PIs: Susanne Crewell, Gunnar Spreen, Manfred Wendisch (former PI: Justus Notholt)

12 February 2024

The new call for applications within the IRTG Internal Grants Programme is open from now on. Please send your application for travels, invited guests or outreach activities, including motivation, support of your supervisor and a cost estimate to the IRTG coordinator.

The call text, the application form and the report template can be found in the downloads section.

11 September 2023

The new call for applications within the IRTG Internal Grants Programme is open from now on. Please send your application for travels, invited guests or outreach activities, including motivation, support of your supervisor and a cost estimate to the IRTG coordinator.
Application deadline: 31 October 2023 (23:59 CEST).

The call text, the application form and the report template can be found in the downloads section.

27 March 2023

Everybody returned safely from our winter school. Thanks to Nina, a report including some visual impressions can be found here.

01 February 2023

The new call for applications within the IRTG Internal Grants Programme is open from now on. Please send your application for travels, invited guests or outreach activities, including motivation, support of your supervisor and a cost estimate to the IRTG coordinator.
Application deadline: 31 March 2023 (23:59 CEST).

The call text, the application form and the report template can be found in the downloads section.

07 November 2022

We happily announce our joint Winterschool on Arctic amplification – the role of clouds (in feedback mechanisms) taking place in Hyytiälä, Finnland from 12 to 18 March 2023.
There will be lectures addressing all five research fields of our (AC)³ clusters. Furthermore, we will offer different topics for practical group work and a tour to the SMEAR II observation site.

We could win both of our (AC)³ Mercator Fellows for the school, our three (AC)³ speakers for the upcoming third funding period of (AC)³ and further researchers from inside (AC)³ and the University of Helsinki.
The school is open to interested (AC)³ IRTG members and doctoral researchers of the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI).

The detailed programm can be found here.

Information on Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station can be found here.

16 August 2022

The IRTG travel grants have been expanded to more diverse purposes and are called IRTG Internal Grants Programme from now on. The call for applications within the IRTG Internal Grants Programme is open from now on. Please send your application for travels, invited guests or outreach activities, including motivation, support of your supervisor and a cost estimate to the IRTG coordinator. The call text, the application form and the report template can be found in the downloads section.

15 December 2021

Call for application within our IRTG travel grants is open now. Please send your applicatioon, including motivation, support of your supervisor and a cost estimate to the IRTG coordinator. The call text can be downloaded here. You can find the application form and report template below in the downloads section.

The (AC)³ IRTG offers a training programme, which addresses the contents of the (AC)³ project. On the basis of the existing structures at the (AC)³ partners, a qualification programme is developed, aiming at broadening and deepening scientific skills, adjusting the different knowledge of the early career researchers on a high level, and integrating croscutting topics in the IRTG programme.

Workshops and events withing the (AC)³ IRTG:

• Online Kick-Off meeting, 10 June 2020
• Online ‘Get to Know’ meeting, 23 June 2020
• Online ‘Discussion on Needs’ meeting, 17 Aug 2020
• PhD Kick-off meeting, Cologne, 7-9 Oct 2020, »more info
• Online Workshop on ‘Time and Self-Management’, Kristina Boehlke (KEPOS), 17/18 Dec 2020 & 28/29 Jan 2021, »part I & »part II
• Online Workshop on ‘Conflict Management for PhD candidates’, Dr. Neela Enke, 24/25 March 2021, »more info
• Online Workshop on ‘Conflict Management for PostDocs’, Dr. Neela Enke, 29/31 March 2021, »more info
• PhD retreat (Open Space), Potsdam, 28 Oct 2021, »more info
• Workshop on ‘Resilience’, Julia Schwarzer-Wild (Wild Consulting), Bad Honnef, 10 May 2022, »more info
• PhD retreat (Open Space), Bad Honnef, 11 May 2022, »more info
• Workshop on Science Communication, 23 Nov 2022, »more info
• Workshop on ‘Getting there – Career Development for Natural Scientists’, Bremerhaven, 24 Nov 2022, »more info
• Workshop on ‘Academic Writing’, online, 7/8 Dec 2022, »more info
• Winter school on ‘Arctic amplification – the role of clouds (in feedback mechanisms)’, Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station, Finland, 12-18 March 2023, »more info

