Past seminar talks

01.03.2023

Gregory Giuliani (University of Geneva)
The Swiss Data Cube: EO Open Science for Environmental Monitoring

08.03.2023

Dim Coumou (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
How does global warming affect boreal summer circulation?

15.03.2023

Michael Mommert (University of St. Gallen)
Data-efficient Learning for Earth Observation

22.03.2023

Matthias Röthlisberger (ETHZ)
Globally quantifying the physical processes leading to near-surface temperature extremes

29.03.2023

Maurizio Santoro (Gamma Remote Sensing)
Forest biomass from space: achievements and Challenges

05.04.2023

Manuela Brunner (ETHZ/SLF)
Spatial extremes: from floods to droughts

03.05.2023
Julien Anet (ZHAW)
Small-scale modelling in different terrains: Three show-cases with PALM

10.05.2023

Edwin Gerber (NYU)
Revealing the statistics of extreme events hidden in short weather forecast data: A case study of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings

17.05.2023

Kathrin Naegeli (University of Zurich)
Thermal remote sensing of complex ecosystems across spheres and scales – insights into the Trishna T-SEC project

24.05.2023

Petra D'Odorico (WSL)
Close-range remote sensing for climate-smart forestry: a powerful tool or just a technology hype?

31.05.2023

Sebastian Dötterl (ETHZ)
Accelerated soil development in arctic and alpine environments and its role for plant-soil carbon cycle feedbacks

27.09.2023

Stefan Brönnimann (University of Bern)
Zwischen wissenschaftlichem Internationalismus, Friendensaktivismus und einer kolonialen Welt: Die Berner Geographie im späten 19. Jh

04.10.2023

Anna Maria Trofaier (ESA)
How to monitor Essential Climate Variables from Space: Satellite observations, climate trends and impacts on the cryosphere

11.10.2023

Noemi Imfeld (University of Bern)
A daily reconstruction of Swiss weather based on historical data to study past climate variability and impacts

18.10.2023

Clauda Mohr (ETHZ)
From carbon emissions to cloud formation: The role of aerosol chemistry in feedbacks between climate and vegetation

25.10.2023

Sonia Dupuis (University of Bern) and Pauline Rivoire (University of Lausanne)
Long term vegetation activity derived from satellite data and identification of drivers for forest low greenness events

01.11.2023

Jacopo Riboldi (ETHZ)
Boreal cold air reservoirs, and their significance for winter weather and climate

08.11.2023

Jan Kleinn (SLF)
Characterising and Modelling Risk

15.11.2023

Colleen Mortimer (Government of Canada)
Benchmarking hemispheric-scale snow water equivalent products: insights from the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project

22.11.2023

Inne Vanderkelen (Wyss Academy)
Sustaining water for people and plants: Assessing global water scarcity across generations and exploring hydrological co-benefits of soil carbon sequestration

29.11.2023

Jérôme Kopp (University of Bern)
The challenge of observing hail: what can 5 radars, 80 sensors, and 8.7 million people tell us?

06.12.2023

Fabrice Lacroix (University of Bern)
Enhanced Transports from Land-to-Ocean: Towards Boundless Assessments of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles

20.12.2023

Moritz Burger (University of Bern)
Unseal the cities! (let's start in Bern)

02.03.2022

Urs Neu (SCNAT)
Neue Metriken für die Berechnung von CO2-Äquivalent-Emissionen von kurzlebigen Treibhausgasen und ihre Bedeutung

09.03.2022

Gonzalo Otón Azofra (University of Alcalá)
Development and analysis of global long-term burned area based on AVHRR-LTDR data

16.03.2022

Wilhelm Kuttler (University of Duisburg Essen)
Städte im Klimawandel

22.03.2022

Leonie Bernet (NILU, Norway)
Total ozone variability and trends at three northern high-latitude stations

30.03.2022

Elena Xoplaki (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)
Building an AI-supported modular early warning system for Germany

06.04.2022

Lauren Cook (eawag)
Adapting urban areas to a more extreme climate using blue-green infrastructure

13.04.2022

Marco Conedera (WSL)
What drives forest fire regimes? The study case of the southern Swiss Alps

27.04.2022

Karl-Göran Karlsson (SMHI)
Probabilistic cloud masking: Experiences from the new CMSAF CLARA-A3 climate data record covering the period 1979-2020

11.05.2022

Richard Kelly (University of Waterloo)
Global snow depth estimation from satellite passive microwave observations: the AMSR2 snow depth product

25.05.2022

Édouard Davin (University of Bern)
Regional climate, land use and biodiversity pathways for sustainable development

01.06.2022

WeaR Research Project Group (University of Bern)
Heat Waves and the Summer of 1947

07.06.2022

Pauline Rivoire (University of Bern)
Verification of precipitation extremes

15.06.2022

Mubashshir Ali (University of Bern)
Recurrent Rossby waves: their drivers and why should we care?

