Doctorates ant eh Leipzig Institute for Meteorology

• Matthias Faust
  Modelling of Dust Emissions from Agricultural Sources in Europe
• Ovid Oktavian Krüger
  Sources, spatio-temporal variation and co-variability of cloud condensation nuclei and black carbon
• Moritz Lochmann
  Improving wind power predictions on very short-term scales by including wind speed observations in the power forecast
• Christian Tatzelt
  Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Ice-Nucleating Particles on the Southern Ocean: Abundance and Properties during the Antarctic Circum-navigation Expedition
• Vasileios Tzallas
  Development and applications of a cloud regime dataset over Europe using satellite observations

• Honey Dawn C. Alas
  Mobile measurements of black carbon and PM: optimization of techniques and data analysis for pedestrian exposure
  Goutam Choudhury
  Cloud condensation nuclei concentrations from spaceborne lidar measurements - Methodology and validation
• Sebastian Düsing
  Investigation of physio-optical aerosol properties with in-situ and remote-sensing techniques
• Athina Avgousta Floutsi
  Development and application of an automatic lidar-based aerosol typing algorithm
• Hannes Jascha Griesche
  Arctic low-level mixed-phase clouds and their complex interactions with aerosol and radiation – Remote sensing of the Arctic troposphere with the shipborne supersite OCEANET-Atmosphere
• Daniel Hertel
  Optimierung von urbanen Hitzeanpassungsmaßnahmen
• Willi Schimmel
  Identifying Cloud Droplets Beyond Lidar Attenuation from Vertically Pointing Cloud Radar Observations Using Artificial Neural Networks
• Carola Barrientos Velacso
  Radiative Effects of Clouds in the Arctic
• Jonas Witthuhn
  Aerosol - remote sensing, characterization and aerosol-radiation interaction

• Ulrike Egerer
  A new set of tethered balloon-borne instrument payloads for collocated turbulence and radiation measurements in the cloudy Arctic boundary layer - first applications
• Christoph Geißler
  Quarterdiurnal Tide in the Middle Atmosphere
• Markus Hartmann
  Ice Nucleating Particles in the Arctic - A story of their abundance, properties and possible origin from the Little Ice Age to the current age of unpreceded Arctic warming
• Cristofer A. Jiménez Jiménez
  Observations of aerosol and liquid-water clouds with Dual-Field-of-View Polarization Lidar
• Jan Kretzschmar
  Improving the representation of Arctic clouds in atmospheric models across scales using observations
• Daniel Mewes
  Large-scale Horizontal Energy Fluxes into the Arctic Analyzed Using Self-organizing Maps
• Martin Radenz
  Hemispheric contrasts of ice formation in stratiform supercooled liquid louds: Long-term observations with the ground-based remote-sensing supersite LACROS
• Elena Ruiz Donoso
  Small-scale structure of thermodynamic phase in Arctic mixed-phase clouds observed with airborne remote sensing during the ACLOUD campaign
• Jacob Schacht
  Black Carbon Aerosol in the Arctic: Ageing, Transport and Radiative Effects
• Johannes Stapf
  Influence of Surface and Atmospheric Thermodynamic Properties on the Cloud Radiative Forcing and Radiative Energy Budget in the Arctic
• Bastian Stieger
  Highly time-resolved and long-time quantification of inorganics and low-molecular-weight organic acids in the gas and particle phases at the research station Melpitz
• Jia Sun
  Temporal and spatial variability of black carbon mass concentrations and size-resolved particle number concentrations in Germany ranging from City street to high Alpine environments
• Rajesh Ishwardas Vaishnav
  Delayed Ionospheric Response to Solar EUV/UV Radiation Variations.
• Diego Villanueva
  A story of dust and ice — constraining dust-driven immersion freezing in climate models using spaceborne retrievals
• Jiangyue Zhao
  Particle Exposure in German Dwellings: Particle Number and Mass Size Distributions, Indoor Particle Dynamics, and Source Apportionment

