Dr. Sascha Willmes

  • Evironmental Scientist (Dipl.)
  • M.C.Sc. Computer Sciences

Research and Teaching Associate

Contact:

Campus-II, room F-48 (open doors)

fon: +49(0)651- 201 4630
fax: +49(0)651- 201 3817
E-Mail: Sascha Willmes

Research Topics

  • Climate and meteorology of the polar regions
  • Sea ice in the climate system
  • Scientific programming and geoinformatics
  • Remote sensing, satellite meteorology and digital image processing
  • Web mapping, Machine learning, Data visualization, Data Science

 

Publications

recent:

 

- Fraser et al. (2020) High-resolution mapping of circum-Antarctic landfast sea ice distribution, 2000–2018, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss

., doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-99, in review. 

- Hartmann et al. (2020) Wintertime airborne measurements of ice nucleating particles in the high Arctic: a hint to a marine, biogenic source for Ice Nucleating Particles, Geophys. Res. Lett., 0094-8276.

- Reiser, F., Willmes, S. and Heinemann, G. (2020)  A New Algorithm for Daily Sea Ice Lead Identification in the Arctic and Antarctic Winter from Thermal-Infrared Satellite Imagery. Remote Sens., 12(12), 1957.

Publication list (PDF): updated 15 June 2020

 

Lectures and courses

  • Basics of mathematics and physics for geoscientists
  • Introduction to scientific programming and data analysis
  • Environmental assessment concepts
  • Basics of statistics
  • Methods of environmental measurements
  • Scientific literature seminar
  • Kartographic project study
  • Remote Sensing and Monitoring in Meteorology
  • Surface Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer (SVAT) modeling
  • Climate geography

 

Projects

current:

  • Circum-Antarctic sea-ice lead frequencies and regional distribution from satellite imagery (DFG), 2017-2020

  • CATS - The Changing Arctic Transpolar System (BMBF), 2017-2020: Monitoring of sea-ice properties and ice production (multi-sensor satellite remote sensing)

 

completed: