Announcement: The 5th ISSW will take place in September 2025 in Reading, UK

4th International Summer Snowfall Workshop

11 - 13 September 2023, Leipzig

Following the success of the International Summer Snowfall Workshops held in Cologne in 2017, Hyytiälä in 2019, and Reading/online in 2021, we are excited to organize an in-person meeting this year in Leipzig, Germany from Septmber 11th to 13th 2023. The main goal of the workshop is to bring together the snowfall community for exchanging new developments in all related fields including ground-based and spaceborne remote sensing, in-situ, laboratory, and modelling.

Topics of interest include:

• Ice microphysical processes and snowflake microstructure
• Scattering properties of snowflakes and their connection to microphysical characteristics
• Remote sensing of snowfall or ice clouds
• Modelling of ice processes or data assimilation
• Laboratory studies
• Field (in situ) observations of snowfall / ice clouds

UPDATE: Programme

To view the workshop programme, please click here

Please confirm your attendannce here until 4 August

UPDATE: Location

Bibliotheca Albertina Library
Leipzig University
Beethovenstr. 6
04107 Leipzig

Proposed format:

The workshop will be organized as a mixture of oral and poster presentations, invited overview talks and panel discussions. The workshop format will be in person only.

Sponsors:

Thanks to the generous support from the following two projects, we can offer the workshop to the community without fees

• 
  The Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TR 172 (AC)³ ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms funded by the German Research Foundation
• 
  The Priority Programme 2115: PROM Fusion of Radar Polarimetry and Numerical Atmospheric Modelling Towards an Improved Understanding of Cloud and Precipitation Processes funded by the German Research Foundation

Key dates:

• Friday 26 May 2 June - deadline for abstracts to be submitted here).
• guidance for web form: just enter your details on the web form, and press save at the end
• you will see a copy of what you entered on the next page, and an email will be sent to confirm your submission (you may need to check your junk box!)
• Friday 26 May - deadline for travel grant applications to Dr. Karina McCusker.
• guidance for travel grants: thanks to the generous support of (AC)³ and SPP-PROM, we have 4.000 € to support 4 to 6 PhD students with travel grants
• please send her a short motivation, an approximate budget for your trip, and how much own funds you have available for the workshop
• the travel grants can be used to cover transportation and housing but do not include a per diem
• Late June - confirmation of presentations and travel grants
• 21 July Confirm attendance
• 11 September - 13 September - workshop

Questions? Contact Maximilian Maahn

Organisers: Maximilian Maahn, Stefan Kneifel, Nina Maherndl, Karina McCusker, Dmitri Moisseev, Chris Westbrook

Photographs: Chilbolton 25m antenna in the snow by Allistair Mallett; close up of aggregate snowflake structure by Chris Westbrook