Welcome to the webpages of the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research

Research and publications

TROPOS conducts multifold studies, research projects and technologies to investigate troposheric aerosols and clouds and their interaction.

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Study

On this website you will find lecture timetables, the doctoral seminar, schools and conferences as well as topics for master themes.

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Discover

Discover and learn more about the fascinating world of swimming laboratories, cloud formation and african dust in South America.

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Leipzig,
Recent measurements at TROPOS

Recent atmospheric measurements at TROPOS

TROPOS enables the permanent observation of atmospheric parameters like aerosol pollution and cloud properties.

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Dushanbe/Leipzig, 14.04.2019,
Press releases

First dust conference in the Central Asian part of the earth’s dust belt

German-Tajik research cooperation set impulses

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Davos, 18.02.2019,
Press releases

How does precipitation originate in the mountains?

Measuring campaign in the Swiss Alps brings cloud and snow research together intensively for the first time. Press release of the WSL.

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Leipzig, 31.01.2019,
Press releases

Since 2016, Transregio 172 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) has been investigating "Arctic climate change" to find out why the Arctic is warming much more than the rest of the Earth. Photo: Sebastian Zeppenfeld, TROPOS

Leipzig researchers on Spanish Antarctic expedition

Focus on interactions between ocean and atmosphere around the Antarctic Peninsula

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Leipzig, 20.12.2018,
Press releases

Official opening of DACAPO-PESO in Punta Arenas. Photo: Comunicaciones UMAG

Field experiment on clouds and precipitation under clean air conditions started in southern Chile

Researchers from Leipzig cooperate with scientists from Punta Arenas (Chile) to learn more about the relationship between air pollution, clouds and precipitation.

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Leipzig, 12.03.2019,
Vacancies

3-year PhD position on cloud radiative effects over Central Europe

The Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) is an internationally renowned institute in the field of aerosol and cloud research.

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Leipzig, 13.12.2018,
Press releases

La Paz and at the background its iconic mountain Illimani (6439m asl). Photo: Ever Veimar Huanca Lucero

Megacity traffic soot contributes to global warming

Reduction of transport emissions in emerging economies would have positive impacts on health and climate

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Leipzig, 30.11.2018,
Press releases

Wood heating in Germany. The increase in private wood heating systems is causing local problems with air quality and is also contributing to global climate change. Photo: Tilo Arnhold, TROPOS

Scientists and engineers will discuss at UN climate conference how the fight against air pollution can protect the climate

Joint press release FZJ-IASS-TROPOS about side event in the EU pavilion at COP24 in Katowice on 3 December

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Leipzig, 30.11.2018,
Vacancies

PhD student for the project

We are a research institute of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Science Association e.V. and seek to hire a

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Bonn, 21.08.2018,
Press releases

"Aeolus" is to create vertical wind profiles by 2021 using a modern and powerful laser system. Graphic: ESA/ATG medialab

ADM Aeolus – Measuring the wind from space with a laser for the first time

European Earth observation satellite to launch on 22 August 2018.
Press release by the German Aerospace Center (DLR)

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Leipzig, 31.05.2018,
Press releases

The unmanned airplane ALADINA in front of Mount Zeppelin near Ny-Ålesund (Photo: Konrad Bärfuss, TU Braunschweig).

UAV aircrafts provide new insights into the formation of the smallest particles in the Arctic

Scientists study particle formation over Spitsbergen
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Joint Press Release of the Technical University of Braunschweig, the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research Leipzig and the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen:

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Leipzig, 28.03.2018,
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At the TROPOS in Leipzig, the team succeeded in demonstrating this process in laboratory experiments using a special flow apparatus that allows interference-free experiments of gas phase reactions at atmospheric pressure. Photo: Tilo Arnhold, TROPOS

Rapid pair production – Detection of a new reaction path in the atmosphere

Research team observes the formation of accretion products during the degradation of hydrocarbons

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Leipzig, 12.03.2018,
Press releases

The German research aircraft Polar 5 at the Eureka Weather Station in driving snow. (Photo: Stefan Hendricks, AWI)

Surveying the Arctic: Tracking down carbon particles.

Researchers embark on aerial campaign over Northeast Greenland

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Leipzig, 12.01.2018,
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TROPOS researchers again among the world's most influential scientists

only eleven researchers in Germany listed in the field of Geosciences as "Highly Cited Researchers"

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Leipzig, 14.12.2017,
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LfULG and TROPOS showed a positive trendfor air quaility in Leipzig when presenting its final report on the impact of the environmental zone on air quality. Photo: Tilo Arnhold/TROPOS

Healthier Air due to the Low Emission Zone

Significant decrease of black carbon and ultrafine particles in urban air

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Shandong, 10.11.2017,
Events

Third Sino-European School on Atmospheric Chemistry (SESAC3), 21.-30.11.2017

60 selected Chinese and European doctoral candidates gain interdisciplinary knowledge on atnospheric chemistry on theory and in practical modules.

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Leipzig, 19.07.2017,
Press releases

The Lake Sidi Ali is located in the Moroccan Middle Atlas at 2.080 metres above sea-level. The position of the lake is in the North Saharan desert margin (Photo by Sidi Ali dust research group)

Millennial-scale fluctuations in Saharan dust supply across the decline of the African Humid Period

press release of the Leipzig University

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Leipzig, 11.05.2017,
Press releases

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Focus on the Arctic Climate: German Scientists on Missions in the Arctic by Ship and Plane

It is the end of May and time for many Germans to take out their bikes and enjoy the pleasant temperature. However, this is not on the minds of more than 60 meteorologists and physicists. Instead, their thoughts are on their upcoming journey through Arctic regions in frigid temperatures. Soon, they will start their elaborate survey of the regions between Greenland and Spitsbergen (Svalbard) on board two specially equipped research planes and one research vessel. Their mission includes finding out what role the Arctic cloud cover plays in the amplified Arctic climate change. The scientists will have eight weeks to answer this and other questions. Their work will contribute to the project 'Arctic Climate Change' funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of the Umbrella Research Programme (DFG Sonderforschungsbereich) Transregio 172.

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