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Time (CEST) | Programme Sessions | Talks and items | Speakers | |||
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| 25-MAY-2021 | 13:00 | |||||
Validation Support Tools: Validation Data Centre, Overpass planning, Data Analysis, EarthCARE Simulator
26-MAY-2021
13:00 CEST until 18:30
| Introduction | Welcome | Rob Koopman - ESA | ||||
| 13:05 | Validation Workshop Opening | Dominique Gillieron - ESA | ||||
| 13:20 | Mission & System | EarthCARE Status | Dirk Bernaerts - ESA | |||
| 13:45 | In Orbit Characterisation, Calibration, and Verification (IOV) approach for ATLID, BBR, MSI | Kostka Wallace - ESA Georgios Tzeremes -ESA | ||||
| Algorithms | EarthCARE Level 1 Validation needs for the ESA products: | BBR Level 1 feedback is obtained via the Level 2 product, CPR Level 1 Validation is under JAXA responsibility | ||||
| 14:15 |
| David Donovan - KNMI | ||||
| 14:30 |
| Pending speaker confirmation | ||||
| 14:45 | Break (20 min) | |||||
| 15:05 | Algorithms | EarthCARE L2 Validation Needs of the ESA Products and Algorithms | Shannon Mason - ECMWF | |||
15:35 | Tools | ESA Atmospheric Validation Data Centre | Ann Mari Fjæraa - NILU | |||
| 15:50 | Atmospheric Virtual Lab | Sander Niemeijer - S&T | ||||
| 16:05 | E3SIM - EarthCARE Simulator | David Donovan - KNMI | ||||
| 16:20 | ICAROHS - Inter-Comparison of Aerosol Retrievals and Observational Requirements for Multi- Wavelength HSRL Systems | Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff - KNMI | ||||
| 16:35 | Break (25 min) | |||||
| 17:00 | QA/QC | Quality Assurance for Earth Observation (QA4EO) concept and example | Jean-Christopher Lambert - BIRA/IASB | |||
| 17:15 | The power of monitoring EarthCARE observations at ECMWF and preparing towards their assimilation. | Mark Fielding - ECMWF | ||||
| 17:30 | Fiducial Reference Measurement concept and FRM4Radar for EarthCARE and model evaluation | Lukas Pfitzenmaier - IGMK (Univ-Cologne) | ||||
| 17:45 | Validation Organisation | Validation preparations timeline | Rob Koopman - ESA | |||
| 18:05 | New Principal Investigators (that joined after 1st ESA EarthCARE validation workshop) | Peter Völger - IRF | ||||
| 18:15 | EVID34 | Gottfried Kirchengast - Wegcenter | ||||
| N/A | EVID35 | Vaughan Philips - INES | ||||
| 18:30 | Virtual Ice-breaker (hosted by TROPOS) - link will be shared on Tuesday 25 May | |||||
| 26-MAY-2021 | 13:00 | Aerosol L2 and ATLID L1 Validation | Introduction | Ulla Wandinger - TROPOS | ||
| 13:05 | Lessons learned from Aeolus Cal/Val and the DISC | Oliver Reitebuch - DLR | ||||
| 13:20 | Lessons learned from CALIPSO | Dave Winker - NASA | ||||
| 13:35 | The AtmOS (formerly ACCP) orbital component | Dave Winker - NASA | ||||
| 13:50 | Discussion | |||||
| 14:00 | Discussion on ATLID Level 1 validation approaches | |||||
| 14:50 | Break | |||||
| 15:05 | Aerosol L2 and ATLID L1 Validation | AtmOS suborbital component - Aerosol | Jens Redemann - Univ. of Oklahoma | |||
| 15:20 | Aerosol L2 and ATLID L1 Validation | Discussion Aerosol (ATLID + MSI) Level 2 validation approaches | ||||
| 16:30 | Way forward | |||||
| 16:45 | Break | |||||
| 17:00 | Networks | Introduction | ||||
| 17:05 | Lessons learned from the validation of Aeolus L2A product with EARLINET | Nikos Siomos - NOA | ||||
| 17:15 | Perspectives on Ground Validation from the NASA/JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission | S. Joseph Muchak - NASA | ||||
