2012
Year 2012
Presentations at International Conferences/Workshops/Seminars
Proschek, V., G. Kirchengast, C. Emde, and S. Schweitzer (poster)
Performance of greenhouse gas profiling by infrared-laser and microwave occultation in cloudy air
AGU Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2012
Rieckh, T., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, and U. Foelsche (poster)
Characteristics of radio occultation tropopause parameters
AGU Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2012
Danzer, J., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, and U. Foelsche (oral)
Systematic residual ionospheric error in radio occultation data and a potential way to minimize it
Sixth FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA, October/November 2012
Kirchengast, G. (invited plenary)
Benchmark monitoring of greenhouse gases and climate change from space and opportunities for
Australian science and industry
12th Australian Space Science Conference, Melbourne, Australia, September 2012
Li, Y., G. Kirchengast, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, J. Fritzer, S. Zhang, M. Schwaerz, and K. Zhang
(poster; best student poster prize/2nd-top of conference)
Dynamical high altitude initialization of GPS radio occultation bending angles
12th Australian Space Science Conference, Melbourne, Australia, September 2012
Liu, C., G. Kirchengast, K. Zhang, S. Wu, J. Fritzer, M. Schwaerz, and Y. Li (poster)
Using end-to-end simulations to characterise GNSS RO residual ionospheric errors for improved
meteorological utility
12th Australian Space Science Conference, Melbourne, Australia, September 2012
Scherllin-Pirscher, B., A. K. Steiner, U. Foelsche, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Upper troposphere and lower stratosphere observations with radio occultation
SPARC Workshop on the Brewer-Dobson Circulation, Grindelwald, Switzerland, June 2012
Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, J. Danzer, A. K. Steiner, J. Fritzer, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Essential Climate Variables from radio occultation
ESA Atmospheric Science Conference 2012, June 2012
Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, J. Danzer, T. Rieckh, A. K. Steiner, and G. Kirchengast (oral and poster)
Radio occultation – a new tool for the observation of changes in the thermal structure of the atmosphere after major volcanic eruptions, AGU Chapman Conference on Volcanism and the Atmosphere, Selfoss, Iceland, June 2012
Ladstädter, F., H. Gleisner, K. Kinch, K. B. Lauritsen, U. Foelsche, T. Rieckh, C. Marquardt, J. Ackermann, and A. von Engeln (poster)
Collocating GRAS with AMSU onboard of Metop: An assessment for instrument and climate monitoring
EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 2012
Danzer, J., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, and U. Foelsche (poster)
Systematic residual ionospheric errors in radio occultation data
EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 2012
Kirchengast, G., and S. Schweitzer (invited)
A next-generation space geodetic technique: Profiling greenhouse gases and climate by microwave and infrared-laser occultation
EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 2012
Proschek, V., G. Kirchengast, S. Schweitzer, P. Bernath, B.Thomas, J.-G. Wang, J. Brooke, K. Tereszchuk, G. Gonzalez-Abad, R. Hargreaves, C. Beale, P. Martin, V. Kasiutsich, C. Gerbig, O. Kolle, and A. Loescher (poster)
Demonstration of greenhouse gas sounding by IR-laser occultation by a ground-based crosslink experiment at the Canary Islands
EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 2012
Scherllin-Pirscher, B., C. Deser, S.-P. Ho, C. Chou, W. Randel, and Y.-H. Kuo (oral)
Upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric ENSO signal derived from GPS radio occultation temperature
EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 2012
Steiner, A. K., D. Hunt, S-P. Ho, G. Kirchengast, A. J. Mannucci, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, H. Gleisner, A. von Engeln, T. Schmidt, C. Ao, S. S. Leroy, E. R. Kursinski, U. Foelsche, M. Gorbunov, S. Heise, Y-H. Kuo, K. B. Lauritsen, C. Marquardt, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, S. Sokolovskiy, S. Syndergaard, and J. Wickert (oral)
Assessing structural uncertainty in climate data records from GPS radio occultation
EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 2012
Kirchengast, G., S. Schweitzer, V. Proschek, P. Bernath, B. Thomas, J.-G. Wang, J. Brooke, K. Tereszchuk,, G. Gonzalez Abad, R. Hargreaves, C. Beale, P. Martin, V. Kasiutsich, C. Gerbig, O. Kolle, and A. Loescher (oral)
Progress with LEO-LEO microwave and IR-laser occultation: performance results and Canary Islands greenhouse gases experiment
IROWG-2 International Workshop, Estes Park, CO, USA, March/April 2012
Scherllin-Pirscher, B., C. Deser, S.-P. Ho, C. Chou, W. Randel, and Y.-H. Kuo (oral)
Three dimensional reconstruction of the atmospheric ENSO signal
IROWG-2 International Workshop, Estes Park, CO, USA, March/April 2012
Steiner A. K., B. C. Lackner, M. Schwärz, M. A. Ringer, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Evaluation of climate models using radio occultation observations – Tropical convection regimes in the HadGEM model
IROWG-2 International Workshop, Estes Park, CO, USA, March/April 2012
Steiner, A. K., D. Hunt, S-P. Ho, G. Kirchengast, A. J. Mannucci, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, H. Gleisner, A.
von Engeln, T. Schmidt, C. Ao, S. S. Leroy, E. R. Kursinski, U. Foelsche, M. Gorbunov, Y-H. Kuo, K.