• #1: Arctic Climate System (Manfred Wendisch, UNI-L), 06 July 2020, »abstract
• #2: Clouds and Radiation (Kerstin Ebell, UNI-K), 3 Aug 2020, »abstract
• #3: Feedback Mechanisms (Johannes Quaas, UNI-L), 7 Sept 2020, »abstract
• #4: Arctic Sea Ice and the MOSAiC Campaign (Gunnar Spreen, UNI-B), 19 Oct 2020, »abstract
• #5: Introduction to Research Data Management (Matthias Buschmann, UNI-B), 9 Nov 2020, »abstract
• #6: Arctic Ocean Circulation (Torsten Kanzow, AWI-B), 7 Dec 2020, »abstract
• #7: Observations in the Arctic Ocean (Monika Rhein, UNI-B), 11 January 2021, »abstract
• #8: Ocean Modelling (Marc Salzmann, UNI-L), 1 Feb 2021, »abstract
• #9: Ocean Color Remote Sensing (Astrid Bracher, AWI-B), 01 March 2021, »abstract
• #11: Arctic Halogens (Anne Blechschmidt, UNI-B), 3 May 2021, »abstract
• #12: Satellites in the Arctic (Marco Vountas, UNI-B), 07 June 2021, »abstract
• #13: Cloud remote sensing (André Ehrlich, UNI-L), 5 July 2021, »abstract
• #10: Ice nucleation and ice nucleating particles in the Arctic (Frank Stratmann, TROPOS), 6 Sept 2021, »abstract
• #14: What Every Atmospheric Scientist Should Know About Inverse Modelling (Maximilian Maahn, UNI-L), 8 Nov 2021, »abstract
• #15: Atmospheric water cycle variables from space (Susanne Crewell, UNI-K), 6 Dec 2021, »abstract
• #16: The story of high-resolution modelling of mixed-phase clouds… and how this can help us for climate and weather models (Vera Schemann, UNI-K), Monday, 10 Jan 2022, »abstract
• #17: Aerosol Modelling (Ina Tegen, TROPOS), 7 February 2022, »abstract
• #18: The impact of Arctic climate changes on weather and climate in mid-latitudes (Dörthe Handorf, AWI-P), 2 May 2022, »abstract
• #20: The challenge of modelling Arctic aerosol-climate impact (Bernd Heinold, TROPOS), 4 July 2022, »abstract
• #19: Challenges in climate modeling (Annette Rinke, AWI-P), 5 Sept 2022, »abstract
• #21: What information about Arctic clouds and precipitation can be gained from radars? – Basic principles and examples (Stefan Kneifel, UNI-K), 10 Oct 2022, »abstract
• #22: Arctic Boundary Layers (Roel Neggers, UNI-K), 7 Nov 2022, »abstract
• #23: Thermal stratification, advection, and vertical mixing in Arctic boundary layers (Holger Siebert, TROPOS), 5 Dec 2022, »abstract
• #24: Polar boundary layer turbulence and its parametrization (Christof Lüpkes, AWI-B), 9 Jan 2023, »abstract
• #25: Multidisciplinary Research on Svalbard (Marion Maturilli, AWI-P), 6 Feb 2023, »abstract
• #26: Stratospheric Polar Vortex (Christoph Jacobi, UNI-L), 3 April 2023, »abstract
• #27: Trace gas and aerosol remote sensing in the infrared spectral region (Justus Notholt, UNI-B), 8 May 2023, »abstract
• #28: Vertical exchange in the Arctic Ocean (Maren Walter, UNI-B), 4 September 2023, »abstract

The (AC)³ IRTG Travel Grants are explicitly designed to support networking and scientific exchange. We offer travel funds for, e.g., conference, workshop or training attendance and visits to international or national laboratories in order to expand the scientific knowledge and research network of the IRTG members.

Early career scientists, who successfully applied for a Travel Grant :

