Programme

Day 1: Mo., 13 November 2023

Time	Min	Title	Speaker
Workshop Welcome and Logistics, Chairs: Thorsten Fehr (ESA), Takuji Kubota (JAXA)
9:15	10	Welcome and Logistics	Rune Floberghagen and Björn Frommknecht, ESA
9:25	10	Welcome Address ESA Director for EO Programmes	Simonetta Cheli, ESA
9:35	10	Welcome Address JAXA Director General for Space Technology Directorate	Koji Terada, JAXA
9:45	20	ESA EarthCARE Project Status	Dirk Bernaerts, ESA
10:05	10	JAXA EarthCARE Project Status	Eichi Tomita, JAXA
10:15	10	ESA EarthCARE Product Overview	Jonas von Bismarck, ESA
10:25	10	JAXA EarthCARE Product Overview	Takuji Kubota, JAXA
Science
Science Session: Processes and Algorithms 1: Lidar, Chairs: Eleni Marinou (NOA), Nobuhiro Takahashi (Nagoya University)
10:35	15	Aerosol observation using ATLID and CALIOP and its application	Tomoaki Nishizawa, National Institute For Environmental Studies
10:50	15	Novel Retrievals of Aerosol Microphysical and Radiative Properties from Lidar Observations in Future Satellite Missions	Jens Redemann, School Of Meteorology, University Of Oklahoma
11:05	15	From HETEAC to HETEAC-Flex and beyond- algorithm developments in preparation for EarthCARE	Athena Augousta Floutsi, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
11:20	25	Coffee Break
11:45	15	Validation of EarthCARE’s aerosol model HETEAC with airborne in-situ observations	Moritz Haarig, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
12:00	15	Spaceborne lidars for Ocean Color studies: the results of the COLOR project from the perspective of the EarthCARE mission	Davide Dionisi, Italian National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR - ISMAR)
Science Session: Processes and Algorithms 2: Aerosols and Clouds, Chairs: Ulla Wandinger (TROPOS), Tomoaki Nishizawa (NIES)
12:15	15	Novel observational constraints on aerosol-cloud interactions combining active and geostationary satellites	Philip Stier, University Of Oxford
12:30	15	Aerosol Characterisation from Space Lidar ALADIN and CALIOPmeasurements	Rui Song, University Of Oxford
12:45	15	LITES: optical, microphysical and chemical characterization of aerosols with lidar	Detlef Mueller, University Of Hertfordshire
13:00	15	The CERTAINTY project and its interaction with the EarthCARE mission.	Gerd-jan Van Zadelhoff, KNMI
13:15	15	Clouds and climate transitioning to post-fossil aerosol regime: CleanCloud	Athanasios Nenes, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
13:30	15	An overview of the use of EarthCARE products within the EUMETSAT validation facility for Level 2 Cloud and Aerosol products	Loredana Spezzi, EUMETSAT
13:45	60	Lunch Break
Science Session: Techniques 1: Simulator and Corrections, Chairs Alessandro Battaglia (Politecnico di Torino), Teruyuki Nakajima (JAXA)
14:45	20	The path of the EarthCARE mission development toward understanding global radiation, cloud, and aerosol interaction	Terry Nakajima
15:05	15	Harnessing the power of forward models: past, present and future	Robin Hogan, ECMWF
15:20	15	Geolocation and co-registration of the EarthCare CPR and ATLID instruments	Bernat Puigdomènech Treserras, McGill University
15:35	15	Novel methods to retrieve Doppler spectral widths from EarthCARE-like spaceborne radars	Ousmane Sy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
15:50	15	ATLID in orbit crosstalk characterization	David Donovan, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
16:05	15	Investigation of the spectral misalignment effect on EarthCARE's Multi-spectral imager cloud and aerosol property retrievals	Anja Hünerbein, Leibniz Institute For Tropospheric Research
16:20	30	Coffee Break
Science Session: Techniques 2: Missions, Chairs: Silke Groß (DLR), Seiji Kato (NASA)
16:50	15	CloudSat and CALIPSO and the A-Train: two decades of Earth system science profiling	Graeme Stephens, NASA
17:05	15	Aeolus Overview	Tommaso Parrinello, European Space Agency
17:20	15	Aerosol and Carbon dioxide Detection Lidar (ACDL) Overview	Guangyao Dai, Ocean University Of China
17:35	15	NASA Atmosphere Observing System (AOS)	Daniel Cecil, NASA
17:50	15	WIVERN: A Mission to Observe Global in-cloud Winds, Clouds and Precipitation as part of the ESA Earth Explorer Programme EE11	Alessandro Battaglia, Politecnico di Torino
18:05	10	Additional Discussion Time
18:15		End of Day

