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Earth Explorer 11 User Consultation Meeting

October 10 - October 11
Radisson Blu Hotel, Bucharest, RO, Calea Victoriei 63-81
București, Romania

The European Space Agency, in coordination with Agenția Spațială Română (ROSA), is organising the Earth Explorer 11 User Consultation Meeting on 10-11 October, 2023 in Bucharest, Romania. The Meeting will take place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest city centre.   Objectives The ESA Earth Explorer 11 (EE11) User Consultation Meeting (UCM) is a …

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Invitation to Tender: “EUROPEAN COORDINATED GLOBAL METHANE (CH4)”

The Atmosphere Science Cluster – Research Opportunities 4 – European Coordinated Global Methane (CH4) Assessment is established under the Scientific Exploitation component of the FutureEO Programme. It is intended to support innovative scientific development, which responds to research and networking opportunities in the Atmospheric research domain. This activity is part of a coordination initiative between …

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Invitation to Tender: “EUROPEAN COORDINATED STUDY ON AEROSOLS AND AEROSOL/CLOUD INTERACTIONS”

The Atmosphere Science Cluster – Research Opportunities 5 – European Coordinated Study on Aerosol and Aerosol/Cloud Interactions is established under the Scientific Exploitation component of the FutureEO Programme. It is intended to support innovative scientific development, which responds to research and networking opportunities in the Atmospheric research domain. This activity is part of a coordination …

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L2A+

Prime company: NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS (GR)

ESA wind mission Aeolus hosts the first space-based Doppler Wind Lidar (DWL) world-wide. Its scientific objectives are to improve Numerical Weather Predictions (NWP) and to advance the understanding of atmospheric dynamics and its interaction with the atmospheric energy and water cycle. The primary data product is profiles of horizontally projected line-of-sight winds from the surface …

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Is there an ozone hole over the tropics?

Certainly not according to available data. The claim of a so called “ozone hole” in the tropical lower stratosphere, “seven times larger in area than the one over Antarctica” (see Fig. 1), was made by a – highly controversial – paper (Lu, 2022). The study used data from the smoothed and gap-filled version of the …

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Building a bridge: estimating carbon dioxide emissions using satellites

A team of researchers estimated the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants and other major anthropogenic point sources in the South African Highveld region using space-based data. The results indicate that CO2 emissions can be obtained also in challenging cases where the plumes from multiple sources overlap. The new publication characterizes CO2 emissions …

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IMPALA

Prime company: KNMI (NL)

Methane is among the most important greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, causing rapid global warming. A recent study indicates that tropical methane emissions explain a large fraction of the global atmospheric methane growth (Feng et al., 2022). The relatively short lifetime of methane of about a decade makes methane emissions an attractive target of …

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3DCTRL

Prime company: ARISTOTLE UNIV. OF THESSALONIKI (GR)

3DCTRL project aims to evaluate cloud correction methodologies in Copernicus Sentinel-4, Sentinel-5 and Sentinel-5p trace gas retrieval schemes and to explore ways to improve handling of realistic clouds in the retrievals of atmospheric species. Cloud shadow fraction, cloud top height, cloud optical depth, solar zenith and viewing angles, were identified as the metrics being the …

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Synergetic retrieval from multi-mission space-borne measurements for enhancement of aerosol characterization (SYREMIS)

Prime company: GRASP-SAS (FR)

Atmospheric aerosol is one of the main drivers of climate changes. Importance of accurate global aerosol characterization for climate studies and air pollution monitoring is a well recognized problem (e.g., see IPCC AR5 by Boucher et al.2013). In addition to the traditional spectral Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) such characterization should also include such extended aerosol …

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KARLOS

Prime company: LUFTBLICK OG (AT)

Air pollution is one of the current major environmental issues affecting human health at the global scale, therefore monitoring air pollution in urban and suburban areas is of great societal importance. The monitoring of air quality at urban scales is currently based on telemetric in-situ networks, which provide continuous observations with high accuracy of a …

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