• Stefanie Anna Feuerstein
  Alluvial Dust Sources and their Implementation in a Dust-Emission Model
• Xianda Gong
  Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Ice-Nucleating Particles Over Tropical and Subtropical Regions in the Northern Hemisphere
• Julian Hofer
  Aerosol characterization over a Central Asian site: long-term lidar profiling at Dushanbe, Tajikistan
• Erik Hans Hoffmann
  CAPRAM mechanism and model developments for investigating marine multiphase chemistry effects linked to air quality and climate: From process to regional scale
  modelling
• Erik Schmölter
  The delayed ionospheric response to solar and geomagnetic activity
• Robert Wagner
  Dust Emissions Driven by Pyro-Convection – A Model Perspective
• Kevin Wolf
  Evaluation of the Radiation Scheme of a Numerical Weather Prediction Model by Airborne Measurements of Spectral Irradiance above Clouds

• Denise Assmann
  On the spatio-temporal distribution of aerosol particles in the upper troposphere and lowermost stratosphere
• Kathrin Gatzsche
  Investigation of gasSOA formation by parcel and 3-D modeling Grawe, Sarah: Coal fly ash: How sample properties and methodology influence immersion freezing results
• Sarah Grawe
  Coal fly ash: How sample properties and methodology influence immersion freezing results
• Eva Hallbauer
  Das hygroskopische Verhalten biogener sekundärer organischer Aerosolpartikel Herenz, Paul: Physical Properties of Arctic and Antarctic Aerosol Particles and Cloud Condensation Nuclei
• Paul Herenz
  Physical Properties of Arctic and Antarctic Aerosol Particles and Cloud Condensation Nuclei
• Trismono Candra Krisna
  Airborne Passive Remote Sensing of Optical Thickness and Particle Effective Radius of Cirrus and Deep Convective Clouds
• Friederike Lilienthal
  Analysis of the Forcing Mechanisms of the Terdiurnal Solar Tide in the Middle Atmosphere

• Karoline Block
  Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation interactions in regimes of liquid water clouds
• Tim Carlsen
  Influence of snow properties on directional surface reflectance in Antarctica
• Trismono Candra Krisna
  Airborne Passive Remote Sensing of Optical Thickness and Particle Effective Radius of Cirrus and Deep Convective Clouds 
• Aswathy Vijayan Nair
  Learning about marine cloud brightening: detectability of field experiments, benefits and risks of implementation
• Tina Schmeißner
  Exploring Mechanisms of Large Droplet Production in Trade Wind Cumuli
• Claudia Unglaub
  Cloud regime based analysis of adjustments to aerosol-cloud interactions using spaceborne measurements

• Stefanie Bauditz
  Immersion freezing experiments of biological, mineral dust and dust-bio-mixed particles with the Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator
• Sebastian Bley
  Investigation of warm convective cloud fields with Meteosat observations and high resolution models
• Ying Chen
  Evaluation and Improvement of Particle Number/Mass Size Distribution Modelling in WRF-Chem over Europe
• Fanny Finger 
  Spectral Optical Layer Properties of Cirrus - Collocated Airborne Measurements and Radiative Transfer Simulations 
• Andreas Foth
  Optimal Estimation of Water Vapour Profiles using a Combination of Raman Lidar and Microwave Radiometer
• Daniel Merk
  Uncertainties in the Quantification of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions

• Vasileios Barlakas
  A New Three-Dimensional Vector Radiative Transfer Model and Applications to Saharan Dust Fields
• Stefan Barthel (2016)
  Regionale Modellstudien zur Untersuchung von Emissionsparametrisierungen des primären marinen Aerosols
• Heiner Matthias Brück
  Evaluation of statistical cloud parameterizations
• Michael Jähn:
  Large Eddy Simulation Studies of Island Effects in the Caribbean Trade Wind Region
• Li LI
  Stokes parameters of skylight based on simulations and polarized radiometer measurements
• Alexander Myagkov
  Shape-temperature relationship of ice crystals in mixed-phase clouds based on observations with polarimetric cloud radar
• Michael Schäfer:
  Optical Thickness Retrievals of Subtropical Cirrus and Arctic Stratus from Ground-Based and Airborne Radiance Observations Using Imaging Spectrometers
• Roland Schrödner:
  Modeling the tropospheric multiphase aerosol-cloud processing using the 3-D chemistry transport model COSMO-MUSCAT
• Anja Schwarz
  Aerosol typing over Europe and its benefits for the CALIPSO and EarthCARE missions - Statistical analysis based on multiwavelength aerosol lidar measurements from groundbased EARLINET stations and comparison to spaceborne CALIPSO data

• Marlen Brückner
  Retrieval of Optical and Microphysical Cloud Properties Using Ship-based Spectral Solar Radiation Measurements over the Atlantic Ocean
• Peter Bräuer
  Extension and application of a tropospheric aqueous phase chemical mechanism (CAPRAM) for aerosol and cloud models
• Susan Hartmann
  An immersion freezing study of mineral dust and bacterial ice nucleating particles
• Stefan Horn
  Simulations of complex atmospheric flows using GPUs - the model ASAMgpu -
• Shan Huang
  Chemical composition of the submicrometer aerosol over the Atlantic Ocean
• Carolin Rösch
  New aspects of air contamination by the interaction of indoor and urban air
• Michael Rösch
  Untersuchung zur Generierung und zum Immersionsgefrierverhalten supermikroner, quasimonodisperser Mineralstaubpartikel
• Andreas Weigelt
  An optical particle counter for the regular application onboard a passenger aircraft: instrument modification, characterization and results from the first year of operation

• Stefan Bauer
  Airborne spectral radiation measurements to derive solar radiative forcing of Saharan dust mixed with biomass burning smoke particles
• Gionata Biavati
  On the Retrieval of Mixing Height from Ceilometers
• Florian Ditas
  Microphysical properties of aerosol particles in the trade wind regime and their influence on the number concentration of activated particles in trade wind cumulus clouds
• Jeannine Ditas
  On the small-scale dynamics of cloud edges
• Christa Engler
  Meteorologische Einflüsse auf die Konzentrationen feiner und grober atmosphärischer Aerosolpartikel in Deutschland
• Timo Hanschmann
  Unsicherheiten in der Erfassung des kurzwelligen Wolkenstrahlungseffektes
• Marcel König
  Large-Eddy Simulation Modelling for Urban Scale
• Nicole Niedermeier
  Experimental determination of the mass deposition flux of mineral dust at the Cape Verde Islands
• Sascha Pfeifer
  Verknüpfung aerodynamischer und optischer Eigenschaften nichtkugelförmiger atmosphärischer Grobstaubpartikel
• Frank Werner
  Twomey Effect of Trade Wind Cumuli

• Claas Henning Köhler
  Radiative Effect of Mixed Mineral Dust and Biomass Burning Aerosol in the Thermal Infrared
• Stephan Nordmann
  Light absorption of atmospheric soot particles over Central Europe
• Jessica Meier
  Thema: Regional aerosol modeling in Europe: Evaluation with focus on vertical profiles and radiative effects
• Britta Stefanie Mey
  Einfluss der Bodenalbedo und Bodenreflektivität von urbanen Oberflächen auf die Ableitung der optischen Dicke von Aerosolpartikeln aus Satellitenmessungen

• Holger Baars
  Aerosol profiling with lidar in the Amazon Basin during the wet and dry season 2008
• Katrin Dieckmann (geb. Mildenberger)
  Hygroscopic Growth and Activation Measurements of Aerosol Particles in Lab and Field
• Dennis Niedermeier
  Heterogeneous ice nucleation in droplets containing mineral dust particles: An experimental and theoretical study
• Sebastian Otto
  Optische Eigenschaften nichtkugelförmiger Saharamineralstaubpartikel und deren Einfluss auf den Strahlungstransport in der Erdatmosphäre

