2011

Presentations at International Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

Kabas, T., G. Kirchengast, A. Leuprecht, and C. Bichler (poster)
WegenerNet climate station network: a new dataset supporting weather and climate studies at 1 km-scale resolution
AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2011

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 (invited poster)
Profiling of greenhouse gases from space by infrared-laser occultation and demonstration by a 144 km crosslink experiment at the Canary Islands
AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2011

Lackner B. C., A. K. Steiner, M. A. Ringer, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Evaluation oft tropical convection regimes in the HadGEM2 model using radio occultation observations
AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2011

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, U. Foelsche, Y-H. Kuo, E. R. Kursinski, K. B. Lauritsen, S. Syndergaard, M. Gorbunov, C. Marquardt, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, S. Sokolovskiy, and J. Wickert (poster)
Towards Earth System data Records from GPS radio occultation: Assessing structural uncertainty
AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2011

Steiner, A. K. (invited)
GNSS radio occultation – Utility for weather and climate
First Gfg2 (GNSS for Global Environmental Earth Observation (GEEO) and GEOSS) Consultation Workshop, Oslo, Norway, October 2011

Steiner, A. K. (invited)
GPS radio occultation for climate monitoring and change detection: Error characteristics, uncertainty, applications
SPARC Temperature Trend Assessment Meeting, Paris, France, September 2011

Kirchengast, G. (invited keynote)
GNSS radio occultation and LEO-LEO occultation for meteorology and climate: What’s achieved and what’s next
GNSS-RS 2011 – International Workshop on GNSS Rem. Sensing for Future Missions & Sci., Shanghai, China, August 2011

Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, A.K. Steiner, F. Ladstädter, and G. Kirchengast (invited)
Observing Earth’s atmosphere and climate with GNSS radio occultation
2011 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, July 2011

Ladstädter, F., A.K. Steiner, L. Haimberger, C. Tavolato, U. Foelsche, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Upper-Air Temperature Records: A Comparison of GPS Radio Occultation, Radiosondes and MSU/AMSU in the Lower Stratosphere
The XXV IUGG General Assembly – Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet, Melbourne, Australia, June/July 2011

Kirchengast, G. (invited keynote)
GPS radio occultation for climate monitoring: Where we stand, what’s next and what’s beyond GPS
5th Formosat-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop and Intl. Conference on GPS Radio Occultation (ICGPSRO) 2011, Taipeh, Taiwan, April 2011

Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, S. Syndergaard, J. Fritzer, A. K. Steiner, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
On the consistency of radio occultation climatologies from different satellites and possible reasons for common systematic errors
5th FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop and Intl. Conference on GPS Radio Occultation (ICGPSRO) 2011, Taipeh, Taiwan, April 2011

Steiner, A. K., S-P. Ho, D. Hunt, G. Kirchengast, A. J. Mannucci, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, H. Gleisner, A. von Engeln, T. Schmidt, C. Ao, S. S. Leroy, U. Foelsche, Y-H. Kuo, E. R. Kursinski, K. B. Lauritsen, S. Syndergaard, C. Marquardt, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, S. Sokolovskiy, J. Wickert (oral)
Structural uncertainty of the CHAMP RO climate record from different data centers
5th Formosat-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop and Intl. Conference on GPS Radio Occultation (ICGPSRO) 2011, Taipeh, Taiwan, April 2011

Foelsche, U., S. Syndergaard, B. Scherllin-Pirscher, J. Fritzer, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Systematic errors in GNSS radio occultation data – Part 1
EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 2011

Lackner,  B. C., A. K. Steiner, G. C. Hegerl, and G. Kirchengast (poster),
GNSS radio occultation trend patterns for atmospheric climate change detection with a fingerprinting method
EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 2011

Proschek, V., G. Kirchengast, and S. Schweitzer (poster)
Greenhouse Gas Profilees Retrieval in Cloudy Air from Combined IR-Laser and Microwave Occultation Measurements
EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 2011

Schweitzer, S., J.-G. Wang, J. Brooke, P. Martin, V. Kasiutsich, V. Proschek, C. Gerbig, G. Kirchengast, P. Bernath, and the IRDAS-EXP Team (poster)
A long-range link experiment demonstrating infrared-laser occultation for measurement of greenhouse gases
EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 2011

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

B. Scherllin-Pirscher, C. Deser, S.-P. Ho, C. Chou, W. Randel, and Y.-H. Kuo (invited)
Three dimensional reconstruction of the atmospheric El Nino-Southern Oscillation signal,
DMI Seminar, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2011

Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, A. K. Steiner, J. Fritzer, and G. Kirchengast (invited)
Observing Earth’s Climate and Atmospheric Change with GNSS Radio Occultation,
DMI Seminar, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2011Baumgartner, D., H. Pietsch, C. Bichler, U. Foelsche (poster)
Strahlungsmonitoring der Universität Graz,
4. Österr. MeteorologInnentag, Klagenfurt, Austria, November 2011

Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, A. K. Steiner, J. Fritzer, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Atmosphärenbeobachtung mit der GPS Radio-Okkultationsmethode,
4. Österr. MeteorologInnentag, Klagenfurt, Austria, November 2011

Ladstädter, F., A.K. Steiner, L. Haimberger, C. Tavolato, U. Foelsche, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Beobachtung der Temperatur der unteren Stratosphäre mit (A)MSU, Radiosonden und GPS Radioö-Okkultation: Ein Vergleich
4. Österr. MeteorologInnentag, Klagenfurt, Austria, November 2011

Proschek, V., G. Kirchengast, C. Emde, and S. Schweitzer (poster)
Greenhouse gas profiling by infrared-laser and microwave-occultation under realistic cloudy air conditions
4. Österr. MeteorologInnentag, Klagenfurt, Austria, November 2011

Schweitzer. S., V. Proschek, J. Brooke, J.-G. Wang, G. González Abad, P. Martin, C. Gerbig, G. Kirchengast, P. Bernath, and the IRDAS-EXP Team (poster)
First results from an experiment demonstrating infrared-laser occultation for monitoring of greenhouse gases
4. Österr. MeteorologInnentag, Klagenfurt, Austria, November 2011

Kabas, T., A. Leuprecht, C. Bichler, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Klimastationsnetz WegenerNet: ein neuer Datensatz für die Klima- und Umweltforschung
30. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Klima, Graz, Austria, October 2011

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Earth Observation – Global Climate Change Monitoring for 21st Century Stewardship
Res. Core Area Environ. and Global Change Workshop, Univ. Graz, Graz, Austria, October 2011

Foelsche, U. (invited)
Klimawandel im Hochgebirge: Mittelfristige Prognosen für die Steiermark
16. Alpinmedizinisches Symposium, Dachstein/Ramsau, Austria, September 2011

Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, F. Ladstädter, A.K. Steiner, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Konsistente Klimatologien der Atmosphäre mittels Radio-Okkultation
12. Österr. Klimatag, Univ. f. Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria, September 2011

Kabas, T., U. Foelsche, and G. Kirchengast (poster)
Seasonal and Annual Trends of Temperature and Precipitation within 1951/1971-2007 in South-Eastern Styria, Austria
12. Österr. Klimatag, Univ. f. Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria, September 2011

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Globale Erdbeobachtung: Messung von Treibhausgasen (Global Earth Observation and Stewardship Research Highlight/FSP Umwelt und Globaler Wandel)
Tag der Forschung 2011, Univ. Graz, Graz, Austria, September 2011

Kirchengast, G., S. Schweitzer, and V. Proschek (oral)
Benchmark der Klimazukunft: Mikrowellen- und Infrarotlaser-Okkultation zum Monitoring von Treibhausgasen und Klimawandel in der freien Atmosphäre
12. Österr. Klimatag, Univ. f. Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria, September 2011

Lackner, B. C., A. K. Steiner, G. C. Hegerl, and G. Kirchengast (oral)
Klimawandeldetektion in der freien Atmosphäre mit GPS Radio-Okkultation
12. Österr. Klimatag, Univ. f. Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria, September 2011

Proschek, V. (invited)
Greenhouse Gas Profiles Retrieval from Combined IR-Laser and Microwave Occultation Measurements and Initial Results form the IR Differential Absorption Spectroscopy Ground Experiment
Institute Seminar, Univ. of  Munich, Munich, Germany, September 2011

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
The University of Graz and Wegener Center’s atmospheric remote sensing and climate system research activities
Post-GNSSRS2011 Lectures and Discussion Circle Meeting, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai, China, August 2011

Foelsche, U. (invited)
Der Klimawandel und seine Auswirkungen auf unser Wirtschaften
ATTAC Sommerakademie 2011, Graz, Austria, July 2011

Foelsche, U. (oral)
Geschichte des Klimas
Öffentl. Seminar am Tag der offenen Tür – Wegener Zentrum, Graz, Austria, June 2011

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Wegener Center Atmospheric Remote Sensing and Climate System Research Group Activities
Lunch Seminar, Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Melbourne, Australia, April 2011

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
GPS radio occultation for climate monitoring: Where we stand, what’s next and what’s beyond GPS
SPACE Research Centre Public Seminar, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, April 2011

Foelsche, U., B. Scherllin-Pirscher, A. K. Steiner, and G. Kirchengast (invited)
Radio occultation: A new tool for observing atmosphere and climate with higher accuracy then ever before
SPACE Research Centre Public Seminar, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, February 2011

Foelsche, U. (invited)
Principles of radio occultation and its application to climate research
Lecture Series at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, February 2011

Kirchengast, G. (invited)
Weltklima im Wandel: Wo stehen wir, Wohin gehen wir und Was tun?
Treffen ÖKOPROFIT Arbeitsgruppe Nachhaltigkeit, Energie Graz GmbH&CoKG, Graz, Austria, January 2011

Foelsche, U. (invited)
Von der Wetter-Messung zum Klimawandel, Intensivkurs für die Neue Mittelschule Andritz
Generation Innovation – ARGE KIWI, Graz, Austria, January 2011