As physical events are not permitted in May 2021, the format of an online workshop has been selected. This workshop is dedicated to the introduction of EarthCARE validation proposals that have been accepted in the period after the previous workshop, and to the discussion of validation methods and validation protocols in the domains addressed by the EarthCARE mission. To foster intense interactivity during the working sessions and in particular the splinter sessions, this online workshop will not be a an online public event as this format would be limited to presentations with questions and answers. Because a higher level of interactivity is required to meet the workshop objectives, participation is reserved to the Principal Investigators (PI) of the EarthCARE ESA AO, their Co-Investigators (Co-I), and the EarthCARE Data Product Algorithm Developers and EarthCARE instrument experts, and the members of the EarthCARE Mission Advisory Group. ESA delegates and the EarthCARE Principal Investigators of the JAXA Research Announcement are welcome to attend, and scientists from other missions will also be invited.
More information is available in the section of the portal that is reserved to the EarthCARE Validation Team Members (PIs and Co-Is)
| WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITTEE | ||||||
| Date | Time (CEST) | Programme Sessions | Talks and items | Speakers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-MAY-2021 | 13:00 | Introduction | Welcome | Rob Koopman - ESA | ||
| 13:05 | Validation Workshop Opening | Dominique Gillieron - ESA (Earth Explorer Programme Manager) | ||||
| 13:20 | Mission & System | EarthCARE Status | Dirk Bernaerts - ESA (EarthCARE Project Manager) | |||
| 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 | MPLNET Observations in Support of EarthCARE Cal/Val | 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 Julien Delanoë - 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 Schüttemeyer - ESA | ||||
| 17:55 | Discussion (under consolidation as PI responses are still coming in) | |||||
| 18:30 | End of day 3 | |||||
| 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 | |||||