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Colloquium in Climatology, Climate Impact and Remote Sensing

Fall Semester 2017

Venue

Hallerstrasse 10, 3012 Bern

Wednesdays, 14:15, seminar room 310 (CDE), Hallerstrasse 10, 3012 Bern

Climatology, Climate Impact and Remote Sensing

September 20, Dr. John Hillier (Loughborough University)
Catastrophe modelling and interdependent multi-hazards

October 11, Dr. Susanna Mohr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT)
Charakteristika konvektiver Starkwindereignisse in Deutschland (in German!)

October 18, Dr. Daniel Odermatt (Odermatt & Brockmann GmbH)
Global lake water quality estimation with ENVISAT and Sentinel-2/3

October 24, Dr. Rich Rotunno (UCAR)
Basics of Orographic Precipitation

Tuesday, 14:15!, October 25, Prof. Dr. Kevin Heng (University of Bern)
Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Review of Theory and Observations

November 1, Dr. Scott St. George (University of Minnesota)
Expecting the unexpected: The relevance of old floods to modern hydrology

November 8, Marcelo Zamuriano (University of Bern)
Atmospheric Features leading to Heavy Precipitation events over the Central Andes

November 15, Prof. Dr. Dirk Tiede (University of Salzburg)
Earth Observation for humanitarian assistance: Automated knowledge-based extraction of geospatial information

November 22, Dr. Loris Foresti (MeteoSwiss)
Exploiting a 10-year radar data archive for probabilistic precipitation, nowcasting in complex Alpine orography

November 29, Dr. Simon Scherrer (MeteoSwiss)
Climate change in Switzerland since 1864: Insights from observations, models and physical laws

December 6, Dr. Roland Vogt (University of Basel)
On Fog Climatology in the Central Namib

December 13, Dr. Shira Raveh-Rubin (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Dry air intrusions: climatology and their relevance for extreme weather

December 20, Prof. Dr. Peter Molnar (ETH Zurich)
Heavy rainfall as a predictor of landslides and debris flows: data evidence, influence of antecedent conditions, climate change

Contact
Climatology Research Group, Mobiliar Climate Impact Group & Remote Sensing Research Group
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern

Tel +41 31 631 86 70 / Tel + 41 631 88 59 | Fax +41 31 631 85 11

Categories

  • Remote sensing
Languages: English, German