The MSc Program has at its disposal (for both teaching staff and postgraduate students) the infrastructure and equipment of the Laboratory of Meteorology and Climatology of the University of Ioannina within whose facilities the Program operates. The equipment and infrastructure available to the MSc Program include:
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A Meteorological Station (located on the campus of the University of Ioannina)
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An Environmental Monitoring Station (located in the city center of Ioannina)
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A computer cluster for weather forecasting (located in building F2 of the Department of Physics, University of Ioannina)
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A Satellite Receiving Station, consisting of a satellite antenna for the reception of Meteosat satellite images and a EUMETSAT decoder for real-time monitoring of weather conditions and severe weather phenomena (located on the roof of building F2 of the Department of Physics, University of Ioannina)
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A CIMEL spectrophotometer for measuring the optical properties of the atmosphere (located on the roof of building F2 of the Department of Physics, University of Ioannina)
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A student laboratory equipped with various instruments for measuring atmospheric parameters (in the Laboratory of Meteorology and Climatology, 3rd floor of the Department of Physics, University of Ioannina)
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Two teaching rooms (with capacities of 25 and 8 persons) equipped with modern audiovisual facilities
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A seminar/lecture and presentation room (capacity of 25 persons)
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A library (3rd floor of building F2 of the Department of Physics)
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Offices for postgraduate students (a sufficient number of offices on the 3rd floor of building F2 of the Department of Physics)
The Meteorological and Environmental Stations are equipped with various instruments, which are not listed individually here.
A sufficient number of numerical/computational models and algorithms are available, related to weather forecasting (e.g., MM5, WRF, WRF-Chem), radiative transfer and energy balance, air pollution, and boundary-layer processes.