Research
ACINN is devoted to basic research in the areas of weather forecasting, mountain meteorology, earth atmosphere interactions and ice-climate relations. Our research activity is largely supported by third-party funding.
Studies
We offer a full degree programme in Atmospheric Sciences, from Bachelor to Master and PhD. Our teaching covers all the core subjects of the dynamics, physics, chemistry of the atmosphere-cryosphere-climate system and includes prerequisites from mathematics, statistics, physics and earth sciences.
Graduate Seminar
Time and location of the graduate seminar, a list of speakers, abstracts etc.
About Us
The Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN) is one of the few university departments worldwide where research and education in atmospheric science and glaciology are co-located. It is located in the heart of the Alps. Therefore, ACINN's research and teaching focus on mountain weather and forecasting, mountain climate, earth-atmosphere interaction – with an emphasis on snow- or ice-covered surfaces, exchange of gases, aerosols and other atmospheric properties over complex topography – and ice-climate relations. ACINN is embedded in the university's research areas Mountain Regions and Scientific Computing. It plays a key role in the research centre Climate - Cryosphere and Atmosphere.
Contact
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52f
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
News and Events
- TEAMx Observational Campaign (TOC)
The TEAMx Observational Campaign (TOC) started on 15 September and will run for a whole year until mid-September 2025. During this time, information about ongoing TOC activities, including TEAMx UIBK activities in the Inn Valley, will be posted on the TEAMx Website: https://www.teamx-programme.org/newsletters/
- Graduate Seminar: Jono Conway (NIWA), Auckland
Title: "Icefield breezes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains"
Wednesday, April 09, 2025; location: on-line only.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Christine Schermer & Michael Deflorian (Amt Klimaneutrale Stadt, Stadtklima und Umwelt, Innsbruck)
Title: "Beating the Heat in Innsbruck: The State of the Urban Climate and Municipal Actions against the Local Effects of Climate Change"
Wednesday, April 02, 2025; location: Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f, seminar room 60819, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - MSc Defensio: Hannes Wieser
"Reconstructing and Homogenizing Lightning in Austria"
Date/time/location: 03 April 2025, 11:00 am, computer room 60818 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- MSc Defensio: Shahid Naqui
"Methane and Ethane Fluxes Measured in the Urban Area of Innsbruck"
Date/time/location: 26 March 2025, 04:15 pm, seminar room 60818 SR; 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )