Google Groups

The ICCP mail list is being migrated to google groups. You should have received an invitation to join this group–if you click the appropriate link in the email you will be added to the group. If you did not receive and email and wish to subscribe to this email list, you can either 1) sign in to google groups and search for the group “iccpmail” after clicking my groups and selecting all groups and messages–then click on the iccpmail group and you can ask to join the group; or 2) send a request to mcfarq at ou dot edu and request to be added.

14th International Precipitation Conference

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce the 14th International Precipitation Conference (IPC14) which will take place on June 5-9, 2023 at the National Weather Center at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. The theme of IPC14 is “Emerging directions in precipitation science and applications: going beyond” with emphasis on three main topics: (1) Multi-source observations and modeling of precipitation; (2) Water cycle dynamics from regional to global scales; and (3) Precipitation extremes and hydrological hazards including floods, droughts, and landslides. More information can be found on the IPC14 website.

The goal of this conference is to create a discussion platform for all scientists to define challenges and opportunities, and craft directions for future research in precipitation. The IPC14 organizing committee put together a survey to identify the most critical questions to address during the conference. We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback to improve your experience. The conference agenda and discussions will be designed accordingly to maximize the benefit of IPC14. Please fill out the survey by April 7 to indicate your interest in participating and identify the most critical topics to discuss during the conference.

Please contact the IPC14 Organizing Committee at ipc14@arrc.ou.edu with any questions. Reminders will be sent out periodically.

We look forward to seeing you in Norman on June 5-9, 2023.

Best regards,

Pierre Kirstetter

on behalf of the IPC14 organizing committee

Workshop ‘Clouds containing Ice Particles’ – 23. – 26 July, 2023

Workshop ‘Clouds containing Ice Particles’
   23. – 26 July, 2023

Where: Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
https://www.uni-mainz.de/, https://www.mainz.de/en/index.php

When: 23 – 26 July, 2023
(the week after the IUGG 2023 in Berlin)

What:
The intention of the workshop is to discuss all aspects of cirrus and mixed-phased clouds – the least understood cloud types, but contributing significantly to the uncertainty in climate predictions.

The topics of the workshop are intended to be comprehensive, from in-situ and remote sensing observations of clouds to their modeling on all scales. We encourage contributions on the state of knowledge, new findings and open questions, as well as on experimental, theoretical and computational methods used in research.

The workshop will be open for ∼75 guests, registration fees will be around 50 Euro,
Sunday: ice breaker, Mon-Wed: coffee + cookies and lunch snack will be provided.

More information on the registration deadline, abstract submission and further
                   organizational issues will be send around soon.
            For the moment,
                       please save the date (23 – 26 July 2023)
                             and let us know
                     (mail to: m.kraemer@fz-juelich.de)
                              if you plan to attend
                           until 30 November 2022
            so that we can plan accommodation and catering.

Organizing Committee:
Martina Krämer (Univ. Mainz, Research Center Jülich),
Greg McFarquhar (Univ. Oklahoma)
Peter Spichtinger (Univ. Mainz),
Philipp Reutter (Univ. Mainz)

Location:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Uni_Mainz_-_Alte_Mensa_2.jpg)

( https://www.mainz-tourismus.com/en/ )

Funding Organizations:

Gutenberg Research College, University Mainz
(GRC: https://www.grc.uni-mainz.de/)

Institute for Atmospheric Physics, University Mainz
(IAP: https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb08-ipa-en/arbeitsgruppen/)

International Commission for Clouds and Precipitation
(ICCP: https://www.iamas.org/iccp/members/)

ICCP Journal Club Schedule

The ICCP Journal Club is continuing with monthly presentations on the last Wednesday of the month at 15 UTC.

The link to register for the event is https://iamas.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0fbe4492c6a887b504afdf7ca&id=4d15eecec0&e=364b76fa38.

This link allows you to register for the event. Upon registering, you will be sent the zoom meeting link. Note that this link is the same for all weeks. Due to switches during daylight savings time, please check the time conversion for your time zone–the zoom link for the meeting may not show the correct time. The meetings are at 15 UTC.

Note that we are also requesting volunteers for speakers at future meetings in fall 2023. Please let us know if you would like to make a presentation.

A complete updated list of all the planned sessions for the journal club is included below.

