Mühlbauer, Andreas

Andreas Mühlbauer Institut f. Atmosphäre und Klima CHN O 16.1 Universitätstrasse 16 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND Phone: +41 44 632 73 69 E-Mail:

Research interests

• Orographic precipitation
• Orographic flows
• Cloud-microphysics
• Aerosol-microphysics
• Aerosol-cloud interactions
• Atmospheric dynamics
• Numerical modeling

Research projects

• 7th WMO International Cloud Modeling Workshop (ICMW) 2008
  Case leader: Orographic mixed-phase stratiform clouds (together with Prof. Lohmann)
• Aerosol-Cloud Interactions, ECMWF Special Project SPCHCLAI, 07/2006 - ongoing
• Mesoscale Predictability and Ensemble Prediction, ECMWF Special Project SPATME02, 01/2004 - 05/2005

Teaching / (co-) supervising

Former bachelor-/master projects

• Barmet P. and Kuster T. (2008): Weekly Periodicities in Climatology, MSc thesis.
• Zubler E. (2007): Modelling of Orographic Precipitation including the Indirect Aerosol Effect, MSc thesis.
• Bürgin T. (2007): Simulation orographischer Wolken während CLACE 3, BSc thesis.
• Disch D. (2006): Quantifzierung des indirekten Aerosoleinflusses auf den orographischen Niederschlag im Schweizer Jura, BSc thesis.
• Fusina F. (2006): Aerosol Optische Dicke der Atmosphäre: Vergleich zwischen Aeronet und Modis, BSc thesis.

Talks / poster presentations

• COSMO User Workshop, MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland, 10/2008 (oral presentation)
• EPFL Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 10/2008 (invited oral presentation)
• 13th AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Whistler, Canada, 08/2008 (oral presentation)
• 7th WMO Cloud Modeling Workshop, Cozumel, Mexico, 07/2008 (oral presentation)
• 15th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP), Cancun, Mexico, 07/2008 (oral presentation and poster presentation)
• University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 06/2008 (invited oral presentation)
• COSMO Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany, 10/2007 (invited oral presentation)
• IUGG XXIV General Assembly (IAMAS), Perugia, Italy, 07/2007 (oral presentation)
• COSMO Workshop, MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland, 05/2007 (oral presentation)
• COSMO-User Seminar 2007, Langen, Germany, 03/2007 (oral presentation)
• Annual Assembly of the Swiss Meteorological Sociecty (SGM), MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland, 10/2006 (oral presentation)
• 7. Deutsche Klimatagung, Munich, Germany, 10/2006 (oral presentation)
• 12th AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Santa Fe, USA, 09/2006 (oral presentation)
• 12th AMS Conference on Cloud Physics, Madison, USA, 07/2006 (poster presentation)
• Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT), Leipzig, Germany, 10/2005 (oral presentation)
• ETH, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IACETH), Zurich, Switzerland, 03/2005 (application talk for PhD position)

Conference proceedings

• Mühlbauer, A. and Lohmann, U. (2008): Interaction of microphysical and dynamical timescales in orographic precipitation, International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP), 7-11 July 2007, Cancun, Mexico.
• Mühlbauer, A. and Lohmann, U. (2007): Aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in orographic precipitation events, IUGG XXIV General Assembly (IAMAS, JMS005), 2-13 July 2007, Perugia, Italy.
• Mühlbauer, A. and Spichtinger, P. and Lohmann, U. (2006): Robust statistical methods in climate trend analysis, 7. Deutsche Klimatagung, 9-11 October, Munich, Germany.
• Mühlbauer, A. and Lohmann, U. (2006): Dynamics vs. aerosol induced warm-phase microphysics and orographic precipitation, 12th AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology, 28 Aug - 1 September 2006, Santa Fe, USA.
• Mühlbauer, A. and Lohmann, U. (2006): Aerosol-cloud interactions and the effects on orographic precipitation , 12th AMS Conference on Cloud Physics, 10-14 July 2006, Madison, USA.

Publications (peer-reviewed)

• Muhlbauer, A., Spichtinger, P. and Lohmann, U. (2009): Application and comparison of robust linear regression methods for trend estimation, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., in press.
• Muhlbauer, A. and Lohmann, U. (2009): Sensitivity studies of aerosol-cloud interactions in mixed-phase orographic precipitation, J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
• Barmet, P., Kuster, T., Muhlbauer, A. and Lohmann, U. (2009): Weekly Cycle in Particulate Matter versus Weekly Cycle in Precipitation over Switzerland, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2008JD011192.
• Muhlbauer, A. and Lohmann, U. (2008): Sensitivity studies of the role of aerosols in warm-phase orographic precipitation in different dynamical flow regimes, J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2522–2542.

Publications (non peer-reviewed)

• Morrison H., Thompson G., Gilmore M., Gong W., Leaitch R. and Muhlbauer A. (2008): Seventh WMO International Cloud Modeling Workshop. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., submitted.
• Mühlbauer, A. (2008): Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Moist Orographic Flows, PhD thesis.
• Mühlbauer, A. D. (2005): Interaction of Scales in a Spectral Barotropic Model, MSc thesis.

Links

• Marc Olef's Arctic weblog