Day 2: Tu., 14 November 2023

Time	Min	Title	Speaker
Science Session: Processes and Algorithms 3: Radar and Imagers, Chairs: Rene Preusker (FU), Kaori Sato (Kyushu University)
9:15	15	Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics Retrieval for EarthCARE's Doppler Cloud Profiling Radar Measurements	Kamil Mroz, NCEO, University Of Leicester
9:30	15	Development of the Earthcare/msi L2 Product Algorithm Using Nicam/joint-simulator Data	Minrui Wang, Tokai University Research & Information Center
9:45	15	Algorithm developments for the EarthCARE MSI cloud products and the early phase analysis of warm-water clouds by the combined use of the cloud radar and the imager	Takashi Nakajima, University of Tokyo
10:00	15	Total Column Water Vapour from the Split-Window Bands for EarthCARE MSI and its Possible Applications	Jan Riad El Kassar, Freie Universität Berlin
10:15	15	Algorithms for retrieving cloud properties	Hajime Okamoto, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University
Science Session: Processes and Algorithms 4: Deep Convection and Cirrus, Chairs: Rene Preusker (FU), Kaori Sato (Kyushu University)
10:30	15	On the utility of the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar Doppler observations for evaluating the representation of convective dynamics in regional and global high-resolution models	Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University / McGill University
10:45	15	Evaluation of parcel model estimated cloud top height of deep convective clouds with active sensor observation	Seiji Kato, NASA Langley
11:00	15	Characterisation of Arctic Cirrus by Airborne High Spectral Resolution and Water Vapor Lidar	Martin Wirth, DLR
11:15	30	Coffee Break
Science Session: Processes and Algorithms 5: Cloud µPhysics, Chairs: Pavlos Kollias (Stony Brook University), Takashi Nakajima (University of Tokyo)
11:45	20	EarthCARE - The story so far: The first thirty years	Anthony Illingworth, U Reading
12:05	15	Combined use of passive and active remote sensing to characterize the vertical stratification of the cloud thermodynamic phase	Takashi M. Nagao, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
12:20	15	Beyond number concentration: Application of adiabatic cloud models to infer complete vertical profiles of warm cloud microphysical properties	Matthew Lebsock, Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory
12:35	15	Multi-sensor diagnostics of mixed-phase cloud microphysical processes with implication for EarthCARE	Kentaroh Suzuki, University of Tokyo
12:50	15	Global analysis of cloud-particle categories with their physical properties	Kaori Sato, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kyushu University
13:05	15	Retrieving 3D Microphysical Properties of Marine Low Clouds Using Passive-Active Synergistic Satellite Observations	Christine Chiu, Colorado State University
13:20	15	Evaluations of a microphysics scheme using the ground observation data and EarthCARE-like data	Woosub Roh, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
13:35	15	K2W, a methodology for evaluating spaceborne W-band Doppler radar using Micro Rain Radar and disdrometer: results from an Italian station in Antarctica	Alessandro Bracci, CNR-ISAC
13:50	55	Lunch Break
14:45	90	Demos/Poster Session
16:15	30	Coffee Break
Session: Long-Term Data Records, Chairs: Nicolas Clerbaux (RMI), Rei Kudo, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency
16:45	15	Long-term trend of aerosol composition retrieved from CALIOP and MODIS observations	Rei Kudo, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency
17:00	15	Maximising the continuity of synergistic cloud-aerosol-precipitation retrievals between the A-Train and EarthCare	Shannon Mason, ECMWF
17:15	15	Ten-Year Cloud Trends Obtained from Passive MODIS and Active CALIOP and CPR Sensors	Seung-Hee Ham, AMA/LARC
17:30	15	A multi-decadal review of CloudSat and CALIPSO via monitoring against ERA5	Mark Fielding, ECMWF
17:45	15	A climate-stable of upper-tropospheric cloud changes from CloudSat's W-Band radar 2006-2019	Mark Richardson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
18:00	15	Estimating Multi-Decadal Cirrus Cloud Top-of-the-Atmosphere Climate Radiative Forcing Trends Across the Warming Arctic	Erica K. Dolinar, Naval Research Laboratory
18:15	15	Observing cloud changes due to human caused climate warming with EarthCare and CALIPSO	Helene Chepfer, Sorbonne Université
18:30		End of Day

