Dr. Marco Otto
Career progression
- since 2018: Fellow of Stifterverband
project description
- since May 2013: Research assistant (PostDoc) at the Chair of Climatology
- April 2013: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.)
Doctoral Thesis:
"Spatio-Temporal Modifications of Mountainous Land Cover in Relation to Precipitation
in the Central Andes."
- 2007: Graduate Engineer of Landscape Planning
Diploma Thesis:
"Vegetation change in high Andean wetlands in southern Peru using remote sensing
analysis as a contribution to environmental planning"
- 2000 - 2007 Studies of Landscape Planning at the TU-Berlin
- 2005 - 2007 Student Assistant at the chair of climatology (Prof. Scherer)
- 2003 - 2005 Student Assistant at the chair of Hydrologic Balance and Cultural Technology (Prof. Diestel)
- 2003 - 2008 coordinator of the student project: Conservation of Peruvian Terraces - Laraos(Perus)
WMF-Watch Site in 2008
Research:
Research field:
- Climatology, Landscape Ecology and Remote Sensing
- Research projects:
Bofedales
CaTeNA
Publications (peer-reviewed):
Wang, X., Schmidt, B., Scherer, D., Otto, M. (2021):
WRF dynamical downscaling of present-day and mid-Pliocene atmospheric conditions over High Mountain Asia.
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ.
DOI:10.26050/WDCC/RRA_WRF_simulations
Link
Schmidt, B.*, Wang, X.*, Otto, M., Ehlers, T.A., Mutz, S.G., Botsyun, S., Scherer, D. (2021):
Sensitivity of water balance in the Qaidam Basin to the mid-Pliocene Climate.
JGR: Atmosphere. DOI:10.1029/2020JD033965
*Schmidt, B., and Wang, X. contributed equally to this work
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Wang, X., Otto, M., Scherer, D. (2021):
Atmospheric triggering conditions and climatic disposition of landslides in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at the beginning of the 21st century.
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.
DOI:10.5194/nhess-2020-418.
Link
Wang, X., Tolksdorf, V., Otto, M., Scherer, D. (2021):
WRF-based Dynamical Downscaling of ERA5 Reanalysis Data for High Mountain Asia: Towards a New Version of the High Asia Refined Analysis.
Int. J. Climatol. 41(1).
DOI:10.1002/joc.6686.
Link
Rost, A.T., Liste, V., Seidel, C., Matscheroth, L., Otto, M., Meier, F., Fenner, D. (2020):
How Cool Are Allotment Gardens? A Case Study of Nocturnal Air Temperature Differences in Berlin, Germany.
Atmosphere 11(5), 500.
DOI:10.3390/atmos11050500.
Link
Trachte, K., Seidel J., Figueroa R., Otto M., Bendix, J. (2017):
Cross-scale precipitation variability in a semi-arid catchment area on the western slopes of the Central Andes.
J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol.
DOI:10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0207.1.
Link
Fenner, D., Meier, F., Bechtel, B., Otto, M., Scherer, D. (2017):
Intra and inter 'local climate zone' variability of air temperature as observed by crowdsourced citizen weather stations in Berlin, Germany.
Meteorol. Zeit. 26(5), 525-547.
DOI:10.1127/metz/2017/0861.
Link
Bechtel, B., Demuzere, M., Sismanidis, P., Fenner, D., Brousse, O., Beck, C., Van Coillie, F., Conrad, O., Keramitsoglou, I., Middel, A., Mills, G., Niyogi, D., Otto, M., See, L., Verdonck, M.-L. (2017):
Quality of Crowdsourced Data on Urban Morphology - The Human Influence Experiment (HUMINEX).
Urban Science 1(2), 15.
DOI:10.3390/urbansci1020015.
Link
Otto, M. and R. E. Gibbons (2017):
Potential Effects of Projected Decrease in Annual Rainfall on Spatial Distribution of High Andean Wetlands in Southern Peru.
