News Archive
- International Swiss Climate Summer School 2025
Detailed information on registration will be found on the website: https://c2sm.ethz.ch/education/summer-school-2025.html
- Graduate Seminar: Abdullah Bolek (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany)
Title: "Measuring In situ Greenhouse Gas Emissions over Arctic Ecosystems with a UAV"
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 12:00; seminar room no. 60819; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f - MSc Defensio: Valerie Reppert
"Climate Signals from Neumayer, Coastal Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica: A 33-
year Statistical Analysis of Snow Accumulation in a Stake Farm"Date/time/location: 28th of November, 01:30 pm, seminar room 60819 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- Graduate Seminar: Jörg-Peter Schnitzler (Helmholtz-Zentrum München)
Title: "Biogenic volatile organic compounds - a volatile alphabet for communication in a changing atmospheric environment"
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 12:00; seminar room no. 60819; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f - MSc presentation: Catharina Ziska
"Impact of anomalous Westerlies over Equatorial East Africa"
Date/time: 7th of November, 2024, 10.30 am. It is possible to join on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at)
- Graduate Seminar: Nikki Vercauteren (Universität Köln)
Title: "Stochastic parameterization of turbulence: why and how?"; date/time: 6th of November, 2024, 12:00; seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f (if you want to join on-line, please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- TEAMx Observational Campaign (TOC)
The TEAMx Observational Campaign (TOC) started on 15 September and will run for a whole year until mid-September 2025. During this time, information about ongoing TOC activities, including TEAMx UIBK activities in the Inn Valley, will be posted on the TEAMx Website: https://www.teamx-programme.org/newsletters/
- Graduate Seminar: Marco Chericoni (IUSS)
Title: "Mediterranean precipitation response to climate change during extreme cyclones"; date/time: 30th of October, 2024, 12:00; seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f (if you want to join on-line, please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- Graduate Seminar: Beth Saunders (ACINN)
Title: "Urban surface-atmosphere exchanges: Scintillometry observations and NWP evaluation"; date/time: 23rd of October, 2024, 12:00; seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f (if you want to join on-line, please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- Graduate Seminar: Mathias W. Rotach & Manuela Lehner (ACINN)
Title: Multi-scale Transport and Exchange processes in the Atmosphere over Mountains – programme and eXperiment"
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 12:00; seminar room no. 60819; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Armin Wisthaler (Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Norway)
Title: "Capturing CO2 at the source and the associated environmental risks"
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 12:00; seminar room no. 60819; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - PhD Defensio: Matthias Göbel
Title: "Dry and moist orographic convection during weak synoptic forcing studied with idealized numerical simulations"; location: seminar room 60819, and on-line; 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus;
Tuesday, 20th of August, 2024, starting at 10:00 a.m.; (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at) - PhD Concept Defensio: Marie Charlotte Stöckhardt
"Synergetic Aerosol Remote Sensing"
Date/time/location: 6th of August, 10 am, seminar room 60819 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphere@uibk.ac.at)
- MSc Defensio: Paula Spannring
"Comparison of two avalanche terrain classification approaches: Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale - Classified Avalanche Terrain"
Date/time/location: 5th of August, 11 am, seminar room 60819 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at)
- Job opening: University Professor of Dynamic Meteorology
Our department is pleased to announce an opening for a Full Professor position in Dynamic Meteorology. We are seeking a highly qualified individual who will be the successor of Mathias Rotach, who will retire next year.