B. Lauritsen, C. Marquardt, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, S. Sokolovskiy, S. Syndergaard, S. Heise, and
J. Wickert (oral)
Quantification of structural uncertainty in climate data records from GPS radio occultation
IROWG-2 International Workshop, Estes Park, CO, USA, March/April, 2012
Selected Further Presentations
(at Meetings of Int'l Bodies, Universities, Public Symposia, etc.)
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Extreme Wetter- und Klimaereignisse
Universitätslehrgang Krisen- und Katastrophenmanagement
Graz, Austria, December 2012
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Klimawandel – Quo Vadis? Über entscheidende Jahrzehnte für uns Menschen und die Tierwelt
Institutsseminar „Zoologie aktuell“, Institut für Zoologie/UniGraz, Graz, Dezember 2012
Kirchengast, G., and OPSGRAS Team (invited)
Reference Occultation Processing System rOPS: context, intro, concept & design, and next steps
Joint ESA FFG-ALR WEGC rOPS Expert Meeting, Wegener Center/UniGraz, Graz, November 2012
Schwärz, M., G. Kirchengast, and J. Fritzer (invited)
Reference Occultation Processing System rOPS: development status and example results
Joint ESA FFG-ALR WEGC rOPS Expert Meeting, Wegener Center/UniGraz, Graz, November 2012
Foelsche, U. (invited keynote)
Klimawandel und mögliche Konsequenzen für Österreich
Herbsttagung der KPH (Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule) über "Klimawandel – Klimaschutz", Seggauberg, Austria, November 2012
Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, A. K. Steiner, and G. Kirchengast (invited)
Konsistente Klimatologien der Atmosphäre mittels Radio-Okkultation
1. GCOS Round Table, ZAMG, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2012.
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Climate change – Quo vadis? On novel paths for climate change and its monitoring
SPACE Research Centre Distinguished Lecture Series, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, September 2012
Foelsche, U. (invited keynote)
Klimawandel und mögliche Konsequenzen für Österreich
Jahrestagung der Österr. Entomolgischen Gesellschaft über "Insekten und Klimawandel", Lunz am See, Austria, September 2012
Steiner, A. K., B. C. Lackner, F. Ladstädter, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, U. Foelsche, G. C. Hegerl, and G. Kirchengast (invited)
Monitoring der globalen Erwärmung mit GPS Satellitensignalen
Summer University – Graz in Space 2012, Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, September 2012
Kirchengast, G., and A. K. Steiner (invited)
Monitoring von Treibhausgasen und Klimawandel mit Satelliten
Summer University – Graz in Space 2012, Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, September 2012
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Wegener Center activities on radio occultation processing and climate studies: status and next
27th EUMETSAT/ESA GRAS-SAG Meeting, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, July 2012
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Klimageschichte
Woche der freien Bildung, Graz, Austria, May 2012
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Der Klimawandel und dessen Bedeutung für das Katastrophenmanagement
Universitätslehrgang Krisen- und Katastrophenmanagement
Graz, Austria, May 2012
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Erdbeben, Tsunamis, Vulkanausbrüche – Vom Leben auf einem gefährlichen Planeten
Universitätslehrgang Krisen- und Katastrophenmanagement, Graz, Austria, May 2012
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Remote sensing of atmosphere and climate by radio occultation: current status and newest algorithms
SPACE Research Centre 2-Day Short Course, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, April/May 2012
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Underpinning climate science by GNSS radio occultation: Towards solving the global climate monitoring problem in the atmosphere
SPACE Research Centre Public Seminar, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, April 2012
Foelsche, U. (invited keynote)
Wieviel Klimaschutz ist nötig?
Klimaneutrale Universität Graz, Graz, Austria, March 2012
Kirchengast, G. (invited)
A next-generation of GNSS radio occultation: greenhouse gases and climate change from microwave and infrared-laser occultation
SPACE Research Centre Public Seminar, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, March 2012
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Der Klimawandel und mögliche Konsequenzen für die Steiermark
HIB Liebenau, Graz, Austria, March 2012
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Klimawandel und mögliche Konsequenzen für die Steiermark
Absolvententag der Land- u. Forstw. Fachschule Hatzendorf, Hatzendorf, Austria, February 2012
Foelsche, U. (invited)
Klimawandel: Vergangenheit-Gegenwart-Zukunft
Schulschwerpunkt 2011/12 "Klimaschutz", Caritas Schulzentrum, Graz, Austria, January 2012
Proschek, V. (invited)
Klimawandel: Vergangenheit-Gegenwart-Zukunft
Schulschwerpunkt 2011/12 "Klimaschutz", Schulverein der Grazer Schulschwestern, Graz, Austria,
Proschek, V. (invited)
Klimawandel: Vergangenheit-Gegenwart-Zukunft
Schulschwerpunkt 2011/12 "Klimaschutz", GIBS Graz International Bilingual School, Graz, Austria,
Juni 2012