• Peter Hoffmann
  Planetary Wave Coupling between Stratosphere and Ionosphere by Gravity Wave Modulation
• Alexander Schladitz
  Parametrization of relative humidity- and wavelength-dependent optical properties of mixed Saharan dust and marine aerosol
• Patric Seifert
   Dust-related ice formation in the troposphere: A statistical analysis based on 11 years of lidar observations of aerosols and clouds over Leipzig
• Matthias Tesche
  Vertical profiling of aerosol optical properties with multiwavelength aerosol lidar during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiments
• Markus Ziese
  Entwicklung und Aufbau einer mobilen Version des Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator (LACIS) sowie dessen Einsatz zur Untersuchung des hygroskopischen Wachstums und der Aktivierung laborgenerierter Aerosolpartikel

• Christina Arras
  A Global Survey of Sporadic E Layers based on GPS Radio Occultations by CHAMP, GRACE and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
• Jens Voigtländer
  Hygroscopic growth and CCN activation of slightly soluble organic and inorganic compounds - Evaluation of experimental LACIS data with FLUENT/FPM

Doctoral degrees 2009

• Manuela Barth
  Akustische Tomographie zur zeitgleichen Erfassung von Temperatur- und Strömungsfeldern
• Verena Grützun
  Influence of Aerosol Particles on Deep Convective Clouds: Investigations with the New Model LM-SPECS
• Andreas Tilgner
  Modelling of the physico-chemical multiphase processing of tropospheric aerosols

Doctoral degrees 2008

• Bernd Heinold
  Regional modeling of Saharan dust in the framework of the SAMUM (SAharan Mineral dUst experiMent) field project
• Anke Kniffka
  Einfluss der Inhomogenitäten von Aerosol, Bodenalbedo und Wolken auf das aktinische Strahlungsfeld der Atmosphäre

Doctoral degrees 2006

• Katja Hungershöfer
  Optical Properties of Aerosol Particles and Radiative Transfer in Connection with Biomass Burning
• Andreas Nowak
  Das feuchte Partikelgrößenspektrometer: Eine neue Messmethode zur Bestimmung von Partikelgrößenverteilungen (< 1 µm) und größenaufgelösten hygroskopischen Wachstumsfaktoren bei definierten Luftfeuchten
• Kai Radtke
  Zur Sensitivität von Starkwindfeldern gegenüber verschiedenen meteorologischen Parametern im Mesoskalenmodell LM
• Konstantin Tsybulya
  Detection and Analysis of the Ionospheric Electron Density Structures Using GPS Radio Occultations on board the CHAMP Satellite

Doctoral degrees 2005

• Kristina Fröhlich
  The Quasi Two-Day Wave - its impact on the zonal mean circulation and wave-wave interactions in the middle atmosphere
• Evelyn Jäkel
  An airborne system for fast measurements of upwelling and downwelling spectral actinic flux densities
• Sebastian Schmidt
  Influence of Cloud Inhomogenities on Solar Spectral Radiation
• Claudia Stolle
  Three-dimensional imaging of ionospheric electron density fields using GPS observations at the ground and onboard the CHAMP satellite
• Kristina Zeromskien
  Physical characterization of laboratory-produced biomass burning aerosol particles

Doctoral degrees 2004

• Robin Faulwetter
  Zur Anwendbarkeit des Fluktuations-Dissipations-Theorems
• Harald Heinrich
  Finite barotrope Instabilität unter synoptischem Antrieb
• Maria Manjarrez
  Zusammenhang zwischen den Anzahlkonzentrationen von Indoor- und Outdoor-Partikeln in Abhängigkeit von meteorologischen und physikalischen Parametern
• Ulrich Uhrner
  New Particle Formation and Growth in the Lower Troposphere: A Comparison of Model Results with Observations at a Continental Background Site

