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Introduction to EUFAR for Expert Working Groups eufar

Introduction to EUFAR for Expert Working Groups www.eufar.net. N4EWG – Expert Working Groups. Meeting name – Date, location. Jülich (DE) JOGU (DE) STFC (UK) USZ (HU) UCAM-DCHEM (UK) UHEI (DE) UWAR (PL) COSINE (NL) IRSN (FR) COMAT (FR) VKI (BE) UZH (CH) WU (NL) USBE (CZ) TAU (IL)

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Introduction to EUFAR for Expert Working Groups eufar

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  1. Introduction to EUFAR for Expert Working Groups www.eufar.net N4EWG – Expert Working Groups Meeting name – Date, location

  2. Jülich (DE) • JOGU (DE) • STFC (UK) • USZ (HU) • UCAM-DCHEM (UK) • UHEI (DE) • UWAR (PL) • COSINE (NL) • IRSN (FR) • COMAT (FR) • VKI (BE) • UZH (CH) • WU (NL) • USBE (CZ) • TAU (IL) • UEDIN (UK) • GFZ (DE) • PML (UK) • Météo-France (FR) Coordinator • MetOffice (UK) • DLR (DE) • NLR (NL) • Enviscope (DE) • CNRS (FR) • NERC (UK) • INTA (ES) • GTK (FI) • FUB (DE) • FZK (DE) • AWI (DE) • CNR-IBIMET (IT) • UNIMAN (UK) • VITO (BE) 15 aircraft or instruments operators and 18 experts in airborne measurements EUFAR Consortium

  3. European Integration

  4. Long Term Objectives To lay the groundwork of a European distributed infrastructure for airborne research in environmental and geo-sciences … … for each European scientist to get access at "equal terms" to the airborne facility the most suited to his scientific objectives, irrespective of his origin and of where the facility is operated.

  5. Long Term Objectives • EUFAR acts as an interface between aircraft and instruments operators, scientific users and funding institutions, to facilitate the evolution from the existing patchwork of national organisations toward a European distributed infrastructure for airborne research.

  6. Expected Impact • Better service to the users: • The most complete fleet, easy access, strong scientific and technical support • Improved aircraft performance: • Range, ceiling, payload, cost • Reduced duplication • Optimized operation (200 - 600 flight hours/year) • Stronger expertise in airborne instrumentation

  7. Networking Activities – 2 M€ N1.Scientific Advisory Committee (N1SAC-CNRM) N2.Transnational Access coordination (N2TAC-MetOffice) N3.Future of the Fleet (N3FF-Jülich) N4.Expert Working Groups (N4EWG-JOGU) N5.Education and Training (N5ET-VITO) N6. Standards and Protocols (N6SP-DLR) N7.Airborne Data Base (N7DB-STFC) N8. E-Communication (N8EC-CNRM) N9.Sustainable structure (N9SST-CNRM) • Transnational Activities (TA) – 3 M€ • Joint Research Activities (JRA) – 2,4 E€ JRA1. Development and evaluation of new and improved hygrometers for airborne research (DENCHAR-Jülich) JRA2. Quality layers for airborne hyperspectral imagery and data products (HYQUAPRO-VITO) JRA3. Airborne Laser Interferometric Drop Sizer (ALIDS-IRSN) EUFAR Activities

  8. N1SAC – Scientific Advisory Committee • The Scientific Advisory Committee is constituted of about 12 members, with broad scientific background and experience, geographical representation and gender balance • Objectives: To provide the EUFAR Consortium with independent strategic recommendations on EUFAR objectives and long term developments (based on EUFAR accomplishments, difficulties encountered, statistics on the activities of the infrastructures and on their scientific impact)

  9. N2TAC – Trans-national Access Coordination • Objectives: To implement EUFAR Trans-national Access activities in a coordinated way • Designation of the members of the selection panel, implementation of the selection criteria and review procedures • Regular sequence of calls for proposals and evaluation meetings (independent scientific review of the proposals) • 7 instruments and 22 aircraft open to TA • Support planned for 64 projects: 201 users and 538 flight hours • EUFAR FP6 Achievements: • 74 proposals received • Support allocated to 46 projects: 230 users and 412 flight hours

  10. Aircraft Fleet open to TA

  11. N3FF – Future of the Fleet • Objectives: • To evaluate the performance of the existing fleet and identify gaps • The availability of a stratospheric aircraft in Europe has already been selected as a priority for the development of the fleet • To provide solutions for the long-term development of the fleet • EUFAR FP6 Achievements: • Launch of the COPAL EC Preparatory Phase project for the construction of a heavy-payload and long-endurance aircraft for multidisciplinary research in the middle and lower troposphere

  12. N4EWG – Expert Working Groups • Objectives: • To compile the knowledge in a high-level handbook on “Airborne Physical Measurements – Methods and Instruments” (state-of-the-art in airborne physical measurement principles and techniques) • To improve the expertise among the specialized scientists in 18 fields of airborne research by organizing experts workshops • To facilitate the transfer of expert knowledge to users, operators, and funding agencies • EUFAR FP6 Achievements: • 12 Expert Working Groups • 13 Expert Workshops organized

