Dr. Daniel Hertel
PhD - Meteorology
Scientific Employee
Department Urban and Environmental Sociology
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: +49 341 / 2 35 17 04
Email: Daniel Hertel

Working Groups
--> Urban climate and Personal Exposure
Main Interests
- Urban Climatology
- Urban warming and contributing energetic processes on different scales (building - city) for the development and implementation of more targeted mitigation and adaptation measures
- Micrometeorological Modelling
- Planetary Health
01/2021 - 05/2023
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig; scientific employee; project with the "German Federal Environmental Foundation" (DBU) about "Heat stress in the neighbourhood in frame of the Planetary Health approach"
09/2022
PhD at the Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, Topic: Optimization of urban heat adaptation measures
07/2019 - 12/2021
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig; scientific employee; urban climate modelling and local climate adaptation within the project HI-CAM (Helmholtz-Initiative Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
04/2018 – 06/2018
Scientific employee in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology within the frame of the project „Schneedeckenmodell ESCIMO – Weiterentwicklung für 1h Simulationen“; commissioned work for the SLfULG
11/2017 – 02/2018
Scientific employee in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology within the frame of the project „Mehrländerprojekt Schneesicherheit Mittelgebirge, Anwendung und Verifizierung von Modellergebnissen“; commissioned work for the „Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology – SLfULG“
seit 08/2015
PhD student at University of Leipzig, Institute for Meteorology, and UFZ in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
(funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation - DBU)
05/2015 – 07/2015
Research assistant in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
03/2013
Master thesis about „Bayessche Modellierung des Schnee-Wasser-Äquivalentes“ in cooperation with „Thüringer Landesanstalt für Umwelt und Geologie“
10/2009 – 03/2015
Studied meteorology (Bachelor and Master) at the Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig
Projects
- Heat Stress (Planetary Health model for reducing heat stress at the neighbourhood level)
HI-CAM (Helmholtz Initiative for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation); Interview: "Our cities are sweating" (D. Hertel)
Publications
Index:
2022 (3)2019 (2)
2018 (3)
You could use our publication index for further requests.
2022 (3)
- Banari, A., Hertel, D., Schlink, U., Hampel, U., Lecrivain, G. (2022):
Simulation of particle resuspension by wind in an urban system
Environ. Fluid Mech.
full text (doi) - Hertel, D., Schlink, U. (2022):
Entropy frameworks for urban heat storage can support targeted adaptation strategies
Urban Climate 42 , art. 101129
full text (doi) - Hu, D., Meng, Q., Schlink, U., Hertel, D., Liu, W., Zhao, M., Guo, F. (2022):
How do urban morphological blocks shape spatial patterns of land surface temperature over different seasons? A multifactorial driving analysis of Beijing, China
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinf. 106 , art. 102648
full text (doi)
2019 (2)
- Hertel, D., Schlink, U. (2019):
How to convert urban energy balance into contributions to urban excess temperatures?
MethodsX 6 , 132 - 142
full text (doi) - Hertel, D., Schlink, U. (2019):
Decomposition of urban temperatures for targeted climate change adaptation
Environ. Modell. Softw. 113 , 20 - 28
full text (doi)
2018 (3)
- Kabisch, S., Ueberham, M., Schlink, U., Hertel, D., Mohamdeen, A. (2018):
Local residential quality from an interdisciplinary perspective : combining individual perception and micrometeorological factors
In: Kabisch, S., Koch, F., Gawel, E., Haase, A., Knapp, S., Krellenberg, K., Nivala, J., Zehnsdorf, A. (eds.)
Urban transformations - Sustainable urban development through resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience
Future City 10
Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 235 - 255
full text (doi) - Schlink, U., Hertel, D. (2018):
Inverse modelling of snow depths
Environ. Modell. Softw. 110 , 62 - 71
full text (doi) - Welz, J., Hertel, D., Krellenberg, K., Schlink, U. (2018):
Adapting built-up areas to climate change : assessment of effects and feasibility of adaptation measures on heat hazard
In: Kabisch, S., Koch, F., Gawel, E., Haase, A., Knapp, S., Krellenberg, K., Nivala, J., Zehnsdorf, A. (eds.)
Urban transformations - Sustainable urban development through resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience
Future City 10
Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 327 - 338
full text (doi)
Others (2)
- Hertel, D., Zeidler, J., Schlink, U. (2022): Urban climate modeling. In: Ergebnisbericht der ersten Phase unserer Klima-Initiative, p. 129 - 132. full text
- Hertel, D. (2022): Optimierung von urbanen Hitzeanpassungsmaßnahmen. Dissertation, pp. 167. full text
Important Conference Contributions
2022
Hertel, D., kabisch, S., schlink, U., Pößneck, J. (2022): "Planetary Health" as conceptual framework for heat-resilient neighbourhoods. International Association for People-environment Studies 2022, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Lissabon, Portugal.
2018
Hertel, D., Schlink, U., Modeling Energetic Contributions to the Urban Heat Island. 10th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC10), 2018, The City College of New York, New York City, USA
Schlink, U., Hertel, D., Schnee im Erzgebirge. 11. Annaberger Klimatage, 2018, Annaberg-Buchholz, Deutschland
2017
Hertel, D., Schlink, U., Contributions to urban heat island on the local neighbourhood scale. European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU), 2017, Wien, Österreich.
2014
Hertel, D., Anwendung von ESCIMO für Thüringen. Klima Workshop: Projekte und Forschung zum Klimawandel in Thüringen, 2014, Thüringer Landesanstalt für Umwelt und Geologie, Jena-Göschwitz, Deutschland.