If you are a student at the University of Hamburg and interested in writing a master thesis on one of the topics below, please contact the person indicated in brackets. If you are interested in another of the research topics mentioned on our group web pages please contact the respective group leader to check for further options.

Cloud-Wave Coupling

• Stratospheric gravity waves in ICON (Claudia Stephan and Nedjeljka Zagar)

Stratospheric Forcing and Climate

• Volcanic impact on tropical precipitation (Claudia Timmreck and Traute Crüger)
• Recent changes in the tropical stratospheric aerosol record (Claudia Timmreck and Ilya Serikov)

Tropical Cloud Observations

• Cloud-drop number climatology (Bjorn Stevens)

Wave Driven Circulation

• QBO signals in the tropical tropospheric circulation (Marco Giorgetta)
• Seasonal to interannual variability of tropical wave spectra (Marco Giorgetta)