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Atmospheric Dynamics

The Dynamics group at ACINN is mainly concerned with aspects of dynamical processes in mountainous areas. We study the characteristics of exchange processes between the Boundary Layer in complex terrain and the free Troposphere’, and thus boundary layers in complex terrain – thereby putting a special focus on snow- or ice-covered surfaces; flows dynamically influenced by mountains (such as gap flows or Föhn); and weather forecast methodology and downscaling. Our research approach is a combination between experimental and numerical modeling.

Ongoing projects

• Investigating the surface energy balance over mountain areas (INTERFACE)
• Atmospheric deserts
  Surface-atmosphere interactions in complex landscapes using high-resolution modelling (SCHiRM)
• Atmospheric boundary-layer modeling over complex terrain (ASTER)
• Innsbruck Box (i-Box)
  
• TEAMx-Seed
• Multivariate Probabilistic Forecasting of Weather Using Joint Distributional Regression (with Department of Statistics)
• Near-surface turbulent exchange in the stable mountain boundary layer (TExSMBL)

Completed projects

• Cold season thunderstorms in Europe (Wintergewitter in Europa)
• Ice in caves - a threatened climate archive in the Alps
  IAO+
• PIANO - Penetration and Interruption of Alpine Foehn
  Multiscale Interactions in Convection Initiation in the Alps (MICIA)
• FERUS - Footprint Estimation over Rough Urban Surfaces
• Cyclamen
• Turb-i-Box
• HydroGem³ – meteo
• LightningPredict
  LowVisCapFX - Forecasting Low Visibility Procedure States and Resulting Capacities of Airports
  Influence of secondary orography on boundary layer separation and rotors
  INHOM-TCT - Investigating spatial inhomogenity of surface layer turbulence in complex terrain
  S-MOS - Second Generation Model Output Statistics
• Quantifying exchange processes over mountainous terrain
• Profcast - Probabilistic - Nowcasting of Wind and Wind Profiles at the Vienna International Airport
  Rain Cloud
  Scale interactions in stable boundary layers over mountainous terrain
• Snow cover Atmosphere Interactions
• SnowSafeFX - Forecasting Alpine snow amounts for the safety of people, infrastructure and transport
  Sensitivity of Svalbard glaciers to climate change
• Understanding turbulent exchange over urban areas in highly complex terrain
  WindFX - Forecasting the wind power distribution for wind parks
  

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