Dr. Mathias ROTACH
Head of Department, Full Professor
Chair of the Research Centre Climate and Cryosphere
Atmospheric Dynamics
Curriculum Vitae:
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Public presentations

Scene Setting: Climate Change in Mountainous Areas, Pre-COP26 Conference “Towards climate-smart Alpine forests”, Pre-COP26 House, Villa Necchi, Milan, 30 Sep. 2021
Presentation, M. Rotach: starting Min 10:40
Research Interests
- Boundary Layer dynamics
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Mountain weather and climate
- Air pollution modeling
Projects
- Investigating the surface energy balance over mountain areas (INTERFACE)
- Innsbruck Box (i-Box)
- Atmospheric boundary-layer modeling over complex terrain (ASTER)
- Multiscale Interactions in Convection Initiation in the Alps (MICIA)
- TEAMx-seed
- Footprint Estimation over Rough Urban Surfaces (FERUS)
- IAO+
- MSCA COFUND Doctoral Programme - DOCC: Dynamics of Complex Continua
Completed Projects
- Cyclamen
- Turb-i-Box
- Alp-Air
- HydroGem³ - meteo
- INHOM-TCT
- SAINT
- Scale interactions in stable boundary layers over mountainous terrain'
- Understanding turbulent exchange over urban areas in highly complex Terrain
Courses
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Publications 2022
Contributions to Books / Journals
Journal Article (Original Paper)
- Göbel, M.; Serafin, S.; Rotach, M. W. (2022): Numerically consistent budgets of potential temperature, momentum, and moisture in Cartesian coordinates: application to the WRF model.
In: Geoscientific Model Development 15, pp. 669 - 681. (DOI) (Web link) - Haid, M.; Gohm, A.; Umek, L.; Ward, H.; Rotach, M. (2022): Cold-Air Pool Processes in the Inn Valley During Föhn: A Comparison of Four Cases During the PIANO Campaign.
In: Boundary-Layer Meteorology 182, pp. 335 - 362. (DOI) (Web link) - Rotach, M. W.; Serafin, S.; Ward, H. C.; Arpagaus, M.; Colfescu, I.; Cuxart, J.; De Wekker, S. F. J.; Grubišić, V.; Kalthoff, N.; Karl, T. G.; Kirshbaum, D. J.; Lehner, M.; Mobbs, S.; Paci, A.; Palazzi, E.; Bailey, A.; Schmidli, J.; Wittmann, C.; Wohlfahrt, G.; Zardi, D. (2022): A collaborative effort to better understand, measure and model atmospheric exchange processes over mountains.
In: Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society 103/5, pp. E1282 - E1295. (DOI) (Web link) - Stöckl, S.; Rotach, M. W.; Kljun, N. (2022): Including the Urban Canopy Layer in a Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model.
In: Boundary-Layer Meteorology 185, pp. 1 - 34. (DOI) (Web link) - Umek, L.; Gohm, A.; Haid, M.; Ward, H.; Rotach, M. W. (2022): Influence of grid resolution of large-eddy simulations on foehn-cold pool interaction.
In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 148/745, pp. 1840 - 1863. (DOI) (Web link) - Ward, H. C.; Rotach, M.; Gohm, A.; Graus, M.; Karl, T.; Haid, M.; Umek, L.; Muschinski, T. (2022): Energy and mass exchange at an urban site in mountainous terrain – the Alpine city of Innsbruck.
In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22/10, pp. 6559 - 6593. (DOI) (Web link) - Weiß, Cornelius; Gohm, Alexander; Rotach, Mathias Walter; Minda, Thomas Torora (2022): Dynamics of gap winds in the Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia: emphasis on strong winds at Lake Abaya.