28.09.2022

Christian Sigg (MeteoSwiss)
Photographic Visualization of Weather Forecasts with Generative Adversarial Networks

Eliza Harris (SDSC)
Warming and redistribution of nitrogen inputs drive an increase in terrestrial nitrous oxide emission factor

12.10.2022

Helge Aasen (Agroscope)
Ecophysiological Remote Sensing to address agroecological challenges – Remote Sensing at Agroscope

14.10.2022

Jianquan Dong (University of Bern)
Humid heat waves: Dataset, assessment and risk

19.10.2022

Leonie Villiger (ETHZ)
Looking into the cloud-circulation coupling in the trade-wind region using stable water isotopes

26.10.2022

Alexandre Tuel (University of Bern)
Persistent temperature and precipitation extremes in the Northern Hemisphere

02.11.2022

Qing Sun (University of Bern)
The seasonal cycles of atmospheric N2O and land biosphere N2O fluxes

09.11.2022

Angela-Maria Burgdorf (University of Bern)
A 175-year perspective on Indian summer monsoon onset variability and its drivers

16.11.2022

Daniel Regenass (MeteoSwiss)
Testing and tuning a simple groundwater model for high resolution weather and climate modelling

23.11.2022

Devis Tuia (EPFL)
Machine learning supporting ecology supporting machine learning

30.11.2022

Koen Hufkens (BlueGreen Labs)
Near-surface remote sensing in Vegetation monitoring and modelling

07.12.2022

Paul Froidevaux (Meteotest)
Miscellaneous activities of a climatologist in a private company: icing of helicopters, extreme storms on cable cars, heating wind turbines, wind map of Switzerland, and more

14.12.2022

Daniel Fenner (University of Freiburg)
urbisphere-Berlin campaign – Interactions between city & atmospheric boundary layer

21.12.2022

Elin Lundstad (University of Bern)
Past Climate Variations in Early Instrumental Data

03.03.2020

Gabriel Chiodo (ETHZ)
On the role of stratospheric composition feedbacks in tropospheric and surface climate

10.03.2021

Sebastian Westermann (University of Oslo)
Remote sensing and modelling of permafrost in the ESA Permafrost CCI project

24.03.2021

Patricia de Rosnay (ECMWF)
Satellite data for land surface analysis in NWP systems

31.03.2021

Hilla Gerstmann Afargan (ETHZ)
Stratospheric influence on the North Atlantic storm track and cold extremes

14.04.2021

Alessio Ciullo (University of Bern)
Systemic flood risk management planning: accounting for risk-distribution and uncertain hydraulic interactions in large-scale flood risk systems

21.04.2021

Marlene Kretschmer (University of Reading)
Causal Inference and Causal Discovery to analyse teleconnection pathways

28.04.2021

Dominik Fleitmann (University of Basel)
Climate and Civilizations in Mesopotamia – New paleoclimate reconstructions from Iraq

05.05.2021

Kari Luojus (FMI)
Northern Hemisphere Snow Water Equivalent retrieved from Satellite Data

12.05.2021

Natalie Ceperley (University of Bern)
Hydrological Stories as told by Innovative Tracers of Water and other Techniques

19.05.2021

Martin Wegmann (University of Bern)
How snow in Mongolia causes snow in Madrid: What centennial seasonal prediction experiments can tell us

02.06.2021

Christopher Merchant (University of Reading)
Climate data records for sea and lake temperature from thermal remote sensing

13.10.2021

Daniel Steinfeld (University of Bern)
The role of latent heating in atmospheric blocking

20.10.2021

Hannah Augustin (Paris Lodron University Salzburg)
SemantiX: a cross-sensor semantic EO data cube to open and leverage AVHRR time-series and essential climate variables with scientists and the public

27.10.2021

Laura Slivinski (NOAA)
A synoptic to decadal evaluation of the 20th Century Reanalysis Version 3

03.11.2021

Tom Beucler (University of Lausanne)
Atmospheric Physics-Guided Machine Learning: Towards Physically-Consistent, Data-Driven, and Interpretable Models of Convection

10.11.2021

Clara Zemp (University of Neuchâtel)
Cascading effects in tropical (agro)forests 

17.11.2021

Franziska Teubler (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)
PV dynamics of blocked weather regimes in the Atlantic European region

01.12.2021

Julian Quinting (KIT)
Deep Learning for the Verification of Synoptic-scale Processes in NWP and Climate Models

08.12.2021

Gabriela Schaepman-Strub (University of Zurich)
Climate and ecosystem interactions in the Arctic 

