The 33rd International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM) took place from 31 August to 4 September in Innsbruck, Austria. Seven members of the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics attended. Highlights of their current research were presented in several oral and poster presentations.
Two doctoral students from the Group of Theoretical Meteorology won prizes for their presentations. Johannes Sachsperger received the Best Student Oral Presentation Award for his talk on "The impact of mountain width and stratification on wave-induced rotor formation". Lukas Strauss won the award for the Second Best Student Poster for his contribution "Using Google Earth for visualization of meteorological data in complex terrain".
