Dr. Fred Meier

Career progression

• since April 2011 PostDoc in the Department of Ecology - Chair of Climatology
• March 2011: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.)
  Doctoral Thesis: "Thermal remote sensing of urban microclimates by means of time-sequential thermography."
Dissertation (pdf)
• Since October 2007: Research assistant in the Department of Ecology - Chair of Climatology
• September 2007: Dipl. Ing. Landscape Planning
  Diploma Thesis: "Spatial and temporal high-resolution thermography of urban surfaces in Berlin"
• August 2006 - September 2007 Student Assistant at the Chair of climatology
• Juli 2005 - Juli 2006 Exchange student in Santiago de Chile at
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Juli 2003 - Juni 2005 Student Assistant at the Chair of climatology
• Oktober 2000 - September 2007 Study of Landscape Planning at the TU-Berlin
• 1979 Born in Pritzwalk (Brandenburg)

Courses:

• WiSe 2008/2009 Supervision of the project for ecological orientation
  "Urban Greening for Urban Climate.
  Roof and facade greening in urban climate."
• SoSe 2008 Supervision of the project for ecological orientation
  "Good climate or boiling hot desert sand?
  Possible impact of predicted climate change on hydrologic balance in Westhavelland."
• WiSe 2007/2008 Supervision of the project for ecological orientation
  "Hydrological-limnological impact of climate change in the Greater Berlin area"

Area of research:

• Urban climate
• Thermal Remote Sensing
• Experimental Micrometeorology
• project member in Urban Climate Under Change [UC]²

Publication:

• Fenner, D., Meier, F., Bechtel, B., Otto, M. & D. Scherer (2017): Intra and inter local climate zone variability of air temperature as observed by crowdsourced citizen weather stations in Berlin, Germany. Meteorol. Z.. DOI: 10.1127/metz/2017/0861 Urban Climate
• Meier, F., Fenner, D., Grassmann,T., Otto, M. & D. Scherer (2017): Crowdsourcing air temperature from citizen weather stations for urban climate research. Urban Climate 19: 170-191. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2017.01.006 Urban Climate
• Buchin, O., Jänicke, B., Meier, F., Scherer, D. and F. Ziegler (2016): The role of building models in the evaluation of heat-related risks. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 963-976. DOI:10.5194/nhess-16-963-2016.
  Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.
• Jänicke, B., Meier, F., Lindberg, F., Schubert, S. and D. Scherer (2016): Towards city-wide, building-resolving analysis of mean radiant temperature. Urban Climate, 15: 83-98, DOI:10.1016/j.uclim.2015.11.003. UC
• Jänicke, B., F. Meier, D. Fenner, U. Fehrenbach, A. Holtmann, D. Scherer (2016): Urban-rural differences in near-surface air temperature as resolved by the Central Europe Refined analysis (CER): sensitivity to planetary boundary layer schemes and urban canopy models. International Journal of Climatology 37:(4), 2063-2079. DOI: 10.1002/joc.4835. Int.Jor.Climate
• Buchin, O., Hoelscher, M.-T., Meier, F., Nehls, T. and F. Ziegler (2015): Evaluation of the health-risk reduction potential of countermeasures to urban heat islands. Energy and Buildings. DOI:10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.06.038. EaB
• Burkart, K., Meier, F., Schneider, A., Breitner, S., Canário, P., Alcoforado, M. J., Scherer, D. and W. Endlicher (2015): Modification of Heat-Related Mortality in an Elderly Urban Population by Vegetation (Urban Green) and Proximity to Water (Urban Blue): Evidence from Lisbon, Portugal. Environmental Health Perspectives. DOI:10.1289/ehp.1409529. EHP
• Jänicke, B., Meier, F., Hoelscher, M.-T. & D. Scherer (2015): Evaluating the Effects of Facade Greening on Human Bioclimate in a Complex Urban Environment In: Advances in Meteorology Vol. 2015 (2015). DOI: 10.1155/2015/747259 AiM
• Walikewitz, N., Jänicke, B., Langner, M., Meier, F., W. Endlicher (2015): The difference between the mean radiant temperature and the air temperature within indoor environments: A case study during summer conditions. Building and Environment, 84, 151-161. DOI:10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.11.004. BaE
• Fenner, D., Meier, F., Scherer, D., A. Polze (2014): Spatial and temporal air temperature variability in Berlin, Germany, during the years 2001-2010. Urban Climate. DOI:10.1016/j.uclim.2014.02.004. UC
• Kim, K. R., Yi, C., Lee, J.-S., Meier, F., Jänicke, B., Fehrenbach, U., D. Scherer (2014): BioCAS: Biometeorological Climate impact Assessment System for building-scale impact assessment of heat-stress related mortality. Die Erde, 145(1), 62–79. DOI: 10.12854/erde-145-6. DIE ERDE
• Scherer, D., Fehrenbach, U., Lakes, T., Lauf, S., Meier, F., C. Schuster (2013): Quantification of heat-stress related mortality hazard, vulnerability and risk in Berlin, Germany. Die Erde, 144(3-4), 238-259. DOI: 10.12854/erde-144-17. DIE ERDE
• Christen, A., F. Meier, D. Scherer (2012): High-frequency fluctuations of surface temperatures in an urban environment. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 108, 301–324. DOI:10.1007/s00704-011-0521-x. TAAC
• Meier, F., D. Scherer (2012): Spatial and temporal variability of urban tree canopy temperature during summer 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 110, 373-384. DOI:10.1007/s00704-012-0631-0. TAAC
• Meier, F., D. Scherer, J. Richters, A. Christen (2011): Atmospheric correction of thermal-infrared imagery of the 3-D urban environment acquired in oblique viewing geometry. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 4, 909-922. DOI:10.5194/amt-4-909-2011. AMT
• Meier, F., D. Scherer, J. Richters (2010): Determination of persistence effects in spatio-temporal patterns of upward long-wave radiation flux density from an urban courtyard by means of Time-Sequential Thermography. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 21-34. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.08.002 Download

