Main Topics and Courses

Courses

The main lecture courses will be complemented by tutorials, sessions of questions and anwers, theme discussions and poster presentations.
The course is aimed primarely at PhD students, postdocs and other young scientists wishing to broaden and deepen their knowledge or to identify new research opportunities.

Main Topics

Observations

in situ and remote sensing instruments, water isotopologues

Water vapour in the climate system

role in the radiative processes, dynamical role in the mid-latitudes and in tropics

Supersaturation processes and the generation of cirrrus clouds
Processes determining the distribution of water vapour in the free atmosphere

long-range transport, coupling with convection, dehydration at the tropical tropopause

Modelling water vapour

parameterizations, transport, assimilation of water vapour data, future evolution under climate change

Confirmed Speakers

R. Allan (Univ. Reading),
W. Bell (ECMWF) ,
S. Fueglistaler (Univ. Cambridge),
F. Fierli (CNR/Bologna),
W. Lahoz (NILU),
B. Legras (LMD/IPSL),
E. Moyer (U. Chicago),
T. Peter (ETH Zurich),
R. Roca (LMD/IPSL),
W. Randell (NCAR),
K. Rosenlof (NOAA),
C. Schiller (FZ Julich),
S. Sherwood (Univ. Sydney),
H. Tost (MPI Mainz)