Dr. Blaž Gasparini, MSc ETH
Winter term 2024
280370 SE Paper Club II
Summer term 2024
Winter term 2023
280370 SE Paper Club II


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). https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0217.1



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


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

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

Blaž Gasparini (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

Blaž Gasparini (Invited speaker), Peter N. Blossey (Contributor), Rachel Atlas (Contributor) & Aiko Voigt (Contributor)

11 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Blaž Gasparini (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

Blaž Gasparini (Invited speaker)

19 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Blaž Gasparini (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?

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

5 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Blaž Gasparini (Keynote speaker)

15 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Solar geoengineering: Why, how & what if?

Blaž Gasparini (Invited speaker)

5 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker), Peter N. Blossey (Contributor), Aiko Voigt (Contributor), Rachel Atlas (Contributor) & Martina Krämer (Contributor)

17 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


And what if we were to turn down the sun?

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

25 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mit Geoengineering am Klima schrauben?

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

15 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


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

Blaž Gasparini (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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker), Aiko Voigt (Contributor), Giulio Mandorli (Contributor) & Claudia Stubenrauch (Contributor)

10 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Solar geoengineering: the knowns and unknowns

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

28 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Can cirrus cloud thinning substantially counteract global warming?

Blaž Gasparini (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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker) & Aiko Voigt (Contributor)

19 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tweaking the climate with geoengineering?

Blaž Gasparini (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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker), Aiko Voigt (Contributor), Giulio Mandorli (Contributor) & Claudia Stubenrauch (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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker), Aiko Voigt (Contributor), Giulio Mandorli (Contributor) & Claudia Stubenrauch (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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker), Aiko Voigt (Contributor), Giulio Mandorli (Contributor) & Claudia Stubenrauch (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?

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

22 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Modeling of the TTL and the TTL clouds across different climates

Blaž Gasparini (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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

24 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


SST-driven changes in cloud radiative heating in RCEMIP models

Blaž Gasparini (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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

28 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From ice crystals to climate: clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

24 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From ice crystals to climate: clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker), Aiko Voigt (Contributor), Dennis L. Hartmann (Contributor) & Peter N. Blossey (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

Blaž Gasparini (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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker) & Aiko Voigt (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

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

25 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Clouds and climate

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

21 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


From ice crystals to climate: clearing high clouds of uncertainty

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

2 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Will the future be more or less cloudy?

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

25 Nov 202126 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Can cirrus cloud seeding partially counteract global warming?

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

23 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Evolution of ice crystal number and radius in tropical anvil clouds

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

20 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Geoengineering Modeling Research Consortium lightning talks

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

4 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Presentation about weather and climate

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

19 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


A modeling perspective on anvil evolution differences between day and night

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

28 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Anvil cloud evolution in present and future climate

Blaž Gasparini (Speaker)

9 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of Meteorology and Geophysics

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1090 Wien
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blaz.gasparini@univie.ac.at