Herfried Hoinkes

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Herfried Hoinkes (born March 9, 1916 in Bielitz, today called Bielsko-Biała and belonging to Poland; † April 4, 1975 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian meteorologist and glaciologist .

Life

Born in Silesia in 1916, after graduating from high school, he studied mathematics and physics in Königsberg (now called Kaliningrad ) for a year . In 1937 he came to Innsbruck where he studied meteorology with Arthur Wagner and received his doctorate in 1940. Habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty Innsbruck 1949 with a thesis on "The interdiural changes of pressure and temperature in the lower troposphere up to 5 km altitude and their mutual relationships in a statistical-synoptic approach". In 1956 he succeeded Prof. Albert Defant and was head of the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Innsbruck until his death .

He was one of the leading gazial meteorologists in the world. As early as 1939 and 1940, Hoinkes was concerned with measuring the length of alpine glaciers. He developed micrometeorological methods to better determine the heat and mass balance of a glacier. He had to solve a number of metrological problems under extreme conditions, which he succeeded in doing with the help of his dedicated staff. From 1952 he headed the intensive measurements on the Hintereisferner in the Ötztal Alps . These subtle investigations and measurements made it possible to determine and understand the heat and radiation balance of a glacier very well. He was also able to prove that the glacier wind does not have a conservative effect on the glacier ice, but rather generates heat for the glacier.

Since the mass changes of glaciers do not only depend on the microclimate in the immediate vicinity, H. Hoinkes has increasingly dealt with the connection between climatic and glacier fluctuations in his last years. Together with employees of the meteorological institute in Innsbruck, he succeeded in developing a method to infer mass changes in a glacier from measurement data from a climate station near a glacier.

But his research was not limited to alpine glaciers. During the international geophysical year 1957/58 he also took part in an Antarctic expedition to the USA, where he was entrusted with the management of a glacial-meteorological research station ( Little America III ) on the Ross Ice Shelf . In doing so, he made a significant contribution to research into the heat and radiation balance of the Antarctic .

From 1963 to 1967 Hoinkes was President of the International Commission for Snow and Ice of the International Association for Hydrology of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics and from 1967 to 1971 its Vice-President. After the death of Raimund von Klebelsberg , Hoinkes took over from 1970 - together with Hans Kinzl - the publication of the journal for glacier science and glacial geology .

Hoinkes was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle , a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz .

For his special scientific achievements he was awarded the Cross of Merit for Science and Art 1st Class of the Republic of Austria . According to him, which is hoinkes peak , a rocky peak in the West Antarctica named.

Works

(Complete list in: Wetter und Leben, Vienna, Volume 27, Issue 3–4):

  • HC Hoinkes: About northern foehn phenomena north of the main Alpine ridge. Springer-Verlag, Vienna 1951.
  • HC Hoinkes: Measurements of ablation and heat balance on alpine glaciers. In: Journal of Glaciology. 2, 1955, pp. 497-501.
  • HC Hoinkes: The settling of firn at Little America III, Antarctica, 1940-58. In: Journal of Glaciology. 4, No. 31, 1962, pp. 111-120.
  • H. Hoinkes, H. Lang: The mass budget of the Hintereis- and Kesselwandferner (Ötztal Alps), 1957/58 and 1958/59. In: Archives for Meteorology, Geophysics and Bioclimatology, B. 12, 1962, pp. 284-320.
  • H. Hoinkes, H. Lang: Winter snow cover and area precipitation 1957/58 and 1958/59 in the area of ​​the Hintereis- and Kesselwandferner (Ötztal Alps). In: Archives for Meteorology, Geophysics and Bioclimatology, Series B. 11, 1962, pp. 424–446.
  • H. Hoinkes, R. Rudolph: Mass-Balance studies on the Hintereisferner, Oetztal Alps, 1952–1961. In: Journal of Glaciology. Vol. 4, No. 33, 1962, pp. 266-278.
  • H. Hoinkes, E. Dreiseitl, F. Howorka, I. Lauffer, H. Queck, W. Schneider, H. Slupetzky: Combined water, ice and heat budget investigations in the Austrian Alps, carried out during the Internat. In: Hydrological Decade, 1964 to 1966. Final Report. UNESCO Contract NS / 28o3 / 65, May 1967,
  • HC Hoinkes, F. Howorka, W. Schneider: Glacier Mass Budget and Mesoscale Weather in the Austrian Alps 1964 to 1966, Int. Assoc. Scient. In: Hydrology Publ. No. 79, 1968, pp. 241-254.
  • HC Hoinkes: Glacier variation and weather. In: Journal of Glaciology. 7, 1968, pp. 3-19.
  • H. Hoinkes: Results of the glacial-meteorological-hydrological IHD program in Rofental near Vent 1964–1968. In: Österr. Water management. Vol. 22, H. 5/6, 1970, pp. 101-113.
  • H. Hoinkes: Methods and possibilities of mass budget studies on glaciers. In: Journal of Glacier Science and Glacial Geology. Volume 6, 1970, pp. 37-90.
  • H. Hoinkes: About relationships between the mass balance of the Hintereisferner (Ötztal Alps, Tyrol) and observations of the Vent climate station. In: Annals of Meteorology, New Series. No. 5, 1971, pp. 259-264.
  • H. Hoinkes, E. Dreiseitl, HP Wagner: Mass Balance of Hintereisferner and Kesselwandferner 1963/64 to 1972/73 in Relation to the Climatic Environment. Preliminary results of the combined water, ice and heat balances project in the Rofental. IHD Activities in Austria 1965–1974; Report of the Int. Conference on the Results of the IHD, September 2-14, 1974 in Paris. Pp. 42–53, Vienna 1974.
  • H. Hoinkes, R. Steinacker: Hydrometeorological implications of the mass balance of Hintereisferner, 1952-53 to 1968-69. Proceedings of Snow and Ice Symposium Moscow 1971, IAHS-AISH Publ. 104, 1975.
  • H. Hoinkes, R. Steinacker: On the parameterization of the relationship between the climate and the glacier. In: Rivista Italiana di Geofisica. Vol. I, 1975, pp. 97-104.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. (PDF; 992 kB). In: Reports of the scientific-medical association in Innsbruck. Vol. 63, 1976, pp. 293-297.
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ iahs.info
  4. ↑ iahs.info

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personal data
SURNAME Hoinkes, Herfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian meteorologist and glaciologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielsko-Biała , Poland
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1975
Place of death innsbruck