The Institute of Atmospheric Physics celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, having pondered and analyzed the atmosphere since 1964. The institute was established in as a continuation of the former Laboratory for Meteorology of the Geophysical Institute. Its main research focus is on processes taking place in the troposphere. In 1994, the former Ionospheric Department of the Geophysical Institute joined the IAP, thereby expanding its research domain. Now its work covers the whole atmosphere from the boundary layer up to interplanetary space.
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Its scientific investigations include the whole vertical extent, i.e., the boundary layer, troposphere, middle atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere of the Earth. It does so by applying experimental and theoretical methods and numerical simulations. Included are monitoring and special measurements, data evaluation and their transfer into worldwide data networks and expertises. The Institute now studies these streams: atmospheric boundary layer processes; mesoscale, dynamical, and applied meteorology; climate variability and climate change; ozone research; and the ionosphere and magnetosphere. It also conducts its own satellite experiments, space plasma physics and solar-terrestrial relations. Moro information on http://www.ufa.cas.cz/?lang=en .
21 Jan 2014