Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research
on
Surface-Atmosphere Exchange over Mountainous Terrain
(Innsbruck, 23-29 August 2015)
Surface-Atmosphere exchange processes play an essential role in a wide range of fields such as numerical weather prediction, climate modeling, glaciology, air pollution assessment and environmental modeling and hydrology. In complex mountainous terrain not only the models need to be adapted to slanting surfaces and inherently non-homogeneous conditions, also many observational techniques require special attention and process understanding must be revisited. InnSAR will provide state-of-the-art knowledge on these topics through lectures, excursions and hands-on student projects with a focus on:
The Summer School was organized by the Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (formerly: Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics; IMGI) which is associated to University of Innsbruck (Austria) and its Center of Climate and Cryosphere.
Outline
- Target group: PhD students and young researchers
- Number of participants: 19
- Admission and group assignment: based on a letter of motivation
- Fee: EUR 700, covering accomodation in double rooms and full board
Modules
- Introductions on the topics (lectures)
- Specific lectures on the topics
- Key note evening lectures
- Student projects (computer labs based on existing data)
- Excursions to field sites and laboratories
- Presentation and discussion of project outcomes
Lecturers
- Mathias Rotach (IMGI)
- Thomas Karl (IMGI)
- Georg Kaser (IMGI)
- Stephan de Wekker (Univ. Virginia, USA)
- C. David Whiteman (Univ. Utah, USA)
- John Pomeroy (Univ.of Saskatchewan,Canada)
- Martin Graus (IMGI)
- Andreas Held (Univ. Bayreuth, Germany)
- Lindsey Nicholson (IMGI)
- Friedrich Obleitner (IMGI)
- Ivana Stiperski (IMGI)
- Georg Wohlfahrt (Inst. of Ecology, Univ. Innsbruck)
Venue
The Summer School was hosted at Grillhof, which is an educational center close to Innsbruck. The fee included accomodation in double rooms, breakfast, lunch and evening buffet, coffee served during morning and afternoon breaks. It also includes expenses related to visting IMGI labs and field sites in the lower Inn Valley as well as participation in a field excursion a glacier.Contact
Please send your message to innsar@uibk.ac.at.Links
- University of Innsbruck (Austria)
- IMGI (the host institution)
- ICAM 2015 (held the week after Innsar)
- City of Innsbruck