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Mathias W. Rotach

Mathias W. Rotach

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
13449
World Ranking
3081
National Ranking
27

Overview

Mathias W. Rotach is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering among other subfields. The body of work includes studies in Computational Mechanics as well as aspects related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

Their primary research interests cover several key topics such as Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Climate Variability and Models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research:

  • Atmospheric Pollutant Dispersion over Complex Terrain: Challenges and Needs for Improving Air Quality Measurements and Modeling, 2020, published in Atmosphere
  • Large-eddy simulation of foehn-cold pool interactions in the Inn Valley during PIANO IOP 2, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Modeling spatially distributed snow instability at a regional scale using Alpine3D, 2021, Journal of Glaciology
  • CROSSINN: A Field Experiment to Study the Three-Dimensional Flow Structure in the Inn Valley, Austria, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • A Collaborative Effort to Better Understand, Measure, and Model Atmospheric Exchange Processes over Mountains, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The scientist has frequent collaborative relationships with several coauthors including Alexander Gohm, A.A.M. Holtslag, Maren Haid, Helen C. Ward, and Lukas Umek.

Publication venues with frequent contributions include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmosphere

In addition to journal articles, Mathias W. Rotach has authored a book titled Multi-scale transport and exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains (2020), published by innsbruck university press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • An Urban Surface Exchange Parameterisation for Mesoscale Models

    Alberto Martilli;Alain Clappier;Mathias W. Rotach

  • A Simple Parameterisation for Flux Footprint Predictions

    Natascha Kljun;P. Calanca;M.W. Rotach;H.P Schmid

  • A simple two-dimensional parameterisation for Flux Footprint Prediction (FFP)

    Natascha Kljun;P. Calanca;M.W. Rotach;Hans Peter Schmid

  • BUBBLE - an urban boundary layer meteorology project

    Mathias Rotach;Mathias Rotach;Roland Vogt;Christian Bernhofer;E. Batchvarova

  • A THREE-DIMENSIONAL BACKWARD LAGRANGIAN FOOTPRINT MODEL FOR A WIDE RANGE OF BOUNDARY-LAYER STRATIFICATIONS

    Natascha Kljun;M.W. Rotach;H.P Schmid

  • Profiles of turbulence statistics in and above an urban street canyon

    M.W. Rotach

  • Mean Flow and Turbulence Characteristics in an Urban Roughness Sublayer

    Petra Kastner-Klein;Mathias W. Rotach

  • The Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study. A Research and Development Project of the World Weather Research Program for Improving Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting in Low-Mountain Regions

    Volker Wulfmeyer;Andreas Behrendt;Hans-Stefan Bauer;Christoph Kottmeier

  • A wind tunnel study of organised and turbulent air motions in urban street canyons

    P. Kastner-Klein;E. Fedorovich;M.W. Rotach

  • Turbulence close to a rough urban surface part I: Reynolds stress

    M. W. Rotach

  • On the influence of the urban roughness sublayer on turbulence and dispersion

    Mathias W Rotach

  • The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS): the scientific strategy, the field phase, and research highlights

    Volker Wulfmeyer;Andreas Behrendt;Christoph Kottmeier;Ulrich Corsmeier

  • High-Resolution Large-Eddy Simulations of Flow in a Steep Alpine Valley. Part I: Methodology, Verification, and Sensitivity Experiments

    Fotini Katopodes Chow;Andreas P. Weigel;Robert L. Street;Mathias W. Rotach

  • Exchange Processes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over Mountainous Terrain

    Stefano Serafin;Bianca Adler;Joan Cuxart;Stephan F. J. De Wekker

  • On the boundary‐layer structure over highly complex terrain: Key findings from MAP

    Mathias W. Rotach;Dino Zardi

  • The Nature, Theory, and Modeling of Atmospheric Planetary Boundary Layers

    Alexander A. Baklanov;Branko Grisogono;Robert Bornstein;Larry Mahrt

  • Temporal dynamics of CO2 fluxes and profiles over a Central European city

    R. Vogt;A. Christen;M. W. Rotach;M. Roth

  • MAP D-PHASE: Real-Time Demonstration of Weather Forecast Quality in the Alpine region

    Mathias W. Rotach;Paolo Ambrosetti;Felix Ament;Christof Appenzeller

  • Assessing the Benefits of Convection-Permitting Models by Neighborhood Verification: Examples from MAP D-PHASE

    Tanja Weusthoff;Felix Ament;Marco Arpagaus;Mathias W. Rotach

  • Current Challenges in Understanding and Predicting Transport and Exchange in the Atmosphere over Mountainous Terrain

    Manuela Lehner;Mathias W. Rotach

  • Turbulence close to a rough urban surface part II: Variances and gradients

    M. W. Rotach

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Christen
Andreas Christen University of Freiburg
Natascha Kljun
Natascha Kljun Lund University
Volker Wulfmeyer
Volker Wulfmeyer University of Hohenheim
Andreas Behrendt
Andreas Behrendt University of Hohenheim
Massimiliano Zappa
Massimiliano Zappa Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Alberto Martilli
Alberto Martilli Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Thomas Karl
Thomas Karl University of Innsbruck
Norbert Kalthoff
Norbert Kalthoff Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hans Peter Schmid
Hans Peter Schmid Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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