Rainer Hilland

Doctoral student and research assistant

Werthmannstrasse 10
79085 Freiburg

Biography

Rainer Hilland studied Geography at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He received his B.A. Honours in 2016, and completed his M.Sc. in 2018 under the supervision of Dr. J. Voogt. From 2019 he is pursuing his PhD at the Chair of Environmental Meteorology at the University of Freiburg.

Research

Rainer Hilland's research interests are in the field of urban micrometeorology. His Master's research, titled The Effect of Sub-Facet Scale Geometry on Vertical Facet Temperatures in Urban Street Canyons, investigated micro-scale surface temperature variations of urban street canyons. His doctoral research focuses on the fundamental nature of atmospheric turbulence near the surface.

Current and Past Research Projects

• ICOS Cities – Pilot Applications in Urban Landscapes (H2020)
• ERC Synergy Grant "urbisphere"
• Namib Turbulence EXperiment (NamTEX)

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Hilland RVJ, Bernhofer C, Bohmann M, Christen A, Katurji M, Maggs-Kölling G, Krauß M, Larsen JA, Marais E, Pitacco A, Schumacher B, Spirig R, Vendrame N, Vogt R, 2022: The Namib Turbulence Experiment: Investigating Surface–Atmosphere Heat Transfer in Three Dimensions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103 (3) E741–E760.
• Hilland RVJ, Voogt JA, 2020: The effect of sub-facet scale surface structure on wall brightness temperatures at multiple scales. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 140: 767-785.

Conference contributions

• Hilland, RVJ, Christen A, Vogt R, 2022: Investigating Taylor's frozen turbulence hypothesis in the surface layer at an ideal desert field site using fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing. DACH, Leipzig, Germany. Oral.

• Hilland, RVJ, Voogt JA, Zanetti M, and Kukko A. The effect of sub-facet scale geometry on vertical facet temperatures, 2018. International Conference on Urban Climate 10, New York, NY, USA. Oral.

Technical reports

• Hilland RVJ, Bernhofer C, Bohmann M, Christen A, Krauß M, Larsen JA, Pitacco A, Spirig R, Vendrame N, Vogt R, 2022: Namib turbulence experiment (NamTEX) data report. Professur für Umweltmeteorologie, V1 (Public), 10.6094/UNIFR/231047