- MSc Defensio: Nicolas Gampierakis
"Modelling Debris Cover with COSIPY: A Case Study for Suldenferner",
Date/time/location: 3rd of July, 1 pm, seminar room 60819 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at ) - Bachelor's Theses Defenses SS 2024
Bachelor's Theses Defenses on Monday, 1st of July, 2024, starting at 10:30 a.m., (Seminar room 60819 SR and on-line), 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus
Find the programme here: https://fileshare.uibk.ac.at/f/bf6ed99c4e5643dba085/ - Exkursionen Zentralasien
Nähere Informationen und Anmeldung siehe https://institute-ers.org/reisen/usbekistan/
Datum: 16. bis 30. September 2024 - MSc Defensio: Gorosti Mancho Bacaicoa
Title: “Mechanism and Structure of the Cross-valley Vortex in the Inn Valley”
Date/time/location: 20th of June, 2024, 9 a.m. / computer room 60818, 8th floor of
Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at ) - Graduate Seminar: Rebecca Mott-Grünewald (WSL, SLF, Davos)
Title: Snow-Atmosphere Interactions; date/time: Wednesday, 19. June 2024, 12:00; location: seminar room no. 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f (if you want to join on-line, please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- Graduate Seminar: Shane D. Mayor (California State University, USA)
Title: "The REAL and M²HATS"; date/time: 19th of June, 2024, 4.15 p.m.; seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f (if you want to join on-line, please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- Graduate Seminar: Lukas Umek
Title: "EURO1k: a pan-european high-resolution, rapid-update NWP system - development, applications and data-assimilation"
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 12:00; seminar room no. 60819; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f - MSc Defensio: Alexander Platter
The role of nighttime filtering approaches for net ecosystem CO2 exchange over a mountain forest; time/location: 6th of June, 2024, 2 p.m., room UR 60306, 3rd floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- MSc Defensio: Benedikt Wibmer
Title: "Evaluation of AROME Model Valley Wind Simulations in the Inn Valley, Austria - Sensitivity to Horizontal Grid Resolution"; time/location: 4th of June, 2024, 11 a.m., computer room 60818, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Master Defensio Anna Baldo
Title: "Ablation drivers over Weißseespitze: a surface energy balance study";
29th of May 2024, 8:00-10:00 a.m., on-line (link upon request) and on-site: 60818 computer room (Innrain 52f, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor) - Graduate Seminar: Mirijana Sakradzija
Title: "A path to scale-aware representation of the convective boundary layer in numerical weather prediction". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 29th of May 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Graduate Seminar: Norman Wildmann (DLR)
Title: "Spatio-temporal measurements of turbulence in wind parks and complex terrain with a multicopter UAS fleet". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time:22nd of May 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Graduate Seminar: Stefan Sobolowski (NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway)
Title: "Changing climate in complex terrain: how robust is our understanding?". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 15th of May 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Graduate Seminar: Oliver Zott (Software Developer, VertiGIS GmbH, Innsbruck)
Title: "DevOps - Modern Software Development". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 8th of May 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- MSc Defensio: Laurin Steinmaier
Title: "High Resolution Downscaling of Surface Wind Fields over Europe with a Deep Residual Neural Network "; location: seminar room 60819 SR, 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line
26th of April, 2024, starting at 10:00 a.m. - Graduate Seminar: Annemarie Schönherr (ZID)
Title: "Digital Research Services & JupyterHub @ University of Innsbruck". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 24th of April 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Graduate Seminar: Silje Lund Sørland (SWECO, Norway)
Title: "Using climate data for climate adaptation – Examples from the urban planning sector". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 17th of April 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- MSc Defensio: Martin Perfler
Title: "Towards an objective avalanche forecast: Region clustering and automated avalanche problem identification to assist the forecasters? workflow"; location: computer room 60818, 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line
9th of April, 2024, starting at 12:30 p.m. - MSc Defensio: Rebecca Chizzola
Title: "Influence of the future changes of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on North Atlantic Glaciers: An analysis on CMIP6 data"; location: seminar room 60819 SR, 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line
28th of March, 2024, starting 10:30 a.m. - Graduate Seminar: Charles Chemel (National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, UK)
Title: "Evaluation of heatwave mitigation and adaptation strategies in the Grenoble valley". Date/time: 20th of March 2024, 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)
- New publication in "Nature" with high-resolution multi-model ensamble co-authored by Nikolina Ban
Fosser, G., Gaetani, M., Kendon, E.J. et al. Convection-permitting climate models offer more certain extreme rainfall projections. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 51 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00600-w
- Graduate Seminar: Scientists from each ACINN research group
Presentation of Research Activities and Projects at ACINN. Date/time: 13th of March 2024, 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)
- PhD Defensio: Hetal Dabhi
Title: "Multi-Site Weather Generator for Complex Terrain Applications in Snow Hydrology";
location: room UR 60306, 3rd floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line;
Tuesday, 12th of March, 2024, starting at 10:00 a.m. - Graduate Seminar: Inanc Senocak (Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Title: "Physics and Equality Constrained Artificial Neural Networks for Forward and Inverse Problems". Date/time: 6th of March 2024, 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)
- Master in Atmospheric and Cryospheric Science program - Online Info event
Interested in our Master in Atmospheric and Cryospheric Science program?
