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Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (ITARS)
FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN Marie-Curie Action: “Initial Training Networks”
Duration: 2012-04-01 to 2016-03-31 EC Website
Project reference: 289923
Total cost: EUR 3 693 644
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Susanne Crewell, University of Cologne
ITARS brings together a group of universities, research organisations and high-tech companies from different disciplines (meteorology, geosciences, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics) with the aim to foster training and further development in the area of remote sensing of the atmosphere. The last years have brought a rapid development in instrumental techniques, i.e. lidar, radar, radiometry, that have great potential to monitor atmospheric composition and dynamics in unprecedented detail. Such instrumentation is urgently needed to address important topics related to climate change, numerical weather forecasting, and atmospheric pollution. Most prominently aerosol-cloud interaction as the single largest uncertainty in current climate projections requires the exploitation of emerging observational techniques to improve the parameterisation of aerosol and cloud processes in atmospheric models. Because todays curricula do not reflect these issues, ITARS (Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing) aims:
- To impart an in-depth understanding of instrumentation and algorithms needed to retrieve geophysical quantities and atmospheric applications;
- To foster the synergy of different sensors by bringing together experts from the individual techniques;
- To develop and implement pan-European courses on atmospheric remote sensing by exploiting new web-based techniques;
- To close the gap between the specialized development of single instruments and atmospheric applications by training a new generation of scientists in academia and the private sector.
Supervisory Board
Partner | Organisation | Function | |
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P1 | Susanne Crewell | University of Cologne | Project coordinator, Lead WP1, Leader sub-board Network coordination |
P2 | Doina Nicolae | INOE/University of Bucharest | Leader sub-board Planning & Recruitment |
P3 | Alex Papayannis | NTUA | Lead WP2, Leader sub-board Individual Training |
P4 | Francesc Rocadenbosch | UPC | Member sub-board Planning & Recruitment |
P5 | Aldo Amodeo | CNR-IMAA | Lead WP3, Leader sub-board Network Training |
P6 | Christine Chiu | University of Reading | Member sub-board Individual Training |
P7 | Herman Russchenberg | TUDelft | Lead WP4, Leader sub-board Dissemination |
P8 | Ulla Wandinger | IfT Leipzig | Member sub-board Dissemination |
P9 | Christine Böckmann | University of Potsdam | Member sub-board Network Training |
P10 | George Georgoussis | Raymetrics S.A. | Associated Partner |
P11 | Frank Gekat | Selex-SI | Associated Partner, Member sub-board Dissemination |
P12 | Matthias Bauer-Pfundstein | METEK GmbH | Associated Partner |
P13 | Thomas Rose | Radiometer Physics GmbH | Associated Partner, Member sub-board Network Training |
P14 | Stephane Victori | Cimel Electronique | Associated Partner, Member sub-board Individual Training |
to be elected | ESR representative |