Atmospheric Science

150 years ago, on February 16, 1876, the first daily weather map was published as a supplement to the daily "Wetterbericht der Deutschen Seewarte" (“Weather Report of the German Maritime Observatory”), which had been printed since January 1, 1876.

Wladimir Köppen, then head of Department III of the Deutsche Seewarte, had...

Leonie Nellesen successfully defended her Master’s thesis. Congrats, Leonie! Her work focused on improving cloud cover observations in the Arctic by using all-sky camera images from Svalbard and developing a new machine-learning algorithm, helping to fill crucial data gaps during the polar night. She then put these new...

Since 1988, he has been working in our electronics laboratory on the 16th floor of the Geomatikum. Today, we bid farewell to Michael Offermann as he enters well-deserved retirement. His professional life has been as diverse as one might expect in research: as the guardian of our measuring instruments, he was recognized by...