Online info event on 11 and 12 March at 15:00 CET at this link: - MSc Defensio: Hanna Rohringer
Title: "Comparison and tracking of facets around crusts in observed and modeled snow profiles!"; location: compter room 60818, 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line
5th of March, 2024, starting 08:00 a.m. - PhD Defensio: Lukas Umek
Title: "Numerical Simulations of the Turbulent Interaction between Alpine Foehn and Cold-Air Pools in the Inn Valley"location: seminar room 60819, and on-line; 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus;
Thursday, 29th of February, 2024, starting 10:30 a.m. - MSc Defensio: Hannah Kranz
Title: "Influence of Tropical Cyclones on Precipitation in High Mountain Asia"; location: seminar room 60819, 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus;
Friday, 1st of March, 2024, starting 09:00 a.m. - New paper by Andreas Rauchoecker et al published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Rauchöcker, Andreas; Rudolph, Alexander; Stiperski, Ivana; Lehner, Manuela: "Cold-Air Pool Development in a small Alpine Valley". Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Available from: https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.4644
- New publications brought out by "Boundary Layer Meteorology"
Two publications where Ivana Stiperski has been a co-author have finally seen the light of day: "Turbulence in the Strongly Heterogeneous Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow" (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-023-00856-4), and "A Novel Similarity Approach for Describing the Bulk Shear in the Atmospheric Surface Layer" (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-023-00854-6)
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bachelor's Theses Defenses
Bachelor's Theses Defenses on Monday, 5th of February, 2024, starting at 09:00 a.m., (Seminarraum 60819 and on-line), 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus
Programme: https://fileshare.uibk.ac.at/f/3537170376754e4aa597/?dl=1 - Graduate Seminar: Matthias Mauder (Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, University of Dresden)
Title: "The Energy-Balance-Closure Problem and Possible Corrections". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 24th of January 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Graduate Seminar: Lilian Schuster (ACINN)
Title: "Consequences of overshooting the Paris temperature targets for global glacier volume and runoff projections". Date/time: 17th of January 2024, 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: Samuele Mosso (ACINN)
Title: "Turbulence Anisotropy in the Atmospheric Surface Layer". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 31st of January 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Graduate Seminar: Dylan Reynolds (WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF)
Title: "Fast and light: insights and applications of high-resolution atmospheric modeling over winter seasons" Bruno-Sander-Haus, room 60819 SR and on-line Date/Time: 11th of January 2023, 12:00 noon
- Climate Change seminar: Lea Hartl & Patrick Schmitt
Title:"Future evolution of glaciers in Austria" Geological Exhibition (2nd Floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus) Date/Time: 12th of January 2023, 12:00 noon
- Graduate Seminar: Jordi Bolibar (IMAU, Utrecht University)
Title:"Towards the discovery of new empirical laws of glacier physics using Universal Differential Equations". This presentation will take place on-line. If you want to attend online ask atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at for the link. Date/Time: 18th of January 2023, 12:00 noon
- Graduate Seminar: Isabell Stucke (ACINN)
Title: " Upward lightning - characteristics and risk assessment"; Bruno-Sander-Haus, room 60819 SR and on-line; date/time: 25th of January 2023, 12:00 noon
- Climate Change seminar: Niklas Richter and Alzbeta Medvedova
Title talk 1:"Towards Large Scale Forcing of Glacier SEB Models"; talk 2: "Future Projections of Extreme Sub-Hourly Precipitation over Europe in Kilometer-Scale Simulations"; Geological Exhibition (2nd Floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus); Date/Time: 26th of January 2023, 12:00 noon
- Graduate Seminar: Aiko Voigt (University of Vienna)