15.12.2021

Mike S. Schäfer (University of Zurich)
The Media Climate: Media Representations of Climate Change

22.12.2021

Chantal Camenisch (University of Bern)
A Bayesian approach to historical climatology from the historian's perspective. The example of the Burgundian Low Countries 1400-1499

30.09.2020

Santos Gonzalez (University of Bern)
Experiences with data assimilation over the Iberian Peninsula using WRF and WRFDA

07.10.2020

Gian Lieberherr (MeteoSchweiz)
New pollen monitoring network in Switzerland

14.10.2020

Gabrielle De Lannoy (KULeuven)
Estimating soil moisture from space using microwave radiation

21.10.2020

Sebastian Sippel (ETHZ)
Characterizing and detecting climate signals in observations and models using statistical learning

28.10.2020

Hélène Barras (University of Bern)
The prediction of hail in Switzerland

04.11.2020

Simona Trefalt (MeteoSchweiz)
Preparing radar hail data for climatological studies – the long way to (sort of) homogeneous data

11.11.2020

Regula Mülchi (University of Bern)
Future Changes in River Runoff and Extreme Moisture Transport towards Switzerland

18.11.2020

Emanuele Bevacqua (University of Reading)
Projections of the compound flooding potential from coastal processes and cyclone clusters

25.11.2020

Martin Stengel (DWD)
Generating global, satellite-based cloud property datasets for climate research

02.12.2020

Christoph Aubrecht (ESA – World Bank)
More Space for Development – Satellites boosting International Cooperation on Climate Resilience

09.12.2020

Eric Samakinwa (University of Bern)
Global monthly sea surface temperature and sea ice reconstruction for large ensemble historical simulations

16.12.2020

Benjamin Stocker (ETHZ)
Searching for principles to predict terrestrial ecosystem dynamics

06.03.2019

Prof. Dr. Jim Freer (University of Bristol)
Can we develop nationally applied hydrological models to provide effective evidence for answering a range of important societal concerns?

27.02.2019

Natália Machado Crespo (University of São Paulo)
Cyclones over South America

19.12.2018

Dr. Filippo Lechthaler (ETHZ)
The value of meteorological services for decision-making: application of an integrated economic assessment to smallholder farmers in the Peruvian Altiplano

12.12.2018

Dr. Michael Zemp (University of Zurich)
Glacier mass balances and their contributions to sea-level rise

05.12.2018

Dr. Yannick Barton (University of Bern)
A method for real-time temporal disaggregation of blended radar-raingauge precipitation fields

28.11.2018

Prof. Dr. Alexander Damm (University of Zurich)
Measuring the faint glow of plants: Implications to advance water cycle research

21.11.2018

Dr. Michiko Hama & Dr. Andreas Fischer (MeteoSwiss)
The National Centre for Climate Services NCCS and the New Climate Scenarios for Switzerland

14.11.2018

PD Dr. Stefan Wunderle (University of Bern)
ESA Climate Change Initiative – towards a global snow cover time series

07.11.2018

Raphaël de Fondeville (EPFL)
A Stochastic Weather Generator of Extreme Wind Storms in Europe

31.10.2018

Dr. Gian Lieberherr (University of Bern)
A 35-years dataset of surface water temperature from European lakes, derived from the AVHRR sensor

24.10.2018

Simona Boscani Leoni (University of Bern)
Wissen im Netz: Die ersten meteorologischen Messungen in der Schweiz

17.10.2018

Prof. Dr. Stefan Brönnimann (University of Bern)
Paleoreanalysis - how to reconstruct global 3D climate

10.10.2018

Prof. Dr. Susan Thieme (University of Bern)
"I want to study abroad": educational consultants as gatekeepers to student mobility in Nepal

03.10.2018

Antoine Pommerol (University of Bern)
Optical remote-sensing on Mars: what can we learn about the past and current Martian climate?

06.09.2018

Dr. Gwendal Rivière (ENS Paris)
Storm tracks during the last glacial maximum

30.05.2018
Dr. Simon Gascoin (CESBIO)
Sentinels for snow science

23.05.2018
Prof. Dr. Thomas Frölicher (University of Bern)
Marine heat waves under global warming

16.05.2018
Dr. Nicholas Graham (Hydrologic Research Center)
The mid-Holocene decline of Megalake Chad and the puzzling 4.2 ka BP Event

09.05.2018
Sina Lenggenhager (University of Bern)
Interaction of atmospheric blocks and heavy precipitation events

02.05.2018
Matthias Roethlisberger (University of Bern)
Recurrent Rossby wave patterns and their effect on persistent sensible surface weather

25.04.2018
Dr. Nadav Peleg (ETH Zurich)
How does temperature affect spatio-temporal properties of heavy rainfall? Insights from analyzing weather radar data

