Finished M.Sc. Theses

  • Topic/Title: Climate monitoring of troposphere and stratosphere thicknesses based on GNSS radio occultation
    M.Sc. thesis of F. Lippl (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2020 (co-supervision F. Ladstädter)

  • Topic/Title: Climate Change and Droughts: Effects on Migration within African
    M.Sc. thesis of C.-A. Achberger (WegCenter & Curr. Global Studies, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2020 (co-supervision S. Borsky)

  • Topic/Title: Improving WegenerNet temperature data products by advancing lapse rate and grid construction algorithms
    M.Sc. thesis of T. Hocking (WegCenter & JMP Sustainable Development, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2020 (co-supervision J. Fuchsberger)

  • Topic/Title: Lower carbon mobility: towards more sustainable international scientific travel of Wegener Center and beyond
    M.Sc. thesis of S. Hölbling (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2020 (co-supervision J. Mayer)

  • Topic/Title: Quality control and evaluation for atmospheric profiles from GNSS radio occultation reference processing
    M.Sc. thesis of V. Seidl (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz, and Tech. Physics, TU Graz)
    Status: Finished 2018 (co-supervision V. Proschek)
  • Topic/Title: Analysis and homogenization of WegenerNet temperature and humidity data and quality evaluation for climate trend studies
    M.Sc. thesis of S. Ebner (WegCenter & IVWL, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2017 (co-supervision J. Fuchsberger)
  • Topic/Title: Low Earth Orbit determination for GNSS radio occultation with aspects of uncertainty estimation
    M.Sc. thesis of C. Pock (WegCenter, Univ. of Graz, and Inst. of Geodesy, TU Graz)
    Status: Finished 2015 (co-supervision T. Mayer-Guerr, TU Graz)
     
  • Topic/Title: Evaluation of the climate utility of radio occultation data in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere
    M.Sc. thesis of J. Innerkofler (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2015 (co-supervision M. Schwärz)
     
  • Topic/Title: Jüngere Klimageschichte im Alpenraum von 1500 bis Heute (Recent climate history in the Alpine Region from 1500 to present)
    M.Sc. thesis of E. Bytyci (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2014 (co-supervision U. Foelsche)
     
  • Topic/Title: Escape of volatiles and water inventories from planetary embryos and exomoons
    M.Sc. thesis of S.C. Schiefer (Inst. f. Weltraumforschung-IWF Graz, ÖAW, and WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2014 (supervised together with H. Lammer/IWF Graz)
     
  • Topic/Title: Climate-quality processing of radio occultation data: refractivity and atmospheric profiles retrieval and numerical error estimation
    M.Sc. thesis of D. Gruber (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2014 (co-supervision J. Fritzer)
     
  • Topic/Title: lmproved quality control for the WegenerNet and demonstration for selected weather events and climate
    M.Sc. thesis of D. Scheidl (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2014 (co-supervision J. Fuchsberger)
     
  • Topic/Title: Analysis of WegenerNet precipitation data and quality evaluation for case studies and climatologies
    M.Sc. thesis of K. Szeberenyi (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2014 (co-supervision J. Fuchsberger)
     
  • Topic/Title: Atmospheric wind profiling based on infrared-laser occultation between Low Earth Orbit satellites
    M.Sc. thesis of A. Plach (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2013 (co-supervision V. Proschek)
     
  • Topic/Title: Air-sea gas exchange of CO2 and O2 under climate change
    M.Sc. thesis of P. Landschützer (WegCenter, Univ. of Graz, and Geophysical Inst. & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Norway)
    Status: Finished 2011 (supervised together with C. Heinze/Univ. of Bergen)
     
  • Topic/Title: Der Vergleich von Atmosphärenprofilen mit einem Inter-Validierungssystem und dessen Anwendung auf Radiookkultations- und Radiosondendaten
    M.Sc. thesis of M. Goger (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2011 (co-supervision A.K. Steiner)
     
  • Topic/Title: ACCURATE: Performance analysis and Absorption simulations for the ESA-IRDAS-EXP demonstration experiment
    M.Sc. thesis of C. Zwanziger (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2010
     
  • Topic/Title: Modeling oxygen isotopes in polythermal ice sheets
    M.Sc. thesis of T. Gölles (WegCenter, Univ. of Graz, and AWI Bremerhaven, Germany)
    Status: Finished 2010 (supervised together with G. Lohmann/AWI Bremerhaven)
     
  • Topic/Title: Extreme Klima- und Wetterereignisse in der Region Südoststeiermark
    M.Sc. thesis of A. Biedermann (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2010 (co-supervision A. Gobiet)
     
  • Topic/Title: Untersuchung der Langzeitstabilität des Abtastfehlers von CHAMP Radiookkultationsmessungen 2001-2008
    M.Sc. thesis of C. Suppan (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2010 (co-supervision U. Foelsche and B. Pirscher)
     
  • Topic/Title: Climate trends and variability over the IPCC+ regions
    M.Sc. thesis of I. Thaler (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz, and Tech. Physics, TU Graz)
    Status: Finished 2009 (co-supervision U. Foelsche and A.K. Steiner)
     
  • Topic/Title: Scale-sensitive analysis of regional climate models
    M.Sc. thesis of K.L. Kapper (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz, and Tech. Physics, TU Graz)
    Status: Finished 2009 (co-supervision A. Gobiet)
     
  • Topic/Title: Räumlich hochaufgelöste Klimatologien von Starkregenereignissen in der Oststeiermark einschließlich der Fokusregion WegenerNet
    M.Sc. thesis of A. Wallner (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2008 (co-supervision A. Gobiet)
     
  • Topic/'Title: Validation of MSU tropospheric and stratospheric temperature records with GPS radio occultation climatologies
    M.Sc. thesis of T. Schöngassner (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2008 (co-supervision A.K. Steiner)
     
  • Topic/Title: Evaluierung von Schneeparametern in regionalen Klimasimulationen für den Alpenraum mittels Satellitendaten
    M.Sc. thesis of C. Krasser (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2008 (co-supervision A. Gobiet)
     
  • Topic/Title: Evaluierung von Wolkenparametern in Klimasimulationen für den Alpenraum mit Fernmessdaten von Satelliten
    M.Sc. thesis of T. Sinkovic (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2008 (co-supervision A. Gobiet)
     
  • Topic/Title: Klimawandel und Trockengefährdung in der Landwirtschaft: Eine Analyse für die Steiermark
    M.Sc. thesis of G. Heinrich (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2007 (co-supervision A. Gobiet)
     
  • Topic/Title: Evaluierung eines hochaufgelösten regionalen Klimamodells im Alpenraum
    M.Sc. thesis of A. Riegler (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2007 (co-supervision A. Gobiet)
     
  • Topic/Title: Bauernregeln wissenschaftlich betrachtet: Untersuchung empirischer Witterungs- und Klimaregeln in den Regionen Oststeiermark und Graz
    M.Sc. thesis of M. Moser (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2006 (co-supervision U. Foelsche)
     
  • Topic/Title: Abschätzung von Sedimentmächtigkeiten in der FRAM Straße aus magnetischen Daten mit Hilfe der Werner-Dekonvolution
    M.Sc. thesis of V.T. Leinweber (IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2006 (supervised together with R. Leitinger)
     
  • Topic/Title: Downscaling of temperature and precipation in the alpine region Hohe Tauern
    M.Sc. thesis of M. Themessl (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2005 (co-supervision A. Gobiet)
     
  • Topic/Title: Das Klima in Südostösterreich 1961-2004: Die alpine Region Hohe Tauern und die Region Südoststeiermark im Vergleich
    M.Sc. thesis of T. Kabas (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2005 (co-supervision U. Foelsche)
     
  • Topic/Title: Exospheric temperature estimation and atmospheric loss: a comparative study of Mars and Venus
    M.Sc. thesis of S. Kazeminejad (IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2005 (co-supervision H. Lammer, Inst. of Space Research/Austrian Acad. of Sciences, Graz)
     
  • Topic/Title: Climate diagnostics in radio occultation temperature climatologies of CHAMP and ECMWF
    M.Sc. thesis of B.C. Lackner (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz), written together with B. Pirscher
    Status: Finished 2005
     
  • Topic/Title: Climate diagnostics in radio occultation temperature climatologies of CHAMP and ECMWF
    M.Sc. thesis of B. Pirscher (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz), written together with B.C. Lackner
    Status: Finished 2005
     
  • Topic/Title: Klimaschutz und bessere Luftgüte durch erneuerbare Energien: Fallbeispiel Fernwärme der Stadt Lienz
    M.Sc. thesis of F. Papsch (WegCenter & IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2005
     
  • Topic/Title: Langwellenstrahlungstransfer in der Atmosphäre und seine Sensitivität zu Änderungen der Wasserdampfkonzentration
    M.Sc. thesis of M. Pock (IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2004
     
  • Topic/Title: Atmosphere and Climate Explorer mission ACE+: Humidity and temperature retrieval performance analysis
    M.Sc. thesis of S. Schweitzer (IGAM/IP, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 2004
     
  • Topic/Title: Variational analysis of meteorological profiling data
    M.Sc. thesis of A. Fischer (Inst. Meteorol. Geophys.-IMG, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 1999
     
  • Topic/Title: Interferometric sounding in the Infrared – The instrument IASI and its potential for atmospheric remote sensing
    M.Sc. thesis of S. Hiebler (Inst. Meteorol. Geophys.-IMG, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 1998
     
  • Topic/Title: Kalman-Filter analysis of meteorological profiling data
    M.Sc. thesis of E. Weisz (Inst. Meteorol. Geophys.-IMG, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 1998
     
  • Topic/Title: Das Refraktivitätsfeld der unteren Atmosphäre: Physikalische Grundlagen und ein globaler Überblick im Radiofrequenzbereich (The refractivity field of the lower atmosphere: Physical background and a global overview in the RF range)
    M.Sc. thesis of J. Hafner (Inst. Meteorol. Geophys.-IMG, Univ. of Graz)
    Status: Finished 1997 [co-supervised; main supervisor R. Leitinger]
     
  • Topic/Title: Untersuchungen von Schwerewellen mit dem Clark-Modell und Vergleich mit EISCAT-Daten (Investigation of Gravity Waves using the Clark-model and comparison with EISCAT data)
    M.Sc. thesis of K. Wuttke (Univ. of Göttingen; performed at MPI for Aeronomy, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany).
    Status: Finished 1994 [co-supervised; main supervisor K. Schlegel/MPI for Aeronomy]
     
  • Topic/Title: Absolute absorption cross sections of ozone in the 10µm region under tropospheric conditions
    M.Sc. thesis of T. Leutschacher (Univ. of Graz; performed at DLR Inst. for Optoelectronics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany).
    Status: Finished 1994 [co-supervised]
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