Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2018
  W1 (Tenure Track) Professorship for Arctic Climat Change
• 01/2015 - 01/2018
  Scientist; Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig
• 09/2011 - 10/2014
  Postdoctoral Research Associate; McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Education

• 05/2006 - 06/2010
  Doctor of Natural Science in Atmospheric Physics; Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
• 10/2000 - 03/2006
  Diplom of Meteorology; University Leipzig

• Remote sensing of the Arctic climate system

• Cloud radar Doppler spectra analysis

• Atmospheric retrieval algorithm development

• Synergystic profiling with remote sensing instruments for atmospheric research

• Microphysics, dynamics, and radiative impact of clouds

• Application of remote-sensing instrumentation at the atmosphere-biosphere interface for flying insect retrievals and precipitation interception

• Application of remote-sensing observations and machine learning for improvement of short-term renewable energy forecasts (wind energy & photovoltaics)

• TRR 172/B07: Influence of sea ice leads or polynyas on Arctic cloud properties

  Kalesse-Los, Heike

  Duration: 01/2020 – 12/2023

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Arktische Klimaveränderung; SFB Transregio 172: Arktische Verstärkung: Klimarelevante Atmosphären- und Oberflächenprozesse und Rückkopplungsmechanismen (AC)3
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• Polarimetry Influenced by CCN aNd INP in Cyprus and Chile (PICNICC): An assessment of hemispheric cloud polarimetric contrasts and its relation to differences in aerosol load

  Kalesse-Los, Heike

  Duration: 11/2018 – 12/2023

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Arktische Klimaveränderung
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• Characterization of orography-influenced riming and secondary ice production and their effects on precipitation rates using radar polarimetry and Doppler spectra (CORSIPP)

  Kalesse-Los, Heike

  Duration: 01/2023 – 05/2025

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Arktische Klimaveränderung; Institut für Meteorologie
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• Improving the power forecast of photovoltaic systems to support the energy transition and to investigate aerosol-cloud interactions

  Kalesse-Los, Heike

  Duration: 01/2023 – 12/2024

  Funded by: EU Europäischer Sozialfonds (ESF)

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

• Vogl, T.; Maahn, M.; Kneifel, S.; Schimmel, W.; Moisseev, D.; Kalesse-Los, H.

  Using artificial neural networks to predict riming from Doppler cloud radar observations

  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2022. 15 (2). pp. 365–381.

  DOI: 10.5194/amt-15-365-2022
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• Kalesse-Los, H.; Schimmel, W.; Luke, E.; Seifert, P.

  Evaluating cloud liquid detection against Cloudnet using cloud radar Doppler spectra in a pre-trained artificial neural network

  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2022. 15 (2). pp. 279–295.

  DOI: 10.5194/amt-15-279-2022
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• Schimmel, W.; Kalesse-Los, H.; Maahn, M.; Vogl, T.; Foth, A.; Saavedra Garfias, P. A.; Seifert, P.

  Identifying cloud droplets beyond lidar attenuation from vertically pointing cloud radar observations using artificial neural networks

  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2022. 15 (18). pp. 5343–5366.

  DOI: 10.5194/amt-15-5343-2022
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• Kalesse-Los, H.; Vogl, T.; Paduraru, C.; Luke, E.

  Development and validation of a supervised machine learning radar Doppler spectra peak-finding algorithm

  Atmos. Meas. Tech.. 2019. pp. 4591–4617.

  DOI: 10.5194/amt-12-4591-2019
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more publications

Junior-professor for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and the Arctic Climate System

• 12-111-0027 WP2 Climat and general Circulation

  Bachelor of Science

• 11-0010 P13 atmospheric boundary layer

  Bachelor of Science

• 12-11-1036 E2 Ground-based remote sensing with radar and microwave radiometer

  Master of Science

• 12-111-1027 A4 Climate of the Polar regions

   Master of Science