18.04.2018
Dr. Rainer Hollmann (DWD)
Atmospheric Climate Data Records from Satellite measurements – Where are we today?

28.03.2018
Dr. Ulrich Meyer (University of Bern)
GRACE satellite gravimetry and the EGSIEM combination service for terrestrial gravity fields

21.03.2018
Dr. Hanna Joos (ETH Zurich)
Importance of cloud microphysics for extra-tropical dynamics

14.03.2018
Prof. Dr. Andreas Christen (University of Freiburg)
Atmospheric measurement techniques to measure greenhouse gas emissions from cities

07.03.2018
Pamela Köllner (BAFU)
How does Switzerland adapt to climate change? The strategy of the Federal Council

20.12.2017
Prof. Dr. Peter Molnar (ETH Zurich)
Heavy rainfall as a predictor of landslides and debris flows: data evidence, influence of antecedent conditions, climate change

13.12.2017
Dr. Shira Raveh-Rubin (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Dry air intrusions: climatology and their relevance for extreme weather

06.12.2017
Dr. Roland Vogt (University of Basel)
On Fog Climatology in the Central Namib

30.11.2017
Robert Rohde (Berkeley Earth)
Berkeley Earth and the Statistical Analysis of Weather Observations: Methods, Results, and Lessons Learned

29.11.2017
Dr. Simon Scherrer (MeteoSwiss)
Climate change in Switzerland since 1864: Insights from observations, models and physical laws

22.11.2017
Dr. Loris Foresti (MeteoSwiss)
Exploiting a 10-year radar data archive for probabilistic precipitation nowcasting in complex Alpine orography

15.11.2017
Prof. Dr. Dirk Tiede (University of Salzburg)
Earth Observation for humanitarian assistance: Automated knowledge-based extraction of geospatial information

08.11.2017
Marcelo Zamuriano (University of Bern)
Atmospheric Features leading to Heavy Precipitation events over the Central Andes

01.11.2017
Dr. Scott St. George (University of Minnesota)
Expecting the unexpected: The relevance of old floods to modern hydrology

25.10.2017
Prof. Dr. Kevin Heng (University of Bern)
Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Review of Theory and Observations

24.10.2017
Dr. Rich Rotunno (UCAR)
Basics of Orographic Precipitation

18.10.2017
Dr. Daniel Odermatt (Odermatt & Brockmann GmbH)
Global lake water quality estimation with ENVISAT and Sentinel-2/3

11.10.2017
Dr. Susanna Mohr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT)
Charakteristika konvektiver Starkwindereignisse in Deutschland

31.05.2017
Prof. Dr. Martine Rebetez (University of Neuchâtel/WSL)
Observed impacts of increasing temperatures on snowfall and snowpack in the Swiss Alps

24.05.2017
Dr. Hendrik Huwald (EPFL)
Heat and Gas Transport in Alpine Snowpacks

17.05.2017
Dr. Sari Metsämäki (Finnish Environment Institute SYKE)
Optical remote sensing of snow particularly in boreal forests

12.05.2017
Dr. Imke Durre (NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI)
Lessons in Diversity: How 40 different data sources were combined to form version 2 of the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive

10.05.2017
Dr. Nikolina Ban (ETH Zurich)
Scaling and Intensification of Extreme Precipitation in Convection-Resolving Climate Change Simulations

03.05.2017
Dr. Michael Graf (University of Bern)
Winds in Switzerland: climatological analysis, model evaluation and future scenarios

12.04.2017
Dr. Christian Huggel (University of Zurich)
Climate Change and related impacts and risks in the Andes of Peru

05.04.2017
Prof. Dr. Joaquim Pinto (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT)
European windstorm clustering and cumulative risks: connecting meteorological and insurance perspectives

29.03.2017
Dr. Stefanie Gubler (MeteoSwiss)
Climate services and capacity building in Peru – the project Climandes

22.03.2017
Prof. Dr. Anthony Davison (EPFL)
Some statistical tools for climate extremes

15.03.2017
Dr. Ulrich Hamann (MeteoSwiss)
Early detection of thunderstorms using MSG/SEVIRI

08.03.2017
Dr. Jan Rajczak (ETH Zurich)
Future projections of precipitation extremes in EURO-CORDEX regional climate simulations for Europe and Switzerland

21.12.2016
Simona Trefalt (University of Bern)
Hail occurrence and predictability in regions North and South of the Swiss Alps

14.12.2016
Marie-Estelle Demory (University of Reading / NCAS)
Using high-resolution global climate models to investigate the drivers of the hydrological cycle at global and regional scales

