Mathias Rotach

Prof. Mathias Rotach
Head, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences

Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52f
AT-6020 Innsbruck
Austria

Phone: +43 (0) 512 507 544 52
E-mail: mathias.rotach(at)uibk.ac.at
URL Institution: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/acinn/
Personal URL: link

Additional functions:
Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather related Research: member and co-chair of Programme Council

Member Austrian National IUGG Commission, IAMS Correspondent, since fall 2012.

Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Member, KIT Advisory Board ‘Earth and Environment’

chair TEAMx CIG

Key Publications of Mathias Rotach (up to ten) :
Martilli A, Clappier A and Rotach MW: 2002, ‘An urban surface exchange parameterisation for mesoscale models’, Boundary-Layer Meteorol, 104, 261-304

Rotach MW: 1995, 'Profiles of Turbulence Statistics in and Above an Urban Street Canyon', Atmospheric Environ, 29, 1473-1486

Rotach MW, Ambrosetti P, Ament F, Appenzeller C, Arpagaus M, Bauer HS, Behrendt A, Bouttier F, Buzzi A, Corazza M, Davolio S, Den-hard M, Dorninger M, Fontannaz L, Frick J, Fundel F, Germann U, Gorgas T, Hegg C, Hering A, Keil C, Liniger MA, Marsigli C, McTaggart-Cowan R, Montani A, Mylne K, Ranzi R, Richard E, Rossa A, Santos-Muñoz D, Schär C, Seity Y, Staudinger M, Stoll M, Volkert H, Walser A, Wang Y, Werhahn J, Wulfmeyer V, Zappa M: 2009, MAP D-PHASE: Real-time Demonstration of Weather Forecast Quality in the Alpine Region, Bull Amer Meteor Soc, 90 (9), 1321–1336, DOI:10.1175/2009BAMS2776.1

Rotach MW, Calanca P, Graziani G, Gurtz J, Steyn DG, Vogt R, Andretta M, Christen A, Cieslik S, Connolly S, De Wekker SFJ, Galmarini S, Kadygrov EN, Kadygrov V, Miller E, Neininger B, Rucker M, van Gorsel E, Weber H, Weiss A, Zappa M: 2004, Turbulence structure and exchange processes in an Alpine Valley: The Riviera project, Bull Amer Meteorol Soc, 85, No 9, 1367-1385, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-85-9-1367

Rotach MW and Zardi D: 2007, On the boundary layer structure over highly complex terrain: key findings from MAP, Quart J Roy Meteorol Soc, 133, 937–948, DOI: 10.1002/qj.71

Rotach MW, Stiperski I, Fuhrer O, Goger B., Gohm A, Obleitner F, Rau G, Sfyri E, Vergeiner J: 2017, Investigating Exchange Processes over Complex Topography: the Innsbruck-Box (i-Box), Bull Amer Meteorol Soc, 98, No 4, 787-805, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00246.1

Rotach MW, Wohlfahrt G, Hansel A, Reif M, Wagner J, Gohm A: 2014, The world is not flat - implications for the global carbon balance, Bull Amer Meteor Soc, 95, 1021–1028, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00109.1

Kljun N, Calanca P, Rotach MW, Schmid HP: 2015, A simple two-dimensional parameterisation for Flux Footprint Prediction (FFP), Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 3695-3713, doi: 10.5194/gmd-8-3695-2015

Stiperski I, Calaf M, Rotach MW: 2019, Scaling, anisotropy and complexity in near-surface atmospheric turbulence, JGR Atmosphere, 124, DOI: 10.1029/2018JD029383

Rotach MW, Serafin S, Ward HC, Arpagaus M, Colfescu I, Cuxart J, De Wekker SFJ, Grubi?ic V, Kalthoff N, Karl T, Kirshbaum DJ, Lehner M, Mobbs S, Paci A, Palazzi E, Bailey A, Schmidli J, Wittmann C, Wohlfahrt G, Zardi D: 2022, A collaborative effort to better understand, measure and model atmospheric exchange processes over mountains, Bulletin American Meteorol Soc, E1282–E1295, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0232.1

Expertise of Mathias Rotach:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic Atmosphere	Atmosphere
	Meteorology
	Climate
	Air Pollution
Topic Integrated Systems	Biogeochemical Cycles except Carbon
Topic Health	Weather / Radiation / Climatic Effects
Methods	Data Analysis
	Modeling
	Integrated Assessment

Specialties of Mathias Rotach:
mountain weather and climate, boundary layer meteorology, dynamic meteorology, air pollution modeling, complex terrain

Last update: 12/13/23
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