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Lecture Series (no longer running)

In the TR32 Lecture Series, the diverse themes of the research carried out within the collaborative research centre were introduced by the principal investigators. The lectures were primarily organised for the doctoral students who are members of TR32's Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG), but they were open to all.

In summer 2013, the Lecture Series was replaced by Research Training Days: full-day training events on TR32-related topics.

Schedule TR32 Lecture Series
Date:
Venue:
Time:
Speaker & Subject:

Fr

17.05.2013

Bonn, Meteorological Institute, Auf dem Hügel 20, 53121 Bonn
Hörsaal
13:30 - 14:30

Carsten Burstedde

The finite-element method and its applications in geophysics

     
    14:30 - 15:30

Stefan Kollet

Theoretical principles of transfer of moisture, energy and momentum between the subsurface and the atmosphere

  PC Room 15:30 - 17:00 Introduction to the TR32 modeling platform TerrSysMP

Fr

19.04.2013

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Jülich Supercomputing Center, Building 16.3, Room 004 (Ground floor)

 

09:30 - 11:00

Björn Waske & Uwe Rascher

Remote Sensing Day

Lectures

  Directions:  
 

http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN/AboutUs/Anfahrt/anfahrt_node.html

11:00 - 14:30 Exercises
     
    14:30 - 16:00

Site visits JOYCE (Jülich ObservatorY for Cloud Evolution) and Greenhouses


Fr

13.07.2012

Köln

Seminar Room, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, Kerpener Str. 13, D-50937 Köln

Map
12:30 - 13:45

Bernhard Blümich

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)

for presentation: see TR32DB

     
    14:00 - 15:15

Karl Schneider

Land-surface processes

for presentation: see TR32DB


Fr

29.06.2012

Köln, Kastanienhof, Statthalterhofweg 70, 50858 Köln

09:30 - 10:45

 

Christoph Clauser

General geophysics

for presentation: see TR32DB

(morning of Geoverbund ABC/J Sommerfest)
    11:00 - 12:15

Wulf Amelung

Soil organic chemistry

for presentation: see TR32DB

     
    12:30 - 14:00

IRTG 2nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

including lunch


Fr

22.06.2012

Bonn!!!
Meteorological Institute, Auf dem Hügel 20, 53121 Bonn
Hörsaal
 

Electrical and electromagnetic methods for hydrogeophysical applications

Andreas Kemna

Part 1: Resistivity and induced polarization methods

for presentation: see TR32DB

 
(afternoon of TR32 General Meeting)  
     

Jan van der Kruk

Part 2: Electromagnetic induction and ground-penetrating radar methods

for presentation: see TR32DB
     
     

Van der Kruk & Kemna with students

Part 3: Discussion based on selected case histories

Main hydrogeophysical applications and methodological challenges

Fr

25.05.2012

Köln
Hörsaalgebäude,

Hörsaal E,

Universitätsstr. 35
50931 Köln

09:30


 

Hendrik Elbern

Data assimilation principles

Data assimilation combines all available information from observations, remote sensing measurements, the model, and other statistical data, to produce an optimally estimated "analysis", preferably with error bars.
The lecture will provide first motivation and fundamental basics of data assimilation, the meaning of "optimal", the relation to Inverse Modelling, and then an overview of popular approaches.
Finally, a view on today's state-of-the-art four-dimensional variational approach, the ensemble Kalman filter will be given.
The presentation aims to serve as a help for identifying the suitable data assimilation algorithm for own purposes.

for presentation: see TR32DB

     
    10:30

Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen

Data assimilation in hydrology

The second hour will focus on data assimilation methods in hydrology. The main uncertainties that affect hydrological predictions will be listed and discussed and it will be clarified how (sequential) data assimilation methods are therefore adapted to optimally handle these uncertainty sources.

A focus will be on parameter estimation in the context of sequential data assimilation methods. Also a few examples will be given.

for presentation: see TR32DB

    11:30 to 12:30 Exercises

Fr

10.02.2012

Aachen

Room 0024 of E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University

09:30 to 10:40

Georg Bareth

Geoinformatics (Lecture and discussion)

The core idea of the presentation is to introduce (i) the definition of Geoinformatics, (ii) basic concepts, and (iii) all day applications. Additionally, ongoing project activities (e.g. TR32DB) will be explained as case studies.

