Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken

 

Vorlesungen und Seminare im Sommersemester 2024 an der Universität Bamberg

Kombinierte Klimavorlesung (Module B1b und B2)

Dienstag und Mittwoch (08:30 - 10:00), 16.04. bis 05.06.2024

Master-Seminar (Mobi): Mobile measurements to detect urban heat island

Mittwoch (12:15 - 13:45), Seminarraum 05.003, ab 17.04.2024

 

Probing at the Earth's Surface under the Conditions of Climate Change

Department of Meteorology, Eötvös Loránd University PhD course 27–28 November 2023

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken, retired, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER)                                                    

Climate change is not only manifested by an increase in air temperature. Rather, it is processes that change or intensify and are perceived more clearly than the increase in air temperature. The lecture series highlights the changing energy conversions at the Earth's surface, possible measurement methods especially in urban areas and consequences on the water balance.

  1. Lecture: Energy balance closure at the surface, 27.11.2023, 14:30 - 16:00

Closing the energy balance at the Earth's surface is a fundamental micrometeorological problem, since it is generally not possible to realize this closure by means of measurement. Originally, metrological causes were assumed, now local circulations are held responsible. Since climate change increases longwave downwelling radiance, it is important to know how this affects other energy and radiation fluxes. The problem is extremely critical, since obviously the sensible heat flux is underdetermined, but convective processes increase due to climate change.

  1. Lecture: Basics of mobile measurements (cars, UAS, ect.), 28.11.2023, 10:00 - 11:30

Due to climate change, the effect of the urban heat island is significantly amplified, not only by the maxima of air temperature during the day, but also in a reduced cooling at night. Mobile measurements on the ground (cars, bicycles, etc.) or at low altitudes (UAS) seem to be suitable measurement systems to localize especially critical urban areas. The presentation will consider the capabilities of the techniques and their spatial resolution.

 

  1. Lecture: Determination evapotranspiration under the conditions of climate change, 28.11.2023, 13:30 - 15:00

Due to climate change and the associated higher water uptake of the atmosphere (Clausius-Clapeyron equation), evapotranspiration is increasing, in some cases significantly. The experimental determination of evapotranspiration is very complex, so that empirical methods are generally used. Due to climate change, these methods are no longer valid for the locations for which they were once determined, and thus most of them can no longer be applied. However, even more elaborate methods can no longer be used, especially when drought conditions are too severe, because the transfer resistances are not adequately parameterized for these conditions.

 

Strategische Allianzen zwischen Wissenschaft und Religionsgemeinschaften im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel

Im Rahmen des Seminars von Prof. Bochinger und Prof. Berner: Nachhaltigkeit und Religion. Religiöse und nicht-religiöse Begründungen der Nachhaltigkeitsidee, 17.01.2023, 16-18, Universität Bayreuth, GW2 S6.

 

Klimawandel: Was bedeutet das für Bayern?

Veranstaltung der Volkshochschule Bamberg-Land, 21.09.2022, 19:30-21:00, Nr. 400GS12 online, Anmeldung notwendig (kostenlos)

Wie entwickelt sich das Klima und was bedeutet der Klimawandel konkret für Bayern? Was verändert sich hier bei uns vor Ort und wie müssen wir reagieren? Konkrete Themen: Änderung der Lufttemperaturen und der Kennzahlen, wie Frosttage und heiße Tage, Änderung der Schneebedeckung und der Niederschläge, Belastungsgrenzen für Ökosysteme, Land- und Forstwirtschaft und Tourismus. Am Beispiel von Bamberg werden Maßnahmen vorgestellt.

 

Introduction to the World of Micrometeorological Measurements

Summer School COST FAIRNESS, Training Program, VOLOS, Greece, June 27 - July 1 2022

Monday, June 27, 09:30-11:00 EEST (UTC+3), VIDEO

Keywords: History, Scales, Turbulence, Micrometeorological elements, Hierarchy of instruments, Footprint and other influencing factors, Data quality.

 

Strategische Allianzen zwischen Wissenschaft und Religionsgemeinschaften im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel

Im Rahmen des Seminars von Prof. Bochinger und Prof. Berner: Nachhaltigkeit und Religion. Religiöse und nicht-religiöse Begründungen der Nachhaltigkeitsidee, 07.02.2022, 16-18, Universität Bayreuth, GW2 S6.

 

Klima und Klimawandel, VHS-Bamberg-Land, Sept.-Dez. 2021

Termin

Schwerpunkt

Referent

29.09.2021

Das Klima (Entstehung, Faktoren)

Foken

05.10.2021

Wärme- und Wasserhaushalt an der Erdoberfläche

Foken

12.10.2021

Der Treibhauseffekt (Treibhausgase)

Foken

19.10.2021

Gewinnung von Klimadaten

Foken

26.10.2021

Globale Klimaänderung

Foken

09.11.2021

Klimaänderungen in Bayern und Bamberg

Foken

16.11.2021

Klimamodellierung

Foken

23.11.2021

Extremereignisse

Faust

30.11.2021

Klimapolitik

Foken/Faust

07.12.2021

Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung

Foken

 

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 21.-22.11.2017

Lessons in Micrometeorology

1. The Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory and its Limitations (21.11., 09:30-11:00

2. The Eddy-Covariance Method - Basics (21.11., 11:15-12:45)

3. The Eddy-Covariance Method - Flux calculation and general problems (22.11., 09:30-11:00)

4. The Eddy-Covariance Method - Data Quality control  (22.11., 11:15-12:45)

5. The Eddy-Covariance Method - Discussion (22.11., 12:45-13:15)

 

Spring School "Land Surface Processes" at the Univerity of Tübingen, March 27-31, 2017, Blaubeuren

Lecture "MOST and land surface exchange" (March 29, 14:00 - 15:00 and discussion 16:30 - 17:30)

 

GHG Workshop, Potsdam 19.-23.10.2015

Lessons on Eddy-Covariance Technique

1. The Eddy-covariance method (19.10, 15:00-16:30)

2. Data quality control and soil fluxes (20.10., 09:00-10:30)

3. Flux footprints (20.10., 10:45-12:15)

 

Eddy-Covariance Workshop, Jena, 18.-22.05.2015

The Eddy-Covariance-Method - Basics and General Problems (19.05., 09:30 - 12:00)

 

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 10.-11.04.2015

Lessons in Micrometeorology

1. The Eddy-Covariance Method (10.04., 10:00-12:00)

2. Footprints (10.04., 14:00-16:00)

3. Fluxes in and above Tall Vegetation (11.04., 10:00-12:00)