News Archive

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.

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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Title: "When lightning propagates upwards: Meteorological characteristics and risk assessment of upward lightning at tall structures" ; date/time: 6th of September 2023, 11 a.m., seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus

Title: "On the effect of tributary valleys on thermally driven winds in the main valley: a case study in the Inn Valley"; date/time: August 30th, 2023, 10 a.m.;
Location: seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus  and on-line 

Potter, Emily et al. (2023): "A future of extreme precipitation and droughts in the Peruvian Andes".  Nature npj climate and atmospheric science; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00409-z

Steiner, J., Buri, P., Abermann, J., Prinz, R., & Nicholson, L. (2023). Steep ice – progress and future challenges in research on ice cliffs. Annals of Glaciology, 1-5. doi:10.1017/aog.2023.41

 "Upward Lightning at the Gaisberg Tower: The Larger-Scale Meteorological Influence on the Triggering Mode and Flash Type"

https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037776

Obituary notice

Bachelor's Theses Defenses on Monday, 3rd of July, 2023, starting at 09:00 a.m., on-line and on-site (Seminarraum 60819), 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus.
 Programme  (The progamme has been amended on the 28th of June, 2023!) :

Title: "Avalanches, Cool-Season Orographic Precipitation Extremes, and Deep-Powder Skiing in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/Time: 28th of June 2023, 12:00 noon

Morgenstern, D., Stucke, I., Mayr, G. J., Zeileis, A., and Simon, T.: "Thunderstorm environments in Europe", Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 489–509, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-489-2023 , 2023.

Title: "Towards climate services for extreme heat and heat stress: from global to local scale". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/Time: 14th of June 2023, 12:00 noon

Title: "Valley floor inclination affecting valley winds and transport of passive tracers in idealised simulations". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 7th of June 2023, 12:00 noon

Title: "Scale Interaction of Simulated Thermally Driven Winds in the Inn Valley, Austria - Sensitivity to the Horizontal Grid Size and  Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization" Date/time: June 6th, 2023, 2 p.m.;
Location: computer room 60818, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus  and on-line 

Title: "Toward ice-free Pyrenees: the case of Aneto glacier". Date/time: June 2nd, 2023, 10 a.m., on-site and on-line; room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f

Title: "Turbulent Transport of Momentum and Heat in the Atmospheric Surface Layer (ASL): New Perspectives on an Old Topic". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time:  May 31^st, 2023, 12:00 noon

Title: "Defining orography and vertical levels for ICON over the Alps". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 24th of May 2023, 12:00 noon; location:  room 60819 SR, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor

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

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

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

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

Title: "IPCC AR6". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time 26th of April 2023, 12:30 p.m.

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.; 

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.

News about the Atmospheric Turbulence group in the University of Innsbruck's Newsroom

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.

Authors: Ivana Stiperski and Marc Calaf, title: "Generalizing Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (1954) for Complex Atmospheric Turbulence"; 

Title: "Austria and ESA". This presentation will take place on-line. Date/time: 29th of March 2023, 11:45 a.m. on-line only

to investigate the impact of tropical cyclones on glaciers and precipitation extremes in Equatorial East Africa.
Congratulations!

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

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

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

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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

11th – 12th of May 2023

Annelies Voordendag, Rainer Prinz, Lilian Schuster and Georg Kaser have published a Brief communication on the Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 2022. The Cryosphere, 17, 3661–3665, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3661-2023, 2023.

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

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

"High urban NOx triggers a substantial chemical downward flux of ozone"

"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

"Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters" DOI: 10.1126/science.abo1324

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

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

Title: "Temporal and spatial trends in precipitation in the Rofental" Date/Time: 3rd of February 2023, 11 a.m. (MEZ) (on-line)

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

Title: "Clouds, Climate, and Weather" Bruno-Sander-Haus, room 60819 SR and on-line Date/Time: 1st of February 2023, 12:00 noon

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

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

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

Title:"Future evolution of glaciers in Austria" Geological Exhibition (2nd Floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus) Date/Time: 12th of January 2023, 12:00 noon

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

Title: "The impact of climate oscillations on the surface energy budget over the Greenland Ice Sheet in a changing climate" Bruno-Sander-Haus, room 60819 SR Date/Time: 7th of December 2022, 12:00 noon

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

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

Title: "New Particle Formation in Innsbruck"; date/time: 23rd of November 2022, 09:00 a.m; on-line only

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

Liebe Studierende, der heutige Termin LV 707825-0 (2022W) VO Weiterführende Themen: Lawinen fällt aus. 15.11.2022

Title: "Thunderstorm Types in Europe" Date/Time: 16th of November 2022, 12:00 noon

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

Title: "In-situ study of katabatic flows over a steep alpine slope during anticyclonic conditions" Date/Time: 12th of October 2022, 12:00 noon

Liebe Studierende, der heutige Termin LV 707825-0 (2022W) VO Weiterführende Themen: Lawinen fällt aus. 04.10.2022

Title: "The impact of terrain geometry on convection initiation triggered by slope winds" Date/Time: 5th of October 2022, 12:00 noon

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

Workshop on Atmospheric Turbulence 3 – 5. November 2022 - University of Innsbruck, Austria

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

Bachelor's Theses Defenses on Monday, 4th of July, 2022, starting at 09:00 a.m.

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

Title: "Lightning detection: Sensors, Techniques and Applications" Date/Time: 15th of June 2022, 12:00 noon

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

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

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

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

Title: "Clouds, Climate, and Weather"

Title: "Lightning at ECMWF" Date/Time: 18th of May 2022, 12:00 noon

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

Title: "Raman-Mikroskopie atmosphärischer, heterogener Eisbildung im Immersion Modus"; Date/Time: 7th of April 2022,08:15 a.m., on-line

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

Title: "Simulation of fog and low stratus over complex terrain" Date/Time: 16th of March 2022, 12:00 noon

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

Bachelor's Theses Defenses on Monday, 7th of February, 2022, starting at 09:00 a.m., online

Title: "Clouds, Climate, and Weather"

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)

Title: "Detection of snow cover dynamics with a long-range permanent TLS system at Hintereisferner" Date/Time: 26th of January 2022, 12:00 noon

Title: "Severe convective storms in Europe: climate research and forecasting" Date/Time: 19th of January 2022, 12:00 noon

Title: "Year-long, interdisciplinary observations of atmosphere-ice-ocean processes and interactions - the MOSAIC campaign"