  The study of vortex reconnections is an essential ingredient of understanding
superfluid turbulence, a phenomenon recently also reported in trapped atomic
Bose-Einstein condensates. In this work we show that, despite the established
dependence of vortex motion on temperature in such systems, vortex
reconnections are actually temperature independent on the typical length/time
scales of atomic condensates. Our work is based on a dissipative
Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the condensate, coupled to a semiclassical
Boltzmann equation for the thermal cloud (the Zaremba-Nikuni-Griffin
formalism). Comparison to vortex reconnections in homogeneous condensates
further show reconnections to be insensitive to the inhomogeneity in the
background density.
