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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Leipzig, 03.06.2019,
Press releases

Solving the entrainment puzzle

EU supports studies in Leipzig as part of Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions

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Dushanbe/Leipzig, 14.04.2019,
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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,
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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, 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,
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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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Bonn, 21.08.2018,
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"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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Paris/Leipzig, 26.01.2017,
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LEAK in Leipzig. Photo: Yoshiteru Iinuma, TROPOS

Launch of the atmospheric simulation chambers research infrastructure EUROCHAMP-2020: looking beyond 2020

press release by EUROCHAMP-2020

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Leipzig, 05.12.2016,
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Station SMEAR II of the University of Helsinki Hyytiäla (Finland). Photo: Juho Aalto

Important process for cloud formation from gases unravelled

new paper in Nature Communications

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Leipzig, 25.02.2016,
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Atmospheric research infrastructure ACTRIS to European updated research infrastructure roadmap

Today European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has officially adopted ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure) on its updated research infrastructure roadmap. Among the other 5 new infrastructures on ESFRI roadmap, ACTRIS is considered highly important…

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Leipzig, 20.11.2015,
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RV Polarstern. Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/Mario Hoppmann

Substantial funding for DFG Transregional Collaborative Research Centre on "Arctic Climate Change"

Universities of Leipzig, Bremen and Cologne together with AWI and TROPOS successfully

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Leipzig, 24.10.2014,
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CADEX (Central Asian Dust Experiment)

CADEX investigates dust over Central Asia

Tajik Academy of Sciences and TROPOS cooperate on aerosol research

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Leipzig, 15.05.2013,
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European Research Infrastructures help to solve air quality issues

Brussels. Scientists have advocated for tightening the Air Quality Directive and expand research on air quality and climate change. Only appropriate investments in research can provide a solid basis for decision making in these areas that have major health and economic consequences for Europe’s citizens.

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Leipzig, 14.06.2018,
Events

INFECTIONS´21 SYMPOSIUM

14. und 15. Juni 2018, Experten beleuchten Ansätze der Infektionsforschung, eine Veranstaltung des LVF INFECTIONS'21

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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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