Institute of Geophysics - dr Jakub Nowak

dr Jakub Nowak

Assistant Professor

Institute of Geophysics
Atmospheric Physics Department

ul. Pasteura 5, room: B4.30

+48 22 55 32 030

jnowak@igf.fuw.edu.pl

Turbulence in the atmosphere
Atmospheric boundary layer
Physics of clouds and precipitation
Stratocumulus clouds
Measurements in the atmosphere: airborne and ground-based
Temperature, humidity and flow velocity sensors
Shadowgraphy and holography of droplets
Laboratory studies of atmospheric processes

ORCID iD icon orcid.org/0000-0002-3179-1576

Education

2022 Ph.D. in Physics
Insitute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Thesis: Turbulence properties in coupled and decoupled stratocumulus-topped marine boundary layers [pdf]
Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Szymon Malinowski
2016 M.Sc. in Physics (Atmospheric Physics)
Insitute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Thesis: Holographic laboratory measurements of droplets at the cloud edge [pdf]
Supervisor: prof. Szymon Malinowski
2014 B.Sc. in Physics
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Thesis: Fast optoelectronic hygrometer
Supervisor: prof. Tadeusz Stacewicz

Participation in conferences, conventions, schools, courses

Courses and schools

6/2019 Small-scale Turbulence in Clouds
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Orgnization, Goettingen, Germany
3/2019 Scientific writing
Research Academy Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Germany
2/2019 Managing PhD Project
Research Academy Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Germany
6/2018 Turbulent mixing in stratified flows
International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy
9/2017 Flowing matter
International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy
6/2017 Exploring Air-Sea Interaction via Airborne Measurements
European Facility for Airborne Research (EUFAR), Shannon, Ireland
3/2017 Civil aviation security awareness training
Warsaw, Poland
10/2016 Teaching in higher education
University of Warsaw, Poland
3/2016 Winter Research Workshop in Atmospheric Physics
Aerosol Research Network Poland-AOD, Jaworzyna Krynicka, Poland
12/2015 Holosuite Software Workshop
J. Gutenberg University Mainz and Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz, Germany
7/2015 Light! An introduction to modern physics of light
University of Strasbourg, France
8/2014 Physics of the Climate System
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Utrech, Netherlands

Seminar talks

7/2023 Turbulence properties in stratocumulus and cumulus clouds, Lille Turbulence Programme 2023, The Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of Lille – Kampé de Feriet
12/2021 Turbulence properties in coupled and decoupled stratocumulus-topped marine boundary layer, Environmental Atmospheric Physics Seminar, Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
3/2018 Measurement campaign ACORES 2017, Environmental Atmospheric Physics Seminar, Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw

Conference presentations

Nowak J., Wacławczyk M., Malinowski S.P.: Turbulence properties inside and outside trade-wind cumulus clouds, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 2023, oral, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2791
Nowak J., Siebert H., Szodry K., Malinowski S.P.: Comparison of Turbulence Properties in Coupled and Decoupled Stratocumulus-Topped Boundary Layers Observed during ACORES, 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2023: 24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Denver, USA, 2023, oral (online)
Nowak J., Siebert H., Szodry K., Malinowski S.P.: Observations of turbulence properties in coupled and decoupled stratocumulus-topped marine boundary layers, European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2022, Bonn, Germany, 2022, oral, doi: 10.5194/ems2022-177
Akinlabi E., Wacławczyk M., Nowak J., Malinowski S.P.: Structural modelling of subgrid scales in LES of stratocumulus clouds, EUROMECH Colloqium Advances in LES of turbulent multiphase flows, Udine, Italy, 2022, oral
Nowak J., Siebert H., Szodry K., Malinowski S.P.: Coupled and decoupled stratocumulus-topped boundary layers in terms of turbulence properties, XVIII International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, online, 2021, oral
Nowak J., Siebert H., Szodry K., Malinowski S.P.: Turbulence properties in coupled and decoupled stratocumulus-topped boundary layers, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021, online, 2021, vPICO
Nowak J., Szodry K., Siebert H., Wehner B., Luckerath J., Malinowski S.P.: Details of mixing events at the top of marine stratocumulus observed during ACORES2017, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 2019, poster
Nowak J., Kumala W., Kwiatkowski J., Kwiatkowski K., Czyzewska D., Karpinska K., Malinowsi S.P.: UltraFast Thermometer 2.0 - new temperature sensor for airborne applications and its performance during ACORES 2017, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 2018, poster
Nowak J., Karpinska K: Measurement campaign ACORES 2017, Particles in turbulence, Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus, Germany, 2017, oral
Nowak J., Fugal J.: Long-exposure digital holography applied to study mixing at the laboratory analogue of cloud top, Experiments in Fluid Mechanics, Warsaw, Poland, 2017, oral
Nowak J., Fugal J., Gilles S.: Mixing at the laboratory analogue of cloud top observed with long-exposure digital holography, Bottlenecks in turbulent aerosols, Lund, Sweden, 2017, oral
Nowak J., Fugal J., Gilles S.: Droplets at the laboratory analogue of cloud edge measured with long-exposure digital holography, International Workshop on Cloud Microphysics-Turbulence Interaction, Leipzig, Germany, 2017, oral
Nowak J., Magryta P., Kustosz M., Stacewicz T., Kumala W., Malinowski S.: Fast stationary hygrometer in IR for airborne application – feasibility study, XVII International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Manchester, UK, 2016, poster
Nowak J.: Laboratory measurements of cloud droplets by means of holography, Young Scientists Symposium at the Faculty of Physics, Warsaw, Poland, 2016, oral
Nowak J.: Holographic visualization of droplets in a cloud chamber, Cloud Physics on the Zugspitze, Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus, Germany, 2016, oral

