Research site Obermieming
The Forest-Atmosphere-Interaction-Research (FAIR) research site Obermieming is located in a red pine forest at an elevation of 980 m a.s.l. in the municipality of Mieming. Researchers of the Departments of Ecology, Botany, Geography and Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences work together to equip this site with a 30 m and a 6 m tower to measure micrometeorological and ecophysiological data. Additionally, an air-conditioned measurement container, supplied with electricity and wireless internet connection enables rapid data transfer.
This infrastructure will facilitate cooperative research projects combining open questions on botany, ecology, biometeorology and atmospheric chemistry of forest habitats.
Links
- Department of Ecology / Research Unit Ecosystem Research and Landscape Ecology
- Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences
- biomet innsbruck / FAIR site
Recent projects
- Carbonyl sulfide as a proxy for gross primary productivity: FWF - Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds, https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-radar/10.55776/P35737, PI: Georg Wohlfahrt
- Longterm carbon and water balance of a coniferous forest: FWF - Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds, https://www.fwf.ac.at/forschungsradar/10.55776/PAT2661823, PI: Georg Wohlfahrt
- The Future of Mountain Forests: Responses to a Drier Climate: FWF - Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds, https://www.fwf.ac.at/forschungsradar/10.55776/DOC171, https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/projects/mountainforests/, PI: Stefan Mayr, Co-PIs: Michael Bahn, Thomas Karl, Ilse Kranner, Walter Oberhuber, Ursula Peintner, Ulrike Tappeiner, Georg Wohlfahrt)
Recent publications
- Kiem, J., Hammerle, A., Montagnani, L., Wohlfahrt, G.: Future scenarios of albedo and radiative forcing resulting from changes in snow depth in Austria. , EGUsphere, 2024, preprint, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-881
- Platter, A., Scholz, K., Hammerle, A., Rotach, M. W., Wohlfahrt, G. (2024): Agreement of multiple night- and daytime filtering approaches of eddy covariance-derived net ecosystem CO2 exchange over a mountain forest,Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volume 356, 110173, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110173
- Graf, A., Wohlfahrt, G., Aranda-Barranco, S., et al. (2023): Joint optimization of land carbon uptake and albedo can help achieve moderate instantaneous and long-term cooling effects. Communications Earth & Environment 4/1: 298, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00958-4
- SCHWARZ, M., HAMMERLE, A., JULITTA, T., MIGLIAVACCA, M. & WOHLFAHRT, G. (2022): Seasonal dynamics of active and passive chlorophyll fluorescence in a mountain Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forest. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-11439, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-11439