Dr. Blaž Gasparini, MSc ETH
Winter term 2025
280370 SE Paper Club II
280375 KU Specialisation
Summer term 2025
Winter term 2024
280370 SE Paper Club II
Gasparini, B., Atlas, R., Voigt, A., Krämer, M., & Blossey, P. N. (2025). Tropical cirrus evolution in a kilometer-scale model with improved ice microphysics. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(17), 9957-9979. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-9957-2025


McGraw, Z., Polvani, L. M., Gasparini, B., Koot, E. K. V. D., & Voigt, A. (2025). The Cloud Radiative Response to Surface Warming Weakens Hydrological Sensitivity. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(2), Article e2024GL112368. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112368

Gasparini, B., Mandorli, G., Stubenrauch, C., & Voigt, A. (2024). Basic Physics Predicts Stronger High Cloud Radiative Heating With Warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(24), Article e2024GL111228. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111228


Kärcher, B., Hoffmann, F., Podglajen, A., Hertzog, A., Pluogonven, R., Atlas, R., Corcos, M., Grabowski, W. W., & Gasparini, B. (2024). Effects of Turbulence on Upper-Tropospheric Ice Supersaturation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 81(9), 1589-1604. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0217.1

Haslehner, K., Gasparini, B., & Voigt, A. (2024). Radiative Heating of High-Level Clouds and Its Impacts on Climate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(12), Article e2024JD040850. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD040850

Gasparini, B., Sullivan, S. C., Sokol, A. B., Kärcher, B., Jensen, E., & Hartmann, D. L. (2023). Opinion: Tropical cirrus – from micro-scale processes to climate-scale impacts. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23(24), 15413-15444. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-15413-2023

Dinh, T., Gasparini, B., & Bellon, G. (2023). Clouds and Their Climatic Impacts: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation. In S. C. Sullivan, & C. Hoose (Eds.), Clouds and Their Climatic Impacts: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation (pp. 239-253). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119700357

Gasparini, B., Quante, M., & Lohmann, U. (2023). Ausdünnung der Cirrusbewölkung um dem Klimawandel entgegenzuwirken? In J. L. Lozán, H. Graßl, S.-W. Breckle, D. Kasang, & M. Quante (Eds.), WARNSIGNAL-KLIMA: Hilft Technik gegen die Erderwärmung?: Climate Engineering in der Diskussion (pp. 256-263). Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen in Kooperation mit GEO Magazin-Hamburg. https://doi.org/10.25592/warnsignal.klima.climate.engineering.39

Quante, M., Gasparini, B., & Belge, B. (2023). Vom Regenmachen zur Klimaintervention – Ein Blick auf die Ideen- und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Climate Engineering. In J. L. Lozán, H. Graßl, S.-W. Breckle, D. Kasang, & M. Quante (Eds.), WARNSIGNAL-KLIMA: Hilft Technik gegen die Erderwärmung?: Climate Engineering in der Diskussion (pp. 34-42). Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen in Kooperation mit GEO Magazin-Hamburg. https://doi.org/10.25592/warnsignal.klima.climate.engineering.05

Villanueva, D., Possner, A., Neubauer, D., Gasparini, B., Lohmann, U., & Tesche, M. (2022). Mixed-phase regime cloud thinning could help restore sea ice. Environmental Research Letters, 17(11), Article 114057. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aca16d

Gasparini, B., Sokol, A. B., Wall, C. J., Hartmann, D. L., & Blossey, P. N. (2022). Diurnal Differences in Tropical Maritime Anvil Cloud Evolution. Journal of Climate, 35(5), 1655-1677. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0211.1

Villanueva, D., Neubauer, D., Gasparini, B., Ickes, L., & Tegen, I. (2021). Constraining the Impact of Dust-Driven Droplet Freezing on Climate Using Cloud-Top-Phase Observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(11), Article e2021GL092687. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092687

Gasparini, B., Dütsch, M., Gorenc, T. (Ed.), Jósa, V., & Peloza, J. (2021, Jan). WTF is Climate Change?! Institute for Health and Environment. https://sustainaware.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/eng.pdf

High cloud not equal to high cloud: Origin and radiative effects of tropical cirrus

Gasparini, B. (Speaker), Atlas, R. (Contributor), Voigt, A. (Contributor), Krämer, M. (Contributor) & Blossey, P. N. (Contributor)

8 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


High clouds, high resolution to the rescue?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker), Voigt, A. (Contributor), Atlas, R. (Contributor) & Blossey, P. N. (Contributor)

20 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Anvil optical depth, small scale processes, and climate change

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

19 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Can clearing high sky water lead to a cooler world?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