Co-authorship of conference presentations

Malinowski S.P., Grosz R., Kumala W., Nowak J., Król S., Waclawczyk M.: Direct Estimates of Temperature Dissipation Rate in Clouds and in the Convective Boundary Layer from High-Resolution Airborne Temperature Measurements, 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2023: 24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Denver, USA, 2023, poster
Król S., Malinowski S.P., Blyth A.M., Grosz R., Lachlan-Cope T., Kumala W., Nowak J., Waclawczyk M.: Application of Recurrence Quantification Analysis to airborne measurements of turbulence in clouds and convective boundary layer, 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2023: 24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Denver, USA, 2023, oral
Waclawczyk M., Nowak J., Siebert H., Malinowski S.P.: Detecting non-stationary and non-equilibrium states in atmospheric turbulence, 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2023: 24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Denver, USA, 2023, oral
Grosz R., Król S., Nowak J., Kumala W., Malinowski S.P.: Temperature dissipation in convective clouds during ACORES and EUREC4A, European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2022, Bonn, Niemcy, 2022, plakat
Waclawczyk M., Nowak J., Malinowski S.P.: Detecting non-equilibrium states in atmospheric turbulence, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 2022, oral, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4965
Grosz R., Król S., Nowak J., Malinowski S.: Temperature dissipation in convective clouds during EUREC4A, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 2022, oral, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4222
Henning S., Wehner B., Roberts G., Nowak J., Luckerath J., Szodry K., Stratmann F., Siebert H.: Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Cloud Droplet Number Concentrations over the Azores, European Aerosol Conference, online, 2021, poster
Grosz R., Nowak J., Niedermeier D., Mijas J., Frey W., Ort L., Malinowski S.P., Schmalfuss S., Stacewicz T., Voigtlaender J.: Contactless and high-frequency optical hygrometry in LACIS-T, XVIII International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation , online, 2021, poster
Mohammadi M., Nowak J., Bertens A., Molacek J., Kumala W., Malinowski S.P.: In situ measurements of cloud microphysical properties with shadowgraph imaging technique, XVIII International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation , online, 2021, poster
Król S., Malinowski S.P., Kumala W., Nowak J., Grosz R., Posyniak M., Lachlan-Cope T., Blyth A., Boenig S.: Centimeter-scale-resolution airborne temperature measurements in clouds and in marine surface layer during EUREC4A, XVIII International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation , online, 2021, poster
Henning S., Wehner B., Roberts G., Nowak J., Luckerath J., Szodry K., Stratmann F., Siebert H.: Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Cloud Droplet Number Concentrations in Marine Air Masses Over the Northern Atlantic (ACORES Campaign), XVIII International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation , online, 2021, poster
Król S., Malinowski S.P., Kumala W., Nowak J., Grosz R., Posyniak M., Lachlan-Cope T., Blyth A., Boenig S.: Centimeter-scale-resolution airborne temperature measurements in clouds and in marine surface layer during EUREC4A, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021, online, 2021, vPICO
Mohammadi M., Nowak J., Bertens A., Molacek J., Kumala W., Malinowski S.P.: Employing a shadowgraph imaging technique for cloud microphysical measurements on a mountain observatory, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021, online, 2021, vPICO
Grosz R., Nowak J., Niedermeier D., Mijas J., Frey W., Ort L., Malinowski S.P., Schmalfuss S., Stacewicz T., Voigtlaender J.: Contactless and high-frequency optical hygrometry in LACIS-T, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021, online, 2021, vPICO
Mohammadi M., Malinowski S.P., Nowak J., Kumala W., Molacek J.: Measurements of cloud droplet size distributions with shadowgraph imaging technique, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 2019, poster
Mohammadi M., Nowak J., Malinowski S.P.: Measurements of cloud droplets and precipitation particles during selected weather events of Warsaw with shadowgraph imaging technique, Understanding Clouds and Precipitation, Berlin, Germany, 2019, poster
Mohammadi M., Nowak J., Malinowski S.P.: Measurements of precipitation size distribution in selected rain events of Warsaw with shadowgraph imaging technique, European Conference for Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2018, Budapest, Hungary, 2018, poster
Mohammadi M., Nowak J., Malinowski S.P.: Laboratory measurements of cloud droplets size/velocity distributions with shadowgraph imaging technique, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 2018, poster
Magryta P., Nowak J., Stacewicz T.,Malinowski S., Petersen B., Seredyński B., Wiśniewski A.: Optoelectronic detectors for water vapor, IX Symposium on Laser Techniques STL2016, Jastarnia, Poland, 2016, poster
Nowak J., Kustosz M., Stacewicz T., Malinowski S.: Fast optoelectronic hygrometer in near infrared, II konferencja Aerozolowej Sieci Badawczej PolandAOD "Rola aerozoli w systemie klimatycznym", Sopot, Poland, 2015, oral
Magryta P., Kustosz M., Nowak J., Stacewicz T., Malinowski S.: Fast infrared optoelectronic sensor of water vapor, 7th European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference, Ilmenau, Germany, 2014, poster

Classes

2019/20 Geophysical Laboratory I and II
2019/20 Atmosphere and ocean dynamics (30 h)
2017/18 Laboratory of Measurement Techniques (90 h)
2016/17 Laboratory of Measurement Techniques (45 h)

Popularizing science

9/2019 Observations of atmospheric phenomena
open lab tours, XXIII Science Festival, Warsaw
3/2018 At the top of clouds - measurement campaign ACORES 2017
lecture for Student Geophysics Club
9/2017 Physics with the mind in clouds - visit in the hydrodynamics lab
workshop for children, XXI Science Festival, Warsaw
4-5/2017 IX National Physics Contests "Hunting for talents"
jury member
11/2016 Cloud chamber - cloud physics in the lab
lecture and lab tour for Student Geophysics Club
9/2016 and 9/2015 Cloud chamber, Atmospheric measurements
open lab tours, XX and XIX Science Festival, Warsaw

Awards

The Foundation for Polish Science START 2022 stipend

Mohammadi M., Nowak J.L. and Malinowski S.P., 2022, Microphysical measurements of hydrometeors using shadowgraph imaging technique, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 2367, art. 012020, 10.1088/1742-6596/2367/1/012020

Mohammadi M., Nowak J.L., Bertens G., Molacek J., Kumala W. and Malinowski S.P., 2022, Cloud microphysical measurements at a mountain observatory: comparison between shadowgraph imaging and phase Doppler interferometry, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 15, 965-985, 10.5194/amt-15-965-2022

