Education Provided

Laurea Magistrale in Atmospheric Science and Technology for Meteorology & Climate (LMAST4MC)

The Laurea Magistrale in Atmospheric Science and Technology for Meteorology & Climate (LMAST4MC) is held entirely in English and provides students with advanced concepts, professional training and specific physics and engineering skills, enabling them to address complex issues requiring analysis, development, simulation and application in a wide range of atmospheric science topics.

The inter-university LMAST4MC program foresees the following 2-year schedule and logistics:

LMAST4MC first year is organized in L'Aquila (90 km far from Rome, about 1-hour trip) and students are introduced to atmospheric dynamics, climate modelling and environmental meteorology as well as to several complementary subjects on atmospheric physics.

LMAST4MC second year is organized in Rome and students acquire a basic knowledge related to major areas of fluid mechanics, meteorology, electromagnetics, statistical mechanics as well as complementary subjects on advanced and applied topics.

The mandatory subjects of LMAST4MC are the following (60 credits corresponding to about 600 hours of class lectures, exercises and laboratories):

1. Fundamentals of fluid mechanics (6 credits)
2. Foundations of meteorology (9 credits)
3. Electromagnetics and radar meteorology (6 credits)
4. Statistical mechanics (6 credits)
5. Satellite Earth observation (6 credits)
6. Laboratory of atmospheric remote sensing (6 credits)
7. Atmospheric dynamics: meteorological and climate modeling (12 credits)
8. Environmental meteorology (12 credits)

Other 24 credits can be chosen by the student within a wide offer of subjects in LMAST4MC together with a stage of 3 credits (75 hours of student work). A final Master thesis of 24 credits (650 hours of student work), to be presented and discussed, concludes the LMAST4MC program (the final grade is expressed in 110 with possible laude).
The LMAST4MC Master thesis score is up to 10 points (over 110 available) where: i) for requests of points ≥ 6 a reviewer is needed; ii) 2 points are attributed for academic time-efficiency; iii) to obtain cum laude, the overall points should be equal or larger than 113/110.
Each student can compile his/her study plan by following his/her interests.

LMAST4MC academic point-of-contact: prof. Gianluca Redaelli
The catalogue of the individual courses is available on the University of L'Aquila website at this link, and in the table here below:

Teaching locations

L’Aquila and Roma

Language

English

Degree Class

LM-17

Duration

2 years

Catalogue

this link , and in the table here below: