Research activities of Marc Wüest

Climatology / Hydrology

• Various natural catastrophe related work for Swiss Re including an in-house nat cat loss model.
  
• Decadal climate predictions in collaboration with MeteoSwiss und NCCR Climate 3rd phase (2010 - 2011).
• Drought-induced building damages from simulations at regional scale. 
• Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA 2009) and follow-up projects. Contribution of natural catastrophe modelling and adaptation measure impact via Swiss Re.
• Impact of climate change on natural catastrophes (tropical cyclones, European storms and droughts): This research work is tied to my position at Swiss Re.
• CH02H: Quantitative precipitation estimation by combining weather radar and rain gauge data.
  - climatology
  - reconstruction of MeteoSwiss radar data since 1987
  - real-time correction

Radar meteorology

• You better try this Google Earth file showing the 3D Lothar rain band at 26 Dec 1999, 1050 UTC.
• 3D Visualization of radar observations
• Supercell identification and hail (supercell) climatology
• Wind field retrieval from radar
• Dealiasing of Doppler velocity data from weather radars
• Investigation of different beam configurations of wind profilers

Precipitation and cloud physics

• Riming of ice partices and cloud dynamics

Field campaigns

• Analysis of multiple-Doppler radar data (AMDOP)
• Tiny snow gallery of AMDOP observations
• MAP participation
• MAP SOP in Macugnaga (Italy) and Innsbruck (Austria)
  
• MAP PreSOP in Locarno Switzerland