2020

Peer-reviewed publications

Cochrane, L., S. C. Lewis, M. M. Engdaw, A. Thornton, and D. J. Welbourne
Using farmer-based metrics to analyze the amount, seasonality, variability and spatial patterns of rainfall amidst climate change in southern Ethiopia
J. Arid. Environ., 175, 104084, 2020
10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.104084

Danzer, J., M. Schwaerz, G. Kirchengast, and S. B. Healy
Sensitivity analysis and impact of the kappa‐correction of residual ionospheric biases on radio occultation climatologies
Earth Space Sci., 7, 2020
10.1029/2019EA000942

Gorbunov, M., G. Kirchengast, and K. B. Lauritsen
Generalized Canonical Transform method for radio occultation sounding with improved retrieval in the presence of horizontal gradients
Atmos. Meas. Tech., accepted/in press, 2020
10.5194/amt-2020-147

Henner, D. N., A. Hastings, M. Pogson, N. P. McNamara, C. A. Davies, and P. Smith
PopFor: A new model for estimating poplar yields
Biomass Bioenergy, 134, 105470, 2020
10.1016/j.biombioe.2020.105470

Ho, S.-P., R. A. Anthes, C. O. Ao, S. Healy, A. Horanyi, D. Hunt, A. J. Mannucci, N. Pedatella, W. J. Randel, A. Simmons, A. Steiner, F. Xie, X. Yue, and Z. Zeng
The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 radio occultation mission after 12 years: Accomplishments, remaining challenges, and potential impacts of COSMIC-2
Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 101, E1107–E1136, 2020
10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0290.1

Innerkofler, J., G. Kirchengast, M. Schwärz, C. Pock, A. Jäggi, Y. Andres, and C. Marquardt
Precise orbit determination for climate applications of GNSS radio occultation including uncertainty estimation
Remote Sens., 12, 1180, 2020
10.3390/rs12071180

Kirchengast, G., G. Schnedl, E. Schulev-Steindl, and K. Steininger (Eds)
CO₂- und Umweltsteuern: Wege zu einer umwelt-, sozial- und wirtschaftsgerechten Steuerreform (Carbon and environmental taxes: Paths towards an environmentally, socially, and economically just tax reform; in Geman)
1st ed., ISBN 978-3-205-21099-3 978-3-205-21101-3, Böhlau Verlag, Wien, 2020
10.7767/9783205211013

Lasota, E., A. K. Steiner, G. Kirchengast, and R. Biondi
Tropical cyclones vertical structure from GNSS radio occultation: an archive covering the period 2001–2018
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2679–2693, 2020
10.5194/essd-12-2679-2020

Li, Y., G. Kirchengast, M. Schwärz, F. Ladstädter, and Y. Yuan
Monitoring Sudden Stratospheric Warmings using radio occultation: a new approach demonstrated based on the 2009 event
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., preprint/in review, 2020
10.5194/amt-2020-184

Liu, C., G. Kirchengast, S. Syndergaard, M. Schwaerz, J. Danzer, and Y. Sun
New higher-order correction of GNSS RO bending angles accounting for ionospheric asymmetry: Evaluation of performance and added value
Remote Sens., 12, 3637, 2020
10.3390/rs12213637

Liu, C.-L., G. Kirchengast, Y.-Q. Sun, X. Wang, D. Lu, W.-H. Bai, Q.-F. Du, A. Löscher, S. Syndergaard, L.-F. Tian, and Z.-H. Zhang
Exploring greenhouse gases water and climate changes: Scientific opportunities for the climate and atmospheric composition exploring satellites mission
Chinese J. Space Sci., 40, 151–168, 2020
10.11728/cjss2020.02.151

Peter, P.
Arctic amplification in atmospheric observations – Equator-to-pole gradients and their connection to storm tracks
Wegener Center Verlag, Graz, Austria, Sci. Rep. 82–2019, ISBN  978-3-9504717-1–7, 2020

Schlager, C.
Generation of high-resolution wind fields from WegenerNet data and a spatial evaluation of regional climate models
Wegener Center Verlag, Graz, Austria, Sci. Rep. 83–2019, ISBN  978-3-9504717-2–4, 2020