1 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Small-scale processes in tropical cirrus: A key to their climate feedback?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker), Voigt, A. (Contributor), Stubenrauch, C. (Contributor) & Mandorli, G. (Contributor)

27 Mar 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


And what if we dim the sun? Aerosols, climate, and solar geoengineering

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

24 Mar 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How cirrus clouds influence the tropical tropopause layer and global climate

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

18 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Knowns and Unknowns of Cloud-Based Methods of Solar Geoengineering

Gasparini, B. (Invited speaker)

17 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Advancing process-based knowledge on tropical cirrus with the help of high-resolution models

Gasparini, B. (Invited speaker), Blossey, P. N. (Contributor), Atlas, R. (Contributor) & Voigt, A. (Contributor)

11 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Gasparini, B. (Invited speaker)

29 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


And what if we turn down the sun? From science to the ethics of solar geoengineering

Gasparini, B. (Invited speaker)

19 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


contribution during a performance walk

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

14 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Gasparini, B. (Keynote speaker)

9 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How could a warming climate impact the optical thickness of anvil clouds, and what processes could drive these changes?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

5 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Gasparini, B. (Keynote speaker)

15 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Solar geoengineering: Why, how & what if?

Gasparini, B. (Invited speaker)

5 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


And what if we turn down the sun? The knowns and unknowns of solar geoengineering

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

14 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


A passive tracer perspective on the origin and evolution of tropical cirrus clouds

Gasparini, B. (Speaker), Blossey, P. N. (Contributor), Voigt, A. (Contributor), Atlas, R. (Contributor) & Krämer, M. (Contributor)

17 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


And what if we were to turn down the sun?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

25 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mit Geoengineering am Klima schrauben?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

15 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Tropical cirrus: from large-scale controls to small-scale processes

Gasparini, B. (Invited speaker)

31 Jan 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


High cloud radiative heating increases with warming and can be predicted by simple physics

Gasparini, B. (Speaker), Voigt, A. (Contributor), Mandorli, G. (Contributor) & Stubenrauch, C. (Contributor)

10 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Solar geoengineering: the knowns and unknowns

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

28 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Can cirrus cloud thinning substantially counteract global warming?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

21 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The role of tropical anvil cloud radiative heating in present and in a warmer climate

Gasparini, B. (Speaker) & Voigt, A. (Contributor)

19 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tweaking the climate with geoengineering?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

31 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


High cloud radiative heating increases with warming and can be predicted by simple physics

Gasparini, B. (Speaker), Voigt, A. (Contributor), Mandorli, G. (Contributor) & Stubenrauch, C. (Contributor)

12 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


High cloud radiative heating increases with warming and can be predicted by simple physics

Gasparini, B. (Speaker), Voigt, A. (Contributor), Mandorli, G. (Contributor) & Stubenrauch, C. (Contributor)

2 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


High cloud radiative heating increases with warming and can be predicted by simple physics

Gasparini, B. (Speaker), Voigt, A. (Contributor), Mandorli, G. (Contributor) & Stubenrauch, C. (Contributor)

26 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Will the future be more or less cloudy and what does this mean for the climate?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

22 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Modeling of the TTL and the TTL clouds across different climates

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

29 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


SST-driven changes in cloud radiative heating in RCEMIP models and observations

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

24 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


SST-driven changes in cloud radiative heating in RCEMIP models

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

19 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns of cirrus cloud thinning research

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

28 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From ice crystals to climate: clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

24 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From ice crystals to climate: clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Gasparini, B. (Speaker), Voigt, A. (Contributor), Hartmann, D. L. (Contributor) & Blossey, P. N. (Contributor)

23 May 202227 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ice nucleation influences the anvil lifecycle and modulates the climate in RCE

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

23 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The importance of ice nucleation for climate sensitivity in radiative-convective equilibrium

Gasparini, B. (Speaker) & Voigt, A. (Contributor)

23 May 202227 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Modifications of weather and climate: from bell-ringing to geoengineering

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

25 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Clouds and climate

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

21 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


From ice crystals to climate: clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

2 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Will the future be more or less cloudy?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

25 Nov 202126 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Can cirrus cloud seeding partially counteract global warming?

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

23 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Evolution of ice crystal number and radius in tropical anvil clouds

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

20 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Geoengineering Modeling Research Consortium lightning talks

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

4 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Presentation about weather and climate

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

19 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


A modeling perspective on anvil evolution differences between day and night

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

28 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Anvil cloud evolution in present and future climate

Gasparini, B. (Speaker)

9 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of Meteorology and Geophysics

Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
1090 Wien
Room: 2G555

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blaz.gasparini@univie.ac.at