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Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken
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Education
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09.1970 - 08.1974
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study of meteorology, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Dipl. Meteorologist
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01.1978
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Dr. rer. nat., University of Leipzig
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07.1990
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Dr. sc. nat., Humboldt-University of Berlin
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Employment
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01.1978 - 08.1981
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scientific worker, Meteorological Service of the GDR, Main Meteorological Observatory Potsdam
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09.1981 - 04.1994
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Head of the Boundary-layer and Turbulence Department, Meteorological Service of the GDR, Main Meteorological Observatory Potsdam (from 10.1990 German Weather Service)
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05.1994 - 09.1997
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Head of the Boundary-layer and Land surface processes Department, German Weather Service, Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg
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10.1997 - 09.2014
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Professor of Micrometeorology, University Bayreuth
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Important expeditions
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1975 and 1976
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Caspian Sea/Aserb. (KASPEX-75,76)
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1981
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Cimlijansk/Russia (MESP-81)
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1988
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Kursk/Russia (KUREX-88)
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1990
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Tartu/Estonia (TARTEX-90)
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1994
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Uppsala/Sweden (NOPEX)
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1994
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Neumayer/Antarctica (FINTUREX)
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1998
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Lindenberg/Germany (BALTEX)
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2000
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Fresno/USA (EBEX-2000)
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2003
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Lindenberg/Germany (LITFASS-2003)
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| 2007 |
Black Forest/Germany (COPS) |
| 2007, 2008, 2011 |
Waldstein/Germany (EGER- IOP-1, 2, 2) |
| 2008, 2010 |
NamCo/China-Tibet (TiP - CEOP-AEGIS) |
2010, 2012
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Kema/China-Tibet (TiP) |
| Awards |
| 1999 |
Dionyz Stur medal in silver of the Slovak Academy of Science |
| 2012 |
Norbert Gerbier-MUMM Award for 2012 for the paper Yi et al. (ca. 150 authors) Enivironmental Research Letters, 5, 034007 (2010) |
| 2013 |
AMS 2013 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Biometeorology |
| 2013 |
Honour badge of the VDI |
| 2014 |
Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Meteorological Society |
