News and Events
- Master Defensio: Almut Dorothee Alexa
Title: "Atmospheric boundary layer structure at the head of a small Alpine tributary valley with uncrewed aerial systems (UAS)". Date/time: 20th of December 2023, 08:30 a.m., on-line and on-site ; Seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Graduate Seminar: Lindsey Nicholson, Rainer Prinz, Ivana Stiperski
Title: "Introducing the HEFEX II campaign". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 13th of December 2023, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- New paper published in Geoscientific Model Development
Bolibar, J., Sapienza, F., Maussion, F., Lguensat, R., Wouters, B., and Pérez, F.: Universal differential equations for glacier ice flow modelling, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 6671–6687, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6671-2023, 2023.
- New publication by Gaspard Simonet et al.
The paper led by Gaspard Simonet evaluates the performance of two mesoscale models, GRAMM-SCI and WRF, in simulating the surface-energy budget in the Inn Valley. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-023-00835-9
- Graduate Seminar: Arianna Peron (ACINN)
"VOCs in urban context"; Date/time: November 29, 2023, 12:00 noon; on-line and on site; location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, seminar room 60819
- Graduate Seminar: Georg Mayr (ACINN)
"When the Romans came marching in - reconstructing climate at their strategic camp on Septimer Pass during the Alpine campaign 15 BCE - 15 CE"
Date/time: November 22, 2023, 12:00 noon; on-line and on site; location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, seminar room 60819 - Graduate Seminar: Simona Bordoni (University of Trento)
Title: "Aquaplanet monsoons: Dynamics and energetics of their maintenance and their response to climate changes". This presentation will take place on-line, and on-site in the seminar room 60819 SR, Bruno-Sander-Haus 8th floor; date/time: 15th of November 2023, 12:00 noon
- Master Defensio: Marie Schroeder
Title: Snow Water Equivalent measured by a Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor: A Case Study on Hintereisferner (Austria). Date/time: 16th of November 2023, 2 p.m., on-line and on-site ; seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- PhD Defensio: Deborah Morgenstern
Title: "European lightning conditions in all seasons explained by thunderstorm environments" ; date/time: 17th of November 2023, 3 p.m., seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line
- Graduate Seminar: Andreas Platis and Jens Bange (University of Tübingen)
Title: Use of small uncrewed aircraft systems for lower-troposphere research. Date/time 8th of November 2023, 12.00 noon. Location: Seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line
- Master Defensio: Dominik Majer
Title: "May the snow be with you: forecasting heavy snowfall in the Northern Tatra Mountains". Date/time: 20th of October 2023, 10:00 a.m., on-line and on-site ; Seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Graduate Seminar: Gaspard Simonet (ACINN)
Title: "Mesoscale model evaluation techniques over complex terrain". Date/time: 18th of October 2023, 12:00 noon; seminar room 60819 SR, 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f and on-line (write to atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at if you want to join on-line)
- Graduate Seminar: Bart Schilperoort (eScience Center, NL)
Title: "Distributed temperature sensing and its applications in studying forest-atmosphere interaction". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 11th of October 2023, 12:00 noon
- Master Defensio: Judith Schmack
Title: "Seasonality of atmospheric new particle formation at Sonnblick Observatory: An analysis of the years 2019-2021". Date/time: 9th of October 2023, 5 p.m., on-line and on-site ; Conputer room 60818, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Master Defensio: Raphael Tasch
Title: "Do thunderstorm environments actually produce thunderstorms?". Date/time: 6th of October 2023, 12:00 noon, on-line and on-site ; Seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Minor in Scientific computing
The Extension Programme Scientific Computing (EPSC) allows students to profoundly expand their knowledge in various aspects of scientific computing. Graduates of the bachelor's and master's programme in atmospheric sciences are admitted to this extension programme.
- New paper published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Weinkaemmerer, J., Göbel, M., Serafin, S., Ďurán, I.B. & Schmidli, J. (2023) Boundary-layer plumes over mountainous terrain in idealized large-eddy simulations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1–15. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4551
- Graduate Seminar: Pascal Buri (Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL)
Title: "On the importance of vapor fluxes for the water balance of a high elevation Himalayan catchment". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 17th of May 2023, 12:00 noon; location: room 60819 SR, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor
- Graduate Seminar: Werner Jud (ACINN)
Title: "Atmospheric trace gases and me". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/Time: 10th of May 2023, 12:00 noon
- Graduate Seminar: Hamish McGowan
Title: "Subtropical foehn winds, Southeast Queensland, Australia (Early insights)". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 3rd of May 2023, 12:00 noon; location: room 60819 SR, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor
- Master Defensio: Michael Binder
Title: "Non-Orographic Gravity Waves above Propagating Tropopause Depressions - Idealized Numerical Simulations.". Date/Time: 3rd of May 2023, 2 p.m., on-line and on-site ; computer room 60818, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Graduate Seminar: Georg Kaser (ACINN)
Title: "IPCC AR6". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time 26th of April 2023, 12:30 p.m.
- New paper from the OGGM team in the Journal of Glaciology
Authors: Malles, J., Maussion, F., Ultee, L., Kochtitzky, W., Copland, L. and Marzeion, B.; title: "Exploring the impact of a frontal ablation parameterization on projected 21st-century mass change for Northern Hemisphere glaciers", J. Glaciol., 1–16, doi:10.1017/jog.2023.19, 2023.;
- Graduate Seminar: Fabien Maussion, Cornelia Klein, Emily Potter (ACINN), Lorenz Hänchen, and Georg Wohlfahrt (Department of Ecology)
Title: "4 years of AgroClim Huaraz - Symposium and celebration for the end of the project". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 19th of April 2023, 11:30 a.m.
- Turbulence: Decades-old theory gets a major remake
News about the Atmospheric Turbulence group in the University of Innsbruck's Newsroom