Contents
Expertise
Meteorological/hydrological/glaciological in-situ observations in remote high-mountain Environments:
Automated weather stations
Glacier mass and energy balance
Permafrost and periglacial monitoring
Runoff measurements
Sensor development and customizing
Time lapse photography
Numerical modelling:
Climate statistics
Climate scenarios: applications and analyses
Mass and energy balance of glaciers
Sensitivity analyses
Snow-permafrost interactions
Projects
- LATTICE
- subMIT
- Snow2School
- WEG_RE
- JOSTICE
- Snow2Rain
- GLIN - Inversion layers in Greenland
- Advancing glaciers in North Greenland
- ATMOperm: Atmosphere-permafrost relationships in the Austrian Alps
- Dalf-Pro: Drought and Low Flow Projections – learning from the past for managing the future
- RunSed-CC: Modelling future runoff and sediment Transport in Alpine torrents
- Hom4Snow: Homogenization of snow series for a robust snow climatology of the Alps
- Relevance of local climate variation for glacier behavior in Tyroler Fjord (Northeast Greenland)
- The relevance of meteorological mechanisms forced by mountain orography for the desiccation of Lake Urmia (NW-Iran)
- SnowAV_AT
- PhD Cooperation in "Modelling of weather effects on perception sensors"
Collaboration in national and international programs and networks
- Global Cryosphere Watch
- EU-PolarNet (the world’s largest consortium of expertise and infrastructure for polar research)
- COST Harmosnow (A European network for a harmonized monitoring of snow for the benefit of climate change scenarios, hydrology and numerical weather prediction)
- World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)
- International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)
- Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI)
- Sonnblick Observatory
- GEM ClimateBasis
- IACS Network of Arctic Glaciology
Recent publications
- Tiago Silva, Jakob Abermann, Brice Noël, Sonika Shahi, Willem Jan van de Berg, and Wolfgang Schöner. "The impact of climate oscillations on the surface energy budget over the Greenland Ice Sheet in a changing climate.
The Cryosphere. 16,8. 2022. 3375-3391. doi:10.5194/tc-16-3375-2022
- Tiago Silva, Elisabeth Schlosser, Manuela Lehner
A 25-year climatology of low-tropospheric temperature and humidity inversions for contrasting synoptic regimes at Neumayer Station, Antarctica.
International Journal of Climatology. 2022. 1– 24. doi:10.1002/joc.7780
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Gernot Resch, Roland Koch, Christoph Marty, Barbara Chimani, Michael Begert, Moritz Buchmann, Johannes Aschauer, Wolfgang Schöner (2022): A quantile-based approach to improve homogenization of snow depth time series. International Journal of Climatology, May, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7742
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Moritz Buchmann, John Coll, Johannes Aschauer, Michael Begert, Stefan Brönnimann, Barbara Chimani, Gernot Resch, Wolfgang Schöner, Christoph Marty (2022): Homogeneity assessment of Swiss snow depth series : Comparison of break detection capabilities of ( semi- ) automatic homogenisation methods. The Cryosphere, Volume 16, 6, 2147–2161, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2147-2022
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Stefanie Peßenteiner, Clara Hohmann, Gottfried Kirchengast, Wolfgang Schöner, High-resolution climate datasets in hydrological impact studies: Assessing their value in alpine and pre-alpine catchments in southeastern Austria, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, Volume 38, 2021,100962, ISSN 2214-5818, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100962.
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Goelles T., Schlager B., Muckenhuber S., Haas S., Hammer T. (2021). pointcloudset: Efficient Analysis of Large Datasets of Point Clouds Recorded Over Time. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(65), 3471, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03471
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Gorodetskaya, I. V., Silva T., Schmithüsen H. and Hirasawa H. (2020): Atmospheric river signatures in radiosonde profiles and reanalyses at the Dronning Maud Land coast, East Antarctica. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 37(5), 455-476, doi: 10.1007/s00376-020-9221-8
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Abermann J, Steiner JF, Prinz R, Wecht M and Lisager P (2020) The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland. J. Glaciol., 1–10 (doi:10.1017/jog.2020.28)
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Behm, M., Walter, J. I., Binder, D., Cheng, F., Citterio, M., Kulessa, B., Langley, K., Limpach, P., Mertl, S., Schöner, W., Tamstorf, M., & Weyss, G. (2020). Seismic characterization of a rapidly-rising Jökulhlaup cycle at the A.P. Olsen Ice Cap, NE-Greenland. Journal of Glaciology, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.9
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Scher, S. and Peßenteiner, S.: Technical Note: Temporal disaggregation of spatial rainfall fields with generative adversarial networks, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3207–3225, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3207-2021, 2021.
