Centre of Excellence in Small Scale Atmospheric Research

http://cessar.fuw.edu.pl

Program: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (EESD)

Warsaw University

Institute of Geophysicshttp://www.igf.fuw.edu.pl

WARSAW UNIVERSITY

5 483 total employees, 2 721 academicteachers,

1 462 Ph.D. Candidates, 57 724 students

FACULTY OF PHYSICS

359 total employees, 184 academicteachers,

129 Ph.D. Candidates, 1 149 students

INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS

23 total employees, 18 faculty,

18 Ph.D. Candidates, 30 students

ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS DIVISION,CESSAR

8 total employees, 5 faculty,9 Ph.D. Candidates, 12 students

within Warsaw

University

Scientific Staff:

dr Konrad Bajer

prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Haman

dr hab. Szymon Malinowski, prof. UW

dr Krzysztof Markowicz

dr hab. Hanna Pawłowska, prof. UW – coordinator

PhD Students:

mgr Piotr Drzewiecki

mgr Elżbieta Grzeszczak

mgr Aleksandra Kardaś

mgr Marcin Kurowski

mgr Zbigniew Piotrowski

mgr inż. Piotr Rasiński

mgr J oanna Remiszewska

mgr J oanna Sławińska

mgr Marcin Witek

Technical Staff:

dr inż Wojciech Kumala

mgr Małgorzata Nurek-Malinowska

M. Sc. Students:

~8 Atmospheric Physics Students

~2 Environmental Physics Students

~2 Students with individual studying programme

Administration:

mgr Ewa Rasińska

team:

specialises in investigations of atmospheric processes on the smallest scales and their interaction with larger scale phenomena.

Understanding small scale processes is allows to describe precisely many dynamic and thermodynamic interactions in the atmosphere as well as to increase our ability to simulate and predict global circulation and climate.

CNRM Meteo-France

Toulouse

KNMI, De Bilt, Holland

Freie Universität Berlin

Leibniz Institut für Troposphärenforschung,

Leipzig

Scripps Institution for Oceanography, UCSD,

La Jolla, CA, USA

National Center for Atmospheric

Research, Boulder, CO, USA

Naval Research Laboratory,

Monterey, CA, USA

Institute of Oceanology PAS,

Sopot, Poland

Warsaw Univesity:Lidar Group,

ICM

Warsaw Technical University

Institute of Geophysics

PAS

IPPT PASWarsaw, Poland

partners

Outline:originally the project was planned for 36 months (2003-2005). EU allowed for 12 months extension (2006).

Types of activities undertaken:

Scientific - support of participation in international field campaigns;

- organization of special session on ICCP 2004 Bologna.

Exchange - visitor programme for European young scientists CESSAR;

- support of visits of CESSAR students, young researchers and faculty staff in European research centres;

- support of conference presentations of CESSAR's students and researchers;

- short-term visits of foreign scientists to CESSAR.short-term visits of foreign scientists to CESSAR.

Education - summer schools/workshops with world-class scientists giving lectures to Polish students and young researchers;

- enhancement of educational offer at CESSAR.

Other - library modernization;- information and communication (www).

problems (failures) and actions undertaken:

- only two log term foreign post-doc visitors (dr Gintautas Stankinavicius Lithuania, Dr Jens Bange, Germany);

/support of Polish graduate students and post-docs (short and longer scientific stages at CESSAR);

- technical problems with the WWW server (not fully functional)

/an attempt to build a more functional one undertaken.

success:- organisation of summer schools/workshops:2004 -”Physical Mechanisms of Climate Change”, Piaski, 21-24 June

8 lecturers – scientists from EU and US, 44 participants – mainly

graduate students and young scientists from Poland.

2005 - “Modern Techniques in Atmospheric and Climatic Studies”, Kościelisko, June 19-23

7 lecturers – scientists from EU and Canada,52 participants – mainly graduate students and young scientists from Poland.

summary:

- increase of Ph.D students/candidates from 5 to 9, collaborative doctorates with CNRM, KNMI, NCAR;

- increased activity of M.Sc/Ph.D students – organization of scientific camps, student seminars, participation in field experiments, construction of simple scientific equipment.

- increased participation in ZFA/CESSAR seminars (typically from ~15 to ~40), participants from outside Warsaw), popular website;

- international conference support: all ph.D. candidates with presentations been supported (~20 presentations);

- substantial short term exchange between CESSAR and EU (~20 visits/year, both directions);

- reform of M.Sc. studies, substantial improvement in communications (website), modernization of the library;

- support of participation in the international collaborations (field campaigns: BBC2 and RICO, ICCP conference, small research projects).

synergies:

- modernization of the ZFA/CESSAR headquarters;

- organization of the international measurement campaign in Warsaw(SAWA-2005, remote sensing of aerosols);

- development of the CESSAR/ZFA laboratory;

- attraction of M.Sc students from the country;

- promotion of EU R&D projects.

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