Research
ACINN is devoted to basic research in the areas of weather forecasting, mountain meteorology, earth atmosphere interactions and ice-climate relations. Our research activity is largely supported by third-party funding.
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 of the atmosphere-cryosphere-climate system and includes prerequisites from mathematics, statistics, physics and earth sciences.
Graduate Seminar
Time and location of the graduate seminar, a list of speakers, abstracts etc.
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.
Contact
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52f
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
News and Events
- Minor in Scientific computing
The Extension Programme Scientific Computing (EPSC) allows students to profoundly expand their knowledge in various aspects of scientific computing. Graduates of the bachelor's and master's programme in atmospheric sciences are admitted to this extension programme.
- New paper in Boundary-Layer Meteorology
by Manuela Lehner and Mathias Rotach is analyzing the performance of different turbulence filter time scales for stable conditions in complex terrain: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10546-023-00824-y
- Graduate Seminar: Habilitation Lecture of Priv.Doz. Manuela Lehner
Title: "Local flow effects in the atmospheric boundary layer over mountainous terrain". Date/time: 4th of October 2023, 12:00 noon; seminar room 60819 SR, 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f an on-line (write to atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at and you will get the link)
- PhD Defensio: Annelies Voordendag
Title: "Investigation glacier mass balance and snow redistribution with long-range terrestrial laser scanning data at Hintereisferner". Date/time: 22nd of September 2023, 2 p.m., on-line and on-site ; Geologie Schausammlung, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 2nd floor, Innrain 52f
- New paper published in Weather and Climate Dynamics
Göbel, Matthias, Serafin, Stefano and Rotach, Mathias: Adverse impact of terrain steepness on thermally driven initiation of orographic convection, Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 725–745, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-725-2023, 2023.
- Brief communication on the Glacier Loss Day
Annelies Voordendag, Rainer Prinz, Lilian Schuster and Georg Kaser have published a Brief communication on the Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 2022. The Cryosphere, 17, 3661–3665, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3661-2023, 2023.