2006
Year 2006
Presentations at International Conferences/Workshops/Seminars
Borsche, M., G. Kirchengast, and U. Foelsche (poster)
Tropical Tropopause Climatology from Five Years of CHAMP Radio Occultation Data Compared to ECMWF and NCEP Analyses
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., December 2006.
Kirchengast, G., S. Schweitzer, M. Loiselet, A. von Engeln, U. Foelsche, A.K. Steiner, B. Pirscher, M. Borsche, and A. Gobiet (invited)
GPS Radio Occultation Climate Research Results from the Wegener Center and “News from Europe”
3rd Workshop on Emerging Science Applications of Measurements from GPS/GNSS and GPS-like Signals: GPS Radio Occultations as Climate Benchmark Observations at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., December 2006.
Kirchengast, G., and S. Schweitzer (poster)
The ACCURATE Technique: Simultaneous Observation of Atmospheric Profiles of Greenhouse Gases, Isotopes, Wind, and Thermodynamic Variables from Space
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., December 2006.
Foelsche, U., M. Borsche, B. Pirscher, A.K. Steiner, A. Gobiet, J. Wickert, T. Schmidt, and G. Kirchengast (invited)
Climate Monitoring with Radio Occultation Data: From CHAMP to FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Workshop 2006 – Early Results and IOP, Campaigns, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2006
Borsche, M., G. Kirchengast, and U. Foelsche (oral)
Tropical Tropopause Climatology as Observed With Radio Occultation Measurements From CHAMP and Formosat-3/COSMIC Compared to ECMWF and NCEP Analyses
First FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A., October 2006
Foelsche, U., M. Borsche, A.K. Steiner, A. Gobiet, B. Pirscher, J. Wickert, T. Schmidt, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Global climatologies based on RO data from CHAMP and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
First FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A., October 2006
Pirscher B., U. Foelsche, B.C Lackner, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Local Time Influence in Radio Occultation Climatologies
First FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A., October 2006
Steiner A. K., G. Kirchengast, M. Borsche, U. Foelsche, and T. Schöngassner (Poster)
Comparison of upper air temperatures: MSU/AMSU and CHAMP radio occultation data
4th Workshop onLong-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere, Sodankylä, Finland, September 2006
Kirchengast, G., U. Foelsche, A.K. Steiner, M. Schwärz, M. Pock, J. Wickert, T. Schmidt, K.B. Lauritsen, A. Löscher, B. Kuo, C. Rocken, J. Jungclaus, L. Kornblueh, G.C. Hegerl, H. Hauser, H. Doleisch, R. Giering, T. Kaminski, J. Marotzke, B.H. Lambrigtsen, C. Retscher, and S.S. Leroy (invited)
EPSClim - Climate Variability and Change Analysis and Climate Model Validation supported by EPS/MetOp GRAS and IASI Data
1st EPS/MetOp RAO Workshop, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, May 2006
Kirchengast, G., U. Foelsche, A.K. Steiner, M. Schwaerz, J. Wickert, L. Kornblueh, K.B. Lauritsen, A. Loescher, and B.H. Lambrigtsen (invited)
GRASIVal - Contribution to EPS GRAS and IASI Cal/Val by independent retrieval algorithms and comparison to short-term reference climatologies, 1st EPS/MetOp RAO Workshop, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, May 2006.
Borsche, M., G. Kirchengast, U. Foelsche, A. Gobiet, A.K. Steiner, T. Schmidt, and J. Wickert (Poster)
Tropical tropopause variability from four years of CHAMP radio occultation data
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2006
Foelsche, U., M. Borsche, A. Gobiet, A.K. Steiner, B.C Lackner, B. Pirscher, G. Kirchengast, J. Wickert, and T. Schmidt (solicited)
Climatologies of the Global Atmosphere based on Radio Occultation Data from CHAMP
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2006
Kirchengast, G. and S. Schweitzer (oral)
The satellite mission ACCURATE: Observing greenhouse gases, isotopes and climate trends from space
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2006
Steiner A. K., G. Kirchengast, M. Borsche, U. Foelsche, and T. Schöngassner (Poster)
Upper air temperatures from satellite records: A comparison of MSU and CHAMP radio occultation data
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2006
Selected Further Presentations
(at Meetings of Int'l Bodies, Universities, Public Symposia, etc.)
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Klimawandel in Österreich
OIKOS-Graz, Blickpunkt Energie und Klima, Graz, Austria, November 2006
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Klimawandel – Von der Eiszeit zum Treibhaus
Vortragsreihe “Quanten, Felder, Schwarze Löcher”, Techn. Univ., Graz, Austria, November 2006
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Globaler Klimawandel - Herausforderung und Chance
LehrerInnenfortbildung, Universität Graz, Austria, November 2006
Warnant, R., and Foelsche, U. (invited)
Report on Work Package 3.2: Space based systems – Mitigation Techniques
5th Management Committee meeting of the COST 296 Action Mitigation of Ionospheric Effects on Radio Systems (MIERS), Rennes, France, October 2006.
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Unsere Erde bekommt Fieber - Der Klimawandel als globale Herausforderung und Chance des 21. Jahrhunderts
2. Passivhaustagung: Klimagerechtes Bauen und Wirtschaftlichkeit, Weissensee, Austria, June 2006
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Klimawandel - Ursachen und Folgen. Welche Rolle haben wir Menschen als Mitbetroffene, Mitverursacher und Mitgestalter?
Jahrestreffen 2006 der steirischen Umwelt-Pfarrgemeinderäte, Graz, Austria, June 2006
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Globale Erwärmung und Klimawandel: Wie geht es weiter? Was können wir tun?, Forum Akademie/TU Graz & Forum Technik und Gesellschaft: Veranstaltung "Heißer Sommer" - Heizen wir der Steiermark ein?", Graz, Juni 2006
Foelsche, U., and R. Warnant (invited)
Report on Work Package 3.2: Space based systems – Mitigation Techniques
4th Management Committee meeting of the COST 296 Action Mitigation of Ionospheric Effects on Radio Systems (MIERS), Neustrelitz, Germany, April 2006.
Kirchengast, G., U. Foelsche, M. Borsche, A.K. Steiner, B. Pirscher, B.C. Lackner, A. Gobiet, and A. Leuprecht (invited)
CHAMP RO Climatologies for Monitoring Climate Variability and Change and Preparations for Metop/GRAS and COSMIC, 20th GRAS-SAG Meeting, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, March 2006
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Klimawandel, Extremereignisse und mögliche Katastrophen
Universitätslehrgang Krisen- und Katastrophenmanagement, Graz, Austria, March 2006
Foelsche, U., M. Borsche, A.K. Steiner, A. Löscher, B. Pirscher, B.C. Lackner, A. Gobiet, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Klima-Monitoring mit Radio-Okkultationsdaten des Satelliten CHAMP
9. Österr. Klimatag, Univ. f. Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria, March 2006
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Der Klimawandel und das Pionierexperiment WegenerNet Region Feldbach
Vortrag bei der Generalversammlung des Maschinenring Raabtal, Johnsdorf, Austria, March 2006
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Wetter und Klima/Is the Change of Climate endangering our Future?
Ringvortragsreihe Megaphon-Uni - Bildung ohne Grenzen, Graz, Austria, March 2006
Löscher, A., U. Foelsche, and G. Kirchengast (invited)
CHAMP Radio Occultation Data Assimilation into ECMWF Fields for Global Climate Analyses
CHAMPCLIM Final Presentation Meeting, FFG/ALR, Vienna, Austria, March 2006.