Christian Lackner

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Bldg. 490D, Room 5-41
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-5684
clackner@bnl.gov

Expertise | Education | Publications

Expertise

July 2024- :  Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental & Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY

February 2024-June 2024:  Postdoctoral Research Associate; Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

September 2020-December 2023:  Graduate Research Assistant; Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

September 2017-July 2019:  Student Research Assistant; Institute for Atmospheric Physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Education

September 2020- December 2023:  Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science; University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

August 2019-August 2020:  Master of Science in Atmospheric Science; University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

April 2019-August 2020:  Master of Science in Meteorology; Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany 

October 2015-March 2019:  Bachelor of Science in Meteorology; Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany 

Selected Publications

• Lackner CP, Geerts B, Wang Y, et al (2023) Insights into the relation between vertical cloud structure and dynamics of three polar lows: Observations from COMBLE. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 149:2992–3013. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4543
• Lackner CP, Geerts B, Juliano TW, et al (2023) Vertical Structure of Clouds and Precipitation During Arctic Cold-Air Outbreaks and Warm-Air Intrusions: Observations From COMBLE. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128:. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jd038403
• Geerts B, Giangrande SE, McFarquhar GM, et al (2022) The COMBLE Campaign: A Study of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds in Arctic Cold-Air Outbreaks. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 103:E1371–E1389. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-21-0044.1
• Xue L, Weeks C, Chen S, et al (2022) Comparison between Observed and Simulated AgI Seeding Impacts in a Well-Observed Case from the SNOWIE Field Program. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 61:345–367. https://doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-21-0103.1
• Lackner CP, Geerts B, Wang Y (2021) Impact of global warming on snow in ski areas: A case study using a regional climate simulation over the interior western United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-20-0155.1
• Szakáll M, Debertshäuser M, Lackner CP, et al (2021) Comparative study on immersion freezing utilizing single-droplet levitation methods. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21:3289–3316. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3289-2021