Sylwester Arabas homepage

• participation in the FOSDEM 2012 (Brussels, Belgium, February 2012)
  [FOSDEM website]

• participation in the Barbados workshop at the MPI-M (Hamburg, October 2011)
  [workshop website] [The Barbados initiative website @MPI-M]
• talk on GDL at the GNU Hackers Meeting (Paris, August 2011)
  [slides (PDF, 3.1 MiB)] [meeting website]
• talk at the MetStroem Conference 2011 on Multiple Scales in Fluid Dynamics and Meteorology (Berlin, June 2011)
  [slides (PDF, 37 MiB)] [conference website]
• participation in the CARRIBA field project (Barbados, April 2011)
  [CARRIBA blog] [slides presented at a workshop in CIMH (PDF, 18 MiB)]
• talk at the SIAM conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences (Long Beach, California, USA, March 2011)
  [slides (PDF, 87 MiB)] [conference website]
• participation in the WAVACS winter school on water vapour (Venice, Italy, February 2011)
  [poster (PDF, 4.3MiB)] [school website]
• participation in the FOSDEM 2011 (Brussels, Belgium, February 2011)
  [slides (PDF, 4.7MiB)] [Data Devroom Program] [FOSDEM website]
• peer-revieved article publication in GMD: Adaptive method of lines for multi-component aerosol condensational growth and CCN activation (Arabas & Pawlowska 2011)
  [abstract/article/electronic supplement (with model code)]

• poster presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California, USA, December 2010)
  [meeting website] [poster (PDF, 1.7 MiB)]
• short visit at The National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado, USA, December 2010)
  [NCAR website]
  • seminar on CCN activation modelling (Dec 10th, 13:30, room 1001/FL2)
    [slides (PDF, 17MiB)]
• participation in the EUCAARI annual meeting (Helsinki, Finland, November 2010)
  [poster (PDF, 0.7 MiB)] [meeting announcement]
• participation in the ICARE conference (Toulouse, France, October, 2010)
  [conference website]
• seminar on modeling and observations of CCN activation (Institute of Geophysics, Univ. of Warsaw, October 22th)
  [slides (in Polish, PDF, 15MiB)] [seminar announcement]
• one-month research visit in JAMSTEC/The Earth Simulator Center (Yokohama, Japan, August/September 2010)
  [JAMSTEC website]
  • seminar on CCN activation (JAMSTEC: Aug 19th, 13:30; MRI-JMA: Aug 23rd, 15:00)
    [slides (PDF, 11MiB)] [abstract, where/when info]
  • seminar on GNU Data Language together with Alain Coulais and Takeshi Enomoto (Aug 20th, 15:00)
    [slides (PDF, 6.5 MiB)]
• participation in the EGU GA 2010 (Vienna, Austria, May 2010)
  [poster (PDF, 3.3 MiB)] [abstract (PDF, 40 KiB)] [slides (PDF, 1.2 MiB)] [conference website]
• participation in the FOSDEM 2010 and mini-GHM (Brussels, Belgium, February 2010)
  [FOSDEM website], [mini-GHM website]

• participation in the EUCAARI Annual Meeting (Stockholm, Sweden, October 2009)
  [poster (PDF, 6.6 MiB)] [meeting website]
• participation in the EUFAR FP7 N6SP Meeting on Standards and Protocols Definition (Toulouse, France, June 2009)
• participation in the EADS Inovation Works student workshop at the Le Bourget 2009 Air Show (Paris, France, June 2009)
• peer-revieved article publication in GRL: Effective radius and droplet spectral width from in-situ aircraft observations in trade-wind cumuli during RICO
  authors: SA, H. Pawlowska, W. Grabowski
  [abstract/article]
• poster presentation during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009 (Vienna, Austria, April 2009): A comparison of selected vertical wind measurement techniques on basis of the EUCAARI IMPACT observations
  authors: SA, C. Baehr, M. Boquet, F. Bosveld, Y. Dufournet, H. Klein Baltink, H. Pawlowska, H. Siebert, Ch. Unal
  [abstract] [poster (PDF, 17 MiB)] [conference website]
• participation in the Applications of Graphic Processors in High Performance Computing conference/workshop (Warsaw, Poland, March 2009)
  [event website]
• participation in the EUFAR FP7 Expert Working Group Textbook Kick-off meeting (Warsaw, Poland, February 2009)
  [meeting website]
• joining the GNU Data Language developers team @ SourceForge
  [some stats]

