Atmospheric Physics Lab Work

There will be an organizational meeting on Wednesday February 21st, 2024 from 10.00 (10.15) - 12.00 hrs in CHN L17.1. Please register as soon as possible to be on the email distribution list for this course. In the first lecture you will:

1) Select your partners with whom you will perform the lab experiments

2) Meet the teaching assistants (TAs)

2) Choose 3 out of 4 experimennts you want to perform. 

Important: Experiment dates can be arranged with the teaching assistants and are not fixed to special dates/times.

Students are generally assigned to groups of maximum of 3 per group. 

For each experiment, descriptions are available as pdf documents. The students are required to study these descriptions carefully prior to carrying out the experiment. On the day of the experiment, a short examination (15-20 min) will be conducted by the teaching assistant before the practical work to ensure that the students are prepared for the experiment. Assistants are allowed to reject students that are not prepared enough. 

The experiments are then carried out mostly autonomously with instructions and advice from the teaching assistants, if necessary. Results are then analyzed and discussed in a written report which should be approximately 10 pages and should include the following items:

• Title page and abstract 
• Summary of theory/Background
• Measurement/Experimental methods
• Data analysis
• Results
• Error analysis and discussion
• Final discussion of results including the answers to questions asked in the lab manual 

Deadline for handing in the reports is two weeks after the experiment was carried out!

This course provides and insight for various aspects of atmospheric physics. These will be acquired by conducting individual experiments on the following topics: Wind and movement of air parcels, evaporation and cooling depending on wind velocity (wind chill), the analysis of particulate matter (aerosol particles), and their influence on the solar radiation that reaches the earth.