07.12.2016
Erle Ellis (University of Maryland)
Global Land Change: From Pleistocene to Anthropocene

30.11.2016
David Bresch (ETH Zurich)
Weather and climate risks – and how decision makers deal with

23.11.2016
Matthias Braun (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Exploring time series of current and archived active microwave instrument data for glaciological applications – examples from high mountain regions and the Antarctic Peninsula

16.11.2016
Tina Schnadt Poberaj (ETH Zurich)
The ETH Competence Center for Climate Systems Modeling C2SM – creating synergies in climate modeling in the ETH domain

09.11.2016
Michael Riffler (GeoVille Innsbruck)
GlobWetland Africa – Implementing Sustainable Earth Observation Based Wetland Monitoring Capacity in Africa

03.11.2016
Ambrogio Volonte (University of Reading)
Do Mesoscale Instabilities matter in Sting-Jet Dynamics? The case of Windstorm Tini

26.10.2016
Adrian Brügger (University of Bern)
Individual reactions to spatially proximal climate change

19.10.2016
Heinz Wanner (University of Bern)
Climate and societies in the Holocene – facts and mysteries

12.10.2016
Alexis Berne (EPFL)
Radar remote sensing of precipitation

05.10.2016
Nikola Besic (EPFL)
Hydrometeors, our friends out in the atmosphere

25.5.2015
Dr. Ori Adam (ETH Zurich)
"Relating the atmospheric energy flux equator and intertropical convergence zone"

18.5.2016
Prof. Dr. Philippe Renard (CHYN, Univ. of Neuchâtel)
"Stochastic simulation of rainfall using a multiple-point statistics technique"

11.5.2016
Dr. Luca Panziera (MeteoSwiss/GIUB, Univ. of Bern)
"A radar-based regional extreme rainfall analysis in support of the new early warning system NowPAL"

3.5.2016
Michael Strobl (GERM, Univ. of Bern)
"Alexander von Humboldt: Complete Essays (Papers, Articles, Treatises), Bern Edition & Climatological Writings (Selected Essays)"

27.4.2016
Prof. Dr. Martin Grosjean (GIUB/OCCR, Univ. of Bern)
"Climate variability, human disturbances and ecosystem responses: insights from ultra-high resolution analysis of varved lake sediments"

13.4.2016
Dr. Tobias Kellenberger (swisstopo)
"Remotely sensed geodata for environmental monitoring – the swisstopo activities"

6.4.2016
Prof. Dr. Francisco Klauser (Inst. of Geography, Univ. of Neuchâtel)
"Power, Space and Regulation in the Information Age: Towards a Political Geography of Surveillance"

23.3.2016
Prof. Dr. Dave Thompson (Colorado State Univ./ETH Zürich)
TBA

16.3.2016
Dr. Nicolas Champollion (ISSI, Univ. of Bern)
"Sea Level Observation, The Revolution of Space Gravimetry Remote Sensing"

9.3.2016
Dr. Frank Paul (Department of Geography, Univ. of Zurich)
"Application of satellite-based glacier monitoring for improved understanding of climate change impacs"

7.3.2016
Dr. Jacqueline Flückiger (MeteoSwiss)
"National Centre for Climate Services NCCS: Das Netzwerk für Klimadienstleistungen des Bundes"

23.2.2016
Dr. Mathias Trachsel (Univ. of Bergen/Univ. of Bern)
"Multivariate climate reconstructions from (multivariate) climate archives: challenges and possibilities"

16.12.2015
Dr. Yves Bühler (SLF)
"High spatial resolution mapping of alpine snow"

9.12.2015
Dr. Jürg Schopfer (SBFI)
"Switzerland's Participation in ESA Earth Observation Programmes"

18.11.2015
Prof. Dr. Paolo Perona (EPFL)
"Alpine ecohydrological processes and sustainability of non-traditional water uses"

11.11.2015
Prof. Dr. Jon Mathieu (Univ. of Lucerne)
"Klimawandel und Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Vormoderne. Zur Methodendiskussion"

4.11.2015
Prof. Dr. Andreas Vieli (Univ. of Zurich)
"When glaciers meet the ocean: dynamics, forcing and challenges at the example of the Greenland Ice Sheet"

28.10.2015
Prof. Dr. Michael Lehning (SLF)
"Mountain Snow Distribution – And How it will Change"

7.10.2015
Dr. Susanna Mohr (IMK, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, KIT)
"Hagel in Europa – ein unterschätztes Risiko?"

