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.