Kind regards,

Martina Krämer, Greg McFarquhar and Odran Sourdeval

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LIST OF JOURNAL CLUB SESSIONS

22 February 2023, 15 UTC: Yuwei Zhang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL, Richland, WA, USA), Wildfire Effects on Weather Hazards

29 March 2023, 15 UTC: Micael Amore Cecchini (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Quantifying vertical wind shear effects in shallow cumulus clouds over Amazonia

26 April 2023, 15 UTC: Mathieu Lachapelle (L’Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM), Ice pellets and freezing rain: Microphysical processes and detection

24 May 2023, 15 UTC: Armin Afchine (Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ IEK-7, Jülich, Germany), Agreement of cloud particle size distributions from different airborne instruments

28 June 2023, 15 UTC: Diego Santiago Villanueva (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Global patterns of cloud phase seasonality

26 July 2023, No presentation this month.

30 August 2023, 15 UTC: Reinhold Spang (Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ IEK-7, Jülich, Germany), Microphysical and optical properties of thin to thick cirrus clouds derived from bimodal particle size distributions

IAMAS ECS Webinar on August 25th: Dr. Edward Gryspeerdt

IAMAS Early Career Scientist Webinar Series #2 August 25th 2021

Quantifying the Human Impact on Climate by Doing “Experiments” on Clouds

Wednesday August 25th at 15:00-16:00 UTC
All attendees must register through the following link:https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_47jo-glETPuz0p-v0AHq1g

Abstract
Almost all cloud droplets and many ice crystals form on small (nanometre to micron sized) particles known as aerosols. Increases in aerosols from human activity have increased the concentration of droplets in clouds since the industrial revolution, making clouds more reflective and cooling the climate offsetting a significant fraction of the warming from greenhouse gases. Unfortunately, clouds are highly variable which makes the impact of aerosols difficult to isolate. This means that the impact of aerosols on clouds remains one the most uncertain anthropogenic forcing of the climate system.

Here we provide a way around this problem, by using isolated sources of aerosol as natural experiments into cloud behaviour. By matching satellite observations of clouds to new datasets on ship positions and emissions, we can characterise the aerosol-cloud system in hundreds of thousands of cases. This allows us to measure not only which clouds are sensitive to aerosols, but how sensitive they are and how quickly they respond to changes in their environment. As well as providing new insights into cloud processes useful for constraining models, it also demonstrates a way to monitor shipping pollution in the open ocean.

Dr. Edward Gryspeerdt is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. He previously worked at the Universities of Leipzig and and Oxford, looking at aerosol-cloud interactions and cloud physics in observations and models.

Our email address is:
ecs.iamas.org@gmail.com

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ICCP conference

The 18th ICCP conference is going on this week. Certain parts are public and streamed and archived via YouTube:

Day 1 https://youtu.be/fIF0cApKjbE
Day 1 | ICCP Commission Event | 2 Aug | 1630:1730 UTC

Day 2 https://youtu.be/JP3vSaY44fU
Day 2 | Panel discussion | 3 Aug | 1600:1700 UTC
Topic: The Missing In situ and remote sensing observations: What properties, in what location and season, and at what spatial and temporal scales? How do these missing measurements impact our understanding of cloud processes?
Chair: Prof. Andrea Flossmann
Panelists: Prof. Greg McFarquhar | Dr. Darrel Baumgardner | Professor. V Chandrashekar

Day 5 https://youtu.be/NMH-uYh_Fqo
Day 5 | Panel Discussion | 1600:1700 UTC
Topic: Lab studies related to cloud formation, evolution and aerosol interaction: What studies, observations and instrumentation are needed?
Chair: Prof. Alexei Korolev
Dr. Heike Wex | Dr. Birabel Sinha | Dr. Paul Connolly |Dr. Zamin A Kanji
Prof. Corinna Hoose | Prof. Nandakumar K | Dr. Shivsai Dixit

International cloud modeling workshop

The ICMW that was held last week was a large success. The sessions were recorded and are avaible on YouTube for your convenience.

Pi chamber – https://youtu.be/qFhyT8LscSI

Congestus – https://youtu.be/03WgWoDTHSI

COPE – https://youtu.be/BshfoL4XefI

Caipeex – https://youtu.be/g9BFpMfVyPc

Summary – https://youtu.be/Kgef2YlrGqY

Follow the event discussions during the ongoing ICCP conference on YouTube

Day 1 https://youtu.be/fIF0cApKjbE
Day 1 | ICCP Commission Event | 2 Aug | 1630:1730 UTC

Agenda and way to participate of the 10th International Cloud Modeling Workshop

Dear ICCP/ICMW participants and colleagues, the 10^th International Cloud Modeling Workshop (ICMW) will be held online through the gather.town platform during 13 to 16 UTC from July 26 to 30, 2021.

The brief meeting agenda is listed in the following for your reference:

July 26 (Monday), 1230-1300 UTC: ICMW opening session

July 26 (Monday), 13-16 UTC: Pi chamber case

July 27 (Tuesday), 13-16 UTC: Single congestus cloud case

July 28 (Wednesday), 13-16 UTC: COPE convective system case

July 29 (Thursday), 13-16 UTC: CAIPEEX monsoon convective case

July 30 (Friday), 13-16 UTC: Summary of the ICMW and discussion

The detailed agenda will be updated in the gather.town workshop space every day.

