TY - GEN
T1 - Across Mediterranean Experiment for the Cal/Val of the Earthcare Mission
AU - Marinou, Eleni
AU - Amiridis, Vassilis
AU - Paschou, Peristera
AU - Tsekeri, Alexandra
AU - Tsikoudi, Ioanna
AU - Voudouri, Kaliopi Artemis
AU - Gialitaki, Anna
AU - Tsichla, Maria
AU - Papachristopoulou, Kyriaki
AU - Kouklaki, Dimitra
AU - Koutsoupi, Iliana
AU - Giannakaki, Elina
AU - Kazadzis, Stelios
AU - Balis, Dimitris
AU - Michailidis, Kostantinos
AU - Peletidou, Geprgia
AU - Nemuc, Anca
AU - Nicolae, Doina
AU - Mocnik, Grisa
AU - Marenco, Franco
AU - Kezoudi, Maria
AU - Gross, Silke
AU - Wirth, Martin
AU - Ewald, Florian
AU - O'Connor, Ewan
AU - Vakkari, Ville
AU - Moisseev, Dmitri
AU - Kollias, Pavlos
AU - Mona, Lucia
AU - Papagiannopoulous, Nikos
AU - Rosoldi, Marco
AU - Mamouri, Rodanthi Elisavet
AU - Ene, Dragos
AU - Floutsi, Athina
AU - Baars, Holger
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 IEEE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The EarthCARE mission of ESA & JAXA will be launched in May 2024. The mission will provide observations of aerosols, clouds, precipitation, and solar and thermal radiative flux measurements on a global scale, with a goal to constrain the uncertainties in aerosol, cloud, radiation, and their interactions. Before the utilization of the mission's observations on science studies, calibration/validation activities are necessary to evaluate the uncertainties of its products. To support the timely and maximum exploitation of EarthCARE products, the ACROSS Mediterranean experiment will be implemented in 2024, 2025, and 2026. ACROSS is a joint effort of several institutes and universities in Europe, which will deploy advanced state-of-the-art instruments tailored for the mission's validation requirements in three Mediterranean supersites (Potenza-Italy, Antikythera-Greece, Cyprus). The ground-based remote sensing measurements will be enhanced with airborne measurements on board UAVs, light aircraft, and large airborne platforms which will perform measurements in the Mediterranean region. The synergistic dataset will be exploited for a thorough validation of the EarthCARE mission, but also for the science studies including aerosol-cloud-radiation interaction studies and numerical weather prediction optimizations for the region.
AB - The EarthCARE mission of ESA & JAXA will be launched in May 2024. The mission will provide observations of aerosols, clouds, precipitation, and solar and thermal radiative flux measurements on a global scale, with a goal to constrain the uncertainties in aerosol, cloud, radiation, and their interactions. Before the utilization of the mission's observations on science studies, calibration/validation activities are necessary to evaluate the uncertainties of its products. To support the timely and maximum exploitation of EarthCARE products, the ACROSS Mediterranean experiment will be implemented in 2024, 2025, and 2026. ACROSS is a joint effort of several institutes and universities in Europe, which will deploy advanced state-of-the-art instruments tailored for the mission's validation requirements in three Mediterranean supersites (Potenza-Italy, Antikythera-Greece, Cyprus). The ground-based remote sensing measurements will be enhanced with airborne measurements on board UAVs, light aircraft, and large airborne platforms which will perform measurements in the Mediterranean region. The synergistic dataset will be exploited for a thorough validation of the EarthCARE mission, but also for the science studies including aerosol-cloud-radiation interaction studies and numerical weather prediction optimizations for the region.
KW - Cal/Val
KW - EarthCARE
KW - Mediterranean
KW - campaign
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85208544519
U2 - 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642456
DO - 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642456
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85208544519
T3 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
SP - 1141
EP - 1143
BT - IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2024
Y2 - 7 July 2024 through 12 July 2024
ER -