Day 3: We., 15 November 2023

Time	Min	Title	Speaker
Science Session: Model Assimilation and Parameterisation, Chairs: Jason Cole (ECCC), Kentaroh Suzuki (University of Tokyo)
9:15	15	The journey towards assimilation of EarthCARE cloud radar and lidar observations	Marta Janiskova, ECMWF
9:30	15	Assimilation of different aerosol products of the EarthCare mission during the CAL/VAL program	Laaziz El Amraoui, CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS
9:45	15	Lessons for EarthCARE from the assimilation of cloud-affected Aeolus backscatter	Mark Fielding, ECMWF
10:00	15	Development of a new simulator on COSP2 for vertical doppler velocity of EarthCARE CPR	Yuhi Nakamura, Atomosphere And Ocean Research Institute, The University Of Tokyo
10:15	15	Updating EarthCARE synthetic data using the global 220-m mesh simulation	Masaki Satoh, Atmosphere And Ocean Research Institute, The University Of Tokyo
Science Session: Radiation and ERB, Chairs: Seiji Kato (NASA), Nicolas Clerbaux (RMI)
10:30	15	How machine learning models could impact the parameterization of vertical cloud cover within cloud/climate model?	Shan Zeng, COHERENT APPLICATIONS, INC.
10:45	15	Assessing Radiative Closure of EarthCARE Cloud and Aerosol Products with Surface Observations with the ACM-RT product	Hartwig Deneke, TROPOS
11:00	15	Analysis of the radiation budget based on ground-based and satellite remote sensing observations in the Arcitc	Carola Barrientos-Velasco, Leibniz Institute For Tropospheric Research
11:15	15	EarthCARE radiative closure assessment using A-Train satellite data	Zhipeng Qu, Environment and Climate Change Canada
11:30	30	Coffee Break
Science Session: Summaries and Science Discussion, Chairs: Robin Hogan (ECMWF), Hajime Okamoto (Kyushu University)
12:00	15	Science and Cal/Val Campaigns Overview	Silke Groß, DLR; Julien Delanoë, LATMOS
12:15	15	Scientific Exploitation of EarthCARE Phase E2 science activities of ESA	Christian Retscher, ESA
12:30	30	Session Summaries	Session Chairs
13:00	45	Science Discussion
13:45	45	Lunch Break / End of Science Sessions
14:30	15	Conference Photo
Calibration and Validation
Session: Lessons Learned, Chairs: L. Baldini, K. Suzuki (Secretaries: S. Rusli, T. Tanaka)
14:45	15	Introduction by JAXA+ESA	Robert Koopman + Toshiyuki Tanaka
15:00	12	Looking Back on Lessons Learned from CALIPSO Validation	David Winker
15:12	12	Lessons learnt from Aeolus Cal/Val	Sebastian Bley
15:24	12	Lessons learned from the GCOM-C(Shikisai)/SGLI cloud observations (invited)	Takashi Nakajima
15:36	12	Validation activities for dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR) onboard GPM core observatory (invited)	Nobuhiro Takahashi
15:48	12	Introduction to EarthCARE DISC	Timon Hummel
15:58	32	Coffee Break
Session: Best Practice and PI Talks, Chairs: D. Winker, N. Takahashi (Secretaries: R. Koopman, T. Hummel)
16:30	3	Session intro	(chair)
16:33	5	Physical validation of EarthCARE Products	Chandra V Chandrasekar
16:38	5	Validation of EarthCARE doppler with Chinese cloud radar network, and retrievals with tropical triple-frequency radars	Haoran Li
16:43	5	Validate Cloud Profiling Radar on EarthCARE against Aircraft Observations of Cirriform Cloud	Vaughan Phillips
16:48	5	Statistically Based Calibration/Validation Control of ATLID L1 data	Artem Feofilov
16:53	12	Defining validation protocols for space-borne aerosol and cloud profile products	Eleni Marinou
17:05	12	Representativity of air- and spaceborne radar-lidar measurements	Florian Ewald
17:17	12	Near real-time validation of EarthCARE observations through monitoring within a data assimilation system	Mark Fielding
17:29	61	Demos/Poster Session
18:30		End of Day

