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 Report |
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| 20210525-28 2nd ESA EarthCARE Cal_Val Workshop Report.pdf |
| Date | Time (CEST) | Programme Sessions | Presentation and discussion sessions | Speakers | ||
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| Chairs: | Anthony Illingworth, Ulla Wandinger, Nicolas Clerbaux | |||||
| 25-MAY-2021 | 13:00 | Introduction | Welcome | Rob Koopman - ESA | ||
| 13:05 | Validation Workshop Opening | Dominique Gillieron - ESA (Earth Exlorer 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 | Rene Preusker - FU Berlin | |||||
| 14:45 | Break (20 min) | |||||
| Chairs: | Pavlos Kollias, Luca Baldini | |||||
| 15:05 | Algorithms | EarthCARE L2 Validation Needs of the ESA Products and Algorithms | Shannon Mason - ECMWF | |||
15:35 | Tools | 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 | Group screen shot: please briefly switch on your cameras | |||||
| 16:40 | Break (20 min) | |||||
| Chairs: | Jurgen Fischer, Alessandro Battaglia | |||||
| 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 Cloud Profiling for Satellite Validation | Jonas Von Bismarck - ESA 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 / AOID 51949 WEGN4CARE - Validation of EarthCARE cloud and precipitation products by the WegenerNet 3D Weather Research Facility in Southeastern Austria | Gottfried Kirchengast and Jürgen Fuchsberger - Wegcenter | ||||
| 18:25 | EVID35/AOID 60799 Validate Cloud Profiling Radar on EarthCARE against Aircraft Observations of Cirriform Cloud | Vaughan Philips - INES | ||||
| 18:30 | Virtual Ice-breaker (hosted by TROPOS) - link will be shared on Tuesday 25 May | |||||
| 26-MAY-2021 | Chairs: | Dave Donovan, Ulla Wandinger, Holger Baars, Hélène Chepfer, Jürgen Fischer, Michael Eisinger, Georgios Tzeremes | ||||
| 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 ACCP orbital component | Dave Winker - NASA | ||||
| 13:50 | Discussion | moderated by co-chairs | ||||
| 14:00 | moderated by co-chairs | |||||
| 14:50 | Break | |||||
| 15:05 | Aerosol L2 and ATLID L1 Validation | ACCP suborbital component - Aerosol | Jens Redemann - Univ. of Oklahoma | |||
| 15:20 | Aerosol L2 and ATLID L1 Validation | Overview of PI responses and Discussion Aerosol (ATLID + MSI) Level 2 validation approaches | moderated by co-chairs | |||
| 16:30 | Way forward | moderated by co-chairs | ||||
| 16:45 | Break | |||||
| Chairs: | Ulla Wandinger, Luca Baldini, Jonas von Bismarck | |||||
| 17:00 | Networks | Introduction | co-chairs | |||
| 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 Munchak - 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 | 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 | moderated by co-chairs | ||||
| 18:35 | End day 2 | |||||
| 27-MAY-2021 | Chairs: | Shannon Mason, Pavlos Kollias, Alessandro Battaglia, Eleni Marinou, Tobias Wehr | ||||
| 13:00 | Clouds & Precipitation (& CPR L2a) Validation | Introduction | co-chairs | |||
| 13:05 | Jay Mace - UoU | |||||
| 13:35 | Eleni Marinou - NOA | |||||
| 13:50 | Summary of the algorithm needs with respect to clouds and CPR for Level 2 | Shannon Mason - ECMWF | ||||
| 14:05 | moderated by co-chairs | |||||
| 14:30 | Break (15 min) | |||||
| 14:45 | Clouds & Precipitation (& CPR L2a) Validation | Discussion on Cloud and Precipitation cal/val | moderated by co-chairs | |||
| 15:55 | Way forward for cloud and precipitation cal/vals. | moderated by co-chairs | ||||
| 16:15 | Break (15 min) | |||||
| Chairs | Silke Groß, Julien Delanoë, Dirk Schüttemeyer | |||||
| 16:30 | Campaigns | Introduction | co-chairs | |||
| 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 Shuettemeyer - ESA | ||||
| 17:55 | Discussion | moderated by co-chairs | ||||
| 18:30 | End of day 3 | |||||
| 28-MAY-2021 | Chairs: | Nicolas Clerbaux, Jurgen Fischer, Almudena Velazquez, Tobias Wehr, Michael Eisinger | ||||
| 13:00 | Radiation | Introduction | Nicolas Clerbaux - RMIB | |||
| 13:05 | Overview of MSI Level 1 validation by ECVT (AO PIs) | Jurgen Fischer- FU Berlin | ||||
| 13:10 | Lessons learned/Monitoring MSI L1 performance | Noëlle Scott - LMD/IPSL | ||||
| 13:25 | Overview BBR L1/L2 Cal/Val by ECVT (AO PIs) | Nicolas Clerbaux - RMIB | ||||
| 13:30 | Lessons learned from CERES | Kory Priestley - NASA Langley | ||||
| 13:45 | Lessons learned from GERB | Jacqueline Russell - Imperial College | ||||
| 14:00 | Discussion | moderated by co-chairs | ||||
| 14:45 | Break (15 min) | |||||
| Chairs: | Jason Cole, Tobias Wehr | |||||
| 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 | NWP model evaluation using ACTRIS cloud profiling | Ewan O' Connor - FMI | ||||
| 15:55 | Discussion | moderated by co-chairs | ||||
| 16:25 | Break (20 min) | |||||
| 16:45 | Summary/General discussion/Way forward |
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| 17:45 | Closing | Rob Koopman - ESA Anthony Illingworth - U Reading | ||||