Projekt badawczy

AECARE is a community driven joint validation project, currently led by dr Holger Baars form TROPOS, that is focused on assessment of the validation and representativity of EarthCARE observations by ESA/JAXA of aerosol and cloud products using pan-European ground based observations from ACTRIS stations with aerosol and cloud profiling capabilities.

We aim at the long-term validation of the EarthCARE L2 data products through building a collocated database from ground based observations at ACTRIS stations. The aerosol and cloud measurements made at ACTRIS sites are particularly suited for this purpose, since very similar techniques are being used at the ground and from space (i.e. quantitative aerosol lidar, cloud radar). This allows direct comparisons and auxiliary and redundant ACTRIS observations from the ground serve to clarify differences. Furthermore, the distribution of ACTRIS stations over Europe (and in addition a number of ACTRIS stations in overseas areas), the harmonised processing, and the common data formats make the ACTRIS research infrastructure particularly suited for EarthCARE validation.

In the frame of the EVID05: The Warsaw ACTRIS site run by our RS-Lab is one of the EARLINET/CLOUDNET sites that takes an active part in these activities under lead of prof. Iwona Stachlewska. The EARLINET tasks are realizaed by Dominika Szczepanik and Wojciech Kumala. The CLOUDNET tasks are realizaed by Łucja Janicka, Maciej Karasewicz and Igor Okraska.

In the frame of the EVID47: cal/val activities also EMORAL lidar observations are used in locations under EarthCARE overpass track. This work is done by Afwan Hafiz, Maciej Karasewicz, Zuzanna Rykowska, Rafał Fortuna, and Igor Okraska.