General information

InnSAR addressed Surface-Atmosphere Exchange processes over Mountainous Terrain with focus on three particular topics:

The course aimed at providing participants the opportunity to deepen respective knowledge through lectures, excursions to field sites and laboratories and student projects based on evaluation of existing data or modeling. Student projects were supported by two instructors per group, respectively.

The course was open to a maximum of 21 participants (PhD students or Postdocs) and is incoporated in IMGI's PhD programme yielding 5 ECTS-Credits. Full time and successful participation was confirmed by a corresponding certificate.


Lecturing 

A total of 24 hours of lecturing was given during the first days to introduce to the topics and related projects. External lecturers contributed special evening lectures addresssing alspects of their actual research.

Please download the detailed schedule for further information here.




Student projects

- Boundary Layer Processes in Complex Topography: Energy balance closure in complex terrain

- Boundary Layer Processes in Complex Topography: Turbulence characteristics on a slope during up-slope flow

- Boundary Layer Processes in Complex Topography: Turbulence characteristics on a slope during down-slope flow

- Turbulent Trace Gas and Aerosol Exchange: How fast is fast enough?

- Turbulent Trace Gas and Aerosol Exchange: How often is often enough?

- Cryosphere Exchange Processes: Atmospheric exchanges at two snow covered mountain sites

- Cryosphere Exchange Processes: Mass Balance at two snow covered mountain sites



Excursions

- The InnSAR excursions lead us to the tongue of Schaufelferner, which is located in Stubaital and is part of a glacier skiing resort.    Besides watching the mostly obscured mountain scene, several small experiments related to the topics of the summer School were  performed. 

- The excursion was also open to participants from the MICMoR Summer School 2015, which took place just  before InnSAR.  The common excursion gave the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with colleagues there.