Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Climate Geography

News

02/2025

Publication

Evaluation of gridded precipitation datasets over Iran

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102234, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

 


02/2025

Media

Tobias Sauter comments on the Climate Risk Index on ZDF Heute

Comment on the Germanwatch Climate Risk Index on ZDF Heute 

 


02/2025

Media

Tobias Sauter talks about the International Year of Glacier Protection on ZDF Heute and NANO

ZDF Heute (starting from 10:00)

3Sat (starting from 1:20) in the science programme Nano with contributions from me on the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation.

 


01/2025

Publication

Assessing the impact of extreme climate events on European gross primary production

This study examines how the timing of extreme events affects annual gross primary production (GPP). The results show that extreme climate events occurring at the beginning of the growing season have a significant impact on GPP. Such events can have both positive and negative effects. Using an explicable LightGBM model, we identified thresholds and tipping points where the transition between positive and negative effects occurs. For example, our results indicate that prolonged heat waves with temperatures above 31ºC in the early growing season lead to a significant decrease in GPP.

 


01/2025

Software Release

COSIPY 2.0 Release

 


11/2024

New Project

Glacier-Space – Assessing the resilience and vulnerability of mountain ice masses

German Research Foundation (DFG)

 


08/2024

Article

A Drifting and Blowing Snow Scheme in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model

Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems (https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2023MS004007)

 


10/2023

Expedition

Field work at Uzbekistan's largest glacier

Report of a recent expedition by Alexander Georgi and Phillip Schuster

 


09/2023

Outreach

Newspaper article on field work at glacier in Tyrol, Austria

Hintereisferner field campaign in summer 2023

 


06/2023

Outreach

Tobias Sauter talks in ZDF documentary about glaciers and climate change in Patagonia

Planet e. documentary "Abenteuer Patagonien - Klimaforschung in der Eiswüste"

 


11/2022

Publication

Impact of the closure of Berlin-Tegel Airport on ultrafine particle number concentrations on the airfield

Sabine Fritz et al. in Frontiers in Environmental Science

 


11/2022

Expedition

Fieldwork in Nepal

Report of a recent expedition by Anselm Arndt and Tobias Sauter

 


10/2022

Publication

Impact of airport operations and road traffic on the particle number concentration in the vicinity of a suburban airport

Sabine Fritz et al. in Frontiers in Environmental Science