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AEOLUS+ INNOVATION – LIDAR MEASUREMENTS TO IDENTIFY STREAMERS AND ANALYZE ATMOSPHERIC WAVES (LISA)

Prime company: DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE)

For a better comprehension of climate change it is fundamentally important how well we understand the general condition (dynamics and chemistry) in the atmosphere. Aeolus wind measurements enable for the first time the derivation of atmospheric wave structures on different temporal and spatial scales and wind gradients in particular above the oceans, where wind measurements …

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RUS webinar: Monitoring Volcanic Emissions with Sentinel-5P

February 25, 2021 @ 14:30 - 16:00 UTC+1

This webinar will exploit Senitnel-5p data to map the SO2 concentrations originated during a volcanic eruption in Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. The analysis will be implemented using Python code run in a Jupyter Notebook. Basic python programming skills are recommended although the exercise DOES NOT require any Python programming skills and can be followed by …

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AEOLUS+ INNOVATION – IMPROVING DUST MONITORING AND FORECASTING THROUGH AEOLUS WIND DATA ASSIMILATION (NEWTON)

Prime company: NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS (GR)

Windblown dust plays a key role in the Earth system, affecting climate, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, anthropogenic activities as well as humans’ health. Winds, acting as the main driving force of dust emission determine also the spatiotemporal evolution of dust plumes during transport. The proposed study, entitled NEWTON, aims to demonstrate the potential improvement of …

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CLIMATE DATA RECORD OF STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS (CREST)

Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)

Stratospheric aerosols impact the radiative forcing and thus the energy balance of the Earth’s atmosphere, therefore information about their distribution and variability is of high importance for climate related studies.  The main scientific objective of the project CREST is creating a new merged long-term time series of the vertically resolved aerosol extinction coefficients using data …

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Second joint training course on Atmospheric Composition 2020

November 16, 2020 - November 20, 2020

From 16 – 20 November 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) with the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) have organised the second joint training course on Atmospheric Composition with a focus on air quality and data interoperability. The …

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Stratospheric ozone from limb observations: validation of the profiles, evaluation of trends and their dynamical and chemical drivers (SOLVE)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN (DE)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Carlo Arosio. The stratospheric ozone layer suffered a significant decline at the end of the 20th century as a consequence of anthropogenic emissions of halogenated substances. An ozone recovery has been predicted for the current century in response to the actions taken under the Montreal Protocol and …

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Carlo Arosio

“What I greatly appreciated about the fellowship was ESA’s flexibility and support, especially during COVID-19 times, which made it possible to adapt the schedule and adjust some of the foreseen objectives according to the project development. The fellowship gave me the opportunity to independently manage a project for the first time and encouraged the collaboration …

Methane+

Prime company: Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NWO-I) (NL)

The ESA Methane+ project aims at exploiting the SWIR and TIR CH4 observations from different satellites in order to better differentiate between sources and sinks of CH4 on the regional and global scale. For this we will use the CH4 observations of TROPOMI on Copernicus Sentinel-5p, IASI on MetOp-B, and CrIS on Suomi NPP in combination with atmospheric inversion models. OBJECTIVES: Given the identified opportunities and challenges of …

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A collaboration on Atmosphere science just kicked-off

Trace gases are produced and destructed by physical, biological and chemical processes. This natural cycle has been perturbed over the past decades by the global population increase and by the related boost of anthropogenic activities. The composition of the atmosphere is undergoing major and rapid changes with significant impacts on a global scale, affecting the …

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