Climatology

The departement of climatology consists of the two groups CLIMATE and ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS.

Group CLIMATE deals with a wide range of questions relating to the terrestrial climate system and the associated subsystems of the geosphere.

Group ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS focusses on various questions in periglacial and glacial geosystems in alpine and arctic regions as well as the soil hydrology of forests in Lower Franconia.

Secretariat

Daniela Wolf
Room 132

Tel.: +49 931 31-87510
E-Mail: l-geoklima@uni-wuerzburg.de

Address

Departement of Climatology
Institute of Geography und Geology
Am Hubland
97074 Wuerzburg
Germany

Campus Hubland South
Geography Building

Research

One focus of the research of group CLIMATE is on anthropogenic climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. The team is working intensively on the further development of regional and global climate models as well as statistical methods for the detection and attribution of climate variations and events that are presumably linked to human activities. In addition, there are measurement procedures in urban climate research.

Applied methods of the ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS group include near-surface geophysics, temperature and soil moisture measurements, pedological and geomorphological mapping as well as GIS-based analysis of field data and remotely sensed data in order to deduce conceptual models for the landscape evolution under changing environmental conditions.

News

Lecture at "klima.fit - Climate change on your doorstep! What can I do?"

As part of the course "klima.fit - Climate change on your doorstep! What can I do?" at the adult education centre Volkshochschule Würzburg & Umgebung e.V. Dr Luzia Keupp from our working group gave an insight on 14 May 2024 on

the expected effects of climate change in the Würzburg region.

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New publication in Theoretical and Applied Climatology

We have a new publication in Theoretical and Applied Climatology: Rai et al. (2024) are the first who investigated how different temperature- and precipitation-based climate indices will change under the influence of climate change by using data from CORDEX-CORE instead of the older CORDEX-CAS-44 data or solely a single simulation.

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