Congratulations!Finn Burgemeister successfully defended his doctoral thesis

22 November 2024

Photo: Ingo Lange

We are proud to announce the successful disputation of our SICSS member Finn Burgemeister.

His dissertation “Radar rainfall observations at sub-kilometre and sub-minute scales” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Felix Ament and Dr. Marco Clemens (both Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg).

Finn studied the spatial and temporal variability of rainfall observed with a high-resolution weather radar. He conducted a reanalysis of multi-year measurements, homogenising the radar rainfall dataset and correcting for measurement errors. Finn also discussed the added value of higher spatial and temporal resolution for weather radar measurements on time scales of less than one hour and spatial scales of less than one kilometre, which are relevant scales for urban hydro-meteorology. He shows that a radar with higher spatio-temporal resolution compared to conventional measurements is able to represent higher rainfall maxima and measure steeper gradients, which is relevant for capturing micro-scale rainfall variability.

Finn was a member of the Meteorological Institute as well as the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS (Climate, Climatic Change and Society) at the University of Hamburg.

His future plans?

Finn already works at METEK Meteorologische Messtechnik GmbH, which is a manufacturer for various meteorological measurement devices. As the company's sales manager, one of the things he tries to do for his customers (many of whom are in the scientific community) is to help them realise their measurement projects while taking into account the limitations of the measurement principles. He looks forward to supporting new developments in meteorological measurements in the future.

More on Finn's work: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5144-6326