2013

Presentations at International Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

Biondi, R., A. K. Steiner, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
A new GNSS technique for detecting and analyzing convective systems and tropical cyclones
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2013

Kirchengast, G., M. Schwärz, J. Fritzer, J. Schwarz, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, and A. K. Steiner (poster)
Solving the global climate monitoring problem in the atmosphere: Towards SI-tied climate records with integrated uncertainty propagation
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2013

Steiner, A. K., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, L. Brunner, M. Schwärz, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Temperature trends in the upper troposphere to lower stratosphere from radio occultation climate records 2002 to 2012
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2013

Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, M. Schwärz, J. Fritzer, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
GLOBCLIM: A database for global climatologies based on radio occultation data
EUMETNET Data Management Workshop, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, November 2013

Steiner, A. K. (oral)
Status of the RO record with focus on stratospheric trend analysis
SPARC Stratospheric Temperature Trends Workshop, Reading, September 2013

Proschek, V. (invited)
Simulation of atmospheric measurements by infrared-laser signals
Dynamical and Chemical Properties of the Arctic Stratosphere Workshop, Leverkusen, Germany, September 2013

Foelsche, U., and A.K. Steiner (invited)
Report of the IROWG Climate-Subgroup
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Biondi, R., W. Randel, S.-P. Ho, and S. Syndergaard (oral)
Thermal structure of tropical cyclones and intense convective systems using GPS radio occultation measurements
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Biondi, R., A. K. Steiner, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
CONSYDER: CONvective Systems Detection and analysis using Radio occultations
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Danzer, J., U. Foelsche, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, and M. Schwärz (oral)
Influence of changes in humidity on dry temperature in GPS RO data
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Foelsche, U., J. Danzer, and B. Scherllin-Pirscher (oral)
Systematic residual ionospheric errors in radio occultation data and a potential way to minimize them
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Kirchengast, G., M. Schwärz, J. Fritzer, J. Schwarz, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, and A. K. Steiner (oral)
Reference Occultation Processing System (rOPS) for cal/val and climate: Towards SI-tied atmospheric profiling with integrated uncertainty propagation
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Kirchengast, G., V. Proschek, S. Schweitzer, J. Brooke, P. Bernath, B. Thomas J.-G. Wang, K. Tereszchuk, G. Gonzalez-Abad, R. Hargreaves, C. Beale J. Harrison, P. Martin, V. Kasyutich, C. Gerbig, O. Kolle and A. Loescher (poster)
Greenhouse gas retrieval and validation for the infrared-laser occultation experiment in the Canary Islands
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Klingler, R., F. Ladstädter, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, and U. Foelsche (poster)
Observing the major sudden stratospheric warming event 2009 with radio occultation
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Ladstädter, F., M. Schwärz, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, J. Schwarz, A. K. Steiner, L. Haimberger, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
High resolution climate monitoring in the polar atmosphere: Inter-validation of radiosonde and radio occultation temperature profiles
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Li, Y., G. Kirchengast, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, J. Fritzer, M.Schwaerz, S. Zhang, and K. Zhang (poster)
A new dynamic approach for statistical optimization of GNSS radio occultation bending angles for optimal climate monitoring utility
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Liu, C. L., G. Kirchengast, K. F. Zhang, R. Norman, Y. Li, J. Fritzer, M. Schwaerz, Z. X. Tan, S. Q. Wu, S. C. Zhang (poster)
Quantifying and characterising residual ionospheric errors in GPS radio occultation bending angles: results from end-to-end simulations
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Plach, A., V. Proschek, S. Syndergaard, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Initial results of a new algorithm for atmospheric wind profiling based on infrared-laser occultation
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Proschek, V., G. Kirchengast, C. Emde, and S. Schweitzer (oral)
Infrared laser and microwave occultation: Greenhouse gas profiling under cloudy air conditions
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Rieckh, T., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, and U. Foelsche (oral)
Characteristics of tropopause parameters using GPS RO data
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Rutz, H. H., V. Goudarzi, K. Vogt, A. K. Steiner, and M. Jury (poster)
SysSon: A Systematic design for the Sonification of radio occultation data
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Scherllin-Pirscher, B., S. Syndergaard, U. Foelsche, and K. B. Lauritsen (oral)
Generation of a Bending Angle Radio Occultation Climatological (BAROCLIM) model using Formosat-3/COSMIC data and its use in RO profiles retrievals
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Schwärz, M., G. Kirchengast, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, and F. Ladstädter (oral)
Validation of atmospheric profiles from MIPAS and GOMOS against radio occultation and radiosonde reference datasets
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Schwarz, J., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, U. Foelsche, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Potential climate-relevant systematic errors from apparent outliers in radio occultation retrievals, OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Steiner, A. K., J. Schwarz, M. A. Ringer, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Evaluation of climate models with radio occultation observations
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Syndergaard, S., and G. Kirchengast (poster)
An Abel integral transform for deriving wind profiles from LEO-LEO infrared-laser occultation data
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Zhang, K. F., R. Norman, J. Le Marshall, B. Carter, G. Kirchengast, S. Alexander, S. Wu, S. Zhang, Y. Li, and C. Liu (invited)
GPS radio occultation research – An Australian perspective
OPAC-IROWG 2013 International Workshop, Seggau Castle, Austria, September 2013

