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

Inka Wilhelm
Room 228

Tel.: +49 931 31-85555
Fax: +49 931 31-85544
E-Mail: inka.wilhelm@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.