You can check out the case descriptions and details at: https://iccp2020.tropmet.res.in/fnd/Cloud-Modeling-Workshop-2020.

The ICMW organizing committee decided to open up the workshop to all ICCP/ICMW registered participants and interested researchers for free. Registered participants can find the ICMW gather.town space information in their ICCP portal pages.

You can also get your gather.town workshop space link and password by visiting https://iccp2020.tropmet.res.in/fnd/Cloud-Modeling-Workshop-2020 and clicking on “Please register at this link” in the announcement texts around the top area of the page. An email invite to the gather.town platform will be sent to you once you complete and submit the google form. We will also share with you an instruction document on how to use our gather.town workshop space.

We hope to see many of you at the workshop soon!

Lulin Xue and Shivsai Dixit on behalf of the ICMW organizing committee.

Open position at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna(Austria)

The Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, Institute of Meteorology and Climatology wishes to fill a career position in compliance with § 99 (5) UG (tenure-track) in the field of

Meteorology and Climatology with a focus on Hydrometeorology and Cloud Physics

Working time: 40 hours a week
Term of the employment relationship: 1st of January 2022, limited to a period of 6 years

Allocation in compliance with the Collective Agreement for University Staff to job group: B1 lit. b Gross monthly salary (depending on previous eligible experience) at least: € 3,945.90 (14 x a year, in addition we also offer an attractive career development programme and an extensive range of social benefits)

Target group

§99 (5) positions offer academics with high potential and the relevant achievements the opportunity of an academic carrier ranging from a postdoc position to that of assistant professor and on to associated professor. The position of associated professor can be achieved at the latest six years after the appointment. §99 (5) positions are aimed at academics with a doctorate/PhD degree, with high potential, who are close to or have already successfully completed a habilitation. Experience at other universities or research institutes abroad is expressly welcome.

Tasks and focus areas

Research in the field of meteorology and climatology with a focus on hydrometeorology and cloud physics
Perform process studies for cloud formation and precipitation
Perform observations with ground-based remote sensing (weather and cloud radar systems) and in-situ instruments

Model cloud micro-physical processes
Model precipitation events at different scales and validate model output with observations Establish the research field and cooperate broadly in the institute
Cooperate with other relevant institutes in the Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment and other departments at BOKU
Teaching and supervision or co-supervision of final papers within the scope of legal possibilities
Transfer of knowledge and the promotion of junior researchers in line with the social responsibility of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Assumption of administrative tasks within the framework of university self-administration Acquisition and management of competitively funded national and international research projects
Publish and present accomplished research results
Represent the field of expertise at the national and international levels

Requirement profile

Completed doctorate in a relevant field
Sound professional experience in the scientific field as a postdoc
Excellent publication achievements as well as international orientation and recognition

Willingness and ability to lead your own research team incl. the necessary funding this requires (third-party funding)
Enthusiasm for outstanding teaching
Interest in interdisciplinary research and teaching

Excellent knowledge of German and English, both written and spoken or willingness to learn German within the first two years

Other desired qualifications

Experience abroad as well as in teaching and leadership at universities and research institutions
Diploma or M.Sc. studies in meteorology or a related discipline
Experience in meteorological measurement techniques

Experience in meteorological modeling, particularly related to the improvement of micro- physical parametrizations
Good knowledge of statistics
Good programming skills

Experience in the acquisition, management and implementation of research projects High motivation, ability to work in a team, independence

Publication date: 2nd of June 2021
Closing date for applications: 20th of July 2021

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna seeks to increase the number of its female faculty and staff members. Therefore qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. In case of equal qualification, female candidates will be given preference unless reasons specific to an individual male candidate tilt the balance in his favour.

People with disabilities and appropriate qualifications are specifically encouraged to apply.

Please submit your application in English incl.

Curriculum vitae with detailed presentation of professional, teaching and research activities List of all publications (refereed & non-refereed), lectures and projects
Electronic transmission of the PDF files of five own publications which you consider to be particularly important

Rough concept for future plans in research and teaching including your contribution to the scientific profile of the Department
Teaching portfolio including evaluation results
Brief explanation why you think you should be particularly suitable for this position (max. 1 page)

Contact details of 3 professionals willing to provide a letter of reference
and indicating the reference code 117 to kerstin.buchmueller-at-boku.ac.at until 20th of July 2021.

Applicants are not entitled to reimbursement of travel and accommodation costs incurred as a result of the selection procedure.