PD Dr. Mathias Rotach

Senior scientist and lecturer
Head Boundary Layer Group

Office UZI J80
Phone +41 1 635 5222
rotach@geo.umnw.ethz.ch


Research Fields:


Boundary Layer Meteorology
*Urban turbulence structure
*Inhomogeneous surfaces and footprint modelling
*Turbulence and exchange in complex topography
*Stable boundary layer

Air Pollution Modeling
*Lagrangian particle modelling
*Urban-scale dispersion modelling

Publications:
*List of publications

Courses I teach:

- Introduction in Climatology and Hydrology I: Climatology
- Boundary Layer Meteorology
- Applied Climatology: Air Pollution Modelling
- Field Course in Climate Science
- Experiment in Climatology and Hydrology
- Field Course (lab) for the 'System Atmosphere'

If you are interested in details of the courses for the current semester click here (in German)
Other Research Related Sites:

The Mesoscale Alpine Programme [MAP]
Collaboration with Douw G. Steyn (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Roland Vogt (University of Basle) and Giovanni Graziani (European Joint Research Centre, Ispra) in our joint MAP-Riviera project .

COST 715 [Meteorology applied to urban air pollution]
Collaboration with many institutions and inviduals, to be found on the homepage of Working Group 1 on the urban wind field.
See also the homepage of the Swiss research project within COST715, BUBBLE .

TRAPOS
Visit the homepage to see who is involved in this European network for Training and Mobility [TMR] and what we do there.

Other people I work with:
H.P. Schmid and Sue Grimmond, at Indiana University, Indiana
Sven-Erik Gryning at the Wind Energy and Atmospheric Physics Department of Risų National Laboratory, Denmark
Peter de Haan at INFRAS
Patrice Mestayer , at Ecole Centrale Nantes, France
Evgeni Fedorovich , at the School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
Andreas Stohl , Technical University of Munich


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1 June 2001