Professor Christian von Savigny, Ph.D.

Address Universität Greifswald
Institut für Physik
Felix-Hausdorff-Straße 6
17489 Greifswald

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Constraining the effects of volcanic eruptions on stratospheric aerosols and radiative forcing (Research Units)
  - Coordination Funds (Research Units)
  - Observations of meteoric smoke particles in the middle atmosphere with a novel lidar method. (O-MSP-LI) (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Impact of planetary waves and solar proton events on long-term variations of noctilucent clouds II (Priority Programmes)
  - Investigating long-term trends in noctilucent clouds observed with European Nadir-Viewing satellite instruments (Research Grants)
  - Investigation of the photochemistry of oxygen species in the mesopause region (Research Grants)
  - Long-term evolution of stratospheric aerosol extinction and particle sizes at northern mid and high latitudes (Research Grants)
  - Investigating the excitation mechanism of the Na D-line nightglow emission (Research Grants)
As Spokesperson
- Current projects
  - FOR 2820: Revisiting The Volcanic Impact on Atmosphere and Climate – Preparations for the Next Big Volcanic Eruption (Research Units)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Investigation of solar UV irradiance variation on hourly to decadal time scales and its impact on middle atmospheric ozone and ozone-climate interaction (Priority Programmes)
  - Implications of energetic particle precipitation events for the temperature and dynamics of the atmosphere - a model study (Research Grants)
  - Model studies of hydroxyl airglow under the influence of ionization. (Research Grants)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Volcanic impacts on atmospheric dynamics (VolDyn) (Research Units)
- Completed projects
  - Photochemistry of important odd nitrogen species in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere and stratosphere (Research Grants)