(morning of TR32 General Meeting)
    10:50 to 12:00

Heye Bogena

Environmental monitoring (Lecture and discussion)

In the presentation the environmental monitoring concept of the TERENO will be described. The Wüstebach research station is taken as an example to illustrate the potential of intensive hydrologic monitoring for process analysis at the subcatchment scale.

for presentation: see TR32DB

Fr

27.01.2012

Bonn University

Meckenheimer Allee 176; Room 0.005

09:30

Michael Herbst

Geostatistics

The first lecture is focused on basic multivariate geostatistics. Three major problem areas of geostatistics will be addressed: quantifying spatial variability (variograms), multivariate spatial interpolation (kriging), and stochastic simulation.
for presentation: see TR32DB
Basic literature is available from m.herbst@fz-juelich.de
     
    10:45

Bernd Diekkrüger

Patterns in Hydrology

The second lecture will focus on patterns, processes and functions in catchment hydrology. Besides description, analysis and modelling of patterns, scale dependencies in space and time will be discussed.

for presentation: see TR32DB
Further reading is available for download: icon_pdf Unified Theory; icon_pdf Spatial Patterns [check links]
   

12:00 to 13:00

TR32 Seminar

Anja Stadler (Bonn)

    13:00 to 13:45

Lunch break

(Lunch not provided)

    13:45 to 15:30

Exercises


Fr
13.01.2012
Köln
Seminar room Kerpener Straße 13
09:30

Yaping Shao

Large eddy modeling of atmosphere and land surface interaction

This lecture provides a general description of turbulence and turbulent transfer. The turbulent kinetic energy equation and the turbulent energy spectrum will be explained. The concept of large eddy and large eddy modeling will be introduced. Examples of large eddy modeling will be given.

for presentation: see TR32DB

     
    11:00

Jan Vanderborght

Inverse Modelling

In this lecture I will briefly give the concept of inverse modelling, the definition of an objective function, multi-objective versus single objective optimisation, and local versus global optimisation. After introducing the concepts and definitions, an often used local optimisation procedure and its similarities with linear regression will be presented. Finally, the uncertainty of the inversely estimated parameters will be discussed.

for presentation: see TR32DB


Fr
09.12.2011
Bonn University
Meteorological Institute
Hörsaal
09:30

Uwe Rascher
Photosynthesis: from light to biomass, part 1

This lecture introduces some of the phenomena that lie at the basis of photosynthesis: light as an electromagnetic wave; light absorption in plant pigments; charge separation in the photosystem and provision of enery-rich chemical bonds. Methodological hyperspectral and fluorescence techniques are introduced and their potential to quantify the functional status of photosynthetic charge separation is discussed.

for presentation: see TR32DB

 
    10:30

Frank Ewert
Photosynthesis: from light to biomass, part 2

This lecture concentrates on carbon dioxide fixation, evaporation, biomass allocation and respiration. Further, photosynthesis at the leaf vs. the canopy level and biomass prediction models are addressed.

for presentation: see TR32DB


Fr 04.11.2011 Bonn University
Meteorological Institute
Hörsaal
10:30

Andreas Bott
Atmospheric modelling

for presentation: see TR32DB

     
    13:30

Clemens Simmer
Introduction to meteorology

for presentation: see TR32DB


Fr
28.10.2011

FZ Jülich
Seminar room 249

in Building 15.1 (Entrance E2)

 

09:30 Lutz Weihermüller
Theory of flow of water in soils
This lecture covers the principles of water flow in soils. We will briefly cover: soil as a three-phase system, capillarity and matric potential, saturated and unsaturated flow equation, and parameterization of unsaturated flow models.
for presentation: see TR32DB
 
    10:30 Sander Huisman
Soil hydrological measurements for unsaturated water flow
This lecture discusses the toolkit of a vadose zone hydrologist for investigating unsaturated flow. We will briefly discuss the measurement principle of tensiometers and common soil water content sensors. The limitations of these local scale measurements will be discussed, and the need for alternative measurement strategies will be made clear. Next, remote sensing, wireless sensor networks, cosmic ray neutron probes and hydrogeophysical measurements will be briefly introduced and the potential and drawbacks to investigate unsaturated water flow will be discussed.
for presentation: see TR32DB

Mo
29.08.2011
Bonn University
Meteorological Institute
Hörsaal

09:30

Susanne Crewell
An Introduction to TR32: Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 32 "Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Systems: Monitoring, Modelling and Data Assimilation" was initiated in 2007. Its main hypothesis is that a better understanding of the exchange mechanisms between the different compartments of the Earth system can be gained from pattern analysis. This lecture provides an overview of the main achievements and conclusions of the first funding phase and looks ahead to the main research questions and challenges for the second funding phase, which started at the beginning of 2011.

for presentation: see TR32DB

   
     
    10:30

Stefan Kollet
Simulation of terrestrial systems

Simulation of terrestrial systems involves the understanding and mathematical representation of the coupled mass, energy and momentum balances from the subsurface across the land surface into the atmosphere and vice versa. The objective is to treat the terrestrial system in an integrated fashion instead of simulating each compartment (e.g., the subsurface and atmosphere) separately. In this endeavor, we are facing natural interfaces, which are characterized by complex physical and chemical processes that must be accounted for in the simulations. Starting in the subsurface, we will take a journey and will work our way up toward the atmosphere traversing interfaces, such as the free groundwater table; the interface between groundwater and surface water; and the land surface with turbulent transfer of mass, energy and momentum into the lower atmosphere. Along our way, we will learn about the basic theoretical concepts of simulating the terrestrial system in an integrated fashion and, maybe even more important, we will gain understanding of the major simplifying assumptions and uncertainties involved.

Precipitation radar Uni Bonn

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