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 Central European Summer Time (CEST)
| Aeolus Science Conference 2023 | ||
| Sunday, 21 May 2023 | ||
| 16:30-19:00 | Registration opens | |
| Monday, 22 May 2023 | ||
| 09:30-10:40 | Welcome | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:20-12:40 | Mission Status and Product Evolution #1 | |
| Aeolus: ESA’s wind mission. Status and future challenges Tommaso Parrinello, ESA | ||
| Aeolus Mission Operations: the mission in commission until decommission. Viet Duc Tran, ESA | ||
| The Aeolus Payload Data Ground Segment: a challenging journey from launch to re-entry preparation Massimo Romanazzo, ESA | ||
| Four and a Half Years In-Orbit Performance of the ALADIN Instrument on Aeolus Trismono Candra, ESA | ||
| Aladin Laser more than 4 years in Space Valeria De Sanctis, Leonardo S.p.A. | ||
| 1240-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00-15:20 | Mission Status and Product Evolution #2 | |
| AEOLUS ALADIN Performance status after almost 5 years of operation Mickaël Olivier, Airbus Defence & Space | ||
| Contributions from the DISC in 2022-2023 to accomplish the Aeolus mission objectives Oliver Reitebuch, DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics | ||
| ALADIN Instrument Monitoring and Investigation of Signal Anomalies Oliver Lux, German Aerospace Center | ||
| Aeolus Rayleigh-cloudy winds Gert-Jan Marseille, KNMI | ||
| 15:20-15:40 | Discussion time | |
| 15:40-19:00 | Ice Breaker and Poster session | |
| Tuesday, 23 May 2023 | ||
| AEOLUS COMMUNITY DAY | ||
| Wednesday, 24 May 2023 | ||
| 9:00-10:40 | Science Exploration #1 | |
| Ocean Color through AEOLUS measurements: results from the COLOR project Davide Dionisi, Italian National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR - ISMAR) | ||
| Can AEOLUS estimate ocean color parameters? The Aeolus+ Innovation AEOLUS Ocean Colour (AOC) project Cédric Jamet, LOG/ULCO | ||
| Extracting useful information from Lidar Surface Returns of Aeolus: lessons and challenges over water and land Lev Labzovskii, Knmi | ||
| Aeolus Aerosol Assimilation in the DISC: project status and latest developments William McLean, ECMWF | ||
| 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 | |
| The Vorticized Volcanic Plume – an unusual stratospheric phenomenon revealed by Aeolus wind profiling Sergey Khaykin, LATMOS/CNRS | ||
| Variation of Gravity Wave Activity in the Tropical UTLS: A New Perspective from Aeolus Observations Mathieu Ratynski, Latmos | ||
| The QBO and tropical waves in Aeolus wind observations, radiosonde data, and reanalyses Isabell Krisch, DLR, Institute of Atmospheric Physics | ||
| Winds and Waves in the Tropical UTLS: the 2019/20 Quasi-Biennial Oscillation disruption as observed by Aeolus Corwin Wright, University Of Bath | ||
| 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 | |
| A Consolidated Assessment of the Impact of Aeolus Winds in Numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF Michael Rennie, ECMWF | ||
| Enhancement and Synergy of Impact of Aeolus and AMV winds on NOAA Global Forecast: Recent OSE Studies Hui Liu, Noaa/nesdis/star | ||
| Investigation of links between dynamical scenarios and particularly high impact of Aeolus on NWP forecasts Martin Weissmann, University of Vienna | ||
| The impact of Aeolus wind observations on the predictability of tropical cyclones Giovanna De Chiara, ECMWF | ||
| Impact of Aeolus wind data assimilation on the JMA’s global data assimilation system Izumi Okabe, MRI / Japan Meteorological Agency | ||
| 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 | |
| 16:00-17:40 | Numerical weather and climate prediction #2 | |
| Improvement Quantification of Tropical Dynamical Processes by the Aeolus Wind Profiles Nedjeljka Žagar, University Of Hamburg | ||
| Impact of Aeolus observations in a regional NWP model during strong wind events Susanna Hagelin, SMHI | ||
| Assimilation of Aeolus HLOS product in regional scale NWP Stephen Tjemkes, Verisk Analytics Gmbh | ||
| The impact of Aeolus on volcanic ash quantitative dispersion modeling by applying inversion techniques on volcanic emissions Anna Kampouri, IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens | ||
| Advancing WRF-Chem regional simulations via Aeolus wind assimilation in the framework of the JATAC campaign Eleni Drakaki, National Observatory of Athens | ||
| Assilimilation of Aeoulus Wind in an Operational Global NWP System in India: Two Years Experience Sumit Kumar, National Centre For Medium Range Weather Forecasting | ||
| Community Dinner | ||
| Thursday, 25th May 2023 | ||
| 09:00-10:40 | Validation and calval campaigns #1 | |
| 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 | ||
| DLR Airborne Campaigns and Results Christian Lemmerz, DLR | ||
| ASKOS Campaign 2021/2022: Overview of measurements and applications Eleni Marinou, National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Athens, Greece | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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 | |
| Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign Franco Marenco, The Cyprus Institute | ||
| Profiling Saharan Airborne Dust with UAV-based in-situ Instrumentation during the ASKOS Experiment in Cape Verde Franco Marenco, The Cyprus Institute | ||
| 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 | ||
| Validation of Aeolus wind products over the tropical Atlantic using radiosondes Maurus Borne, Kit | ||
| 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 | |
| Aeolus L2B products validation with ground-based CDLs net over China and products application on aerosol observation Kangwen Sun, Ocean University Of China | ||
| Intercomparison of aerosol backscatter and extinction retrievals between AEOLUS, CALIPSO and ground-based Lidar measurements Rui Song, University Of Oxford | ||
| 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 | ||
| Aeolus L2A Aerosol Product: latest improvements using elevated aerosol layers Dimitri Trapon, TROPOS | ||
| 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 mission & Aeolus re-entry | |
| ATLID Algorithms applied to ALADIN: Overview and current status David Donovan, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute | ||
| Aeolus EarthCare Synergies Jonas Von Bismarck, ESA | ||
| Achieving consistency in global cloud dataset retrieved from ALADIN/Aeolus and CALIOP/CALIPSO spaceborne lidars Artem Feofilov, Sorbonne University / LMD | ||
| 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 | |
| Status of Aeolus-2 Pre-development Activities Massimiliano Porciani, ESA | ||
| EPS-AEOLUS, Status of the EUMETSAT Doppler Wind Lidar Programme Thomas Flament, Eumetsat | ||
| Bracketing EPS-Aeolus impact expectations Ad Stoffelen, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) | ||
| 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 | |
| 12:40 | Lunch Break | |