Title: "Clouds, Climate, and Weather" Bruno-Sander-Haus, room 60819 SR and on-line Date/Time: 1st of February 2023, 12:00 noon
- Master Defensio: Calum Winter
Title: "Temporal and spatial trends in precipitation in the Rofental" Date/Time: 3rd of February 2023, 11 a.m. (MEZ) (on-line)
- Climate Change seminar: Michael Stichaner and Gaspard Simonet
Title talk 1: "Gap filling of CH4 flux data in Innsbruck"; talk 2: "Evaluation technics in complex terrain or Land Use Classification impact on valley flows"; Geological Exhibition (2nd Floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus); Date/Time: 2nd of February 2023, 12:00 noon
- Bachelor's Theses Defenses
Bachelor's Theses Defenses on Monday, 6th of February, 2023, starting at 09:00 a.m., on-line and on-site (Seminarraum 60819), 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus
- PhD Concept Defensio: Michael Stichaner
Title: "QUANTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN METHANE SOURCES MEASURED BY EDDY COVARIANCE" Date/Time: 8th of March 2023, 10 a.m., on-line and on-site: computer room 60818, Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Master Defensio: Dabih Isidori
Title: "Atmospheric Deserts and Severe Convection Over Europe: 7 Case Studies" Date/Time: 27.02.2023, 2 p.m., on-site and on-line; room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- PhD Concept Defensio: Patrick Schmitt
Title: "Towards a flexible, global data assimilation framework for glacier modelling" Date/Time: 14th of February 2023, 4 p.m., seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus
- New paper in Journal of Glaciology
"What is the global glacier ice volume outside the ice sheets?" Journal of Glaciology, first view, pp. 1-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.1
- Publication in "Science" (Ice and Climate group), 05.01.2023
"Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters" DOI: 10.1126/science.abo1324
- Publication in "Science" (Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry group),18.01.2023
"High urban NOx triggers a substantial chemical downward flux of ozone"
- 9th Meeting of the Austrian Meteorological Society
11th – 12th of May 2023
- Graduate Seminar: Stefan Kneifel (LMU, Germany)
Title: "Long-term remote-sensing observations of clouds and precipitation at the Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/Time: 15th of March 2023, 12:00 noon
- New paper in Frontiers in Earth Science
by Nickus U., Thies H., Krainer K., Lang K., Mair V. and Tonidandel D. about the chemical composition of a rock glacier ice core (Lazaun, Italy): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2023.1141379/full
- Master Defensio: Silvia Barbieri
Title: "Turbulent sensible heat flux in complex terrain: a comparison between parametrizations on Hintereisferner". Date/Time: 23rd of March 2023, 04:15 p.m., on-site and on-line; computer room 60818, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Master Defensio: Lennart Königer
Title: "Case study of large snowfall event on the Tibetan Plateau associated with tropical cyclone activity". Date/Time: 24th of March 2023, 10:00 a.m., on-site; seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Master Defensio: Anna Castiglione
Title: "From global warming to extreme precipitation: an attribution study of the Vaia storm (2018) to raise climate change risk-perception in the Trentino population". Date/Time: 30th of March 2023, 10:30 a.m., on-line and on-site ; computer room 60818, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Emily Collier, Lindsey Nicholson, and international collaborators were successfully awarded an FWF grant
to investigate the impact of tropical cyclones on glaciers and precipitation extremes in Equatorial East Africa.
Congratulations! - Graduate Seminar: Josef Aschbacher
Title: "Austria and ESA". This presentation will take place on-line. Date/time: 29th of March 2023, 11:45 a.m. on-line only
- New paper published in Physical Review Letters
Authors: Ivana Stiperski and Marc Calaf, title: "Generalizing Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (1954) for Complex Atmospheric Turbulence";
- New paper published in Annals of Glaciology
A new paper is published by Recinos, B., Maussion, F. and Marzeion, B.: "Advances in data availability to constrain and evaluate frontal ablation of ice-dynamical models of Greenland’s tidewater peripheral glaciers", Annals of Glaciology 1-7.