• Moritz Zeising (AWI-B): Research stay at TROPOS, Leipzig, 29 – 30 July 2021
• Lars Aue (AWI-P): Research stay at FMI, Helsinki, Finland, 15 Nov – 10 Dec 2021
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• Alexander Mchedlishvili (UNI-B): Research stay at UCL, London, UK, 13 March – 28 April 2022
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• Hannah Niehaus (UNI-B): Winter School on Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea Ice Interaction Processes, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 1 – 6 May 2022
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• Iris Papakonstantinou-Presvelou (UNI-L):  Winter School on Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea Ice Interaction Processes, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 1 – 6 May 2022
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• Finn Heukamp (AWI-B): Winter School on Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea Ice Interaction Processes, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 1 – 6 May 2022
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• Moritz Zeising (AWI-B): EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 23 – 27 May 2022
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• Zerlina Hofmann (AWI-B): EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 23 – 27 May 2022 ∗cancelled∗
• Melanie Lauer (UNI-K): Research stay at Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, 4 – 13 July 2022
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• Olivia Linke (UNI-L): Research stay at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, 6 July – 1 Sep 2022
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• Theresa Kiszler (UNI-K): Research stay at CIRES, Boulder, USA, 1 -12 Aug 2022
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• Giovanni Chellini (UNI-K): AMS Collective meeting 2022, Madison, WI, USA, 8 – 12 Aug 2022 ∗cancelled∗
• Benjamin Kirbus (UNI-L): Scientific exchange meeting with project fellows at AWI Potsdam, 15 Sep 2022
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• Anisbel Léon Marcos (TROPOS): SOLAS Open Science Conference, online participation, 25 – 29 Sept 2022
• Janna Rückert (UNI-B): 7th EGU Snow Science Winter School, Davos, Switzerland, 29 Jan – 4 Feb 2023
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• Giovanni Chellini (UNI-K): Research stay at University of Helsinki, Finland, 20 – 24 Mar 2023
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• Alexander Mchedlishvili (UNI-B): Research exchange with project fellows at AWI Potsdam, 24 – 28 Apr 2023
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• Nils Slättberg (AWI-P): EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 23 – 28 Apr 2023
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• Finn Heukamp (AWI-B): Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes (ASOF) conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 10 – 12 May 2023
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• Zerlina Hofmann (AWI-B): Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes (ASOF) conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 10 – 12 May 2023
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• Wiebke Körtke (UNI-B): Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes (ASOF) conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 10 – 12 May 2023
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• Melanie Lauer (UNI-K): Scientific exchange meeting with project fellows at AWI Potsdam, 7 Aug – 8 Sept 2023
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• Nina Maherndl (UNI-L): AMS 40th Conference on Radar Meteorology, Minneapolis, USA, 28 Aug – 1 Sept 2023
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• Anisbel Léon Marcos (TROPOS): Cice2Clouds meeting 2023, Grenoble, France, 10 – 13 Sept 2023
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• Alexander Mchedlishvili (UNI-B): 14th Symposium on Polar Science and research exchange at the Hokkaido University, Tokyo, Japan, 14 – 22 Nov 2023
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• Gabriella Wallentin (KIT): (AC)³ General Assembly and PhD retreat, Leipzig, 04 – 07 Dec 2023
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• Andreas Walbröl (UNI-K): AGU Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, USA, 11 – 15 Dec 2023
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• Hanno Müller (UNI-L): International Radiation Symposium 2024, Hangzhou, China, 17 – 21 Jun 2024
• Nina Maherndl (UNI-L): International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP) 2024, Jeju, South Korea, 14 – 19 Jul 2024
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The Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) supports (AC)³ doctoral researchers during their dissertation work to enable them to become independent researchers in academia, or leading collaborators beyond. Furthermore, the IRTG offers a scientific training program, skills training, a supervision concept including regular Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) meetings, and an internal grants program to support networking of Early Career Researchers (ECRs), including doctoral researchers and developing (early) postdoctoral researchers (postdocs). These activities will be continued and further developed in phase III of (AC)³. In close cooperation with the local graduate schools of the (AC)³ partners, the IRTG complements the existing PhD programs through a project-specific qualification schedule including funding opportunities, and guarantees fair conditions via a harmonized supervision agreement. The IRTG also serves as a central contact point for doctoral researchers in case of problems in strict confidentiality. Moreover, the IRTG supports the development of an independent scientific profile through specific activities like mentoring, public outreach, opportunities for responsibility, and establishing an alumni network. To provide this supportive environment for doctoral researchers, a high-quality doctoral training program is offered by the IRTG through the following internal measures:

• Annual retreats: These meetings serve as a platform for doctoral researchers for scientific discussions, support the direct communication between the IRTG members, and aim to familiarize the ECRs in the individual projects with the broader, methodological approaches taken in (AC)³.
• Regular scientific curriculum: Lectures, exercises, and a summer school support the interdisciplinary dialogue within (AC)³ and to address cross-cutting topics. While most activities are prepared by (AC)³ Project Leaders, guaranteeing the knowledge transfer into bachelor and master programs of the partner universities, the program is complemented by the (AC)³ Mercator Fellows and further external experts.
• Specific workshops and hands-on training: This measure is tailored to the doctoral researchers’ needs and aims towards the extension of their method spectrum. Current research problems of the different disciplines are approached by courses that are key to (AC)³.

The IRTG closely collaborates with Z03/INF (good scientific practice and FAIR principles, infrastructure), the (AC)³ Equal Opportunity Board and the elected (AC)³ PhD Council. Thus, the program can be adapted to the particular needs of the ECRs. With the feedback from the regular TAC meetings and further surveys, specific training needs of doctoral researchers are identified and accommodated.