Profile

Professional career

• since 07/2020
  Leipzig University
• 03/2016 - 05/2020
  Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories and the University of Colorado Boulder
• 05/2011 - 02/2016
  University of Cologne
• 01/2011 - 05/2011
  Bonn University

Education

• 05/2011 - 01/2015
  University of Cologne: Meteorology (PhD). Thesis: Exploiting vertically pointing Doppler radar for advancing snow and ice cloud observations.
• 01/2009 - 06/2009
  University Centre in Svalbard: Semester abroad
• 10/2005 - 11/2010
  Bonn University: Meteorology (Diplom). Thesis: Measuring Precipitation with Micro Rain Radars in Svalbard.

See the ORCID profile https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2580-9100 or Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vgyek20AAAAJ for a list of publications.

• Characterization of orography-influenced riming and secondary ice production and their effects on precipitation rates using radar polarimetry and Doppler spectra (CORSIPP)

  Maahn, Maximilian

  Duration: 06/2022 – 08/2025

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Meteorologie; Arktische Klimaveränderung
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• Evaluating Microphysical Pathways Of midlatitude Snow formation (EMPOS)

  Maahn, Maximilian

  Duration: 09/2023 – 08/2026

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Meteorologie
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• A Wind VElocity Radar Nephoscope for observing global winds, clouds and precipitation (WIVERN)

  Maahn, Maximilian

  Duration: 03/2024 – 07/2027

  Funded by: Internationale Organisationen (ohne EU)

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Meteorologie
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• TRR 172/E05 Process-level Understanding of Sublimation and Evaporation of Precipitation

  Kalesse-Los, Heike; Maahn, Maximilian

  Duration: 12/2023 – 12/2027

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Arktische Klimaveränderung; Institut für Meteorologie
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more projects

• Maahn, M.; Turner, D. D.; Ebell, K.; Comstock, J. M.; Mace, G. G.; Posselt, D. J.; Löhnert, U.

  Optimal Estimation Retrievals and Their Uncertainties: What Every Atmospheric Scientist Should Know

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2020. 101 (9). pp. E1512–E1523.

  DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0027.1
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• Maahn, M.; Goren, T.; Shupe, M. D.; de Boer, G.

  Liquid Containing Clouds at the North Slope of Alaska Demonstrate Sensitivity to Local Industrial Aerosol Emissions

  Geophysical Research Letters. 2021.

  DOI: 10.1029/2021GL094307
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• Maahn, M.; Moisseev, D.; Steinke, I.; Maherndl, N.; Shupe, M. D.

  Introducing the Video In Situ Snowfall Sensor (VISSS)

  Atmos. Meas. Tech.. 2024. 17 (2). pp. 899–919.

  DOI: 10.5194/amt-17-899-2024
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• Maherndl, N.; Moser, M.; Lucke, J.; Mech, M.; Risse, N.; Schirmacher, I.; Maahn, M.

  Quantifying riming from airborne data during the HALO-(AC)3 campaign

  Atmos. Meas. Tech.. 2024. 17 (5). pp. 1475–1495.

  DOI: 10.5194/amt-17-1475-2024
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• Maherndl, N.; Maahn, M.; Tridon, F.; Leinonen, J.; Ori, D.; Kneifel, S.

  A riming-dependent parameterization of scattering by snowflakes using the self-similar Rayleigh–Gans approximation

  Quarterly journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 2023. 149 (757). pp. 3562–3581.

  DOI: 10.1002/qj.4573
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more publications

• Herausgeberschaft: Editor: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

  Maahn, Maximilian (Institut für Meteorologie)

  awarded in 2020.
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more awards

• 12-111-0028 WP3 - Applied Meteorology

• 12-111-0010 P13 - Meteorological measurements