  13. N4EWG – Expert Working Groups • List of Expert Working Groups: • Support to airborne measurements: • Certification/Operation • Instrument Integration • Data Processing • Imaging sensors • Cal/Val • Unmanned Aerial Systems • Specific measurement fields: • In-Situ Aerosols • Gas Phase Chemistry • Cloud Microphysics • Radiation • Solid-Earth Geophysics • Thermodynamics • Turbulence • Stratospheric Research • Polar Research • Active Remote Sensing • Hyperspectral Applications for Soil • Hyperspectral Applications for Vegetation • Hyperspectral Applications for Water

  14. N5ET – Education and Training • Objectives: To promote airborne research in the European academic community • To educate and train (theoretically and practically) new early-stage researchers in airborne atmospheric research and airborne hyperspectral remote sensing • To train trainers (e.g. university lecturers) in airborne atmospheric research and airborne hyperspectral remote sensing • 3 opportunities: • Training courses on airborne research • Invited access to existing campaigns • Participation in the design of a new field campaign. Tutoring by experienced scientists • EUFAR FP6 Achievements: • 30 young scientists invited to field experiments (out of 48 applications) • 2 training courses on airborne measurements organised: • Boundary-layer research with airborne instruments (Romania, July 2007): 40 candidates, 27 selected • Airborne cloud and aerosol science (The Netherlands, April 2008): 53 candidates, 20 selected

  15. N6SP – Standards and Protocols • Objectives: • To develop common protocols for airborne hyperspectral remote sensing (compilation, harmonisation and improvement of existing protocols in compliance with existing standards) • To support users and operators with recommendations on best practice and state-of-the-art software for airborne data pre-processing • To develop and publish open source software toolboxes for higher level data products, and data analysis • To define standards for data transfer in real-time

  16. N7DB – Data Base • Objectives: • To provide a centralised gateway to data acquired onboard aircraft (both in situ and remote sensed) along with supporting metadata, collected by the aircraft of the EUFAR Fleet. A data archive and web interface will be set up. This will include providing well documented, centralised access to distributed archives and a secure accessible archive for remaining offline data. Support will be given to data providers to attain community-agreed standard data formats. Once established this service will provide the capacity for “one-stop-shop” access to EUFAR data and will be of benefit to both project partners and the wider scientific community alike.

  17. N8EC – E_Communication • Objectives: To elaborate solutions on Internet for the dissemination of the EUFAR information, for facilitating the electronic submission of trans-national access proposals and their evaluation, and for providing all EUFAR working groups with a secured domain for collaborative activities • EUFAR WEB Front Office: • Information about aircraft, instruments, expert working groups, etc • EUFAR WEB Back Office: • Online evaluation of TA proposals • Documents sharing

  18. N8EC – E_Communication • www.eufar.net: a unique portal for all European airborne activities • 1000 scientists registered

  19. www.eufar.net : list of expert working groups

  20. www.eufar.net : expert working groups details

  21. www.eufar.net: list of aircraft

  22. www.eufar.net: aircraft details

  23. www.eufar.net: instruments

  24. N9SST – Sustainable Structure • Objectives: Todevelop a framework for a sustainable EUFAR structure by: • Evaluating possible models of legal structure for a joint management of the network • Promoting the extension of trans-national access beyond Community support (Equal Terms Trans-national Access) • Compiling information on the activities of the fleet and their scientific impact to support strategic decisions • Developing coordination with the COPAL Preparatory Phase study and the international community of research aircraft operators

  25. JRA1 - Development and evaluation of new and improved hygrometers for airborne research(DENCHAR) • Objectives: Development and characterisation of novel or improved compact airborne hygrometers for different airborne applications within EUFAR; including investigation of the sampling characteristics of different gas/ice inlets and the development of an improved ultra fast thermometer for near- and in-cloud measurements

  26. JRA2 - Quality layers for airbornehyperspectral imagery and data products(HYQUAPRO) • Objectives: • To develop quality indicators and quality layers for airborne hyperspectral imagery • To develop quality indicators and quality layers for higher level data products • To implement and to test quality layers in existing processing chains of airborne hyperspectral imagery • To develop higher performing water and soil algorithms as demonstrators for end-to-end processing chains with harmonized quality measures

  27. JRA3 - Airborne Laser Interferometric Drop Sizer (ALIDS) • Objectives: To design and construct an airborne drop spectrometer based on a new principle, that provides absolute measurements of the drop size and a large sampling section.

  28. JRA - EUFAR FP6 Achievements • EUFAR FP6 Achievements: design and construction of two airborne pods for measurements of physical and optical aerosol properties: • Unique standard for airborne measurements, • Usable on more than 50% of the EUFAR Fleet.

  29. Expert Working Groups outcomes • Workshops outcomes: • 1 report with the 3 chapters below: • Advice to users (other scientists) • Advice to aircraft and instrument operators • Advice to funding agency • Improve Instruments classification on EUFAR website • Share data / Constitution of a database on EUFAR website: • Personal references (update your profile on EUFAR website: expertise, contact information, etc) • Paper references (enter your publications (with relation to instrument or aircraft) in the EUFAR database) • Documents sharing (private access (back-office)) • Mailing lists

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