Prof. Dr. Britta Jänicke

Since March 2022, Prof. Dr. Britta Jänicke is head of the Chair of Environmental Meteorology at the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning in the ASL Department. The newly established Chair of Environmental Meteorology addresses both basic and applied research in urban climatology and environmental meteorology. Britta Jänicke studied landscape architecture and landscape planning (BSc.) and urban ecology (MSc.) at the Technical University of Berlin. Her PhD also took place at TU Berlin with a focus on urban climate and heat stress. In South Korea, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, studying the urban climate of the megacity Seoul. Through her work as head of the department of climate protection and strategic environmental planning at the city of Braunschweig, she brings not only scientific but also practical experience to research and teaching at the University of Kassel.

Jänicke B, Milošević D, Manavvi S., 2021: Review of User-Friendly Models to Improve the Urban Micro-Climate. Atmosphere 12(10):1291. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12101291

Anderson, V., Leung, A.C., Mehdipoor, H., Jänicke, B., Milošević, D., Oliveira, A., Manavvi, S., Kabano, P., Dzyuban, Y., Aguilar, R. and Agan, P.N., 2021: Technological opportunities for sensing of the health effects of weather and climate change: a state-of-the-art-review. International Journal of Biometeorology 65, 779–803 (2021).

Jänicke, B., Kim, K. R., Cho C. (2020): A simple high-resolution heat-stress forecast for Seoul, Korea: coupling climate information with an operational numerical weather prediction model. International Journal of Biometeorology 64, 1197–1205 (2020).

Jänicke, B., Holtmann, A., Kim, K. R., Kang, M., Fehrenbach, U., Scherer, D. (2019): Quantification and evaluation of intra-urban heat-stress variability in Seoul, Korea. International Journal of Biometeorology, 63(1):1-12.

Jänicke, B., Meier, F., Fenner, D., Fehrenbach, U., Holtmann, A. and D. Scherer (2017): 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.

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.

Hölscher, M.-T., Nehls, T., Jänicke, B. and G. Wessolek (2016): Quantifying cooling effects of facade greening: shading, transpiration and insulation. Energy and Buildings, 114: 283–290.

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.

Walikewitz, N., Jänicke, B., Langner, M. and W. Endlicher (2015): Assessment of indoor heat stress variability in summer and during heat warnings: A case study using the UTCI in Berlin, Germany. International Journal of Biometeorology, 1–14.

Yi, C., Kim, K. R., An, S. M.,Choi, Y.-J., Holtmann, A., Jänicke, B., Fehrenbach, U. and D. Scherer (2015): Estimating spatial patterns of air temperature at building-resolving spatial resolution in Seoul, Korea. International Journal of Climatology, 36(2): 533–549.

Jänicke, B., Meier, F., Hoelscher, M., Scherer, D. (2015): Evaluating the Effects of Façade Greening on Human Bioclimate in a Complex Urban Environment. Advances in Meteorology, Article ID 747259.

Walikewitz, N., B. Jänicke, M. Langner, F. Meier, 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.

Kim, K. R., C. Yi, J.-S. Lee, F. Meier, B. Jänicke, U. Fehrenbach, 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