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Curriculum Vitae - Krzysztof Markowicz Adress: Instytut Geofizyki
Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
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Education:
1999-present, Graduate Research Assistant, Institute of Geophysics, University of Warsaw, Atmospheric Science Group
1999 M.Sc, Institute of Geophysics, University of Warsaw, Atmospheric Science Group
Awards:
Polish Academy of Sciences Award for paper General features of climate of Strzyzow (1992).
Polish Academy of Sciences Award for paper “Ekstykcja promieniowania slonecznego w pasmie widzialnym w dolnej troposferze (1993)
Recent Professional Activities:
2001 MINOS Crete, Greece
2001 ACE-Asia cruise, R/V Ronald H. Brown, Honolulu - Sea of Japan
1999 Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) R/V Ronald H. Brown
Research on local Climate in Strzyzow
Research in Institute of Physics PAN
Research on ekstynction of solar radiation in lower troposphere.
Recent Collaborations and Research
2002 June-November Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey
2002 February-June Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
1998-1999 role of
turbulence on cloud microphysics
1985-1992 developed and performed observations at the amateur meteorological
station in Strzyzow
Interest
aerosol and climate,
meteorological instruments
cloud physics
Research Activities:
My interests in Atmospheric physics started when I was ten years old . In
primary school I built the weather station nearly my house in south east region
of Poland. Three times a day I measured major weather conditions ie. air
temperature, presser, relative humidity, wind speed and wind
direction. After every month I was doing statistical report about weather
and climatological anomaly. In High School I bought new instrument to my weather
station. In 1991 I began write my first paper about climate of my town.
The main result of this work was that weather condition are string
influence of the orography. This result is very important for agriculture
of this region of Poland. My paper has been awarded in the first Polish
Competition in Research Project in Physics for Secondary School Students and
received on honourable mention in the first International Competition "First
Step to Nobel prize in Physics". After this work I did some research on
solar radiation in boundary layer, I measured solar intensity on different
elevation from collected data I have calculated extinction of sun radiation. Two
years lateer I wrote my second paper "Ekstynkcja promieniowaniaslonecznego w dolnej
troposferze w pasmie widzialnym". I
have found of the existence of strong variation of the intensity of
the solar radiation (in visible part of the spectrum) with the elevation.
It was caused by local circulation and vertical gradient of temperature. The
main result of this work was that during winter the aerosol is absorbing solar
radiation. This paper has been awarded in the secondary Polish Competition in
Research project in Physics for Secondary School Student. In 1992 and 1993 I
have researched in Institute of Physics PAN in
Warsaw.
In 1993 I began physic study on Warsaw University.
My M. Sc. dealt with problem of cloud coagulation and evolution in the
field of small scale turbulence caused by vorticity motion. The main result of
this work was their exist region of increased droplet concentration (clusters)
in the region of small vorticity. Cloud droplets of sufficient size are not
randomly dispersed in cloud but are preferentially concentrated in region of low
vorticity in the turbulent flow field. Region of high vorticity (low droplet
concentration) develop higher supersaturation than region of low vorticity (high
droplet concentration). Therefore, on small spatial scales
cloud droplets are growing in a strongly fluctuating supersaturation
field.
In February-April of
1999 I
participated in Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) in Arabian Sea, bay of Bengal,
and tropical Indian Ocean. We have found large gradients of aerosol optical
density between clean southern hemisphere and polluted northern hemisphere.
Contrary to current assumptions in the Global Circulation Models the
INDOEX aerosol was highly absorptive.
I wrote one papers for Wiedza i Zycie, major popular science journal in
Poland. I also gave two interviews about climate change which were broadcast on
the Polish national TV.