ITaRS presents itself on EOS.org
by Sarah Henkel
Like and share! EOS published an article on the opportunities for young atmospheric sciences in the ITaRS programme written by our fellow Robert Banks.
ITaRS publication chosen for EOS Research Spotlights
by Sarah Henkel
The EOS.org portal features Gabriele Corbetta's publication on cloud overlaps in their Research Spotlight Section. The article was published in the Geophysical Research letters in 2015.
First ITaRS-PhD awarded to Lev Labzovsky
by Sarah Henkel
Congratulations! Lev Labzovsky successfully defended his PhD thesis "Contribution to the study of humidity effects on aerosol optical properties based on Multiwavelength Lidar and Microwave Radiometer" on December 15, 2015 in Bucharest, Romania.
ER15 and ESR3 at ACTRIS-2 Kick-off meeting
The ACTRIS-2 Kick-off meeting took place from the 3rd to the 5th of June in Rome, Italy.
ER15 and ESR3 contribute to CNR-IMAA newsletter
The ITaRS fellows Nicolae Ajtai and Pilar Gumà-Claramunt contributed to the CNR-IMAA newsletter of last May. In this edition, the newsletter focused on the experiences of researchers from abroad currently carrying on their activities at CNR-IMAA. It can be consulted here.
ITaRS fellows present research findings at EGU 2015, Vienna
by Robert Banks, Lukas Pfitzenmaier, Lev Labzovsky, Stefanos Samaras, Ioannis Binietoglou
[Update 15.06.2015 Congratulations! Lukas Pfitzenmaier got the Outstanding Student Posters Award by EGU for his poster "Effect of cloud microphysics on particle growth under mixed phase conditions".]
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015 is one of the most important conferences in geosciences in Europe. It took place in Vienna, Austria, from the 12th to 17th of April, 2015, and attracted more than 11000 scientists from 108 countries. Naturally, five ITaRS fellows participated and had the chance to present their work and learn from the conference’s wide variety of topics.
ITaRS fellow presents at 2014 SPIE Remote Sensing in Amsterdam
by Robert Banks
[Update 24.10. Robert Banks was awarded by the SPIE review committee for the best student paper presented at the symposium. Congratulations!] During the last week of September Robert Banks attended SPIE Remote Sensing 2014 at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre. He presented a proceedings paper, “Retrieval of boundary layer height from lidar using extended Kalman filter approach, classic
methods, and backtrajectory cluster analysis,” in the Remote Sensing of Clouds and Atmosphere conference.
ITaRS fellow in COST-TOPROF J-CAL
COST-TOPROF J-CAL (Joint microwave CALibration experiment) 25-29 august 2014, Lindenberg, Germany
From August 25th to 29th I participated in the Joint microwave CALibration experiment (J-CAL) at the DWD Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory. The aim of this campaign was to assess the performance of standardized calibration routines of different microwave radiometers under similar external conditions. The campaign instrumentation consited of two Radiometrics profiler (DWD Lindenberg) and 3 RPG HATPRO instruments of different series: G1 (Schneefernerhaus, 2005), G2 (IMGW Poland, 2008) G4 (RPG demonstrator, 2014). Extra radiosondes (in addition to the 4 daily sondes) were also available.
ITaRS fellow in EuroScipy 2014
From 27th to 30th of August I participated at EuroScipy 2014, a European meeting about the use of the python programming language in sciences. Held in Cambridge, UK, EuroScipy brings together both developers of scientific tools and users from different scientific fields. Scientists have often to handle large amounts of data, and their formal education does not prepare them for that. This is especially true in remote sensing, as new sensor produce increasing amount of measurement data, a trend that is expected to continue in the following years.
