IRTG Travel Grants Programme

PhD researcher Hanno Müller joined the IRS 2024 in Hangzhou, China

The (AC)³ IRTG travel grant gave me the opportunity to attend the International Radiation Symposium (IRS) in Hangzhou, China in June 2024. The IRS 2024 was jointly organized by the School of Earth Sciences at Zhejiang University and the International Radiation Commission (IRC) of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS).
The symposium covered a wide range of interesting topics from radiative transfer theory and ground-based measurements and field observations to weather, climate and environment applications. Several keynote speakers gave insights into current problems in atmospheric radiation, including Bernhard Mayer who introduced new approaches towards 3D radiative transfer in numerical weather prediction models and Warren Wiscombe who presented his personal experience in atmospheric radiation from 1970 to 2013.
On Monday, I gave a talk on the evaluation of solar irradiances simulated by the Integrated Forecasting System of ECMWF using Airborne Observations from the ACLOUD campaign by (AC)³. On Wednesday, I presented a poster for my colleague Sebastian Becker on contributions of surface and cloud variability to the contrast of solar surface cloud radiative effect between sea ice and open ocean in the Arctic. Both the talk and the poster initiated a fruitful discussion with colleagues in my field and resulted in new ideas for my future work.
Towards the end of the week, the hosts of the IRS 2024 organized a symposium dinner, during which Jake Gristey was awarded with the IRC Young Scientist Award and Manfred Wendisch was announced as the successor to Peter Pilewskie as IRC president.
I am thankful to the (AC)³ IRTG travel grant for giving me the opportunity to attend the symposium.

A list of all funded travel grants can be found on the IRTG page here.