• seminar on the properties of cloud-droplet-size spectrum from RICO observations in trade-wind cumuli (seminar in the Institute of Geophysics, Univ. of Warsaw, November 7^th)
  [presentation (PDF, 7.4 MiB; in Polish)] [seminar website]
• participation in the EUCAARI IOP IMPACT/LONGREX workshop (Toulouse, France, October 2008)
  [workshop website]
• beginning PhD studies at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw (October 2008)
• participation in the ISSAOS Aerosols and Climate Change summer school (L'Aquila, Italy, September 2008)
  [school website]
• participation in the EUFAR Expert Working Group Plenary meeting on current issues in Airborne Research (Toulouse, France, September 2008)
• oral presentation during the 15th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (Cancun, Mexico, July 2008):
  Effective radius and droplet spectral width from RICO observations
  authors: SA, H. Pawlowska, W. Grabowski
  [extended abstract (PDF, 190 KiB)] [presentation (PDF, 1.8 MiB)] [conference website]
• defence of MSc thesis: Microphysical properties of shallow convective clouds - the RICO case study (in Polish). supervisor: Pawłowska, H., reviewer: Haman, K., Faculty of Physics, Unversity of Warsaw
  [thesis (PDF, hi-res, 96MiB] [thesis (PDF, low-res, 8.6MiB] [APD record]
• participation in the EUCAARI Intensive Measurement Period at Cabauw Tower (IMPACT) field campaign (The Netherlands, May 2008)
  [campaign website] [EUCAARI project website]
• participation in the University of Helsinki / iLEAPS spring school (+ visit at the SMEAR I and SMEAR II measurement stations)
  Physics and chemistry of air pollution and their effects: field course and data analysis
  (Hyytiala forestry field station, Finland, March 9th - 19th 2008)
  [school website]
• leadership of the SEASALT student's airborne research campaign (Niederoeblarn, Austria, February 23rd - March 8th 2008)
  [SEASALT campaign website]
• visit to the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research and the Zugspitze Observatory (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, February 2008)
• seminar on the intercomparison of cloud liquid water measurements during the RICO campagin
  (student seminar in the Institute of Geophysics, Univ. of Warsaw, January 23rd 2008)
  [presentation (PDF, in Polish)]

• participation in the EUFAR summer school on Boundary-Layer Research with Airborne Instruments
  (Iasi airport, Romania, July 10th - 20th 2007)
  [EUFAR website] [final report of group no 4 (PDF)]
• participation in the University of Helsinki Formation and growth of atmospheric aerosols summer school
  (Hyytiala forestry field station, Finland, June 25th - July 4th 2007)
  [summer school website]
• seminar on the artificial snow production
  (student seminar in the Institute of Geophysics, Univ. of Warsaw, June 6th 2007)
  [presentation (PDF, in Polish)]
• poster presentation during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2007 (Vienna, Austria, April 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
  authors: A. Stan-Sion, SA
  [abstract (PDF, 29 KiB)] [poster (PDF, 17 MiB)] [conference website]

• participation in the AMMA-SCOUT-O3 (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses) airborne atmospheric research campaign held from July 31 to August 18, 2006 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
  [campaign website]
• seminar on the AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses) airborne atmospheric research campaign
  (student seminar in the Institute of Geophysics, Univ. of Warsaw, April 12th 2006)
  [presentation (PDF, in Polish)]
• participation in IMWM/EUMETSAT/NOAA/NESDIS "International Summer School on Applications with the Newest Multi-spectral Environmental Satellites Kraków, 8 - 12 May 2006"
  [summer school website]

• Kulmala, M. and 120 co-authors, 2011:
  General overview: European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality interactions (EUCAARI) - integrating aerosol research from nano to global scales
  Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 11, 17941-18160, doi:10.5194/acpd-11-17941-2011
  [abstract/article (in discussion stage)]
• Arabas, S., Pawlowska, H., 2011:
  Adaptive method of lines for multi-component aerosol condensational growth and CCN activation
  Geosci. Model. Dev., 4, 15-31, doi:10.5194/gmd-4-15-2011
  [abstract/article/electronic supplement (with model code)] [citations in Google scholar]
• Cairo, F. and 51 co-authors, 2010:
  An introduction to the SCOUT-AMMA stratospheric aircraft, balloons and sondes campaign in West Africa, August 2006: rationale and roadmap,
  Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 2237-2256, doi:10.5194/acp-10-2237-2010
  [abstract/article] [citations in Google scholar]
• 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
  [abstract/article] [citations in Google scholar]

