News and Events
- Job announcement: University Assistant (postdoc) (substitute employee)
Maternity leave position - for 1 year
Full time, start in fall 2025 - 1 September 2025
Duties: Research, teaching (4 h per semesters), administration and outreach
- Secretary's office - opening times in July 2025
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN) secretary's office opening times
from 14th of July to 4th of August, 2025:Wednesday to Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
- Bachelor's Theses Defenses SS 2025
The Bachelor's Theses Defenses will take place on Monday, 30th of June, 2025, starting at 08:30 a.m., (seminar room 60819 and on-line), 8th floor, Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f
Please note: There has been a small change. The students Simon Widy and Sebastian Brandl have swapped their presentation slots.
Sebastian Brandl will now present from 3:00 p.m. onwards.
You can find the programme and the on-line access link here: https://fileshare.uibk.ac.at/f/80b7038d3d434282a840/ - PhD Defensio: Samuele Mosso
Title: "Turbulence Anisotropy in the Atmospheric Surface Layer"; location: 60819 SR, Bruno-Sander-Haus 8th floor, Innrain 52f, and on-line;
4th of July, 2025, starting at 2 p.m.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Students and Georg Mayr (ACINN, University of Innsbruck)
Title: "Insights and Impressions from the Tornado Alley"
Wednesday, June 18, 2025; location: 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - TEAMx Observational Campaign (TOC)
The TEAMx Observational Campaign (TOC) started on 15 September and will run for a whole year until mid-September 2025. During this time, information about ongoing TOC activities, including TEAMx UIBK activities in the Inn Valley, will be posted on the TEAMx Website: https://www.teamx-programme.org/newsletters/
- Graduate Seminar: Sophia Schäfer (Météo-France, CNRS)
Title: "Radiation and links to turbulence and convection in complex terrain"
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 12:30; location: 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Mathias Rotach has been awarded the Sergej Zilitinkevich Memorial Award
Congratulations to Mathias Rotach on receiving the
Sergej Zilitinkevich Memorial Award!
A prestigious recognition presented jointly by seven institutions,
including the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) - Graduate Seminar: Christian Kühnlein (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Bonn, Germany)
Title: "Developing a numerical model framework for future weather prediction and research"
Wednesday, June 11, 2025; location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f, 8th floor, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Niklas Richter (ACINN)
Title: "Harnessing satellite observations for calibrating surface energy- and mass balance models: a case study on Hintereisferner using COSIPY"
Wednesday, June 04, 2025; location: 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Xianjun He (Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China)
Title: "Tall tower-based Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measurement in Megacities of China"
Wednesday, May 28, 2025; location: on-line only.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Dominik Amschwand (Networked Embedded Sensing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck)
Title: "Surface and subsurface energy balance modelling on coarse-debris permafrost terrain: insights from in-situ measurements on Murtèl rock glacier (Swiss Alps)"
Wednesday, May 21, 2025; location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f, 8th floor, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Tyler Waterman (University of Utha, Salt Lake City, USA)
Title: "Extending Generalized Surface Layer Scaling to Diverse, Complex Terrain and Canopies for Improved Land-Atmosphere Exchange"
Wednesday, May 07, 2025; location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f, 8th floor, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - MSc Defensio: Tobias Schilcher
"Forecasting Air Quality in Austria"
Date/time/location: 29 April 2025, 02:30 pm, computer room 60818 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- Graduate Seminar: Patrick Schmitt (ACINN)
Title: "Data assimilation in Global Glacier Modeling"
Wednesday, April 30, 2025; location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f, 8th floor, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Jono Conway (NIWA), Auckland
Title: "Icefield breezes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains"
Wednesday, April 09, 2025; location: on-line only.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Christine Schermer & Michael Deflorian (Amt Klimaneutrale Stadt, Stadtklima und Umwelt, Innsbruck)
Title: "Beating the Heat in Innsbruck: The State of the Urban Climate and Municipal Actions against the Local Effects of Climate Change"
Wednesday, April 02, 2025; location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f, seminar room 60819, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - MSc Defensio: Hannes Wieser
"Reconstructing and Homogenizing Lightning in Austria"
Date/time/location: 03 April 2025, 11:00 am, computer room 60818 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- MSc Defensio: Shahid Naqui
"Methane and Ethane Fluxes Measured in the Urban Area of Innsbruck"
Date/time/location: 26 March 2025, 04:15 pm, seminar room 60818 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- MSc Defensio: Francesco Rizziero
"How snowpack can affect thermally driven winds"
Date/time/location: 26 March 2025, 10:00 pm, seminar room 60818 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- Graduate Seminar: Karl Lapo
Title: "Introducing mrCOSTS: Unsupervised learning of coherent spatiotemporal structures"
Wednesday, March 26, 2025; location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f, seminar room 60819, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - PhD Defensio: Arianna Peron
Title: "Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds in Urban Environments; location: Hörsaal 2, GEIWI tower ground floor, and on-line;
28th of March, 2025, starting at 10 a.m.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - PhD Defensio: Lillian Schuster
Title: "Improving our understanding of future multi-century mountain glacier changes and runoff"; location: Hörsaal 2, GEIWI tower ground floor, and on-line;
24th of March, 2025, starting at 1 p.m.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - MSc Defensio: Lilly Zerbst
"Urban Climate Simulations in Complex Topography: Evaluation of the km-resolving CORDEX-FPS Ensemble"
Date/time/location: 14 March 2025, 03:00 pm, 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 )
- New publication in PNAS
A method for unsupervised learning of coherent spatiotemporal patterns in multiscale data. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415786122