Olivia Romppainen-Martius

Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
ETH Zürich

CHN M12.3
CH-8092 Zürich
+41 44 633 27 49

olivia@env.ethz.ch

Postdoc in the dynamical meteorology group of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, IACETH and studies coordinator for the master programme in Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH.

Research Field
  • Dynamics of short-term climate variation and the inter-scale linkage to mesoscale extreme events
  • PV-Streamers and Rossby-wave breaking 
  • Extra tropical wave-guides
  • Forecasting of extreme events

Publications
  • Blocking precursors to stratospheric warming events, O.Martius, L.M. Polvani and H.C. Davies,Geophys. Res. Lett.doi:10.1029/2009GL038776,L14806,2009 PDF
  • Downstream development and Kona low genesis, R.W.Moore,O.Martius and H.C. Davies,Geophys. Res. Lett.doi:10.1029/2008GL035502,2008 PDF
  • Far-upstream Precursors of Precipitation Events on the Alpine South-side, O.Martius, C.Schwierz and H.C. Davies,Q.J.R.Meteorol. Soc. 134,417-428,2008 PDF
  • Linkage of Atmospheric Blocks and Synoptic-scale Rossby Waves, A. Altenhoff, O.Martius, M.Croci-Maspoli, C.Schwierz and H.C. Davies, Tellus, 60A,1053-1063,2008 PDF
  • Long-term trends of synoptic-scale breaking Rossby waves in the northern hemisphere between 1958 and 2001, F.Isotta, O.Martius, C.Schwierz and M. Sprenger, Int. J. Clim,28,1551-1562,2008 PDF
  • Dynamical tropopause variability and potential vorticity streamers - a climatological analysis. O.Martius, C.Schwierz and M. Sprenger, Adv. Atm. Sci.,25,367-379,2008 PDF
  • Breaking waves at the Tropopause in the wintertime Northern Hemisphere: Climatological analyses of the orientation and the theoretical LC1/2 classifiaction, O. Martius, C. Schwierz and H.C. Davies, J. Atmos. Sci.,64,2576-2592,2007 PDF
  • Synoptic-scale weather patterns during Alpine heavy rain events, K.P.Hoinka, C.Schwierz and O. Martius, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc.,132 (621), 2853-2860, Part B Oct 2006, PDF
  • A refined Hovmoeller Diagram, O. Martius, C. Schwierz and H.C. Davies, Tellus, 2 (58), 221-226, 2006, PDF
  • Episodes of Alpine heavy precipitation with an overlying elongated stratospheric intrusion: A climatology, O. Martius, E. Zenklusen, C. Schwierz and H.C. Davies, Int. J. Clim.,26 (9) ,1149-1164, 2006, PDF
  • Climatological Aspects of wave disturbances on the tropopause and links to extreme weather in Europe, O. Martius, Diss. ETH No. 16152
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  • Tracing troposphere-to-stratosphere transport above a mid-latitude deep convective system, M.I.Hegglin, D.Brunner, H. Wernli, C. Schwierz, O. Martius, P. Hoor, H. Fischer, U. Parchatka, N. Spelten, C. Schiller, M. Kresbach, U. Weers, J. Staehlin and T. Peter, 2004, Atm. Chem. Phys. 4, 714-756, PDF
  • Implementing a View Factor approach into an Energy Balance Model for Snow Covered Alpine Terrain, Diploma Thesis ETHZ, April 2002

 

Early morning and afternoon views of Zurich from my office