Day 4: Th., 16 November 2023

Time	Min	Title	Speaker
Session: Airborne Campaigns 1, Chairs: S. Gross, J. Delanoë (Secretaries: H. Baars, T. Fehr)
9:15	3	Session intro	(chair)
9:18	12	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Elastic Backscatter Lidar Efforts Relevant to EarthCare Calibration/Validation and Synergistic Data Products	Ed Nowottnick
9:30	12	EarthCARE Calibration and Validation Using the NASA LaRC Airborne HSRL-2	Chris Hostetler
9:42	12	The Arctic POlar Night EXperiment (PONEX) Aircraft Campaign to Assess EarthCARE's cloud property retrieval algorithm	Zhipeng Qu
9:54	10	Calibration and Validation of EarthCARE’s Cloud Profiling Radar Data Products	Ousmane Sy
10:04	10	Norwegian EarthCARE Cal/Val Efforts	Robert Oscar David
10:14	10	Calibration and Validation of EarthCARE Retrieved Products Using Measurements from the UK Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)	Kamil Mroz
10:24	10	The Mediterranean EarthCARE Cal/Val experiment ACROSS	Vassilis Amiridis
10:34	40	Discussion
11:14	31	Coffee Break
Session: Airborne Campaigns 2, Chairs: P. Kollias, D. Donovan (Secretaries: E. Marinou, J.von Bismarck)
11:45	3	Session intro	(chair)
11:48	10	Strategy of measurements with the light balloon aerosols counter LOAC for the validation of EarthCare (BAIVEC project)	Jean-Baptiste Renard
11:58	10	Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and other observations for the cal/val of EarthCARE	Franco Marenco
12:08	10	In-situ airborne measurements during Aeolus Cal/Val JATAC campaigns – relevance for EarthCARE aerosol products	Griša Močnik
12:18	12	EC-TOOC – Airborne EarthCARE-like payload for preparation and validation studies	Silke Gross
12:30	12	BOWTIE – The shipborne Trans-ITCZ Experiment	Julia Windmiller
12:42	12	MORECALVAL : MObile Radar-Lidar-Radiometer EarthCare CAL/VAL project	Julien Delanoë
12:54	12	PACE-PAX	Kirk Knobelspiesse
13:06	35	Discussion
13:41	64	Lunch Break
Session: Accepted and prospective PI Talks, Chairs: N. Clerbaux, Y. Ohno (Secretaries: A. Velazquez, T. Tanaka)
14:45	3	Session intro	(chair)
14:48	5	Development and Validation of the Japanese EarthCARE 4-sensor standard algorithm for radiation fluxes	Akira Yamauchi
14:53	5	Aerosol optical properties and validation plan by using Sky radiometer	Kazuma Aoki
14:58	5	Validation Plan for CPR ECO Product	Hiroaki Horie
15:03	8	GIVE - the German Initiative for the Validationof EarthCARE	Ulla Wandinger
15:11	10	AVE-ECARE: validation and evaluation of EarthCARE aerosol products.	Larisa Sogacheva
15:21	10	Norwegian initiative for EarthCARE Validation ofAerosol uncertainties and Radiation products in the Arctic (NEVAR)	Kerstin Stebel
15:31	10	Extinction validation from Umweltforschungsstation Schneefernerhaus (UFS) - a proposal for additional validation measurements	Thomas Popp
15:41	34	Coffee Break
Session: Tools, Logistics and prospective PI talks , Chairs: H. Baars, E. Marinou (Secretaries: M. Eisinger, A. Velazquez)
16:15	3	session intro	(chair)
16:18	10	EMORAL lidar observations for EarthCARE Cal/Val Activities and beyond	Iwona S. Stachlewska
16:28	10	Validation for the EarthCARE observations with use of spaceborne lidar ACDL and ground-based lidar-net over China	Guangyao Dai
16:38	15	ESA-ECVT logistics	Stephanie Rusli
16:53	5	ESA orbit tools	Montserrat Pinol Sole
16:58	5	Atmosphere Virtual Lab	Sander Niemeijer
17:03	5	Level-1 ATLID simulator	David Donovan
17:08	5	MSI-simulator tool	Msc Nils Madenach
17:13	5	A L1 transformational operator for the objective evaluation of the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar data products using suborbital observations	Lukas Pfitzenmaier
17:18	5	EVDC-Cal/Val database	Ann Mari Fjaeraa
17:23	5	EVDC-Cal/Val tools	Jarek Dobrzanski
17:28	62	Demos/Poster Session
18:30		End of Day

