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Summer school agenda

2nd ECARS SUMMER SCHOOL AGENDA

Period: 3-12 April 2017

Monday 3 April

10:00 – 11:00: “Ground-based validation of spaceborne lidar measurements” (Vassilis Amiridis)
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: Separation in Working Groups
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch break
14:30 – 18:00: Training activities and PRE-TECT briefing

Tuesday 4 April

10:00 – 11:00: “Remote sensing for assimilation and validation of dust forecasts” (Stavros Solomos)
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: “Remote sensing for assimilation and validation of dust forecasts” (Stavros Solomos)
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch break
14:30 – 18:00: Training activities and PRE-TECT briefing

Wednesday 5 April

10:00 – 13:00: Training activities
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch break
14:30 – 18:00: Visit to Finokalia station, presentation of the instruments

Tuesday 6 April

10:00 – 11:00: “Inversion methods for atmospheric profiling of advanced aerosol properties” (Anton Lopatin)
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: “Inversion methods for atmospheric profiling of advanced aerosol properties” (Anton Lopatin)
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch break
14:30 – 18:00: Training activities and PRE-TECT briefing

Friday 7 April

10:00 – 11:00: “PM monitoring from space” (Matthias Tesche)
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: “PM monitoring from space” (Matthias Tesche)
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch break
14:30 – 18:00: Training activities and PRE-TECT briefing

Monday 10 April

10:00 – 11:30: “ACTRIS, the ground-truth for aerosols, clouds and trace gases” (Doina Nicolae)
11:30 – 12:00: Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:30: “Aerosol optical depth ground-based sensors, homogenization activities between different networks” (Stelios Kazadzis)
13:30 – 15:00: Lunch break
15:00 – 18:00: Participation in GEO-Cradle meeting

Tuesday 11 April

10:00 – 11:30: “Aerosol climatic trends from CCI and the significance of validation” (Gerrit De Leeuw)
11:30 – 12:00: Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:30: “From manual inversion of prototype Raman lidar (starting in 1992) to automated, unsupervised inversion of airborne MWL HSRL (designed for spaceborne missions)” (Detlef Mueller)
13:30 – 15:00: Lunch break
15:00 – 18:00: Training activities and PRE-TECT briefing

Wednesday 12 April

10:00 – 11:00: “Aerosol and cloud observations by airborne lidar for satellite cal/val” (Franco Marenco)
11:00 – 12:00: “CALIPSO validation with airborne in-situ and lidar measurements: Tackling the problem of hygroscopic growth” (Alexandra Tsekeri)
12:00 – 12:30: Coffee Break
12:30 – 13:30: Closing Address

Exercises

  1. NMME evaluation using PollyXT: assimilated vs. control runs (dust) [Stavros Solomos]
  2. CAMS evaluation (dust, marine) [Evangelos Gerasopoulos]
  3. RAMS marine vs Polly [Vassilis Amiridis]
  4. AIRS water vapor validation using MWR, CIMEL, Polly [Filioglou Maria, Elina Giannakaki]
  5. Sentinel-3 AOD vs CIMEL/and other photometers [Stelios Kazadzis]
  6. CALIPSO/CATS CCN/IN vs Polly [Eleni Marinou, Manolis Proestakis]
  7. MODIS/VIIRS evaluation vs Cloud Radar [Elina GIannakaki]
  8. Station aspects for cal/val [CALIPSO study spatial variability around the station] [Vassilis Amiridis, Manolis Proestakis]
  9. World Megacities and Aerosols [Stelios Kazadzis]

Participants are kindly asked to bring their own laptop.

Contact

For further information about the campaign please contact Vassilis Amiridis.

Acknowledgement

This campaign has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654109.

Credits

Website developed by impworks.