Meteorological Institute

Developing independently research questions and conducting appropriate measuring experiments - that is the core of the two-week field trip at Fehmarn. The following questions have been tackled this year by eleven students: Are we exposed to higher UV insolation at the beach? Can we derive a shadow map from cloud camera...

This year, the Meteorological Institute participates in the ICUC10, the 10th International Conference on Urban Climate/ 14th Symposium on the Urban Environment, with four presentations. The conference is held in New York from 6-10 August. Abstracts of the four contributions as well as the poster can be viewed here: 

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The OceanRAIN dataset of our colleague Dr. Christian Klepp, for which global ocean water cycle data were measured for seven years, has now been published in Nature's Scientific Data.  Thanks to the rapidly growing dataset of already more than 6.8 million measurements, recorded by 8 ships, a clear picture is now emerging of...