- Turbulence: Decades-old theory gets a major remake
News about the Atmospheric Turbulence group in the University of Innsbruck's Newsroom
- 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.
- 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: 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.
- 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: 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
- 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: 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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: 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: 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
- 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
- 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 - POSTPONED: Graduate Seminar: Christian Haas (Alfred-Wegener-Institute)
Title: "Year-long, interdisciplinary observations of atmosphere-ice-ocean processes and interactions - the MOSAIC campaign"
- Graduate Seminar: Pieter Groenemeijer (European Severe Storms Laboratory, DE)
Title: "Severe convective storms in Europe: climate research and forecasting" Date/Time: 19th of January 2022, 12:00 noon
- Graduate Seminar: Annelies Voordendag (ACINN)
Title: "Detection of snow cover dynamics with a long-range permanent TLS system at Hintereisferner" Date/Time: 26th of January 2022, 12:00 noon
- Master Defensio: Josef Zink
Title: "Spatially Distributed Wind Measurements in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer with a Fleet of Quadrotors - Examination of the Homogeneity Aussumption and the Applicability of Taylor's Hypothesis" Date/Time: 28th of January 2022, 02:00 p.m. (on-line)
- POSTPONED: Wednesday's Graduate Seminar: Aiko Voigt
Title: "Clouds, Climate, and Weather"
- Bachelor's Theses Defenses
Bachelor's Theses Defenses on Monday, 7th of February, 2022, starting at 09:00 a.m., online
- Master Defensio: Herwig Grogger
Title: "Simulation of Deep Gravity Wave Propagation Using EULAG" Date/Time: 7th of March 2022, 03:00 p.m. Room 60818, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Graduate Seminar: Stephanie Westerhuis (C2SM ETH & MeteoSwiss, CH)
Title: "Simulation of fog and low stratus over complex terrain" Date/Time: 16th of March 2022, 12:00 noon
- Graduate Seminar: Christian Haas (AWI, Bremen)
Title: "Go with the floe - Year-long, interdisciplinary observations of atmosphere-ice-ocean processes and interactions during the MOSAIC campaign" Date/Time: 6th of April 2022, 12:00 noon
- Master Defensio: Simon Wöckinger
Title: "Evaluation of COSMO-CLM high-resolution climate simulations over the Rio Santa basin, Peru, with focus on precipitation processes"; Date/Time: 31st of March 2022, 10:30 a.m., Bruno-Sander-Haus 8th floor, room 60818
- Master Defensio: Roman Viehhauser
Title: "The Role of Fronts and Troughs in Triggering Thunderstorms in Europe During the Transitional Seasons"; Date/Time: 28th of March 2022,09:00 a.m.,on-line
- Master Defensio: Michael Pfeiffenberger
Title: "Reconstruction of local climate conditions during the last years and decades at the site where Ötzi's body was found"; Date/Time: 30th of March 2022,10:30 a.m., Computer lab on the 8th floor (60818 EDV Raum)
- Master Defensio: Marie Hofmann
Title: "Future Changes of Alpine Snowfall and Snowcover in a High Resolution Climate Simulation"; Date/Time: 4th of April 2022,08:15 a.m., Seminar room on the 8th floor (60819)
- Master Defensio: Peter Albrecht
Title: ""Past climate change in the Rio Santa Basin, Peruvian Andes, as described by multiple datasets"; Date/Time: 7th of April 2022,10:00 a.m., on-line
- Master Defensio: Willi Pose
Title: "Raman-Mikroskopie atmosphärischer, heterogener Eisbildung im Immersion Modus"; Date/Time: 7th of April 2022,08:15 a.m., on-line
- Master Defensio: Benjamin Udina
Title: "Influence of moisture source and transport on deuterium excess of fresh snow samples at Neumayer Station, Antarctica" Date/Time: 29.04.2022, 9 a.m., on-site and on-line Room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Graduate Seminar: Philippe Lopez (ECMWF)
Title: "Lightning at ECMWF" Date/Time: 18th of May 2022, 12:00 noon
