Dr. Brigitta Goger

Research area

• Numerical weather prediction and large-eddy simulations over complex terrain
• Mountain boundary layers
• Turbulence parameterization development
• Process-based model evaluation
• Atmosphere-cryosphere interactions

Selected Publications

(Full publication record, including preprints, at my ORCID page)

* Shared first authorship

• Goger, B. and Dipankar, A. (2024): The impact of mesh size, turbulence parameterization, and land-surface-exchange scheme on simulations of the mountain boundary layer in the hectometric range, In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 150/763, pp. 3853-3873 (DOI) 
• Voordendag*, A., Goger*, B., Prinz, R., Sauter, T., Mölg, T., Saigger, M., and Kaser, G. (2024): A novel framework to investigate wind-driven snow redistribution over an Alpine glacier: combination of high-resolution terrestrial laser scans and large-eddy simulations, In: The Cryosphere 18/2, pp. 849–868. (DOI)
• Goger, B.; Stiperski, I.; Nicholson, L.; Sauter, T. (2022): Large-eddy Simulations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over an Alpine Glacier: Impact of Synoptic Flow Direction and Governing Processes. In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 148/744, pp. 1319 - 1343 (DOI)
• Goger, B.; Rotach, M.; Gohm, A.; Stiperski, I.; Fuhrer, O.; de Morsier, Guy (2019): A New Horizontal Length Scale for a Three-dimensional Turbulence Parameterization in Meso-scale Atmospheric Modeling over Highly Complex Terrain. In: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 58/9, pp. 2087 - 2102. (DOI)
• Goger, B.; Rotach, M.W.; Gohm, A.; Fuhrer, O.; Stiperski, I.; Holtslag, A. (2018): The Impact of Three-Dimensional Effects on the Simulation of Turbulence Kinetic Energy in a Major Alpine Valley. In: Boundary-Layer Meteorology 168/1, pp. 1 - 27. (DOI)
• Rotach, M. W.; Stiperski, I.; Fuhrer, O.; Goger, B.; Gohm, A.; Obleitner, F.; Rau, G.; Sfyri, E.; Vergeiner, J. (2017): Investigating Exchange Processes over Complex Topography: the Innsbruck-Box (i-Box). In: Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society 98/4, pp. 787 - 805. (DOI)
• Goger, B.; Rotach, M.; Gohm, A.; Stiperski, I.; Fuhrer, O. (2016): Current challenges for numerical weather prediction in complex terrain: Topography representation and parameterizations. In: 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press., pp. 890 - 894. (DOI)
• Rosati, B.; Gysel, M.; Rubach, F.; Mentel, T. F.; Goger, B.; Poulain, L.; Schlag, P.; Miettinen, P.; Pajunoja, A.; Virtanen, A.; Klein Baltink, H.; Henzing, J. S. B.; Größ, J.; Gobbi, G. P.; Wiedensohler, A.; Kiendler-Scharr, A.; Decesari, S.; Facchini, M. C.; Weingartner, E.; Baltensperger, U. (2016): Vertical profiling of aerosol hygroscopic properties in the planetary boundary layer during the PEGASOS campaigns. In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16/11, pp. 7295 - 7315. (DOI)