Our research group is part of the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Vienna.

News

March 2025

New team member: On March 1st, Vinita Deshmukh joined our group as a postdoc. She will work on moisture and heat transport in the Mediterranean region as part of the Edu4ClimAte project.

January 2025

A new paper about microplastics acting as ice nucleating particles, led by Daria Tatsii, is out. You can read it here.

“Do Microplastics Contribute to the Total Number Concentration of Ice Nucleating Particles?”

Our group was involved in a recent study linking lead pollution from silver mining in Roman times (as recorded in Arctic ice cores) to a possible decline in IQ in the general population.

Link to the paper (paywall): https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1721818115

New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/climate/ancient-rome-lead-poisoning.html

December 2024

New team member: On December 1st, Alessandra Cera started her MSCA funded project “Analysis of FLOATing microplastics: from the atmosphere to lakes” (FLOAT) in our group.

During two years, FLOAT will investigate the emission, transport and deposition of airborne microplastics and their contribution to the contamination of lakes by combining simulations and direct measurements.

Link to project description: https://flexteam.univie.ac.at/projects/float/

November 2024

A new paper about regionally resolved emissions of SF₆ for the period 2005–2021, led by Martin Vojta, is out. You can read it here.

“A global re-analysis of regionally resolved emissions and atmospheric mole fractions of SF₆ for the period 2005–2021″

October 2024

The new FLEXPART website is online: https://www.flexpart.eu/

September 2024

FLEXPART 11 is released. The new version includes updates for better accuracy, efficiency, and flexibility. It is available on our gitlab and described in this paper, led by Lucie Bakels.