Wetlands 37(4), 647-659.
DOI:10.1007/s13157-017-0896-2.
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Meier, F., Fenner, D., Grassmann, T., Otto, M., Scherer, D. (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.
Link
Otto, M., Höpfner, C., Curio, J., Maussion, F., Scherer, D. (2016):
Assessing vegetation response to precipitation in northwest Morocco during the last decade:
an application of MODIS NDVI and high resolution reanalysis data.
Theor Appl Climatol 123, 23-41.
DOI:10.1007/s00704-014-1344-3.
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Garcia, E., Otto, M. (2015):
Caracterización ecohidrológica de humedales alto andinos usando imágenes de satélite
multitemporales en la cabecera de cuenca del río Santa, Ancash, Perú (Ecohydrological characterization
of High Andean wetlands based on multi-temporal remote sensing images in the case of upper Santa River, Ancash, Peru).
Ecología Aplicada 14(2), 115-125.
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Otto, M., Scherer, D., Richters, J. (2011):
Hydrological differentiation and spatial distribution of high altitude wetlands in a semi-arid Andean region derived from satellite data.
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 15, 1713-1727.
DOI:10.5194/hess-15-1713-2011.
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Teaching
Student project supervision Bachelor Ökologie und Umweltplanung:
Specilisation projekts:
- WS 2020/2021 / SS 2021:
"Stadt, Land (ohne) Fluss?"
– Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf den regionalen Wasserhaushalt
- SS 2020:
"Sommer ohne Wasser"
– Auswirkungen von Trockenperioden auf den Wasserhaushalt landwirtschaftlich genutzter Lebensräume
- SS 2019:
"UV-Exposition von Stadtbewohner*innen"
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WS 2017/2018 / SS 2018:
"Insulaner"
- Ursachen und Variabilität der städtischen Wärmeinsel und ihre Auswirkungen auf den Menschen
- WS 2016/2017 / SS 2017:
Stadt-grün-Klima?
- Wechselwirkungen zwischen urbaner Atmosphäre und Vegetation
- WS 2015/2016 / SS 2016:
"Climates In The Hood!"
- Analyse und Bewertung klimatischer Bedingungen innerhalb eines Stadtquartiers am Beispiel
des Brunnenviertels in Berlin-Mitte
- WS 2014/2015 / SS 2015:
Kopfweiden und Waldmoore
– Klimaschutz und Kulturlandschaft am Beispiel des Biosphärenreservats Flusslandschaft Elbe
Student project supervision Master Urban Ecosystem Science:
- WS 2019/2020 student project supervision master project
"No PhD needed!"
– Citizen Science in environmental sciences - potentials, limits and concepts for regional climate research
- SS 2018 WS 2018/2019 student project supervision master project
From surface to space
- Linking urban fabrics to urban heat island effects
Lectures, Tutorials and Seminars:
Supervised Theses (selection):
- Kuhlmeyer, K. (2018):
Intra-urban variability of nocturnal air and surface temperatures during summer in Berlin, Germany.
M.Sc. Stadtökologie
- Arndt, A. (2017):
Recent mass balance of the Purogangri Ice Cap, central Tibetan Plateau, as resolved by the High Asia Refined analysis.
M.Sc. Technischer Umweltschutz
- Ewinger, P. (2017):
Klimatische Bedingungen in Marokko und deren Auswirkungen auf das Migrationsverhalten europäischer Zugvögel.
B.Sc. Technischer Umweltschutz
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- Felten, B. (2015):
Wetland or cropland? Differentiating land cover of the high Andes applying open-access remote sensing data.
B.Sc. Ökologie und Umweltplanung
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- Massa, L. (2012):
Satellitengestützte hochauflösende Klimazonierung der südhemisphärischen tropischen Anden.
B.Sc. Technischer Umweltschutz
- Wascher, L. (2010):
Initiating A Wetland Inventory In The Ecoregion Puna Of Peru. (B.Sc.)
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