The school will be focused on the radiation theory and principles of satellite remote sensing, microphysics of clouds and precipitation as well as the fundamentals of retrieval methods, satellite imagery interpretation and products for science and operational meteorology. A special focus will be on sensor technology and satellite development, launch, and in-orbit management.
The initiative is open to Ph.D. students in physical, environmental, atmospheric, or related sciences, and early career operational meteorologists and researchers. Applications from talented M.Sc. students will be accepted as well. The training program will be organized through the scheme “frontal lectures – in-depth labs”.
ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (WV_cci) 2nd User Workshop
Following the success of the first ESA Water Vapor Climate Change Initiative User workshop, we are pleased to announce a 2nd User workshop.
Dates: 14th to 16th October 2024
Topic: Challenges around atmospheric water vapour
Location: Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) and online
Background:
The Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (WV_cci), is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) with the overall goal to generate climate data records (CDRs) of atmospheric water vapor for use in climate applications. The project develops, validates, and releases quality-controlled, long-term CDRs of total column water vapour (TCWV) and water vapor profile across troposphere and stratosphere (2D, 3D). More details on the project are available at: https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/water-vapour/.
The 15th Annual Catchment Science Summer School will run Sept 1-6, 2024 live and in person at the University of Birmingham, UK. The course is designed for PhD students and Post Docs in catchment science. The course is taught by Jeff McDonnell, Chris Soulsby, Jan Seibert, Ilja van Meerveld, David Hannah, Stefan Krause and many others. It is co-sponsored by the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Zurich, and Humboldt University. Course details and registration can be found at: https://water.usask.ca/hillslope/teaching/catchment-summer-school/home.php.
The 2024 Annual Workshop of the International Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology (INARCH) will take place from October 14 – 19, 2024. The meeting will be held in Lanzhou and Zhangye, in central China and the Qilian Mountains, and will be hosted by Dr. Tao CHE and Dr. Xin Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Side Meeting of the GEWEX GASS Panel on The Grey Zone Project.
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This second ET workshop will focus on process understanding, with a strong observational component aided by process modelling studies. The meeting will be scheduled based along the 5 lines defined at the end of the 1st workshop:
| i) | open-water evaporation, |
| ii) | interception, |
| iii) | soil evaporation, |
| iv) | transpiration and |
| v) | landscape ET. |
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The Earth Observations for Water Cycle Science 2020 conference aims at reviewing the latest advances in the use of EO technology for scientific questions related to the water cycle and its applications, exploring the potential offered by the coming EO as well as the main challenges and opportunities for the coming decade.
The ultimate target of the event is to contribute to define a scientific agenda that may drive future scientific activities of ESA and other space agencies and partners in the coming few years. The Conference is open to EO scientists, water researchers and students, modellers, Earth system and climate scientists, industry, operational agencies, policy makers, representatives of local communities and other stakeholders interested in sharing their knowledge and experience and in contributing to drive the scientific agenda for advancing EO water research and applications.
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The goal of this workshop is to discuss and share the latest improvements of atmospheric parameterizations for the representation of clouds with a focus on turbulence, convection, cloud, microphysics and radiation. This concerns any type of models: regional or global models with numerical weather prediction or climate applications.
The workshop is organized in the framework of the High-Tune project (http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/high-tune/) and follows, in the spirit, the 2017 Delft meeting on the future of cumulus convection and the 2019 Paracon conference. It will be organized around with only one plenary session with a mixture of invited and contributed presentations and poster sessions.
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