The Laurea Magistrale in Atmospheric Science and Technology for Meteorology and
Climate (LMAST4MC) is a Master of Science (MSc) 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.