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Kropp, H., Loranty, M. M., Natali, S. M., Kholodov, A. L., Rocha, A. V., Myers-Smith, I. H., B. Abbot, J. Abermann ... & Blume-Werry, G. (2020). Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters 16 015001.
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Fausto, R. S., Abermann, J. & Ahlstrøm, A. P. Annual Surface Mass Balance Records (2009–2019) From an Automatic Weather Station on Mittivakkat Glacier, SE Greenland. Front. Earth Sci. 8, 1–5 (2020); doi:10.3389/feart.2020.00251.
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Fahrner D, Lea JM, Brough S, Mair DWF, Abermann J (2021). Linear response of the Greenland ice sheet’s tidewater glacier terminus positions to climate. Journal of Glaciology 67(262), 193–203. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.13
- Olefs, M.; Koch, R.; Schöner, W.; Marke, T. Changes in Snow Depth, Snow Cover Duration, and Potential Snowmaking Conditions in Austria, 1961–2020—A Model Based Approach. Atmosphere 2020, 11, 1330.
- Shahi, S., J. Abermann, G. Heinrich, R. Prinz, and W. Schöner, 2020: Regional Variability and Trends of Temperature Inversions in Greenland. J. Climate, 33, 9391–9407, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0962.1.
- Welty E, Zemp M, Navarro F, Huss M, Fürst JJ, Gärtner-Roer I, Landmann J, Machguth H, Naegeli K, Andreassen LM, Farinotti, D., Li, H., Abermann, J., and >30 Co-authors. 2020. Worldwide version-controlled database of glacier thickness observations. Earth System Science Data 12(24): 3039-3055 doi:10.5194/essd-12-3039-2020
- Greilinger M., Schauer G., Baumann-Stanzer K., Skomorowski P., Schöner W. and A. Kasper-Giebl. 2018. Contribution of Saharan Dust to Ion Deposition Loads of High Alpine Snow Packs in Austria (1987–2017). Front. Earth Sci., 27 August 2018
- Hiebl J. and W. Schöner. 2018. Temperature inversions in Austria in a warming climate – changes in space and time. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, PrePub DOI 10.1127/metz/2018/0899
- Prinz, R., Heller, A., Ladner, M., Nicholson, L. I., & Kaser, G. (2018): Mapping the Loss of Mt. Kenya’s Glaciers: An Example of the Challenges of Satellite Monitoring of Very Small Glaciers. Geosciences, 8, 174. doi: 10.3390/geosciences050174
- Klug, C., Bollmann, E., Galos, S. P., Nicholson, L., Prinz, R., Rieg, L.,, Sailer, R., Stötter, J., and Kaser, G. (2018): Geodetic reanalysis of annual glaciological mass balances (2001-2011) of Hintereisferner, Austria. The Cryosphere, 12, 833–849. doi: 10.5194/tc-12-833-2018
- Abermann J, Van As D, Wacker S, Langley K, Machguth H and Fausto RS (2019) Strong contrast in mass and energy balance between a coastal mountain glacier and the Greenland ice sheet. J. Glaciol. 65(250), 263–269
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Hollesen J, Matthiesen H, Fenger-Nielsen R, Abermann J, Westergaard-Nielsen A and Elberling B (2019) Predicting the loss of organic archaeological deposits at a regional scale in Greenland. Sci. Rep. 9(1), 9097 (doi:10.1038/s41598-019-45200-4)
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Karlsson NB, Colgan WT, Binder D, Machguth H, Abermann J, Hansen K and Pedersen AØ (2019) Ice-penetrating radar survey of the subsurface debris field at Camp Century, Greenland. Cold Reg. Sci. Technol., 102788
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Docherty CL, Abermann J, Dugdale SJ, Milner AM, Lund M and Hannah DM (2019) Arctic river temperature dynamics in a changing climate. River Res. Appl. (August), 1–16 (doi:10.1002/rra.3537)
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Haslinger, K.; Hofstaetter, M.; Kroisleitner, C.; Schoener, W.; Laaha, G.; Holawe, F.; Bloeschl, G. Disentangling Drivers of Meteorological Droughts in the European Greater Alpine Region During the Last Two Centuries. In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 124. 2019. -. doi:10.1029/2018JD029527
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