Ladstädter, F., M. Schwärz, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, J. Schwarz, A. K. Steiner, L. Haimberger, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Inter-validation of radiosonde and radio occultation temperature profiles: High resolution climate monitoring in the polar atmosphere
Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly DACA-13, Davos, Switzerland, July 2013

Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, J. Danzer, A. K. Steiner, J. Schwarz, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Observing Climate with GNSS Radio Occultation: Characterization and Mitigation of Systematic Errors
AGU Meeting of the Americas 2013, Cancun, Mexico, May 2013

Steiner, A. K. (invited keynote)
Climate monitoring and change detection with GPS Radio Occultation
2nd International Conference on GPS Radio Occultation (ICGPSRO), Taipeh, Taiwan, May 2013

Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, J. Danzer, T. Rieckh, A. K. Steiner, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Climatologies of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere based on GNSS Radio Occultation Data as Basis for Trend Studies
35th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, Beijing, China, April 2013

Steiner, A. K., B. C. Lackner, M. Schwärz, M. A. Ringer, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Evaluation of climate models using radio occultation observations – Tropical convection regimes in the HadGEM model
4th WGNE Workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models, Exeter, UK, April 2013

Danzer, J., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, and U. Foelsche (oral)
Systematic residual ionospheric errors in radio occultation data and a potential way to minimize them
EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 2013

Rieckh, T., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, and U. Foelsche (poster)
Tropopause Altitude and Temperature Characteristics from GPS Radio Occultation: Climatologies and Trends
EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 2013

Schwarz, J., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, U. Foelsche, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Potential systematic errors in radio occultation climatologies due to irregular distributions of apparent outliers in the retrieval process
EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 2013

Scherllin-Pirscher, B., C. Deser, S.-P. Ho, C. Chou, W. Randel, and Y.-H. Kuo (poster)
The UTLS ENSO signal from high resolution GPS radio occultation temperature profiles
EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 2013

Schwärz, M., G. Kirchengast, and B. Scherllin-Pirscher (oral)
Validation of thermodynamic profiles from MIPAS and GOMOS against radio occultation reference datasets
ACVE (Atmospheric Composition Validation and Evolution) International Workshop, ESA/ESRIN Frascati, Italy, March 2013

Selected Further Presentations
(at Meetings of Int'l Bodies, Universities, Public Symposia, etc.)

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Benchmark monitoring of greenhouse gases and climate by microwave and IR-laser occultation
JPL Science Visitor and Colloquium Program Earth Science Seminar, Jet Propulsion Lab/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, December 2013

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
GPS radio occultation for climate monitoring: Where we stand and what’s next
JPL Science Visitor and Colloquium Program Earth Science Seminar, Jet Propulsion Lab/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, December 2013

Hofer, M., D. Baumgartner, H. Pietsch, and U. Foelsche (poster)
Detektion und Untersuchung solarer Strahlungsüberhöhung mir ARAD und Cloudcam
5. Österr. MeteorologInnentag, Feldkirch, Austria, November 2013 [Posterpreis]

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Weltklimabericht IPCC 2013: Aktuelles Wissen zum globalen Klimawandel
Rotary Club Graz-Burg Monday Meeting, Hotel Erzherzog-Johann, Graz, Austria, November 2013

Kirchengast, G. (oral)
Weltklimabericht IPCC 2013: Aktuelles Wissen zum globalen Klimawandel
Vortragsreihe Lunch Seminar, Wegener Center/UniGraz, Graz, Austria, Oktober 2013
(WEGC TV online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTul9wpyyL4)

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Wegener Center activities on radio occultation processing and climate: recent and ongoing studies
28th EUMETSAT/ESA GRAS-SAG Meeting, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2013

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Klimawandel und Klimaszenarien – Klimaszenarien für die Steiermark bis 2050
Klimabündnis Österreich Jahreskonferenz 2013, Schloss Hartberg, Hartberg, Austria, May 2013

Foelsche, U. (invited)
Unser Klima der Zukunft – Ananasanbau in der Steiermark?
Lions Club Weiz, Weizberg, Austria, April 2013

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Das Innere von Molekülen als Schlüssel für globales Klimamonitoring
NAWI Fakultätstag 2013, Universität Graz, Graz, Austria, April 2013

Foelsche, U. (invited)
Der Klimawandel und seine Konsequenzen für Österreichs Bergwelt
Bergrettung Graz, Austria, March 2013

Foelsche, U. (invited)
Der Klimawandel und seine Konsequenzen für Österreich, Kärnten, das obere Gailtal
Bio-Kooperation Oberes Gailtal, St. Daniel, Austria, January 2013

Steiner, A. K.
Beobachtung von Klimaänderungen mittels GPS Radio-Okkultation
Habilitationskolloquium, University of Graz, Graz, Austria, January 2013

Brooke, J. S. A., P. F. Bernath, G. Kirchengast, and the IRDAS-EXP Project Team (oral)
Greenhouse gas measurements over a 144 km open path in the Canary Islands
Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group Meeting, Durham University, UK, January 2013