Christian Mätzler

portrait Prof. em. Christian Mätzler
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Institut für Angewandte Physik
Universität Bern
Sidlerstr. 5
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland


Mailing Address:

Krauchthalstrasse 3A
-3324 Hindelbank


Phone: +41 (0) 31 859 47 23
E-mail: christian.matzler(at)unibe.ch
URL Institution: www.iap.unibe.ch/


Key Publications of Christian Mätzler (up to ten) :
C. Mätzler (Ed.), P.W. Rosenkranz, A. Battaglia and J.P. Wigneron (Co-Eds.), "Thermal Microwave Radiation - Applications for Remote Sensing", IET Electromagnetic Waves Series 52, London, UK (2006).

C. Mätzler and J. Morland, Refined Physical Retrieval of Integrated Water Vapour and Cloud Liquid for Microwave Radiometer Data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 47, No. 6, 1585-1594 (2009).

C. Mätzler, P.W. Rosenkranz, J. Cermak, "Microwave Absorption of Supercooled Water Clouds and Dielectric Properties of Water", J. Geophys. Res., 115, D23208 (2010) doi:10.1029/2010JD014283

E. Graham, E. Koffi, and C. Mätzler, An observational study of air and water vapour convergence over the Bernese Alps, Switzerland, during summertime and the development of isolated thunderstorms, Meteorol. Zeitschrift, 21 (6) 561-574 (2012). DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0347

Koffi, E., Graham, E. and C. Mätzler: The water vapour flux above Switzerland and its role in the August 2005 extreme precipitation and flooding. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 22 (3), 328-341 (2013) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0392

K. Rautiainen, J. Lemmetyinen, M. Schwank, A. Kontu, C. B. Ménard, C. Mätzler, M. Drusch, A. Wiesmann, J. Ikonen, and J. Pulliainen, "Detection of soil freezing from L-band passive microwave observations," Remote Sens. Environ. 147, 206-218 (2014).

D. Hofmann, G. Preuss, and C. Mätzler, "Evidence for biological shaping of hair ice", Biogeosciences, 12, 4261-4273 (2015), doi:10.5194/bg-12-4261-2015, www.biogeosciences.net/12/4261/2015/

Reza Naderpour, Mike Schwank, Christian Mätzler, Juha Lemmetyinen, Konrad Steffen, "Snow density and ground permittivity retrieval from L-Band radiometry: a retrieval sensitivity analysis", JSTARS-2016-00829.R2 (2017).

Klemens Hocke, Leonie Bernet, Jonas Hagen, Axel Murk, Matthias Renker, and Christian Mätzler, "Diurnal cycle of short-term fluctuations of integrated water vapour above Switzerland", Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 12083–12090 (2019), https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/19/12083/2019/

Leonie Bernet, Elmar Brockmann, Thomas von Clarmann, Niklaus Kämpfer, Emmanuel Mahieu, Christian Mätzler, Gunter Stober, and Klemens Hocke, Trends of atmospheric water vapour in Switzerland from ground-based radiometry, FTIR and GNSS data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 11223–11244, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11223-2020.

Derek Houtz, Christian Mätzler, Reza Naderpour, Mike Schwank, Konrad Steffen, Quantifying Surface Melt and Liquid Water on the Greenland Ice Sheet using L-band Radiometry, Remote Sensing of Environment, 256, 112341 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112341

Klemens Hocke, Leonie Bernet, Wenyue Wang, Christian Mätzler, Maxime Hervo, Alexander Haefele, Integrated Water Vapor during Rain and Rain-Free Conditions above the Swiss Plateau. Climate 9 (2021) 105. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9070105

Wenyue Wang, Klemens Hocke, Christian Mätzler, Physical Retrieval of Rain Rate from Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 2217. https://doi.org/10.3390/ rs13112217


Expertise of Christian Mätzler:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeExpert Type
Scientific / Fundamental Research
Applied Sciences / Technologies / Engineering
Topic AtmosphereAtmosphere
Meteorology
Climate
Topic HydrosphereHydrosphere
Precipitation / Runoff
Topic CryosphereCryosphere
Polar Ice Sheets/ Sea Ice
Snow Cover
Permafrost / Solifluction
Topic PedospherePedosphere
Topic BiosphereBiosphere
Plants
Topic Integrated SystemsHydrogeochemical Cycle
MethodsMethod
Data Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis
Applied Research / Technology

Specialties of Christian Mätzler:
Development of microwave remote and in-situ sensing methods for physical properties of snow, ice, sea ice, soil, vegetation, atmosphere (water vapour, clouds, precipitation)

Last update: 11/15/23
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