Doctoral degrees 2003

• Kathleen Franke
  Optische und physikalische Eigenschaften süd- und südostasiatischer Aerosolpartikel: Beobachtungen mit einem Sechswellenlängenlidar auf den Malediven während INDOEX
• Volker Jaenisch
  Der Einfluss turbulenter Mischungsprozesse auf die Bildungsraten atmosphärischer Aerosolpartikel
• Stephan Leinert
  Hygroscopicity of Micrometer-Sized Aerosol Particles - a New Measurement Technique
• Stefan Schlüter
  GPS-basierte Bestimmung dreidimensionaler Elektronendichteverteilungen in der Ionosphäre

Doctoral degrees 2002

• Andreas Maßling
  Hygroscopic Properties of Atmospheric Particles over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
• Ina Mattis
  Aufbau eines Feuchte-Temperatur-Aerosol-Ramanlidars und Methodenentwicklung zur kombinierten Analyse von Trajektorien und Aerosolprofilen
• Holger Siebert
  Tethered-Balloon Borne Turbulence Measurements in the Cloudy Boundary Layer
• Martin Simme
  Ein Modul zur spektralen Beschreibung von Wolken und Niederschlag in einem Mesoskalenmodell zur Verwendung auf Parallelrechnern
• Heike Wex
  Closure and Sensitivity Studies on Physical Parameters of Rural Continental Aerosols

Doctoral degrees 2001

• Oliver Fanenbruck
  Ein thermophysiologisches Bewertungsmodell mit Anwendung auf das Leipziger Stadtgebiet
• Michael Lange
  Modellstudien zum CO2-Anstieg und O3-Abbau in der mittleren Atmosphäre und Einfluß des Polarwirbels auf die zonale Symmetrie des Windfeldes in der Mesopausenregion
• Thomas Müller
  Bestimmung streckenintegrierter Aerosolparameter und Wasserdampfkonzentrationen aus spektralen Extinktionsmessungen

Doctoral degrees 2000

• Klaus Arnold
  Ein experimentelles Verfahren zur Akustischen Tomographie im Bereich der atmosphärischen Grenzschicht
• Andreas Keil 
  Einfluss absorbierender Aerosolpartikel und verschmutzter Wolken auf den solaren Strahlungshaushalt der Atmosphäre.
• Michael Klingspohn
  Interdekadische Klimavariabilität über dem Nordatlantik - Statistische Analysen und Modellstudien
• Holger Siebert 
  Tethered-balloon borne turbulence measurements in the cloudy boundary layer.
• Astrid Ziemann
  Eine theoretische Studie zur akustischen Tomographie in der atmosphärischen Grenzschicht

Doctoral degrees 1999

• R. Surkow
  Optimierung der Leistungsverfügbarkeit von Windenergie durch ihre Integration in Wind-Biogas-Hybridanlagen

Doctoral degrees 1998

• J. Rißmann
  Der Einfluß langwelliger Strahlungsprozesse auf das bodennahe Temperaturprofil

Doctoral degrees 1997

• B.-R. Beckmann
  ​​​​​​Veränderungen in der Windklimatologie und in der Häufigkeit von Sturmhochwassern an der Ostseeküste Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns
• P. Posse 
  Bestimmung klimarelevanter Parameter des maritimen Aerosols unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Nichtkugelform realer Aerosolteilchen

Doctoral degrees 1996

• J. Laubach 
  Charakterisierung des turbulenten Austausches von Wärme, Wasserdampf und Kohlendioxid über niedriger Vegetation anhand von Eddy-Korrelations-Messungen

Doctoral degrees 1995

• R. Devantier
  Wolkenbildungsprozesse über der südwestlichen Ostsee - Anwendungen eines neuen Wolkenschemas in einem mesoskaligen Modell