Aerosol_cci+ Phase2 Team

team for 2025 / 2026

The Aerosol project team is composed of following partners:

Project Coordination

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Dr. Thomas Popp is science leader and project manager.

EO Expert Team (retrieval development and validation)

Swansea University (SU)

• Dr. Peter North and his team are focusing on further improving the SLSTR (and ATSR) retrieval algorithms used in Aerosol_CCI2.

• Dr. Marta Luffarelli and her team are working on a new SLSTR retrieval CISAR based on SEVIRI heritage.

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

• Dr. Thomas Popp and his team are working on the validation of aerosol data sets with AERONET and coordinates the AEROSAT network.

Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

• Drs. Larisa Sogacheva is working on inter-comparisons of aerosol data sets with other satellite-based data sets and extends the merged community AOD dataset.

Climate Modelling Team

German Aerospace Center (DLR), consultant

• Dr. Stefan Kinne is consulting the project with his wide expertise from user perspective working with both aerosol model and satellite datasets.

European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) - in-kind contribution

• Dr. Enza Di Tomaso will repeat the user case study for data assimilation of the updated SLSTR aerosol data linking to the data assimilation / forecasting / climate service communities.

The Aerosol project is rooted deeply into the developments of its predecessor project. Aerosol phase 1 and phase 2 project teams were composed of following partners:

• German Aerospace Center (DLR): Drs. Thomas Popp (co science leader, project manager), Miriam Kosmale (dpt. project manager), Lars Klüser (EO experts), Julian Meyer-Arnek (system engineer).
• Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI): Prof. Dr. Gerrit de Leeuw (co science leader), Drs. Larisa Sogacheva, Pekka Kolmonen (EO experts).
• Oxford University (UO): Drs. Don Grainger, Adam Povey (EO experts)
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL): Drs. Caroline Poulson, Gareth Thomas, (EO experts), Richard Siddans (system engineer)
• Swansea University (SU): Drs. Peter North, Andreas Heckel (EO experts)
• University of Bremen (UB): Drs. Marco Vountas, Linlu Mei (EO experts)
• Lille University - Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA): Prof. Dr. Oleg Dubovik, Drs. Pavel Litvinov (EO experts), Jacques Descloitres (system engineer)
• Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI): Drs. Pepijn Veefkind, Gijsbert Tilstra (EO experts, user).
• Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomie (BIRA): Drs. Christine Bingen, Sophie Vandebussche (EO experts)
• Rayference: Dr. Yves Govaerts (EO expert)
• Universite Libre de Brussels: Prof. Lieven Clarisse (EO expert)
• Ecole Polytechnique (LMD): Dr. Virginie Capelle (EO expert)
• Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MetNo): Drs. Michael Schulz, Jan Griesfeller (user, validation expert)
• Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI): Drs. Stefan Kinne, Christoph Brühl (user, validation expert)
• Norwegian Institute for Air Reearch (NILU): Dr. Kerstin Stebel (validation expert)
• Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ): Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lohmann, Dr. David Neubaur (user)
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC): Drs. Enza di Tomaso, Sara Basart (user)
• London Metropolitan University: Dr. Yong Xue (validation expert)
• Freie Universität Berlin (FUB): Prof. Dr. Jürgen Fischer, Dr. Rene Preusker (EO expert)
• HYGEOS: Dr. Didier Ramon (EO expert)
• Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI): Dr. Paul Zieger (validation expert)