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Colloquium in Climatology, Climate Impact and Remote Sensing

Venue

CDE,
Hallerstrasse 10,
3012 Bern

Spring Semester 2017 Wednesdays, 14:15, seminar room 310 (CDE), Hallerstrasse 10, 3012 Bern Institute of Geography Climatology Climate Impact Remote Sensing

Wetter und Klima (Symbolbild)
Image: NASA

March 8: Jan Rajczak (ETH Zurich)

  • Future projections of precipitation extremes in EURO-CORDEX regional climate simulations for Europe and Switzerland

March 15: Ulrich Hamann (MeteoSwiss)

  • Early detection of thunderstorms using MSG/SEVIRI

March 22: Anthony Davison (EPFL)

  • Some statistical tools for climate extremes

March 29: Stefanie Gubler (MeteoSwiss)

  • Climate services and capacity building in Peru – the project Climandes

April 5: Joaquim Pinto (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT)

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April 12: Christian Huggel (University of Zurich) 13:15-14:00! CDE 310

  • Climate Change and related impacts and risks in the Andes of Peru

May 3: Michael Graf (University of Bern)

  • Winds in Switzerland: climatological analysis, model evaluation and future scenarios

May 10: Nikolina Ban (ETH Zurich)

  • Scaling and Intensi cation of Extreme Precipitation in Convection-Resolving Climate Change Simulations

May 17: Sari Metsämäki (Finnish Environment Institute SYKE)

  • Optical remote sensing of snow particularly in boreal forests

May 24: Hendrik Huwald (EPFL)

  • Heat and Gas Transport in Alpine Snowpacks

May 31: Martine Rebetez (University of Neuchâtel/WSL)

  • Observed impacts of increasing temperatures on snowfall and snowpack in the Swiss Alps

Categories

  • Change
  • Impacts of climate change
  • Remote sensing