30.9.2015
Franziska Hupfer (ETH Zurich)
"Die Erforschung von Wetter und Klima: Eine wissenschaftshistorische Perspektive auf die Jahre 1860 bis 1914"

27.5.2015
Dr. Christian Grams (ETH Zurich)
"The role of the large-scale atmospheric circulation in triggering high impact weather and forecast uncertainty in the midlatitudes"

20.5.2015
Prof. Dr. Heinz Veit (GIUB)
"Landscape dynamics and paleoclimate from glacial periods to the  Anthropocene"

13.5.2015
Prof. Dr. Ted Shepherd (University of Reading, UK)
"Atmospheric circulation as a source of uncertainty in climate change projections"

6.5.2015
Dr. Carolin Richter (GCOS-WMO)
"The Global Climate Observing System - Why climate observations need to be globally coordinated?"

29.4.2015
Dr.Emmanuel Baltsavias (ETH Zurich)
"Classification and object extraction from remote sensing data: examples from running projects"

27.4.2015
Dr. Blair Trewin (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
"Long-term instrumental temperature data sets in Australia"

22.4.2015
Prof. Sue Gray (University of Reading, UK)
"Clustering and stalling of extratropical cyclones: their influence on extreme precipitation events in the UK"

25.3.2015
Dr. Erica Madonna (GIUB)
"Warm conveyor belts: a climatology, their role for precipitation formation and for weather forecasts"

18.3.2015
Dr. Martin Fengler (Meteomatics St. Gallen)
"Meteodrones - mit Drohnen den Geheimnissen der Grundschicht auf der Spur"

11.3.2015
Dr. Gilles Delaygue (Univ. Joseph-Fourier Grenoble, FR)
"Beryllium isotopes: from stratospheric dynamics to solar activity"

4.3.2015
PD Dr. Werner Eugster (ETH Zurich)
"The role of Arctic lakes as a source of greenhouse gases in northern Alaska"

25.2.2015
Dr. Andrea Toreti (Joint Research Centre (JRC), IT)
"On the evaluation of climate model simulated precipitation extremes"

18.2.2015
Dr. Michael Riemer (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
"On the apparent predictability of Rossby wave trains"

17.12.2014
Dr. Kate Willet (UK MetOffice, UK)
"The International Surface Temperature Initiative and Benchmarking for Homogenisation Algorithms"

17.12.2014
Dr. Colin Morice (UK MetOffice, UK)
"Quantification and presentation of uncertainty in global near surface temperature records"

10.12.2014
Dr. Frank Göttsche (IMK-ASF)
"Radiometric in-situ measurements over European & African sites for validating land surface temperature (LST) products retrieved by satellite"

3.12.2014
Paraskevi Giannakaki (GIUB)
"Extreme precipitation events in northern Switzerland"

26.11.2014
Dr. Michael Riffler (GIUB, OCCR)
"Observing aerosols from space - toward a satellite-based time series over Europe"

19.11.2014
Dr. Clément Chevalier (GIUB / Stat. UniZH)
"Spatial modeling of extreme rainfall in Switzerland"

13.11.2014
Dr. Loris Foresti (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium)
"Probabilistic precipitation nowcasting with the Short-Term Ensemble Prediction System (STEPS) in Belgium"

12.11.2014
Dr. Pascal Horton (terr@num)
"Real-time precipitation forecasting by means of the analogue method - presentation of the AtmoSwing software"

5.11.2014
Prof. Dr. Hans Hurni (GIUB)
"Opportunities and risks emerging from global change for farmers in the Ethiopian Highlands. A report from the Research Group on Sustainable Land Management (Integrative Geography)"

29.10.2014
Prof. Dr. Axel Franzen (SOZ - Univ. of Bern)
"Zeitpräferenzen und Umweltbewusstsein"

22.10.2014
Dr. Anke Tetzlaff (MeteoSwiss)
"Satellite-based Land Surface Temperature for the EUMETSAT Climate Satellite Application Facility"

15.10.2014
Prof. Dr. Jim Steenburgh (Univ. of Utah)
"Orographic Precipitation and Atmospheric Rivers over the Interior Western United States"

24.9.2014
Michael Begert (MeteoSwiss)
"Das Swiss National Basic Climatological Network - Langjährige meteorologische Messreihen für das Klima-Monitoring"

18.9.2014
Dr. Victor Venema (GIUB)
"Studying parallel measurements to understand non-climatic changes in the climate record"

14.8.2014
Prof. Dr. Gabi Hegerl (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)
"Towards detecting human influence on the global watercycle"

4.6.2014
Dr. Raphael Neukom (Univ. Zurich/OCCR)
"Inter-hemispheric temperature variability over the past millennium"

28.5.2014
Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer (GIUB)
"The Federal Strategy for Mountain and Rural Areas in Switzerland (Motion Maissen): Finding Ways to Embed Endogenous Territorial Development into a Coherent National Framework"

