CHEE Seminar: Frank Stratmann
Monday, October 9, 2023 – 3 p.m.
Frank Stratmann
Group Leader, Experimental Cloud Physics
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) Leipzig
“Atmospheric Aerosol-Cloud Interactions and the Role of Ice- Nucleating Particles”
Speech & Hearing Building, Room 205
Social Hour immediately following the seminar in Old Engineering 157 (Graduate Student Lounge) at 4 p.m.
ABSTRACT
Aerosol particles in general, and Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) and Ice Nucleating Particles (INP) in particular, influence the formation, phase partitioning, radiative properties, and precipitation intensities of clouds. Therefore, they play an important, but not fully understood, role in both weather and climate. In this talk, some basic insights will be given into aerosol particles and their interactions with clouds, as well as some recent findings concerning the properties and sources of atmospheric INP.
BIOSKETCH
Dr. Frank Stratmann earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Duisburg. He worked for two years as a postdoctoral scientist thereafter in the University of Duisburg’s Institute for Aerosol Measurement Technology. Since 1998, he has been group ;eader of the Experimental Cloud Physics group at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, where he is the lead scientist for the Leipzig Cloud Aerosol Interaction Simulator, or LACIS. He has served on the International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP) board in various capacities and was a visiting professor at the University of Helsinki in 2006.