Alexandra Weiss

Biography

"2009-now: Research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, UK, working field: aircraft data analysis of atmospheric measurements 2006-2009: Research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, UK, working field: boundary layer meteorology with focus on air-sea-ice interaction processes 2002 – 2005: Research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (50%), Hamburg, Germany, working field: studies on the basis of ground based remote sensing aerosols, cloud and precipitation 2002 –2005: Research scientist at University of Hamburg, Department of Meteorology (50%), Germany, working field: studies of atmospheric turbulence in the maritime boundary layer 1997 – 2002: PhD-student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Research, working field: boundary layer meteorology in highly complex terrain and EM-wave propagation through random media. Thesis: Weiss, A. I., 2002: Determination of stratification and turbulence of the atmospheric surface layer over various types of terrain by optical scintillometry, Dissertation ETH Zürich. 1997-2002: Research scientist at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, working filed: wave propagation through random media, refraction, correction of highly precise geodetic measurements. 1997-1997: Research scientist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics GKSS-National Research Centre, Geesthacht, working field: in situ micro-physical cloud measurements. 1995-1997: Research assistant and Diploma-student at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics GKSS- National Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany. Diploma working field: Remote sensing of clouds 1989-1997: Student of Diplom Meteorology with Meteorology, Physics and Geophysics at the University of Hamburg, Germany."

Research Interest

observational and theoretical studies of the atmospheric boundary layer in Antarctica and Arctic air-sea-ice interaction processes energy and water cycle in the atmsopheric boundary layer boundary layer over non homogenous and complex terrain maritime boundary layer wave propagation through turbulent media representation of boundary layer parameters in numerical models airborne and ground based observations of the turbulent bounday layer