Fellows contributed to Wikipedia
by Eva Holzenhauer
The ITaRS fellows added and created three articles online. The scientific content of these Wikipedia articles is closely linked to their research fields.
ITaRS fellow at Barcelona publishes study in Boundary-Layer Meteorology
by Robert Banks
The full research article, “Performance evaluation of boundary-layer heights from lidar and the Weather Research and Forecasting model at an urban coastal site in the north-east Iberian Peninsula” has been published in Boundary-Layer Meteorology by R. F. Banks et al. from the Polytechnic Univ. of Catalonia and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Understanding Clouds and Precipitation through highly resolved process modelling and observations
February 15th - February 19th, 2016, Berlin
ITaRS partner project HD(CP)2 invites researchers to come to Berlin for an international conference. Abstracts can be submitted until September 15, 2015.
The aim of the conference is to reflect the different dimensions of the problem in four sessions. Session II - Advances in Observating Clouds and Precipitation - is chaired by ITaRS coordinator Susanne Crewell and by Robert Pincus:
The ability to simultaneously characterize clouds and the environment with which they interact has been transformed in the last decade by technical advances in active and passive remote sensing technology, refinement of retrieval techniques for turning measurements into observations, and long data records available from both space- and ground-based platforms. This session seeks contributions that use observations at all scales, especially those combing disparate information, to understand the processes controlling micro- and/or macro-physical cloud development and how this depends on the environment.
ITaRS fellow teaching in Iceland
If you do your PhD at a university like the TU in Delft, education is one of the tasks PhD-students are busy with other than their research. This year the Department of Geosciences and Remote Sensing went to Reykjahlíð, at lake Myvatn, to do their Master field work trip for the third year in a row, this time with me as one of the team members.