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.
Research Topics
Boundary Layer Meteorology
Mountain Meteorology
Weather Forecasting
High-Resolution Numerical Modeling
Ongoing projects
- Atmosperic boundary-layer modeling over complex terrain (ASTER)
- Cyclamen
FERUS - Footprint Estimation over Rough Urban Surfaces - Ice in caves - a threatened climate archive in the Alps
IAO+
Innsbruck Box (i-Box) - TEAMx-Seed
- Multiscale Interactions in Convection Initiation in the Alps (MICIA)
PIANO - Penetration and Interruption of Alpine Foehn
Profcast - Probabilistic - Nowcasting of Wind and Wind Profiles at the Vienna International Airport - Understanding turbulent exchange over urban areas in highly complex terrain
Completed projects
- 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
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
WindFX - Forecasting the wind power distribution for wind parks -
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