Aeolus Science Conference 2023
22–26 May 2023 | Rodos Palace Hotel | Rhodes Island, Greece
Programme
Please find below the draft agenda of the workshop. Time-slots are indicated in EEST (Eastern European Summer Time).
| Aeolus Science Conference 2023 | ||
| Sunday, 21 May 2023 | ||
| 16:30 19:00 | Registration opens | |
| Monday, 22 May 2023 | ||
| 09:00 10:00 | Registration and Welcome Coffee | |
| 10:00 10:45 | Welcome Session Chairs: T. Parrinello & T. Fehr | |
| 10:45 12:30 | Mission Status and Product Evolution #1 Session Chairs: T. Parrinello & T. Fehr | |
| 10:45 11:05 | Aeolus: ESA’s wind mission. Status and future challenges Tommaso Parrinello, ESA | |
| 11:05 11:25 | Aeolus Mission Operations: the mission in commission until decommission* Viet Duc Tran, ESA | |
| 11:25 11:45 | The Aeolus Payload Data Ground Segment: a challenging journey from launch to entry preparation Massimo Romanazzo, ESA | |
| 11:45 12:05 | Four and a Half Years In-Orbit Performance of the ALADIN Instrument on Aeolus Trismono Candra, ESA | |
| 12:05 12:25 | Aladin Laser more than 4 years in Space Valeria De Sanctis, Leonardo S.p.A. | |
| 12:30 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 15:40 | Mission Status and Product Evolution #2 Session Chairs: T. C. Krisna & I. Krisch | |
| 14:00 14:20 | Contributions from the DISC in 2022-2023 to accomplish the Aeolus mission objectives Oliver Reitebuch, DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics | |
| 14:20 14:40 | ALADIN Instrument Monitoring and Investigation of Signal Anomalies Oliver Lux, German Aerospace Center | |
| 14:40 15:00 | Aeolus Rayleigh-cloudy winds Gert-Jan Marseille, KNMI | |
| 15:00 15:20 | Widening the wind keeper's reach AEOLUS ALADIN Peter Bickerton, ESA | |
| 15:20 19:00 | Ice Breaker and Poster session | |
| Tuesday, 23 May 2023 | ||
| AEOLUS COMMUNITY DAY | ||
| Wednesday, 24 May 2023 | ||
| 09:00 10:40 | Science Exploration #1 Session Chairs: M. Rennie & A. Feofilov | |
| 9:00 9:20 | Ocean Color through AEOLUS measurements: results from the COLOR project Davide Dionisi, Italian National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR - ISMAR) | |
| 9:20 9:40 | Can AEOLUS estimate ocean color parameters? The Aeolus+ Innovation AEOLUS Ocean Colour (AOC) project Cédric Jamet, LOG/ULCO | |
| 9:40 10:00 | Extracting useful information from Lidar Surface Returns of Aeolus: lessons and challenges over water and land Lev Labzovskii, Knmi | |
| 10:00 10:20 | Aeolus Aerosol Assimilation in the DISC: project status and latest developments William McLean, ECMWF | |
| 10:20 10:40 | Comparison of Aeolus aerosol products derived using modified ATLID algorithms with Calipso L2 aerosol product Ping Wang, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute | |
| 10:40 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 12:40 | Science Exploration #2 Session Chairs: V. Amiridis & N. Zagar | |
| 11:00 11:20 | The Vorticized Volcanic Plume – an unusual stratospheric phenomenon revealed by Aeolus wind profiling Sergey Khaykin, LATMOS/CNRS | |
| 11:20 11:40 | Variation of Gravity Wave Activity in the Tropical UTLS: A New Perspective from Aeolus Observations Mathieu Ratynski, Latmos | |
| 11:40 12:00 | Winds and Waves in the Tropical UTLS: the 2019/20 Quasi-Biennial Oscillation disruption as observed by Aeolus Corwin Wright, University Of Bath | |
| 12:00 12:20 | The QBO and tropical waves in Aeolus wind observations, radiosonde data, and reanalyses Isabell Krisch, DLR, Institute of Atmospheric Physics | |
| 12:20 12:40 | Update on Aeolus usage at the Met Office Mary Forsythe, Met Office | |
| 12:40 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 15:40 | Numerical weather and climate prediction #1 Session Chairs: A. Stoffelen & S. Hagellin | |
| 14:00 14:17 | A Consolidated Assessment of the Impact of Aeolus Winds in Numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF Michael Rennie, ECMWF | |
| 14:17 14:34 | Enhancement and Synergy of Impact of Aeolus and AMV winds on NOAA Global Forecast: Recent OSE Studies Hui Liu, Noaa/nesdis/star | |
| 14:34 14:51 | Investigation of links between dynamical scenarios and particularly high impact of Aeolus on NWP forecasts Martin Weissmann, University of Vienna | |
| 14:51 15:09 | The impact of Aeolus wind observations on the predictability of tropical cyclones Giovanna De Chiara, ECMWF | |
| 15:09 15:26 | Impact of Aeolus wind data assimilation on the JMA’s global data assimilation system Izumi Okabe, MRI / Japan Meteorological Agency | |
| 15:26 15:43 | Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) with 3D Winds from Space under NOAA’s Quantitative Observing System Assessment Program (QOSAP) Lidia Cucurull, NOAA | |
| 15:40 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 18:00 | Numerical weather and climate prediction #2 Session Chairs: A. Gkikas & L. Cucurull | |
| 16:00 16:17 | Improvement Quantification of Tropical Dynamical Processes by the Aeolus Wind Profiles Nedjeljka Žagar, University Of Hamburg | |
| 16:17 16:34 | Impact of Aeolus observations in a regional NWP model during strong wind events Susanna Hagelin, SMHI | |
| 16:34 16:51 | Assimilation of Aeolus HLOS product in regional scale NWP Stephen Tjemkes, Verisk Analytics Gmbh | |