21.5.2014
Zoé Lucia Lüthi (CAS, Peking)
"Atmospheric Brown Clouds reach the Tibetan Plateau by crossing the Himalayas"

21.5.2014
Dr. Andreas Fischer (MeteoSwiss)
"Approaching end-user needs: extensions of the CH2011 climate scenarios"

14.5.2014
Dr. Erich Fischer (ETHZ)
"Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes: From local noise to global confidence"

13.5.2014
Dr. Jonas Bhend (GIUB)
"Recent observed climate change: a harbinger of future change?"

7.5.2014
Dr. Andreas Wiesmann (Gamma Remote Sensing)
"Displacement mapping with radar satellite imagery"

16.4.2014
Prof. Dr. Philippe Naveau (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et  l'Environnement (LSCE) CNRS)
"A non-parametric entropy-based approach to detect changes in climate extremes"

9.4.2014
Dr. André Streilein (swisstopo)
"Use and potential of areal and satellite imagery for the production of the authoritative geodata of Switzerland"

26.3.2014
Paul Froidevaux (GIUB)
"Atmospheric precursors to floods in Switzerland"

19.3.2014
Dr. Sebastian Schemm (GIUB)
"How moisture modifies the archetypical life cycle of extratropical cyclones"

12.3.2014
Prof. Dr. James Speer (Indiana State University)
"Pandora Moth Outbreaks Across the Western United States Using Dendrochronology and Habitat Modeling"

5.3.2014
Dr. Franziska Aemisegger (ETHZ)
"Water isotopes as proxies for surface evaporation characteristics, continental moisture recycling and plant transpiration"

18.2.2014
Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht)
"Die Klimafalle"

18.12.2013
Dr. Dominik Brunner (Empa)
"Observing air pollutants and greenhouse gases from space - an overview"

12.12.2013
Dr. Penny Whetton (CSIRO)
"CMIP5-based Climate Change Projections to support Natural Resource Management Planning in Australia"

11.12.2013
Dr. Daniela Domeisen (Univ. of Hamburg)
"Assessing the seasonal predictability of the extratropical Northern Hemisphere  from stratospheric variability and El Niño forcing"

04.12.2013
Dr. Luca Egli (PMOD/WRC)
"Solar UV radiation to remotely monitor area wide snow landscape surface characteristics"

27.11.2013
Dr. Stephane Goyette, Charles-Antoine Kuszli (Univ. of Geneva)
"Overview of the C3i modelling activities. Application of a wind gust parameterization in numerical climate and NWP models"

20.11.2013
Dr. Andrey Martynov (GIUB)
"Lake parametrization in Regional Climate Models"

13.11.2013
Dr. Matthias Huss (Univ. of Fribourg)
"Measuring glacier mass balance from space"

06.11.2013
Prof. Dr. Huw Davies (ETHZ)
"A Special and Simple Way of Viewing Atmospheric Dynamics"

30.10.2013
Prof. Dr. Franco Biondi (Univ. of Nevada, Reno)
"Space-Time Kriging Extension of Precipitation Variability at 12-km Spacing  from Tree-Ring Chronologies"

16.10.2013
Dr. This Rutishauser (GIUB)
"'OpenNature' for climate impact science with citizens"

09.10.2013
Asst. Prof. Jean-David Gerber (GIUB)
erv"Obsing air pollutants and greenhouse gases from space - an overview"

02.10.2013
Dr. Basil Davis (Univ. of Geneva)
"The Holocene Thermal Maximum: yesterdays global warming?"

29.05.2013
Prof. Dr. Richard Moore (NPS)
"A Dynamical Analysis of the Complex Evolution of Hurricane Sandy (October 2012)"

22.05.2013
Daniel Krämer (HIST, Univ. of Bern)
"Individuelle und obrigkeitliche Bewältigungsstrategien während der Hungerkrise 1816/17"

15.05.2013
PD Dr. Michael Kunz (KIT)
"HARIS-CC: The Challenge of Hail Hazard Assessment"

08.05.2013
Dr. Francesco Isotta (MeteoSwiss)
"Precipitation extremes in the Alpine region as seen from a trans-national multi-decadal gridded rain-gauge dataset"

01.05.2013
Dr. Silke Dierer (Meteotest)
"The risk of atmospheric icing: measurements and simulations"

24.04.2013
Prof. Dr. Alfred Wüest (Eawag and ENAC-EPFL)
"Observing air pollutants and greenhouse gases from space - an overview"

17.04.2013
Dr. Christoph Marty (SLF)
"Snow monitoring for climate research in Switzerland"

27.03.2013
PD Dr. Margreth Keiler (GIUB)
"Climate Change: Challenges for hazard and risk analysis"

13.03.2013
Prof. Dr. Leopold Haimberger (Univ. Wien)
"Comprehensive bias adjustments of radiosonde data"

19.12.2012
Walter Acevedo (FU Berlin):
"Towards paleoclimate reconstruction using tree-ring growth forward models and ensemble Kalman filter techniques"

12.12.2012
Martin Wegmann (GIUB):
"Impacts of explosive volcanic eruptions on large-scale climate variability"

5.12.2012
Martín Jacques-Coper (GIUB):
"Summertime Temperature Variability over Southern South America during the 20th Century"

21.11.2012
Reto Stöckli (MeteoCH):
"Satellite-based solar irradiance for solar energy applications"

14.11.2012
Bernard de Quervain:
"Vor 100 Jahren: Schweizerische Expedition quer durch's Grönlandeis"

7.11.2012
Eduardo Zorita (HZG):
"External forcing and internal variability in the multidecadal climate variations in the past millennium"

31.10.2012
Christian Rixen (SLF):
"Alpine Plants in a Changing World"

24.10.2012
Project Overview of the Climate, Climate Impact and Remote Sensing Groups

3.10.2012
Thomas Läpple (AWI):
"Consistent proxy demonstration of highly variable Holocene marine temperatures"

26.09.2012
Illia Horenko (USI):
"Statistical analysis of weather/climate data beyond the usual assumptions: theory, numerics and instructive examples"

30.05.2012
Gaelle Serquet (WSL)
"Climate Change and tourism"

23.05.2012
Paul Della-Marta (Partner Re)
"Assessing the Risk of Hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin: Combining Dynamical and Statistical Models"

16.05.2012
Harald von Waldow (GIUB)
"Joint probabilities of extreme precipitation and wind gusts in Europe"

09.05.2012
Veronika Elgart (BAFU)
"International climate negotiations - milestones and challenges"

02.05.2012
Patrick Fonti (WSL)
"Temperature-induced differences in timing of wood formation in the Loetschental"

18.04.2012
Sven Kotlarski (ETH Zürich)
"21st century climate change in the Alps: A regional climate model perspective"

28.03.2012
Henning Rust (FU Berlin)
"Towards downscaling of precipitation for Senegal – A statistical approach based on generalised linear models"

21.03.2012
Jan Seibert (Universität Zürich)
"Hydrological climate impact studies - the challenge of using RCM simulations"

14.03.2012
Jörg Franke (GIUB)
"Constraining an ensemble of model simulations with climate data using the Ensemble Kalman Filter"

07.03.2012
Dominik Renggli (Swiss Re)
"Seasonal predictability of wintertime windstorm climate over the North Atlantic and Europe"

29.02.2012
David Finger (GIUB)
"The potential of satellite data to improve hydrological modeling"

21.12.2011
Daniel Lachat (PMOD/WRC Davos)
"Homogenization and Trend Detection"

14.12.2011
Christoph Welker (GIUB)
"Decadal-scale variability of cyclones"

07.12.2011
Florian Arfeuille (ETH Zürich)
"Large historical volcanic eruptions: Impacts on the stratosphere and climate"

30.11.2011
Martin Wild (ETH Zürich)
"Enlightening global dimming and brightening"

23.11.2011
Tobias Jonas (WSL Davos)
"Monitoring snow water resources: data, methods and climatologies"

16.11.2011
Eberhard Parlow (Universität Basel)
"Kairo - Stadtklima einer Mega-City"

09.11.2011
Michael Schaepmann (Universität Zürich)
"Assessing the pigment and non-pigment systems of vegetation using scaling based approaches"

02.11.2011
Laurent Vuilleumier (MeteoSuisse, Payerne)
"Meteorology and Energy in Switzerland"

05.10.2011
Harald Sodemann (IACETH)
"Taking the pulse of the atmospheric water cycle and high, mid, and low latitudes"

21.09.2011
Edwin P. Gerber (Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, NYU)
"Abrupt Climate Change and Dynamical Regimes"

01.06.2011
Stephan Pfahl (ETHZ)
"Weather extremes - spatial coherence and atmospheric triggers"

25.05.2011
Gerard van der Schrier (KNMI)

11.05.2011
Linda Schlemmer (ETHZ-IAC)
"Midlatitude summertime moist convection in current and future climates in an idealized cloud-resolving modeling framework"

04.05.2011
Martin Beniston (Univ. Geneve)
"Current and future climatic extremes: examples from the Alps"

20.04.2011
David Thompson (Colorado State University)
"Understanding the atmospheric circulation response to anthropogenic forcing”

30.03.2011
Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo (ETHZ)
"Early sunshine and cloud cover observations: forgotten variables?"

09.03.2011
Christine Füllemann (MeteoSwiss)
“Homogenisierung - die Grundlage für Klimaänderungsanalysen”

02.03.2011
Margit Schwikowski (PSI)
"Palaeo climate reconstructions derived from high-alpine ice cores"