Anticyclones in the Prephase of the January 2009 Major Stratospheric Sudden Warming Event. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 1797–1815, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0242.1

45. Quinting, J.F. and S.C. Jones, 2016: On the Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Rossby Wave Packets: A Climatological Perspective. Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 2021–2048, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00298.1

46. Quinting, J.F., M.M. Bell, P.A. Harr, and S.C. Jones, 2014: Structural Characteristics of T-PARC Typhoon Sinlaku during Its Extratropical Transition. Mon. Wea. Rev., 142, 1945–1961, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-13-00306.1