News and Events
- PhD Concept Defensio: Marie Charlotte Stöckhardt
"Synergetic Aerosol Remote Sensing"
Date/time/location: 6th of August, 10 am, seminar room 60819 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphere@uibk.ac.at)
- MSc Defensio: Paula Spannring
"Comparison of two avalanche terrain classification approaches: Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale - Classified Avalanche Terrain"
Date/time/location: 5th of August, 11 am, seminar room 60819 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at)
- Job opening: University Professor of Dynamic Meteorology
Our department is pleased to announce an opening for a Full Professor position in Dynamic Meteorology. We are seeking a highly qualified individual who will be the successor of Mathias Rotach, who will retire next year.
- Secretary's office - opening times in July 2024
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN) secretary's office opening times
from 8th of July to 26th of July, 2024:Wednesday to Thursday: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. to 12 noon
- Exkursionen Zentralasien
Nähere Informationen und Anmeldung siehe https://institute-ers.org/reisen/usbekistan/
Datum: 16. bis 30. September 2024 - Graduate Seminar: Samuele Mosso (ACINN)
Title: "Turbulence Anisotropy in the Atmospheric Surface Layer". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 31st of January 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Graduate Seminar: Matthias Mauder (Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, University of Dresden)
Title: "The Energy-Balance-Closure Problem and Possible Corrections". The seminar takes place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 24th of January 2024, 12:00 noon, seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Graduate Seminar: Lilian Schuster (ACINN)
Title: "Consequences of overshooting the Paris temperature targets for global glacier volume and runoff projections". Date/time: 17th of January 2024, 12:00 noon; seminar room 60819 SR, 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f and on-line (write to atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at if you want to join on-line)
- New paper published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Weinkaemmerer, J., Göbel, M., Serafin, S., Ďurán, I.B. & Schmidli, J. (2023) Boundary-layer plumes over mountainous terrain in idealized large-eddy simulations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1–15. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4551
- 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.
- Master Defensio: Raphael Tasch
Title: "Do thunderstorm environments actually produce thunderstorms?". Date/time: 6th of October 2023, 12:00 noon, on-line and on-site ; Seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Master Defensio: Judith Schmack
Title: "Seasonality of atmospheric new particle formation at Sonnblick Observatory: An analysis of the years 2019-2021". Date/time: 9th of October 2023, 5 p.m., on-line and on-site ; Conputer room 60818, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Graduate Seminar: Bart Schilperoort (eScience Center, NL)
Title: "Distributed temperature sensing and its applications in studying forest-atmosphere interaction". This presentation will take place on-line and on-site. Date/time: 11th of October 2023, 12:00 noon
- Graduate Seminar: Gaspard Simonet (ACINN)
Title: "Mesoscale model evaluation techniques over complex terrain". Date/time: 18th of October 2023, 12:00 noon; seminar room 60819 SR, 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f and on-line (write to atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at if you want to join on-line)
- Master Defensio: Dominik Majer
Title: "May the snow be with you: forecasting heavy snowfall in the Northern Tatra Mountains". Date/time: 20th of October 2023, 10:00 a.m., on-line and on-site ; Seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Graduate Seminar: Andreas Platis and Jens Bange (University of Tübingen)
Title: Use of small uncrewed aircraft systems for lower-troposphere research. Date/time 8th of November 2023, 12.00 noon. Location: Seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line
- Master Defensio: Marie Schroeder
Title: Snow Water Equivalent measured by a Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor: A Case Study on Hintereisferner (Austria). Date/time: 16th of November 2023, 2 p.m., on-line and on-site ; seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- Graduate Seminar: Simona Bordoni (University of Trento)
Title: "Aquaplanet monsoons: Dynamics and energetics of their maintenance and their response to climate changes". This presentation will take place on-line, and on-site in the seminar room 60819 SR, Bruno-Sander-Haus 8th floor; date/time: 15th of November 2023, 12:00 noon
- PhD Concept Defensio: Michael Stichaner
Title: "QUANTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN METHANE SOURCES MEASURED BY EDDY COVARIANCE" Date/Time: 8th of March 2023, 10 a.m., on-line and on-site: computer room 60818, Bruno-Sander-Haus
- Master Defensio: Dabih Isidori
Title: "Atmospheric Deserts and Severe Convection Over Europe: 7 Case Studies" Date/Time: 27.02.2023, 2 p.m., on-site and on-line; room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus, 8th floor, Innrain 52f
- PhD Concept Defensio: Patrick Schmitt
Title: "Towards a flexible, global data assimilation framework for glacier modelling" Date/Time: 14th of February 2023, 4 p.m., seminar room 60819, Bruno-Sander-Haus
- New paper in Journal of Glaciology
"What is the global glacier ice volume outside the ice sheets?" Journal of Glaciology, first view, pp. 1-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.1
- Publication in "Science" (Ice and Climate group), 05.01.2023
"Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters" DOI: 10.1126/science.abo1324
- Publication in "Science" (Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry group),18.01.2023
"High urban NOx triggers a substantial chemical downward flux of ozone"
- 9th Meeting of the Austrian Meteorological Society
11th – 12th of May 2023