| AEOLUS Conference 2026 |
Monday, 13rd April
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| 14:00 | Registration |
| Welcome |
Chairs: Tommaso Parrinello, Timon Hummel
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| 15:00 | Mission Status
Tommaso Parrinello ESA |
| A journey through the last 25 years with Aeolus and some thoughts on future wind-lidar missions
Oliver Reitebuch, DLR |
| Reprocessing of Aeolus products in Phase F: What can we expect for the future Baseline 17 products?Stefanie Knobloch, DLR - Institute of Atmospheric Physics
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16:30
17:00
| Coffee Break
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Mission Status and Product Evolution
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Chairs: Stefanie Knobloch, Raffaele
Grimaldi
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| 17:00 | Evolution of Aeolus Performance and Its Impact on Wind Data Coverage and Quality
Oliver Lux, DLR
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| Improved Line Profile Characterization from the Mie Spectrometer of Aeolus for Enhanced Scattering Ratio and SNR Retrieval
Ines Nikolaus, University Of Appllied Sciences Munich
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| Can we explain and solve the altitude varying bias of Rayleigh winds?
Gert-Jan Marseille, KNMI
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| Verification of the NWP calibration procedure for L2B winds, based on telescope mirror temperature, using Paramaribo radiosonde wind data
Jos De Kloe, KNMI
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18:45
| Poster Session |
Tuesday, 14th April
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Instrument Performance
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Chairs: Oliver
Lux, Paolo Bravetti
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| 09:00 | In-Orbit Performance of the ALADIN Instrument on Aeolus
Trismono Candra Krisna, ESA
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| The spectral performance of the Aeolus Rayleigh- and Mie spectrometers
Benjamin Witschas, DLR
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| The Impact of Seasonal and Temporal Variations in Ground Return Quality on Bias Correction of Aeolus Winds
Katharina Uhlmannsiek, DLR
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| Aeolus End-of-Life Activities: Summary and Lessons Learned for Future Missions
Trismono Candra Krisna, ESA
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10:20
10:45
| Coffee break |
Numerical Weather and Climate Prediction
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| Chairs: Kirsti
Salonen, Gert-Ian Marseille |
| 10:45 | Assessing the impact of 4th reprocessed Aeolus wind data in global weather forecasting
Michael Rennie, ECMWF
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| Impact assessment of Aeolus L2A backscatter in the ECMWF system
Kirsti Salonen, ECMWF
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| The impact of Aeolus on rainfall predictions
Maurus Borne, KIT
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| Impact of Aeolus assimilation on extratropical dynamics in the ECMWF model
Robin Pilch Kedzierski, University of Vienna
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| Impact of combined wind and aerosol Aeolus product assimilation
Thanasis Georgiou, National Observatory of Athens
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12:30
13:40 | Lunch Break |
Science Exploration #1
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| Chairs: Nedjeljka Žagar, Michael Rennie |
| 13:40 | High-Resolution Unified Wind Retrieval from ALADIN/Aeolus: a proof of concept
Artem Feofilov, Sorbonne University / LMD
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| Evaluation of the LMDZ model winds using COSP and AEOLUS observations
Marine Bonazzola, Laboratoire De Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS)
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| Studying cloud-wind interactions with Aeolus data
Marine Bonazzola, LMD |
| Large-Scale Circulation, Machine Learning, and Wind Profile Observations
Nedjeljka Žagar; University Of Hamburg
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15:00
15:30 | Coffee Break
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Science Exploration #2
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Chairs: Vassillis Amiridis, Mike Hardesty
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| 15:30 | Revisiting the impact of volcanic eruptions and wildfires on stratospheric dynamics and composition from Aeolus wind and aerosol products
Sergey Khaykin, LATMOS/CNRS
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| Combining Aeolus aerosol and wind measurements to analyse the stratospheric lifetime of the Hunga volcanic particles
Dimitri Trapon, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
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| Characterization of a huge transatlantic smoke transport event in September 2020 using Aeolus Baseline16 data and multi-platform data
Kangwen Sun, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
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| From COLOR to OCEAN: Advancing Ocean-Color Observations with Spaceborne Lidar
Davide Dionisi, Italian National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR - ISMAR)
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19:00
| Conference Dinner |
Wednesday, 15th April
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AEOLUS COMMUNITY DAY
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Thursday, 16th April
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Validation and Calval Campaigns
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| Chairs: Ping Wang, Sergey Khaykin |
| 09:00 | Aeolus Wind Quality Evolution Monitoring with Airborne Validation
Christian Lemmerz, DLR
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| Cal/Val of spaceborne wind lidars using a network of ground-based autonomous Doppler lidar with multi-FOV
Josef Höffner, Fraunhofer Institute For Laser Technology - ILT
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| Updated Validation of Aeolus Level 2B (B16) Products in Japan
Shoken Ishii, Tokyo Metropolitan University
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| Investigating monsoon characteristics in Aeolus winds through comparison with GPS radiosonde observations and re-analysis datasets
Mathieu Ratynski, University of Miami
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10:20
10:40
| Coffee Break |
Towards Next DWL Missions #1
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| Chairs: Katharina Uhlmannsiek, Trismono Candra Krisna |
10:40
| Aeolus-2 Doppler Wind Lidar mission overview, consolidated instrument architecture and expected performances as the program enters full development
Massimiliano Porciani, ESA
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| AEOLUS-2 Laser transmitter Pre-development Summary
Paolo Bravetti, ESA
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| The Doppler Wind LIDAR Instrument for the Aeolus-2 mission
Mickaël Olivier, Airbus Defence & Space
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| Status of the EPS-Aeolus preparatory programme and scientific activities at EUMETSAT
Thomas Flament, EUMETSAT
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12:00
12:15 | Additional time for discussion |
12:15
13:30
| Lunch Break
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Towards Next DWL Missions #2
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| Chairs: Massimiliano Porciani, Thomas Flament |
13:30
| The transition of the E2S-to-L1B chain from Aeolus to Aeolus-2
Uwe Marksteiner, DLR
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| Performance investigation of Aeolus’ follow-on mission: end-to-end simulations of EPS-Aeolus
Stefanie Knobloch, DLR
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| Lidar Multiple scattering effects: Aeolus, EarthCARE and EPS-Aeolus
David Donovan, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
| Cloud and aerosol effects on the Aeolus-2 performance under varying slant angle
Gert-Jan Marseille, KNMI
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15:00
15:30 | Coffee Break
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Synergies With Other Missions #1
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| Chairs: Valeria De Sanctis, Timon Hummel |
| 15:30 | The LIVAS Climate Data Record
Vassillis Amiridis, National Observatory of Athens
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| The Aeolus lidar surface returns product: status and outlook towards other EO missions
Diko Hemminga, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) |
| Using EarthCARE ATLID products to improve Aeolus aerosol and cloud optical products
Ping Wang, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) |
| What can we learn from ALADIN and ATLID high-spectral resolution lidar performance for their Level 1 processing?
Oliver Reitebuch, DLR - Institute of Atmospheric Physics
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| EarthCARE Mission Overview
Bjoern Frommknecht, ESA
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| EarthCARE: Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, and Radiative Properties
Gerd-Jan Van Zadelhoff, KNMI
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| 19:00 | Ice Breaker at the restaurant 'Il Panorama |
Friday, 17th April
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09:15
10:15 | MAAP Demo: The New Aeolus Data Access System
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10:15
11:00 | Poster Session & Coffee Break |
11:00
12:30 | Wrap up Session and Conclusion
Moderated by Oliver Reitebuch and Tommaso Parrinello |
12:30
13:30 | Lunch Break |