Steiner, A. K., F. Ladstädter, C. O. Ao, H. Gleisner, S.-P. Ho, D. Hunt, T. Schmidt, U. Foelsche, G. Kirchengast, Y.-H. Kuo, K. B. Lauritsen, A. J. Mannucci, J. K. Nielsen, W. Schreiner, M. Schwärz, S. Sokolovskiy, S. Syndergaard, and J. Wickert
Consistency and structural uncertainty of multi-mission GPS radio occultation records
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 2547–2575, 2020
10.5194/amt-13-2547-2020

Steiner, A. K., F. Ladstädter, W. J. Randel, A. C. Maycock, Q. Fu, C. Claud, H. Gleisner, L. Haimberger, S.-P. Ho, P. Keckhut, T. Leblanc, C. Mears, L. M. Polvani, B. D. Santer, T. Schmidt, V. Sofieva, R. Wing, and C.-Z. Zou
Observed temperature changes in the troposphere and stratosphere from 1979 to 2018
J. Climate, 33, 8165–8194, 2020
10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0998.1

Steininger, K. W., L. Meyer, S. Nabernegg, and G. Kirchengast
Sectoral carbon budgets as an evaluation framework for the built environment
Buildings and Cities, 1, 337–360, 2020
10.5334/bc.32

Tournigand, P.-Y., V. Cigala, E. Lasota, M. Hammouti, L. Clarisse, H. Brenot, F. Prata, G. Kirchengast, A. K. Steiner, and R. Biondi
A multi-sensor satellite-based archive of the largest SO2 volcanic eruptions since 2006
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 3139–3159, 2020
10.5194/essd-12-3139-2020

Tournigand, P.-Y., V. Cigala, A. J. Prata, A. K. Steiner, G. Kirchengast, H. Brenot, L. Clarisse, and R. Biondi
The 2015 Calbuco volcanic cloud detection using GNSS radio occultation and satellite LIDAR
presented at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2020), online, 2020

von Schuckmann, K., L. Cheng, M. D. Palmer, J. Hansen, C. Tassone, V. Aich, S. Adusumilli, H. Beltrami, T. Boyer, F. J. Cuesta-Valero, D. Desbruyères, C. Domingues, A. García-García, P. Gentine, J. Gilson, M. Gorfer, L. Haimberger, M. Ishii, G. C. Johnson, R. Killick, B. A. King, G. Kirchengast, N. Kolodziejczyk, J. Lyman, B. Marzeion, M. Mayer, M. Monier, D. P. Monselesan, S. Purkey, D. Roemmich, A. Schweiger, S. I. Seneviratne, A. Shepherd, D. A. Slater, A. K. Steiner, F. Straneo, M.-L. Timmermans, and S. E. Wijffels
Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2013–2041, 2020
10.5194/essd-12-2013-2020

Wilhelmsen, H., F. Ladstädter, T. Schmidt, and A. K. Steiner
Double tropopauses and the tropical belt connected to ENSO
Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, 2020
10.1029/2020GL089027

Selected Further Publications and Reports

Foelsche, U., S. Healy, A. Mannucci, and IROWG members
Summary of the Seventh International Radio Occultation Workshop
in Summary of the Seventh International Radio Occultation Workshop, Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (Hrsg.), EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, 6–10, 2020
irowg.org

Foelsche, U., S. Healy, and A. Mannucci
Report of IROWG Activities: Outcome and Recommendations from the IROWG-7
in Working Papers for CGMS-48, Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (Hrsg.), EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, 2020
cgms-info.org

Fuchsberger, J., G. Kirchengast, C. Bichler, A. Leuprecht, and T. Kabas
WegenerNet climate station network Level 2 data version 7.1 (2007–2019). Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, 2020
https://doi.org/10.25364/WEGC/WPS7.1:2020.1

Fuchsberger, J., G. Kirchengast, R. Galovic, and C. Bichler
The WegenerNet 3D weather and climate research facility: A unique open-air laboratory for high-resolution precipitation studies
presented at the EGU General Assembly 2020, Vienna, Austria, 2020
10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-1417

Ghaemi, E., U. Foelsche, A. Kann, G. Kirchengast, and J. Fuchsberger
Comprehensive evaluation of precipitation analyses using a very dense rain gauge network in southeast Austria
in EGUsphere, EGU2020-16576, Online, 2020
10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-16576

Haas, S.
Mediterranean low-pressure systems in radio occultation data
Wegener Center Verlag, Graz, Austria, Sci. Rep. 85–2020, ISBN 978-3-9504717-4-8, 2020

Hocking, T.
Improving WegenerNet temperature data products by advancing lapse rate and grid construction algorithms
MSc Thesis, Univ. Graz, Graz, Austria, 2020