Day 5: Fr., 17 November 2023

Time	Min	Title	Speaker
Session: Networks and PI Talks 1, Chairs: L. Baldini, T. Nishizawa (Secretaries: H. Baars, T. Tanaka)
9:15	3	session intro	(chair)
9:18	5	Validation studies of L2 cloud products by CPR, CPR-ATLID and CPR-ATLID-MSI	Hajime Okamoto
9:23	5	EarthCARE validation activities in Finland	Dmitri Moisseev
9:28	5	WEGN4CARE: The WegenerNet 3D Open-Air Laboratory for Climate Change Research and its Potential for the Validation of EarthCARE Cloud and Precipitation Products	Andreas Kvas
9:33	5	An Italian coordinated contribution to the Validation of EarthCARE products from three atmospheric observatories in the Central Mediterranean Sea	Gian Luigi Liberti
9:38	10	A 94-GHz Radar Network in Europe for the Calibration and Validation of Spaceborne Cloud Profiling Data Products	Lukas Pfitzenmaier
9:48	10	CORAL - Cyprus Observations for EarthCare vALidation	Rodanthi Elisavet Mamouri
9:58	10	Combining EarthCare and ARM facility measurements for validation and research applications	James Mather
10:08	10	EarthCARE Cal/Val preparation activity in the framework of the European Project ATMO-ACCESS	Holger Baars
10:18	5	EVID05: The new structure of the ACTRIS-related contribution to EarthCARE Cal/Val - AECARE	Holger Baars
10:23	5	LALINET EarthCARE CAL/VAL ACTIVITIES	Eduardo Landulfo
10:28	5	Validation plan for EarthCARE/CPR using scanning Ka-band cloud radar	Tadayasu Ohigashi
10:33	5	EarthCARE BBR L1 and L2 Products Assessment	Nicolas Clerbaux
10:38	5	Preparation for the validation of EarthCARE Product in China	Xiuqing Hu
10:43	20	Discussion
11:03	22	Coffee Break
Session: Networks and PI Talks 2, Chairs: U. Wandinger, T. Y. Nakajima (Secretaries: E. Marinou, T. Hummel)
11:25	3	Session intro	(chair)
11:28	5	Assessment of the environmental conditions for the generation of ice particle types from A-train observations	Shizuka Komatsu
11:33	5	SPACECARE : Study of Precipitation in the AntarctiC with EarthCARE	Christophe Genthon
11:38	5	LITES: cal/val with lidar in Hatfield, UK	Detlef Mueller
11:43	5	Validation of ATLID lidar data by means of ground-based lidar measurements in northern Sweden	Peter Voelger
11:48	5	Cabauw Lidar observations for ATLID L1 and L2a product evaluation	David Donovan
11:53	5	Updates for the Cabauw activities for EarthCARE evaluation (CECARE)	Arnoud Apituley
11:58	5	EarthCARE Cal/Val Using the NASA Micro Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET)	Jasper Lewis
12:03	5	Validation of the EarthCARE ATLID and MSI products using ground-based lidar and sunphotometry measurements	Tomoaki Nishizawa
12:08	10	Performance Evaluation of the Rain Mask Algorithm for Global Precipitation Monitoring Using NASA MPLNET Lidar Network	Simone Lolli
12:18	10	AD-Net and SAVER-Net lidar networks for validation of ATLID products	Yoshitaka Jin
12:28	10	Assessment of EarthCare Aerosol and Cloud Products through Ground-Based Measurements from the E-PROFILE and AERONET Networks. (AEROCLOUD)	Francisco Navas-guzmán
12:38	10	CPR Doppler validation using WINDAS	Yuichi Ohno
12:48	12	The WMO GAW Aerosol Lidar Observation Network (GALION): status and coordination plans relevant to EarthCARE	Ellsworth Welton
13:00	20	Discussion
13:20	20	Sandwich Break
13:40	60	Panel Discussion	Ulla Wandinger, Robin Hogan, Jason Cole, Pavlos Kollias, Hajime Okamoto, Masaki Satoh, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Tomoaki Nishizawa
14:40	5	Closing	ESA/JAXA Organisers
14:45		End of Conference