Staff: GFZ

Dr. Torsten Schmidt

Group Leader

Dr. Torsten Schmidt

1.1 Space Geodetic Techniques

+49 331 6264-1743 Email

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Building A 17, Room 20.08 (Büro)

Telegrafenberg

14473 Potsdam

Publications:

Please follow my account at Web of Science with the publication list and some additional information (H index, collaboration networks, etc.) or ORCID.

PhD mentoring:

Maryam Ramezani Ziarani, Characterization of atmospheric processes related to hydro-meteorological extreme events over the south-central Andes, Universität Potsdam, 2015-2020
Antonia Faber, Gravity wave analysis with GPS radio occultation data from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC, Freie Universität Berlin, 2009-2013, [Link]

Master mentoring:

Ahmed Abdelgadir: Integrated water vapor data from different sources (radiometer, GNSS, models), Technische Universität Berlin, since 2024
Jhnyaneshwari G. Balaramaiah (Kusum): Climatological analysis of GPS radio occultation data with focus on sampling error, Technische Universität Berlin, 2021-2022
Büsra Korkmaz: Evaluation of ground based water vapor observations from global navigation satellite system and microwave radiometers, Technische Universität Berlin, 2019-2020
Linda Nakhulo Ochwada: Location analysis of potential high altitude wind power in Germany, Technische Universität Berlin, 2017-2018

Bachelor mentoring:

Lena Schoon, Characteristic temperature anomalies in the UTLS from GPS radio occultation data (in German), Freie Universität Berlin, 2013
Peter Voß, An automatic software system for the statistically evaluation of radio occultation data and additional meteorological model data (in German), University of Applied Sciences, Neubrandenburg, 2008

Working areas:

Atmospheric physics, climatology
Radio occultations: retrieval development and data processing
Application of radio occultation data
- Temperature monitoring of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (5-40 km)
- Structure and variability of the tropopause
- Gravity wave analysis
Development, design and support of operational data prozessing systems for radio occultation data of different satellite missions (CHAMP, GRACE, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, GRACE-FO)
Operation of microwave radiometer for the estimation of atmospheric parameters (e.g. water vapour)

1991-1996: Project scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

1991-1993: Station leader of the German Koldewey station in Ny-Aalesund (Spitsbergen, Norway)

1995/96: Meteorologist of the wintering team at the German Neumayer station (Antarctica)

1996-1998: Project scientist at the Institute for Meteorology at the University of Leipzig, Germany

1998-1999: Project scientist at the Institute for Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen, Germany

Last 5 years:

Co-PI of the project "Characterization of atmospheric processes related to hydro-meteorological extreme events over the south-central Andes" within the International Research Training Group StRATEGy at the University of Potsdam (2015-2020) funded by the DFG

Older (selected):

PI of the BMBF project AGWOM (Atmospheric Gravity Waves: Observation and Modeling) in cooperation with the University of Leipzig and the Austral University Buenos Aires (2014-2018)

Mass transport: Improved DE-ALiasing for Gravity Field Modelling with GRACE (IDEAL-GRACE), 2006-2009

Geo-technology: Provision and usage of global atmospheric data from CHAMP and GRACE in near-real time (NRT‐RO), 2005-2008

CAWSES I: Gravity wave coupling processes and their decadal variation (GW-CODE), 2005-2008