• Hoose, C., J.E. Kristjansson, S. Arabas, R. Boers, H. Pawlowska, V. Puygrenier, H. Siebert, O. Thouron, 2010:
  Parameterization of in-cloud vertical velocities for cloud droplet activation in coarse-grid models: analysis of observations and cloud resolving model results
  Proc. of the 13^th AMS Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Portland, Oregon, USA
  [extended abstract (PDF, 1.0 MiB)] [conference website]
• Coulais, A., Schellens, M., Gales, J., Arabas, S., Boquien, M., Chanial, P., Messmer, P., Fillmore, D., Poplawski, O., Maret, S., Marchal, G., Galmiche, N., Mermet, T., 2009:
  Status of GDL - GNU Data Language.
  Proc. of the 19^th conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems, Sapporo, Japan
  [extended abstract (PDF, 120 KiB)] [slides (PDF, 84 KiB)] [conference website] [citations in Google scholar]
• 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
  [extended abstract] [conference website]
• Arabas, S., H. Pawlowska, W. Grabowski, 2008:
  Effective radius and droplet spectral width from RICO observations.
  Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Cancun, Mexico
  [extended abstract (PDF, 190 KiB)] [presentation (PDF, 1.8 MiB)] [conference website]

• Arabas, S., Shima, S. 2011:
  Simulations of a Field of Precipitating Trade-wind Cumuli using a Particle-based and Probabilistic Microphysics Model Coupled with LES: Modeling Results and Validation against in-cloud Aircraft Observations
  SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Geosciences, Long Beach, California, USA
  [abstracts book (PDF, 780 KiB)] [slides (87 MiB)] [conference website]
• Arabas, S., Pawlowska, H. 2010:
  Adaptive method of lines for multi-component aerosol condensational growth and cloud droplet activation
  AGU Fall Meeting 2010, San Francisco, California, USA
  [poster (PDF, 1.7 MiB)]
• EUCAARI Annual Meeting, Helsinki, 2010 (abstracts published in Report Series in Aerosol Science, 120, 302 pp., 2011):
  
  • Arabas S., and Pawlowska H., 2010:
    Preliminary validation of a kappa-Koehler-based CCN activation model with EUCAARI-IMPACT airborne aerosol observations
    [poster (PDF, 0.7 MiB)]
  [abstracts (PDF, 22 MiB)]
• Arabas, S., Schellens, M., Coulais, A., Gales, J., Messmer, P., 2010:
  GNU Data Language (GDL) - a free and open-source implementation of IDL
  Geophysical Research Abstracts, 12, EGU2010-924, Vienna, Austria
  [poster (PDF, 3.3 MiB)] [abstract (PDF, 40 KiB)] [slides (PDF, 1.2 MiB)] [conference website]
• EUCAARI Annual Meeting, Stockholm, 2009 (abstracts published in Report Series in Aerosol Science, 107, 310 pp., 2010):
  
  • Arabas S., and Pawlowska H., 2010:
    Investigation on cloud-droplet activation process during EUCAARI-IMPACT, a case study
    [poster (PDF, 6.6 MiB)]
  • Boers R., Savenije M., van Zadelhoff G.-J., Brenguier J. L., Gomez L., Puygrenier V., Roberts G., Pelon J., Pawlowska H., Arabas S., Jarecka D., Siebert H., Wehner B., Mensah A., Kiendler-Scharr A., Trimborn A., Mentel T., Ten Brink H., Kos G., Roelofs G.-J., Holzinger R., Unal C., Dufournet Y., Ruscchenberg H., Wang P., Knap W., Siebesma A. P., Neggers R., Heus T., Sandu I., and Apituley A. 2010:
    Observational and modelling activities carried out to study the link between aerosols and clouds over the Netherlands and the North Sea
  • Kristjansson J. E., Hoose C., Arabas S., and Pawlowska H., 2010:
    Improving the parameterization of in-cloud updraft velocity with the aid of EUCAARI IMPACT data
  [abstracts (PDF, 17 MiB)] [meeting website]
• Arabas, S., C. Baehr, M. Boquet, F. Bosveld, Y. Dufournet, H. Klein Baltink, H. Pawlowska, H. Siebert, Ch. Unal, 2009:
  A comparison of selected vertical wind measurement techniques on basis of the EUCAARI IMPACT observations.
  Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11, EGU2009-999, Vienna, Austria
  [abstract] [poster (PDF, 17 MiB)] [conference website] [citations in Google scholar]
• 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
  [abstract] [conference website]
• Arabas, S., J. Slawinska, W. Grabowski, H. Morrison, H. Pawlowska, 2009:
  Observations and Modeling of Shallow Convective Clouds: Implications for the Indirect Aerosol Effects.
  Proceedings of the 19^th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
  [abstract] [poster (PDF, 6 MiB)] [conference website]
• 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, Vienna, Austria
  [abstract (PDF, 7.1 KiB)] [poster (PDF, 39 MiB)] [conference website] [citations (in Google scholar)]
• 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, Vienna, Austria
  [abstract (PDF, 29 KiB)] [poster (PDF, 17 MiB)] [conference website]

• Microphysical properties of shallow convective clouds - the RICO case study (in Polish).
  supervisor: H. Pawlowska, reviewer: K. Haman
  Faculty of Physics, Unversity of Warsaw
  [thesis (PDF, hi-res, 96MiB] [thesis (PDF, low-res, 8.6MiB] [APD record]

• numerical modelling in atmospheric physics (2011, 6x2h, slides in Polish)
  (practice course accompanying the lecture of Lech Lobocki)
• atmospheric thermodynamics (2011, 15x2h, slides in Polish)
  (practice course accompanying the lecture of Hanna Pawlowska)
• physics of the atmospheric boundary layer (2010, 15x2h, slides in Polish)
  (practice course accompanying the lecture of Szymon Malinowski)
• hands-on data processing in meteorology (2009, 15x2h, slides in Polish)
  (practice course accompanying the lecture of Krzysztof Markowicz)
• elementary atmospheric thermodynamics and cloud physics (2009, 15x2h, slides in Polish)
  (practice course accompanying the lecture of Hanna Pawlowska)
• hands-on data processing in meteorology (2008, 15x2h, slides in Polish)
  (practice course accompanying the lecture of Krzysztof Markowicz)

usage:
  to extract the data: #sabamese input_filename column_no_1 [ : column_no_2 [ : column_no_3 ] ]
  to list the fields: #sabamese input_filename 

• I'm married to Agnieszka Zuzanna Arabas

• lead programmer @ ITStudio.pl (1999 - 2009)
  web-related & database programming
• "higher inspector" :) @ Mazovian Voivode Cabinet Office (2002 - 2005)
  web-related & database programming

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics (MSc programme 2002 - 2008, 350 ECTS)
• Stanisław Staszic 14^th comprehensive high school in Warsaw (1998 - 2002)
• Karol Kurpiński 4^th primary musical school in Warsaw (1990 - 1996)
• Teodor Duracz 69^th primary school in Warsaw (1990 - 1998)

• FLOSS
• sport: mountain/upland sports including alpine skiing, ski-touring, mountain hiking, cycling; best hikes to date:
  • Andorra: Arinsal - Mounicou
  • Bosnia: Maglic
  • Faroes: Bøur - Gásadalur & Kirkja - Hattarvík
  • France: Cauterets - Marcadeau - Baños de Panticosa & Corte - Gorges du Tavignano & La Plagne - Notre-Dame-du-Pré (ski-tour)
  • Iceland: Seyðisfjörður - Egilsstaðir & Dettifoss - Krafla
  • Japan: Minotoguchi - Akadake - Amida - Kiyosato & Asahidake onsen - Asahidake - Sounkyo & Iwaobetsu - Rausu daira
  • Macedonia: Popova Šapka - Titov Vrv
  • Norway: Skei - Fauskåvatnet, Myrdal - Flåm (in April with snow) & short hikes in Lofoten
  • Poland: Łysa Polana - Polski Grzebień - Sliezsky Dom; Roztoka - Kozi - Zawrat - Czerwone Wierchy; Kremenaros; Mala Babia, Pilsko, Ciemniak (ski-tours)
  • Slovakia: Slovenský raj, Strbske Pleso - Rysy, Strbske Pleso - Krivan, Starý Smokovec - Téryho chata - Javorová dolina - Javorina
  • Spain: Torla - Monte Perdido - Bielsa
  • Romania: Durău - Cabana Dochia
  • UK: Ben Nevis, a glimpse of Glen Coe and the Trotternish
• moto: SAABs (the first one was a '95 5-door turbo-charged 900, now enjoying a '89 2-door 900 - see photos 57 and 59 on this Warsaw SAAB Support Convoy slideshow; been to the museum in Trollhattan)
• aviation: mostly visiting museums: East Fortune UK, Berlin Gatow DE, Krakow PL, Lelystad NL, Le Bourget FR, Yesilkoy TR, Toulouse/AIRBUS FR, Brussels BE, Tokorozawa JP, Concorde Barbados ... TBC
• music: Blind Guardian, Phil Collins, Coma, Dikta, Elektryczne Gitary, Jan Garbarek, Marek Grechuta, Kroke, Kult, Lhasa de Sela, Pink Floyd, RHCP, Týr, U2, ...
• other: GoldenEye 64 :)