Amelie Schmitt about her paper on the cycling weather in Hamburg

19 August 2024

The weather in Hamburg is known to have a questionable reputation. Some see the mobility transition at risk, as, for example, cycling in this wind and weather cannot be a sustainable solution. Dr. Amelie Schmitt and almost the entire research group of Prof. Dr. Felix Ament wanted to know more and evaluated the cycling weather in Hamburg using a variety of methods, measurements, and models. They also developed completely new approaches to understand what such an assessment might look like. In this video, Amelie Schmitt discusses the work on this study and shows that (spoiler alert!) the weather in Hamburg is not as bad as one might think. The entire study was published in 2023 under the title "Assessing the weather conditions for urban cyclists by spatially dense measurements with an agent-based approach."

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This video is the fourth episode of our (M)et al. video series presenting scientists from the Meteorological Institute reporting on their current papers and thus offering an insight into our research topics and working methods.

Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1002/met.2164

(This news article was translated from German to English by UHHGPT.)