Hohmann, C., G. Kirchengast, S. O, W. Rieger, and U. Foelsche
Runoff sensitivity to spatial rainfall variability: A hydrological modeling study with dense rain gauge observations
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 2020
10.5194/hess-2020-453

Innerkofler, J., G. Kirchengast, M. Schwärz, E. Wappis, C.-L. Liu, W.-H. Bai, Y.-Q. Sun, V. Irisov, V. Nguyen, and D. Masters
Evaluation of the climate quality of FY-3 and Spire radio occultation excess phase data
Wegener Center, Univ. of Graz, Graz, Austria, Tech. Report for FFG 2/2020, 2020

Kirchengast, G., V. Madner, E. Schulev-Steindl, K. W. Steininger, M. Hofer, and B. Hollaus
VwGH zur „Dritten Piste“: „Cruise Emissionen“ im UVP-Verfahren trotz Relevanz des Klimaschutzes nicht zurechenbar—Besprechung zu VwGH 6.3.2019, Ro 2018/03/0031 (Austrian Administrative Court on the “Third Runway“ Wien-Schwechat: “Cruise emissions“ not attributable in environmental impact assessment procedure despite relevance of climate protection—Discussion of the Court’s decision; in German)
Recht der Umwelt, 02/2020, 72–78, 2020

Kirchengast, G., E. Schulev-Steindl, and K. W. Steininger
Klimaschutzrecht: Anpassungsbedarf in Österreich – Eckpunkte (Climate protection law: Adjustment needs in Austria – Key aspects; in German)
in Steirisches Jahrbuch für Politik 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-21173-0, Böhlau Verlag, Wien, 221–229, 2020

Scheidl, D., J. Fuchsberger, and G. Kirchengast
Analysis of WegenerNet temperature and humidity data and recommendations for long-term homogeneity
Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Graz, Austria, WegenerNet Sci. Rep. No. 1-2020, 2020

Schroeer, K.
An integrative perspective on extreme convective precipitation events in the southeastern Alpine forelands: Scaling relationships and damage contribution
Wegener Center Verlag, Graz, Austria, Sci. Rep. 87–2020, ISBN 978-3-9504717-6–2, 2020

Schwärz, M., V. Proschek, F. Ladstädter, E. Wappis, and G. Kirchengast
Structural uncertainty and error characterization of ROM SAF profile and gridded products (ATROMSAF1 Final Report)
Wegener Center, Univ. of Graz, Graz, Austria, Tech. Report for FFG & ROM SAF 01/2020 (ROM SAF Doc-ID: SAF/ROM/DMI/REP/FA05/001), 2020

Schwärz, M., G. Kirchengast, J. Innerkofler, V. Proschek, F. Ladstädter, E. Wappis, and A. Leuprecht
Demonstration of climate change tracking by the rOPS excess phase long-term data record
Wegener Center, Univ. of Graz, Graz, Austria, Tech. Report for FFG 1/2020, 2020

Schwärz, M., V. Proschek, J. Innerkofler, F. Ladstädter, E. Wappis, A. Leuprecht, and G. Kirchengast
Wegener Center Data Record – GNSS Radio Occultation Record (OPSv5.6 2001–2019). Wegener Center, Univ. of Graz, Austria, 2020
https://doi.org/10.25364/WEGC/OPS5.6:2020.1

Steininger, K., B. Bednar-Friedl, N. Knittel, G. Kirchengast, S. Nabernegg, K. Williges, R. Mestel, H.-P. Hutter, and L. Kenner
Klimapolitik in Österreich: Innovationschance Coronakrise und die Kosten des Nicht-Handelns (Climate Policy in Austria: Innovation Opportunity Corona Crisis and the Cost of Inaction; in German)
Wegener Center Verlag, Univ. Graz, Austria, Wegener Center Research Briefs 1–2020, 2020

Stocker, M.
Signals of recent volcanic eruptions in vertically resolved atmospheric temperature
Wegener Center Verlag, Graz, Austria, Sci. Rep. 86–2020, ISBN 978-3-9504717-5–5, 2020

Tournigand, P.-Y., V. Cigala, A. J. Prata, A. K. Steiner, G. Kirchengast, H. Brenot, L. Clarisse, and R. Biondi
The 2015 Calbuco Volcanic Cloud Detection Using GNSS Radio Occultation and Satellite Lidar
in Proc. of IGARSS 2020 – 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 6834–6837, 2020
10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323356