M.Sc. Sylwester Arabas
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Curriculum vitae
Research interests
Experimental campaigns
Courses
Publications
Teaching
Curriculum vitae
Education
M.Sc. in physics, Faculty of Physics, Unversity of Warsaw, 2008
Title: ”Microphysical properties of shallow convective clouds – the RICO case study”
Supervisor: prof. UW dr hab. Hanna Pawłowska
Employment
2008 - present: Ph.D. studies, Institute of Geophysics, University of Warsaw
Research interests
Real-world and numerical experiments in cloud and aerosol microphysics, airborne scientific instrumentation.
Experimental campaigns
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EUCAARI IMPACT
Airborne boundry layer cloud research campaign
Period: 2008
Region: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
3-week participation funded by ACCENT -
SEASALT
Airborne low- tropospheric research campaign
Period: 2008
Region: Niederöblarn, Austria
2-week campaign within the EUFAR Education & Training programme -
M55-AMMA-SCOUT-O3
Airborne stratospheric research campaign
Period: 2006
Region: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
3-week participation funded by CESSAR/EUFAR
Courses
- 2009: Applications of Graphic Processors in High Performance Computing"
ICM, University of Warsaw -
2008: „ISSAOS: Aerosols and Climate Change”
Univeristy of L'Aquila (L'Aquila, Italy) -
2008: „Physics and chemistry of air pollution and their effects”
Univeristy of Helsinki (Hyytiälä, Finland) -
2007: „Boundary-Layer Research with Airborne Instruments”
EUFAR (Iasi, Romania) -
2007: „Formation and growth of atmospheric aerosols”
Univeristy of Helsinki (Hyytiälä, Finland) -
2006: „Applications with the Newest Multi-spectral Environmental Satellites”
IMGiW/EUMETSAT/NOAA/NESDIS (Cracow, Poland)
Publications
Refereed
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Cairo, F., Pommereau, J. P., Law, K. S., Schlager, H., Garnier, A., Fierli, F., Ern, M., Streibel, M., Arabas, S., Borrmann, S., Berthelier, J. J., Blom, C., Christensen, T., D'Amato, F., Di Donfrancesco, G., Deshler, T., Diedhiou, A., Durry, G., Engelsen, O., Goutail, F., Harris, N. R. P., Kerstel, E. R. T., Khaykin, S., Konopka, P., Kylling, A., Larsen, N., Lebel, T., Liu, X., MacKenzie, A. R., Nielsen, J., Oulanowski, A., Parker, D. J., Pelon, J., Polcher, J., Pyle, J. A., Ravegnani, F., Rivière, E. D., Robinson, A. D., Röckmann, T., Schiller, C., Simões, F., Stefanutti, L., Stroh, F., Some, L., Siegmund, P., Sitnikov, N., Vernier, J. P., Volk, C. M., Voigt, C., von Hobe, M., Viciani, S., and Yushkov, V.: An overview of the SCOUT-AMMA stratospheric aircraft, balloons and sondes campaign in West Africa, August 2006: rationale, roadmap and highlights, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 19713-19781, 2009. (submitted)
- Arabas, S., H. Pawlowska, W. Grabowski, 2009: Effective radius and droplet spectral width from in-situ aircraft observations in trade-wind cumuli during RICO, Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L11803, doi:10.1029/2009GL038257
Nonrefereed
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Unal, C.M.H., Arabas, S., Dufournet, Y., Russchenberg, H.W.J., 2009: Vertical wind radar measurements at high temporal and spatial resolution in clear air conditions. 8th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling, Delft, The Netherlands
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Coulais, A., Schellens, M., Gales, J., Arabas, S., 2009: Status of GDL - GNU Data Language. Proc. of the 19th conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems, Sapporo, Japan (accepted)
- Hoose, C., J. E. Kristjansson, G. Svensson, S. Arabas, H. Pawlowska, J.-L. Brenguier, 2009: Vertical velocity probability distributions simulated in the CAM-Oslo GCM. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11, EGU2009-8745, Vienna, Austria.
- Arabas, S., Baehr, C., Boquet, M., Bosveld, F., Dufournet, Y., Klein Baltink, H., Pawlowska, H., Siebert, H., Unal, Ch., 2009: A comparison of selected vertical wind measurement techniques on basis of the EUCAARI IMPACT observations. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11, EGU2009-999, Vienna, Austria.
- Arabas, S., H. Pawlowska, W. Grabowski, 2008: Effective radius and droplet spectral width from RICO observations. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Clouds and Precipitation, Cancún, Mexico.
- Arabas, S., P. Paccard, L. Haga, W. Junkermann, B. Kulawik, C. de Jong, 2008: Signatures of Evaporation of Artificial Snow in the Alpine Lower Troposphere (SEASALT). Geophysical Research Abstracts, 10, EGU2008-A-11002.
- Stan-Sion, A., S. Arabas, 2007: EUFAR - new perspectives in education and training for students and young researchers. Case study: student’s participation in the M55-AMMA-SCOUT-O3 campaign. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 9, EGU2007-A-02137.
Teaching
- 2009: "Elementary Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Cloud Physics" - classes (in Polish)
- 2009: "Data Processing in Meteorology" - hands-on data processing (in Polish, GNU tools)
- 2008: "Data Processing in Meteorology" - hands-on data processing (in Polish, GNU tools)


