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4th Austrian Meteorology Day in Klagenfurt

18.11.2011

The 4th Austrian Meteorology Day took place on November the 3rd and 4th 2011 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. The meeting, organised by the Carinthian Institute for Climate Protection (KIKS) in Klagenfurt's new Lakeside Park Hotel, was meant to further the exchange and contact among individuals and departments from all Austria concerned with the atmospheric sciences and their various fields of application. All Austrian meteorological, climatological and related institutions were invited to present the current status of their work.

Among a total of 150 people attending to the meeting, the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics was very well represented by 23 participants. Two young members of the department obtained high ranks in the poster prizes awared by the Austrian Meteorological Society. Sarah Umdasch presenting a poster on "Forecast quality of high-resolution NWP models during MAP D-Phase" made the first place, worth 300 €. Andrea Steiner was awared the third prize, worth 100 €, for her poster on "Quality control of VERA: operational application, challenges in complex terrain and extensions of VERA-QC".

MeteorologInnentag 2011, Homepage (KIKS) (German)
Alle Tagungsbeiträge (KIKS) [pdf] (German)

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