Nowak J.L., Grosz R., Frey W., Niedermeier D., Mijas J., Malinowski S.P., Ort L., Schmalfuß S., Stratmann F., Voigtländer J. and Stacewicz T., 2022, Contactless optical hygrometry in LACIS-T, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 15(13), 4075-4089, 10.5194/amt-15-4075-2022

Wacławczyk M., Nowak J.L. and Malinowski S.P., 2022, Non-equilibrium dissipation scaling in atmospheric turbulence, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 2367, art. 012032, 10.1088/1742-6596/2367/1/012032

Wacławczyk M., Nowak J.L., Siebert H. and Malinowski S.P., 2022, Detecting non-equilibrium states in atmospheric turbulence, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 79(10), 2757-2772, 10.1175/JAS-D-22-0028.1

Nowak J., Mohammadi M., Malinowski S., 2021, Applicability of the VisiSize D30 shadowgraph system for cloud microphysical measurements, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 14, 2615–2633, 10.5194/amt-14-2615-2021

Nowak J.L., Siebert H., Szodry K.-E. and Malinowski S.P., 2021, Coupled and decoupled stratocumulus-topped boundary layers: turbulence properties, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 21(14), 10965-10991, 10.5194/acp-21-10965-2021

Siebert H., Szodry K.-E., Egerer U., Wehner B., Henning S., Chevalier K., Lückerath J., Welz O., Weinhold K., Fialho P., Roberts G., Allwayin N., Schum S., Shaw R.A., Mazzoleni C., Mazzoleni L., Nowak J.L., Malinowski S. Karpinska K., Kumala W., Czyzewska D., Luke E.P., Kollias P., Wood R., Mellado J.P., 2021, Observations of aerosol, cloud, turbulence, and radiation properties at the top of the marine boundary layer over the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean: The ACORES campaign, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 102(1), E123-E147, 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0191.1

Stevens B., Bony S., Farrell D., ..., Grosz R., ..., Kumala W., ..., Malinowski S., ..., Nowak J.L., ..., Ziemen F., Zinner T., and Zöger M., 2021, EUREC4A, Earth System Science Data, vol. 13(8), 4067-4119, 10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021

Karpińska K., Bodenschatz J.F.E., Malinowski S.P., Nowak J.L., Risius S., Schmeissner T., Shaw R.A., Siebert H., Xi H., Xu H., and Bodenschatz E., 2019, Turbulence-induced cloud voids: observation and interpretation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 19, 4991-5003, 10.5194/acp-19-4991-2019

Stacewicz T., Magryta P., Petersen B., Nowak J., Kwiatkowski K., Malinowski S., 2018, Highly sensitive airborne open path optical hygrometer for upper air measurements - proof of concept, Metrology and Measurement Systems, vol. 25(4), 793–805, 10.24425/mms.2018.124877

Nowak J., Magryta P., Stacewicz T., Kumala W., Malinowski S.P., 2016, Fast optoelectronic sensor of water concentration, Optica Applicata, vol. 46(4), 607-618, 10.5277/oa160408

Research project

Next Generation Earth Modelling Systems (NextGEMS)
Role: Investigator
Source of financing: EC, HORIZON 2020
Realisation period: Sept. 1, 2021–Aug. 31, 2025

Stabilna atmosferyczna warstwa graniczna: poza teorią Monina i Obukhova
Role: Investigator
Source of financing: NCN, OPUS
Realisation period: Feb. 1, 2021–Jan. 31, 2025

High resolution temperature measurements: investigations of ocean-atmosphere turbulent exchange in the course of EUREC4A-ATOMIC campaign.
Role: Investigator
Source of financing: NCN, HARMONIA
Realisation period: April 17, 2019–April 16, 2023

Mikrodynamika chmur
Role: Investigator
Source of financing: NCN, MAESTRO
Realisation period: Aug. 28, 2013–Aug. 27, 2019

Psychrometr samolotowy i optyczna detekcja pary wodnej
Role: Investigator
Source of financing: MNiSW
Realisation period: May 18, 2011–Aug. 31, 2015

Education

Scholarships and scientific stays abroad

Participation in experiments

Apprenticeships

Participation in conferences, conventions, schools, courses

Classes

Popularizing science

Awards

Research project