In: Weather and Climate Dynamics 3/3, pp. 1003 - 1019. (DOI) (Web link)
Journal Article (Other)
- Price, Martin F.; Gurgiser, Wolfgang; Juen, Irmgard; Adler, Carolina; Wymann von Dach, Susanne; Kaser, Georg; Mayr, Stefan; Bahn, Michael; Björnsen Gurung, Astrid; Dax, Thomas; Duglio, Stefano; Fischer, Jan-Thomas; Füreder, Leopold; Kurmayer, Rainer; Machold, Ingrid; Mailer, Markus; Marke, Thomas; Marzeion, Ben; McDowell, Graham Matthew; Meyer, Michael; Neuburger, Martina; Nicholson, Lindsey; Nicolussi, Kurt; Oedl-Wieser, Theresia; Peters, Mike; Richter, Kristin; Rotach, Mathias; Rüdisser, Johannes; Ruiz Peyré, Fernando; Rutzinger, Martin; Schermer, Markus; Schirpke, Ute; Schneiderbauer, Stefan; Steiger, Robert; Stotten, Rike; Szarzynski, Joerg; Tappeiner, Ulrike; Ueno, Kenichi; Wohlfahrt, Georg (2022): The International Mountain Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, September 2019 (IMC2019): A Synthesis with Recommendations for Research.
In: Mountain Research And Development 42/1, pp. A1 - A16. (DOI) (Web link)
Journal Article (Meeting-Abstract)
- Jones, S.; Rotach, M. W.; Simmer, C.; et al. (2022): The German “Hans-Ertel-Centre for Weather Research” (HErZ).
In: EMS Annual Meeting Abstracts 19, No. EMS2022-647. (DOI) (Web link)
Publications 2021
Contributions to Books / Journals
Journal Article (Original Paper)
- Adler, Bianca; Gohm, Alexander; Kalthoff, Norbert; Babic, Nevio; Corsmeier, Ulrich; Lehner, Manuela; Rotach, Mathias W.; Haid, Maren; Markmann, Piet; Gast, Eckhard; Tsaknakis, George; Georgoussis, George (2021): CROSSINN - a field experiment to study the three-dimensional flow structure in the Inn Valley, Austria.
In: Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society 102/1, pp. E38 - E60. (DOI) (Web link) - Babić, Nevio; Adler, Bianca; Gohm, Alexander; Kalthoff, Norbert; Haid, Maren; Lehner, Manuela; Ladstätter, Paul; Rotach, Mathias (2021): Cross-valley vortices in the Inn valley, Austria: Structure, evolution and governing force imbalances.
In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 147/740, pp. 3835 - 3861. (DOI) (Web link) - Dabhi, H.; Rotach, M. W,; Dubrovsky, M,; Oberguggenberger, M. (2021): Evaluation of a stochastic weather generator in simulating univariate and multivariate climate extremes in different climate zones across Europe.
In: Meteorologische Zeitschrift 30/2, pp. 127 - 151. (DOI) (Web link) - Horak, J.; Hofer, M.; Gutmann, E.; Gohm, A.; Rotach, M. W. (2021): A process-based evaluation of the Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research Model (ICAR) 1.0.1.
In: Geoscientific Model Development 14/3, pp. 1657 - 1680. (DOI) (Web link) - Lehner, M.; Rotach, M. W.; Sfyri, E.; Obleitner, F. (2021): Spatial and temporal variations in near‐surface energy fluxes in an Alpine valley under synoptically undisturbed and clear‐sky conditions.
In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 147/737, pp. 2173 - 2196. (Full-text) (DOI) (Web link) - Richter, B.; Schweizer, J.; Rotach, M. W.; van Herweijnen, A. (2021): Modeling spatially distributed snow instability at regional scale using Alpine3D.
In: Journal of Glaciology 67/266, pp. 1147 - 1162. (DOI) (Web link) - Umek, L.; Gohm, A.; Haid, M.; Ward, H. C.; Rotach, M. W. (2021): Large‐eddy simulation of foehn–cold pool interactions in the Inn Valley during PIANO IOP 2.
In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 147/735 (Part B), pp. 944 - 982. (DOI) (Web link)
Journal Article (Other)
- Ward, H. C.; Rotach, M. W.; TEAMx (2021): A Joint Research Initiative Focused on Atmospheric Transport and Exchange Processes over Mountains.
In: GEWEX Quarterly 31/4, pp. 12 - 14. (Web link)
Journal Article (Editorial)
- Zardi, D; Rotach, M. W. (2021): Transport and Exchange Processes in the Atmosphere over Mountainous Terrain: Perspectives and Challenges for Observational and Modelling Systems, from Local to Climate Scales.
In: Atmosphere 12/2, No. 199. (DOI) (Web link)
Journal Article in Professional / Transfer-Oriented Journal
- Rotach, M. W. (2021): ERC Consolidator Grant für Prof. Ivana Stiperski.
In: ÖGM Bulletin 1, pp. 16 - 17. (Web link)