| 16:51 17:09 | The impact of Aeolus on volcanic ash quantitative dispersion modeling by applying inversion techniques on volcanic emissions Anna Kampouri, IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens | |
| 17:09 17:26 | Advancing WRF-Chem regional simulations via Aeolus wind assimilation in the framework of the JATAC campaign Eleni Drakaki, National Observatory of Athens | |
| 17:26 17:43 | Performance status after almost 5 years of operation Mickaël Olivier, Airbus Defence & Space | |
| 17:43 18:00 | Comparison of high resolution radiosonde winds and Aeolus winds over India Dinesh Kumar Sankhala, NCMRWF | |
| 19:30 | Community Dinner | |
| Thursday, 25th May 2023 | ||
| 09:00 10:40 | Validation and calval campaigns #1 Session Chairs: T. Fehr & P. Paschou | |
| 9:00 9:20 | Overview of NASA’s Convective Processes Experiment – Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) in the East Atlantic in September 2022 and Collaboration with the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign (JATAC) Ed Nowottnick, Nasa Gsfc | |
| 9:20 9:40 | DLR Airborne Campaigns and Results Christian Lemmerz, DLR | |
| 9:40 10:00 | ASKOS Campaign 2021/2022: Overview of measurements and applications Eleni Marinou, National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Athens, Greece | |
| 10:00 10:20 | The performance of Aeolus L2A products during JATAC and beyond – validation with ground-based lidar observations in dusty conditions Holger Baars, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) | |
| 10:20 10:40 | Aeolus L2A products validation using eVe lidar measurements from the ASKOS/JATAC campaign Peristera Paschou, National Observatory Of Athens | |
| 10:40 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 12:40 | Validation and calval campaigns #2 Session Chairs: C. Lemmerz & S. Bley | |
| 11:00 11:20 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign Franco Marenco, The Cyprus Institute | |
| 11:20 11:40 | Profiling Saharan Airborne Dust with UAV-based in-situ Instrumentation during the ASKOS Experiment in Cape Verde Maria Kezoudi, The Cyprus Institute | |
| 11:40 12:00 | In-situ airborne measurements over Cape Verde during JATAC/CAVA-AW 2021/2022 campaigns - Aeolus Cal/Val focusing on aerosol extinction coefficient Jesús Yus Díez, University Of Nova Gorica, Ajdovščina, Slovenija | |
| 12:00 12:20 | Validation of Aeolus wind products over the tropical Atlantic using radiosondes Maurus Borne, Kit | |
| 12:20 12:40 | Validation of Aeolus wind profiles using observations from the research vessel Maria S. Merian in Nov-Dec 2022 and Jan-Feb 2023 over the Atlantic Ocean Sebastian Bley, TROPOS | |
| 12:40 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 15:40 | Validation and calval campaigns #3 Session Chairs: E. Marinou & N. Siomos | |
| 14:00 14:20 | Aeolus L2B products validation with ground-based CDLs net over China and products application on aerosol observation Kangwen Sun, Ocean University Of China | |
| 14:20 14:40 | Intercomparison of aerosol backscatter and extinction retrievals between AEOLUS, CALIPSO and ground-based Lidar measurements Rui Song, University Of Oxford | |
| 14:40 15:00 | Comparison of the AEOLUS L2A products with ground-based lidar data from EARLINET in the period 2019 - 2022 Nikolaos Siomos, Ludwig Maximilian University Of Munich | |
| 15:00 15:20 | Aeolus L2A Aerosol Product: latest improvements using elevated aerosol layers Dimitri Trapon, TROPOS | |
| 15:20 15:40 | A Novel Archive for the Intercomparison of Winds from Multiple Observing Platforms Provides for Aeolus Evaluation* Katherine E. Lukens, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, UMD/CISESS | |
| 15:40 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 17:40 | Synergy with other missions Session Chairs: J. Bismarck & V. Amiridis | |
| 16:00 16:20 | ATLID Algorithms applied to ALADIN: Overview and current status David Donovan, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute | |
| 16:20 16:40 | Aeolus EarthCare Synergies Jonas Von Bismarck, ESA | |
| 16:40 17:00 | Achieving consistency in global cloud dataset retrieved from ALADIN/Aeolus and CALIOP/CALIPSO spaceborne lidars Artem Feofilov, Sorbonne University / LMD | |
| 17:00 17:40 | Aeolus re-entry from space: an innovative approach Tommaso Parrinello, ESA | |
| 17:40 19:00 | Poster Session | |
| Friday, 26 May 2023 | ||
| 09:00 10:20 | Towards next DWL missions Session Chairs: T. Flament & S. Ishi | |
| 9:00 9:20 | Status of Aeolus-2 Pre-development Activities Massimiliano Porciani, ESA | |
| 9:20 9:40 | EPS-AEOLUS, Status of the EUMETSAT Doppler Wind Lidar Programme Thomas Flament, Eumetsat | |
| 9:40 10:00 | Bracketing EPS-Aeolus impact expectations Ad Stoffelen, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) | |
| 10:00 10:20 | Upgrading Aeolus aerosol observational capabilities towards improving air quality and NWP models (ADD-CROSS) Antonis Gkikas, National Observatory of Athens (NOA) | |
| 10:20 10:40 | Discussion time | |
| 10:40 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 12:40 | Wrap-up and Conclusions Session Chairs: T. Parrinello & O. Reitebuch | |
| 12:40 | Lunch Break | |