Institutskolloquium PG: Vorstellung Masterarbeiten AG Klimatologie. – Mi. 03.07.2024
Influence of changing future SSTs on New Zealand’s high-altitude climate (Masterstudentin Sophia Thomas; Institut für Geographie, FAU)
A throwback to BayTreeNet – High-resolution climate models and their projections for Bavarian forest sites (Masterstudent Thomas Rühlemann; Institut für Geographie, FAU)
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Thomas Mölg
Influence of changing future SSTs on New Zealand’s high-altitude climate:
New Zealand’s oceans are warming almost four times faster than the global average, leading to increased marine heatwaves (MHW) and affecting the dynamics of glaciers and seasonal snow. This case study models the outstanding 2017/18 MHW event using the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model to understand this relationship and assess climate change risks. One model run is based on observations, while a sensitivity run accounts for projected sea surface temperature (SST) increases under the SSP5-8.5 scenario.
A throwback to BayTreeNet – High-resolution climate models and their projections for Bavarian forest sites:
With the increasing computational power of supercomputers many climate models were enhanced in their spatial resolution. BAYWRF is a climate dataset that was produced by Prof. Dr. Mölg and Emily Collier here at the institute, while the computation was accomplished with the help of the computer cluster ‘Meggie’ at the Erlangen Regional Computation Center. It offers a data basis for the domain of Bavaria, which can be, inter alia, utilized in bioclimatic studies. In the master thesis, the so called ‘added value’ or in other words the improvement of model performance in comparison to other climate models, was examined. The BayTreeNet project, which was supervised over a period of five years by the research groups of climatology and biogeography/dendro sciences at our institute, provided the research sites for an application of high-resolution model data within the field of spatial distribution mapping of numerous tree species. This enables projections for the future since the climatic suitability of tree species can also be spatially assessed.
Wann: Mittwoch, 03.07.2024 von 12:30 bis 14:00 Uhr
Wo: Präsenz, Seminarraum Tennenlohe, Wetterkreuz 15, 91058 Erlangen.
Vortragsübersicht für das Institutskolloquium im Sommersemester 2024.
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Organisation: Maximilian Brönner (KG) (maximilian.broenner@fau.de) & Dr. Sebastian Feick (PG) (sebastian.feick@fau.de)