11th Earlinet General Assembly 5-7 May 2014

Registration deadline: 28 April 2014 (for catering purposes)

NOTE: 5 May is a holiday in Ireland. Thus, some travel and other services may be restricted.

Conference day one: Monday 5 May 2014

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 pm

• Lunch

2:30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.

• EARLINET GA (open to all EARLINET members)
• Welcome and intro Gelsomina + local host
• Status of the nextwork (Gelsomina and Adolfo). [Specific feedback will be asked to the stations in the next days]
• Reporting procedure (Giuseppe)
• Guidelines for new stations (Doina)
• EARLINET IPR (presentation of the EARLINET document by the Council, discussion and vote)
• QA instruments status (including eventual technical discussions if needed) (Volker)

Conference day two: Tuesday 6 May

9:00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.

• EARLINET GA (open to all EARLINET members)
• data base (status, developments including discussion for new products and external visibility, QA for data) [Gelsomina, Holger, Lucia]
• website [Gelsomina]
• SCC status (including HoI) [Giuseppe, Holger B.]
• Paper guidelines /Data policy (Lucas)

2:30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.

• AMT SI status (Albert and Gelsomina). no need for specific presentations
• Strategy for joint publications (including scientific presentations of general interest for the network) Vassilis will chair
• Next GAs/workshops/conferences Gelsomina (30 min max)

Conference day three: Wednesday 7 May

9:00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.

EARLINET-ESA workshop

• Welcome / Main objectives of the workshop (Gelsomina Pappalardo)
• ADM-Aeolus - Getting ready for launch and the scientific exploitation (Anne Grete Straume)
• Aerosol products from the future space lidar mission ADM Aeolus (Pauline Martinet)
• EarthCARE status (Tobias Wehr)
• Discussion

10:30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.

• Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

• EarthCARE aerosol products (Dave Donovan)
• EARLINET in brief, status and its importance for cal/val activities (Gelsomina Pappalardo)
• Validation of CALIPSO using EARLINET (Lucia Mona)
• Discussion

12:30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.

• Lunch Break

2:00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

• Aerosol typing from EARLINET and CALIPSO - Results from the ESA-CALIPSO study (Ulla Wandinger)
• LIVAS atmospheric database (Vassilis Amiridis)
• Final Discussion: EARLINET's role in the validation and scientific exploitation of the ADM-Aeolus and EarthCARE missions (Chair: Ulla Wandinger)

3:30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.

• Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. 

• Visit to Cork lidar station/ Tour of campus

End of Earlinet GA and ESA workshop