| 17:25 | ACTRIS Aerosol Remote Sensing in support of EarthCARE Cal/Val. | Doina Nicolae - INOE | ||||
| 17:35 | ACTRIS Cloud Remote Sensing in support of EarthCARE Cal/Val. | Martial Haeffelin - IPSL | ||||
| 17:45 | QA/QC approaches and intercalibration of MPLNET systems | Judd Welton - NASA | ||||
| 17:55 | Approaches to intercalibration/QA/QC and other network aspects of AD-Net and SKYNET systems | Tomoaki Nishizawa - NIES | ||||
| 18:05 | LALINET network approaches for QA/QC, validation and data handling | Eduardo Landulfo - IPEN | ||||
| 18:15 | Discussion | |||||
| 18:35 | End day 2 | |||||
| 27-MAY-2021 | 13:00 | |||
Clouds & Precipitation (& CPR L2a) Validation | Introduction | |||||
| 13:05 | CloudSat Cal/Val lessons learned & intro to AtmOS and its Suborbital program with emphasis on Cloud and Precipitation Cal/Val | Jay Mace - UoU | ||||
| 13:35 | Summary of the algorithm needs with respect to clouds and CPR for Level 2 | Shannon Mason - ECMWF | ||||
| 13:50 | Summary of inputs from Principal Investigators | Eleni Marinou - NOA | ||||
| 14:05 | Discussion on Cloud and Precipitation cal/val (under consolidation as PI responses are still coming in) | |||||
| 14:30 | Break (15 min) | |||||
| 14:45 | Clouds & Precipitation (& CPR L2a) Validation | Discussion on Cloud and Precipitation cal/val (under consolidation as PI responses are still coming in) | ||||
| 15:55 | Way forward for cloud and precipitation cal/vals. | |||||
| 16:15 | Break (15 min) | |||||
| 16:30 | Campaigns | Introduction | ||||
| 16:35 | Introduction to ESA campaigns and pre Pre-launch lessons learned | Silke Groß - DLR Juliën de la Noe - LATMOS | ||||
| 17:00 | CCREST, an example for a science/validation campaign on validation of several missions combined with general science | Stuart Fox - UKMO | ||||
| 17:15 | Latest status and future plans for in-situ | Wolde Mengistu - NRC | ||||
| 17:30 | Opportunities for dedicated or piggy back campaigns | Silke Groß - DLR Dirk Shuettemeyer - ESA | ||||
| 17:55 | Discussion (under consolidation as PI responses are still coming in) | |||||
| 18:30 | End of day 3 | |||||
Clouds & Precipitation Validation (& CPR L1) Plenary Session (BLOCK 4)
| 28-MAY-2021 | 13:00 | |||
Radiation | Opening | |||||
| Overview of MSI Level 1 validation by ECVT (AO PIs) | Jurgen Fischer- FU Berlin | |||||
| Lessons learned/Monitoring MSI L1 performance | Noëlle Scott - LMD/IPSL | |||||
| Overview BBR L1/L2 Cal/Val by ECVT (AO PIs) | Nicolas Clerbaux - RMIB | |||||
| Lessons learned from CERES | Kory Priestley - NASA Langley | |||||
| Lessons learned from GERB | Jacqueline Russell - Imperial College | |||||
| Discussion (under consolidation as PI responses are still coming in) | ||||||
| 14:45 | Break (15 min) | |||||
| 15:00 | Models | Introduction | Jason Cole - ECCC | |||
| 15:05 | Vertical velocity in storms | Vaughan Phillips - INES | ||||
| 15:15 | Using EarthCARE for improving desert dust transport modeling | Vassilis Amiridis - NOA | ||||
| 15:25 | Instrument simulators and applications to models | Katia Lamer - BNL | ||||
| 15:40 | Using validation activities for model improvement | Alessandro Battaglia - University of Leicester | ||||
| 15:55 | Comparing observations that are not strictly collocated in time and space, using experience from model-observation comparisons | Ewan O' Connor - FMI | ||||
| 16:10 | Discussion | |||||
| 16:40 | Break (15 min) | |||||
| 16:55 | Summary/General discussion/Way forward | |||||
| 17:45 | Closing | |||||