Master's in Atmospheric Science and Technology for Meteorology & Climate

With a rich history spanning over 700 years, Sapienza University of Rome has welcomed over 120,000 students and boasts a faculty of over 3,500 professors and 3,000 professional staff. As the largest university in Europe, it is dedicated to advancing society through research, quality education, and global partnerships. The university has earned high rankings for its research, educational quality, and international reach, and is highly regarded across many fields of study.

The Laurea Magistrale in Atmospheric Science and Technology for Meteorology and Climate (LMAST4MC) is a Master of Science degree in the Physics class (LM-17), organized as an international inter-university programme, jointly proposed by the Sapienza University of Rome and University of L’Aquila, with the lessons of the first year in L’Aquila and the second ones in Rome. The unique feature of LMAST4MC programme is to educate master students with solid knowledge and specific skills in the domain of meteorology, climate and atmospheric science, from a physics and an engineering perspective. LMAST4MC includes fundamentals of fluid mechanics, atmospheric physics, meteorology, electromagnetics and statistical mechanics as well as satellite Earth observation, radar meteorology, atmospheric remote sensing, dynamical meteorology and climatic modelling, environmental meteorology and monitoring. The course can be completed by choosing among a wide choice of interdisciplinary subjects such as: i) urban climatology, satellite geodesy and geomatics, advanced fluid mechanics, hydro-climatology, hydrological modelling; ii) advanced electromagnetics and scattering, optoelectronic sensors, machine learning, radar image processing, engineering electromagnetics, robust statistical data analysis and modelling; ii) atmospheric sounding, lidar remote sensing, radiative transfer in atmosphere, physics of non-linear systems, space weather, hydrometeorological physics, atmospheric chemistry, physical oceanography and snow and glacier physics. Stages for carrying out the master thesis are also foreseen through agreements with regional and national meteorological services as well research institutes and companies. The program emphasizes system-related and interdisciplinary aspects aiming at forming professional expertise as meteorologist, climatologist, forecaster, atmospheric scientist, remote sensing scientist, and environmental physicist LMAST4MC is closely linked with research and innovation activities in the Italian and international job-market context related to agrometeorology, risk management, transport, climate adaptation, civil protection, renewable energy, energy management.