Current PhD projects:
- Leonie Villiger: Large-scale circulation drivers and stable water isotope characteristics of low-level clouds over the tropical North Atlantic - Heavy Cumuli, co-supervised with Heini Wernli, PhD student webpage.
- Fabienne Dahinden: Moisture transport pathways and isotopologues in water vapour in the subtropical North Atlantic - MOTIV, co-supervised with Stephan Pfahl and Heini Wernli, PhD student, webpage.
- Yafei Li: The importance of fog and dew for Swiss grasslands today and in the future - IFDewS, co-supervised with Werner Eugster and Nina Buchmann, PhD student, webpage.
PhD Theses:
- Iris Thurnherr: The effect of air-sea interaction and moist processes on the variability of stable water isotopologues in the marine boundary layer - observations and model studies, ETH Zuerich, 2016-2020, co-supervised with Heini Wernli, doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000448540, now Postdoc at University of Bergen, webpage.
- Juerg Trachsel: Microscale distribution of environmental proxies in snow - MISO, WSL-SLF and ETH Zuerich, 2016-2019, Chapter 4 co-supervised with Martin Schneebeli and Anja Eichler doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000387457, now specialist in avalanche prevention at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF, webpage.
Msc Theses:
- Sara Mueller: Diabatic processes associated with an extratropical dry intrusion reaching into the western North Atlantic trade wind region, ETH Zuerich, 2021, co-supervised with Maxi Boettcher and Leonie Villiger, ETH Zuerich, 2021, Msc Thesis.
- Janine Wetter: The stable water isotope structure of the July 2018 blocking event over the Eurasian Arctic, ETH Zuerich, 2021, Msc Thesis.
- Fluregna Schindler: Influence of post-depositional processes on the stable water isotopic composition in snow and air, co-supervised with Pirmin Ebner and Iris Thurnherr, ETH Zuerich, 2020, Msc Thesis.
- Larissa Ott: Evaluating the performance of weather forecasting models in predicting Mediterranean cyclones, co-supervised with Manos Flaounas (main supervisor), Msc Thesis.
- Katharina Hartmuth: The role of cold and warm air advection for the hydrological cycle in the South Indian Ocean, ETH Zuerich, 2019, co-supervised with Iris Thurnherr (main supervisor), Msc Thesis, now PhD student at ETH Zuerich.
- Lukas Jansing: Marine boundary layer stable water isotope variability in the Southern Ocean: an investigation using the regional COSMOiso model, ETH Zuerich, 2019, co-supervised with Fabienne Dahinden and Iris Thurnherr, Msc Thesis, now PhD student at ETH Zuerich.
- Emmanuel Rouges: Cold air outbreaks from Fram Strait into the Nordic Seas: characteristics and dynamical processes, ETH Zuerich, 2018, co-supervised with Lukas Papritz (main supervisor) and Heini Wernli, Msc Thesis, now PhD student at ECMWF Reading.
- Manuel Bischof: Synthetic Satellite Images from ECMWF Data, co-supervised with Harald Sodemann and Michael Sprenger, ETH Zuerich, 2011.
Bsc Theses:
- Fabian Pfister: Analysis of the stable water isotope signals during extratropical disturbances in the trades, ETH Zuerich, 2021, main supervision Leonie Villiger and Lukas Jansing.
- Barbara Schindler: Dynamische Vorläufer extremer Verdunstungsereignisse im westlichen Mittelmeer und deren Relevanz fuer Starkniederschlaege im Mittelmeerraum, ETH Zuerich, 2018, co-supervised with Iris Thurnherr.
- Christian Buechler: Air-sea interaction during a research cruise in the Atlantic Ocean, ETH Zuerich, 2018, co-supervised with Iris Thurnherr.
- Iris Thurnherr: Stable water isotope meteorology of two precipitation events in July 2011: An approach to disentangle effects of large scale dynamics and microphysical processes during precipitation
, co-supervised with Heini Wernli, ETH Zuerich, 2012.
- Pascal Graf: Measurements of high frequency variations of stable water isotopes in atmospheric water vapor: Calibration and response time of a Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer, co-supervised with Harald Sodemann and Heini Wernli, ETH Zuerich, 2011.
- Noemi Niedermann: Daily covariations in near‐surface relative humidity and temperature over the ocean , ETH Zuerich, 2010.
- Michele Lai: Feature-based Forecast Verification of a Tropical Cyclone, ETH Zuerich, 2010.