Conference contributions :

• Meier, F., S. Krayenhoff, A. Inagaki, D. Scherer, A. Christen, M. Kanda (2012): Physical and numerical modelling of sub-facet surface temperature variability. 7th International Conference on Urban Climate, 6th-10th August 2012, Dublin, Ireland. Oral presentation (pdf) Oral presentation (pptx)
• Meier, F., V. Horna, M. Otto, D. Scherer (2012): Canopy temperature and water consumption of urban trees. 7th International Conference on Urban Climate, 6th-10th August 2012, Dublin, Ireland. Poster
• Adderly, C., A. Christen, J.A. Voogt, F. Meier (2012): The effect of preferential view direction on measured urban surface temperature. 7th International Conference on Urban Climate, 6th-10th August 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
• Scherer, D., D. Fenner, F. Meier (2012): Urban heat island anomalies in Berlin during the last decade. 7th International Conference on Urban Climate, 6th-10th August 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
• Christen, A., A. Garai, A. Inagaki, J. Kleissl, F. Meier, D. Scherer, R. Vogt, J.A. Voogt (2011): Mapping coherent structures responsible for heat exchange between land-surfaces and atmosphere using time-sequential thermography. Coherent Flow Structures in Geophysical Flows at Earth’s surface, Burnaby, BC, Canada. August 3-5, Simon Fraser University.
• Meier, F., D. Scherer, B. Jänicke (2010): Zeitliche und räumliche Variabilität der Blatttemperatur von Bäumen in der Stadt. 29. Jahrestagung des AK Klima, Würzburg, 29. - 31. Oktober.
• Meier, F., D. Scherer (2010): Trees in the concrete jungle: Spatial and temporal patterns of tree crown temperature in an urban environment. 5th International Urban Ecology Congress, 22. - 24. October, Berlin.
• Meier, F., D. Scherer, J. Richters (2010): Spatial and temporal variability of surface temperature of tree crowns in an urban environment.. In: Matzarakis, A., Mayer, H., Chmielewski, F.-M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Biometeorology. Ber. Meteorol. Inst. Univ. Freiburg No. 20, S. 428-432.
• Rogée, J., F. Meier, D. Scherer (2009): Zum Prozess der nächtlichen Abkühlung eines überwärmten Stadtquartiers - Ergebnisse eines Messexperiments in Berlin. 28. Jahrestagung des AK Klima, Hamburg, 30. Oktober - 01. November 2009, Tagungsband S.24.
• Meier, F., J. Richters, D. Scherer, A. Inagaki, M. Kanda, A. Hagishima (2009): Outdoor scale model experiment to evaluate the spatio-temporal variability of urban surface temperature. 28. Jahrestagung des AK Klima, Hamburg, 30. Oktober - 01. November 2009, Tagungsband S.46. Poster
• Meier, F., D. Scherer, J. Richters (2009): Determination of persistence effects in spatio-temporal patterns of upward long-wave radiation flux density from an urban courtyard by means of Time-Sequential Thermography.. 7th International Conference on Urban Climate, 29 June - 3 July 2009, Yokohama, Japan.
• Richters, J., F. Meier, D. Scherer (2009): Analysis of long-wave radiation from urban facets derived from time-sequential thermography (TST) and 3D city model.. 7th International Conference on Urban Climate, 29 June - 3 July 2009, Yokohama, Japan.
• Finkelnburg, R., M. Möller, F. Meier, M. Braun, D. Scherer, C. Schneider (2008): Felduntersuchungen am Vestfonna (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard) während der Ablationsperiode 2008 - Erste Ergebnisse und regionaler klimatischer Kontext. 27. Jahrestagung des AK Klima, Aachen, 31. Oktober - 02. November 2008, Tagungsband S.29.
• Meier, F., J. Richters, D. Scherer (2008): Analysis of long-wave radiation from urban facets derived from time-sequential thermography (TST) and 3D city model. 5th Japanese-German Meeting on Urban Climatology, University of Freiburg, Germany, 06. - 11. October 2008. Abstract
• Meier, F., D. Scherer, J. Richters, J. Rogée (2007): Räumlich und zeitlich hochauflösende Thermographie städtischer Oberflächen in Berlin. 26. Jahrestagung des AK Klima, Freiburg i.Br., 02. - 04. November 2007, Tagungsband S.9. Abstract
• Meier, F., D. Scherer, J. Richters, J. Rogée (2007): Räumlich und zeitlich hochauflösende Thermographie städtischer Oberflächen in Berlin. DACH Meteorologentagung, Hamburg, 10. - 14. September 2007. Abstract