Scientific Presentations of ITaRS at World Expo
by Jessica Nesbit
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Susanne Crewell (Coordinator of ITaRS program):
Presentations at the ITaRS booth
Meteorological Technology World Expo 2015, Hall 3, stand 3150
Tuesday, October 13
10:15h Xinxin Busch Li (University of Cologne, Germany)
The observation of the first aerosol indirect effect on clouds
10:45h Stefanos Samaras (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Microphysical aerosol parameters via regularized inversion of LIDAR data
11:15h Lukas Pfitzenmaier (TU Delft, the Netherlands)
Why does it rain? Ice particle growth within clouds
11:45h Athina Argyrouli (NTUA, Greece)
Cloud-topped Planetary Boundary Layer
13:15h María Barrera Verdejo (University of Cologne, Germany)
Lidar and microwave radiometry synergy for thermodynamic profiling
13:45h Umar Saeed (BarcelonaTech, Spain)
Synergetic lidar and microwave radiometer for atmospheric boundary-layer height
14:15h Sophia Schäfer (University of Reading, UK)
3D cloud-radiation interaction
14:45h Pilar Gumà-Claramunt (CNR-IMAA, Italy)
Joint lidar and radar aerosol observations
15:15h Robert Banks (BarcelonaTech, Spain)
Applications of remote sensing for improvement of air quality forecasts over Europe
15:45h Ioannis Binietoglou (INOE, Romania)
Remote sensing synergies for dust model evaluation
16:15h Nicolae Ajtai (CNR-IMAA, Italy)
Aerosol-cloud interaction in the twilight zone
16:45h Alexander Myagkov (TROPOS, Germany)
35-GHz cloud radar with hybrid polarimetric mode
ITaRS fellow delivers talk at MAC-MAQ in Sacramento
by Robert Banks
As a fellow at Barcelona, I participated in the Meteorology And Climate - Modeling for Air Quality (MAC-MAQ) conference from 16-18 September in Sacramento, California, U.S.A. The conference was organized by the Air Quality Research Center at the Univ. of California, Davis and was supported by the California Air Resources Board. The MAC-MAQ conference was aimed at those involved in a wide array of research areas that utilize meteorological and climatological data. The primary focus of the conference was the modeling and prediction of regional climate and meteorology as it relates to air quality - with a special emphasis on understanding what is “under the hood” in the models and how to improve them.
ITARS Fellow from Barcelona on Secondment at University of Cologne and RPG
by Umar Saeed
During the month of August, 2015, I completed a combined secondment to the University of Cologne and RPG. I spent 2 weeks at RPG and a week and a half at the University of Cologne.
The two weeks at RPG were a great learning experience in terms of the industry standards and practices. I was given an orientation of the company and Microwave Radiometer instrument. Several training sessions and meetings with Mr. Harry Czekala and Mr. Thomas Rose were of great educational value for the understanding of practical considerations related to the instrument and information retrieval.