- Graduate Seminar: William Collgan (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen)
Title: "Dark Side of the Greenland Ice Sheet: How has our understanding of the ice-bed interface changed over the last decade?" Date/Time: 25th of May 2022, 12:00 noon
- Master Defensio: Erik Holmgren
Title: "21st century glacier runoff and how it buffers drought in 75 large-scale basins"; Date/Time: 31st of May 2022, 10:15 a.m., location: 4th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, room nr. 60434 or on-line
- Graduate Seminar: Chiel van Heerwaarden (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Wageningen)
Title: "The Shedding Light On Cloud Shadows project: understanding clouddriven solar irradiance variability" Date/Time: 1st of June 2022, 12:00 noon, 60819 SR, Innrain, 52f, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor
- Master Defensio: Stefano Campostrini
Title: "Precipitation nowcasting: a deep learning approach"; Date/Time: 13th of June 2022, 3 p.m., location: Computer room 60818 on the 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, or on-line
- CANCELLED: Graduate Seminar: Aiko Voigt (University of Vienna)
Title: "Clouds, Climate, and Weather"
- Graduate Seminar: Nicolau Pineda (Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
Title: "Lightning detection: Sensors, Techniques and Applications" Date/Time: 15th of June 2022, 12:00 noon
- Graduate Seminar: Johannes Lenhard (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Title: "Holism, or the Degeneration of Modularity – a Methodological Challenge for Validation" Date/Time: 22nd of June 2022, 12:00 noon, room 60819 SR,8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Bachelor's Theses Defenses
Bachelor's Theses Defenses on Monday, 4th of July, 2022, starting at 09:00 a.m.
- Master Defensio: Andreas Rauchöcker
Title: "Characteristics of a cold air pool near Seefeld, Austria: Numerical modeling results"; Date/Time: 8th of July 2022, 9 a.m., location: 60819 SR, Bruno-Sander-Haus, room nr. 60819 and on-line
- Workshop on Atmospheric Turbulence
Workshop on Atmospheric Turbulence 3 – 5. November 2022 - University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Master Defensio: Alzbeta Medvedova
Title: "Future Projections of Extreme Sub-Hourly Precipitation over Europe in Kilometer-Scale Simulations"; Date/Time: 28th of July 2022, 10 a.m., location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, room nr. 60819 and on-line
- Graduate Seminar: Matthias Göbel (ACINN, now ZAMG Salzburg)
Title: "The impact of terrain geometry on convection initiation triggered by slope winds" Date/Time: 5th of October 2022, 12:00 noon
- Today's lecture 707825 VO Advanced Topics: Avalanches is cancelled
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- Graduate Seminar: Claudine Charrondière (ACINN)
Title: "In-situ study of katabatic flows over a steep alpine slope during anticyclonic conditions" Date/Time: 12th of October 2022, 12:00 noon
- Master Defensio: Alexander Rudolph
Title: „Cold air pools in Seefeld“; Date/Time: 21st of October 2022, 02:00 p.m., location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, room nr. 60819 and on-line
- Graduate Seminar: Deborah Morgenstern (ACINN)
Title: "Thunderstorm Types in Europe" Date/Time: 16th of November 2022, 12:00 noon
- Today's lecture 707825 VO "Advanced Topics: Avalanches" is cancelled
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- Graduate Seminar: Nadia Vendrame (University of Trento)
Title: "Vineyard-atmosphere interactions: study of CO2 fluxes and canopy turbulent flow" Bruno-Sander-Haus, room 60819 SR Date/Time: 23rd of November 2022, 12:00 noon
- Master Defensio: David Gächter
Title: "New Particle Formation in Innsbruck"; date/time: 23rd of November 2022, 09:00 a.m; on-line only
- PhD Defensio: Maren Haid
Title: "Foehn – cold pool interaction in the Inn Valley"; date/time: 24th of November 2022, 02:30 p.m; room 50113 (access via Geiwi-Turm, 1st floor) and on-line
- Graduate Seminar: Guillaume Jouvet (Université de Lausane, Switzerland)
Title: "IGM, a data assimilation and Glacier Evolution Model Accelerated by Deep-learning and GPU" Bruno-Sander-Haus, room 60819 SR Date/Time: 30th of November 2022, 12:00 noon