Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN)

Research

ACINN is devoted to basic research in the areas of weather forecasting, mountain meteorology, earth atmosphere interactions and ice-climate relations. Our research activi... [more]

Studies

We offer a full degree programme in Atmospheric Sciences, from Bachelor to Master and PhD. Our teaching covers all the core subjects of the dynamics, physics, chemistry o... [more]

People

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Graduate Seminar

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About Us

The Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN) is one of the few university departments worldwide where research and education in atmospheric science and glaciology are co-located. It is located in the heart of the Alps. Therefore, ACINN's research and teaching focus on mountain weather and forecasting, mountain climate, earth-atmosphere interaction – with an emphasis on snow- or ice-covered surfaces, exchange of gases, aerosols and other atmospheric properties over complex topography – and ice-climate relations. ACINN is embedded in the university's research areas Mountain Regions and Scientific Computing. It plays a key role in the research centre Climate - Cryosphere and Atmosphere.

News and Events

Job opening: PhD position in Mountain Boundary Layer research
New paper by Georg Mayr and Thorsten Simon
"Lightning climatology for the eastern Alpine region on the kilometer scale with daily resolution" https://doi.org/10.1007/s00502-022-01032-1
Congratulations to Moritz Lang
from the weather/statistics group who received the "Förderpreis of the Austrian Statistical Society" for best dissertation in applied statistics.
Master Defensio: Erik Holmgren
Title: "21st century glacier runoff and how it buffers drought in 75 large-scale basins"; Date/Time: 31st of May 2022, 10:15 a.m., location: tba
Graduate Seminar: Chiel van Heerwaarden (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Wageningen)
Title: "The Shedding Light On Cloud Shadows project: understanding clouddriven solar irradiance variability" Date/Time: 1st of June 2022, 12:00 noon, 60819 SR, Innrain, 52f, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor