Lorenzo Ramella-Pralungo was employed as scientist at our department from late 2009 until early 2014, funded by FWF and EU projects. He also led exercise courses in Programming and Ensemble Forecasting. His work is documented in the three papers below, which also comprised his cumulative dissertation. His work contributed substantially to the availability of upper air wind data for climate change research. He used the data also himself to corroborate the tropical upper tropospheric warming maxium and to detect several inconsistencies in the global upper air wind records. We sincerely contratulate him to his work.
Since a year he has successfully been working for an international energy trading firm in Lugano. We wish him all the best for his future work.
- Ramella-Pralungo, L.R., Haimberger, L., Stickler, A., Brönnimann, S., 2014: A global radiosonde and tracked balloon archive on 16 pressure levels (GRASP) back to 1905 - Part 1: Merging and interpolation to 00:00 and 12:00 GMT. Earth System Science Data, 6, 185-200.
- Ramella-Pralungo, L. and Haimberger, L. (2014a). A global radiosonde and tracked balloon archive on 16 pressure levels (grasp) back to 1905: part II: Homogeneity adjustments for pilot and radiosonde wind data. ESSD, 6:297–316. doi:10.5194/essd-6-297-2014.
- Ramella-Pralungo, L. and Haimberger, L. (2014b). New estimates of tropical mean temperature trend profiles from zonal mean historical radiosonde and pilot balloon wind shear observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, accepted.