Münchner Physik Kolloquium: How can we learn more about clouds?

by Bernhard Mayer (Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Meteorologie, LMU München)

Monday 30 May 2011, 17:15 → 18:45 Europe/Berlin

Hörsaal H 030 (Fakultät für Physik der LMU, Schellingstr. 4, München)

Clouds are probably the most fascinating and complex atmospheric constituents. Although they are understood in principle, they are not only largely responsible for the uncertainty of climate simulations; equally difficult is the accurate prediction of their occurrence by numerical weather forecast models, e.g. for the case of the actual location of a thunderstorm. The talk will highlight new approaches to cloud remote sensing in order better understand cloud formation, microphysics, and evolution, as well as new approaches to the underlying radiative transfer calculations.