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V Workshop on Lidar
Measurements in Latin America
Extended Program
 
Monday, November 30th, 2009
09:00 — 09:30   Registration
09:30 — 10:00   Opening Ceremony, Invited authorities:
E. Molina Pico (Rector ITBA)
E. Fabre (Pres. de CITEFA),
E. Quel (Director del CEILAP)
J.C. Antuña (Pres. Comité Organizador Internacional WLMLA)
    Invited Conferences    
10:00 — 10:40   S. Godin–Beekmann
ServiceService d'Aéronomie/ IPSL, CNRS – France
  Lidar study of the ozone layer.
10:40 — 11:20   V. Cachorro
Universidad de Valladolid.
  Spain Description of Iberian network for Sun photometer aerosol measurements: RIMA.
11:20 — 11:40   Coffee Break    
11:40 — 12:20   U. Singh
NASA LRC – United States
  2-micron solid state laser development for NASA's 3-D winds measurement from space.
    Oral Session: Networks and Institutes
12:20 — 13:00   N. Sugimoto
NIES -Japan
  Recent studies on tropospheric and stratospheric aerosols and ozone using lidars.
13:00 — 15:00   Break    
15:00 — 15:40   R. Hoff
University of Maryland – United States
  The Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) aerosol lidar network (GALION).
15:40 — 16:20   M. Sicard.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Spain
  SPALINET: The Spanish and Portuguese Aerosol Lidar NETwork.
16:20 — 16:40   F. Zaratti
Universidad de los Andes - Bolivia
  The LIPAZ initiative in the context of Mount Chacaltaya Laboratory.
16:40 — 17:00   E. Landulfo
IPEN - Brazil
  Lidar activities in Sao Paulo Brazil.
17:00 — 17:20   Coffee Break    
17:20 —   Poster Session: Networks and Institutes
    J. L. Guerrero-Rascado et al.
Universidad de Granada. Spain.
  Quality assurance at the EARLINET Granada Station: characterization of the optical subsystem for a multichannel Raman lidar.
    R. Forno et al.
Universidad de San Andrés. Bolivia.
  Status of the lidar station at La Paz – Bolivia.
    Bastidas et al.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Colombia.
  First lidar observatory in Colombia.
    E. Giannakaki et al.
University of Thessaloniki. Greece.
  Estimation of the microphysical aerosol properties over Thessaloniki, Greece, during the SCOUT-O3 campaign with the synergy of Raman lidar and sunphotometer.
    Elena Montilla et al. Universidad de Valladolid. Spain.   Aerosol absorption measurements at the ALOMAR subartic station.
    Cordoba-Jabonero et al. Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA).
Spain.
  Dust intrusion observations by lidar: from the subtropical Santa Cruz de Tenerife station (Canary Islands) to ‘El Arenosillo’ station (southwest of Iberian Peninsula).
         
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
    Oral Session: Middle Atmosphere
09:00 — 09:40   H. Bencherif
Universite de la Reunion - France
  Lidar studies for dynamics of the middle atmosphere at Reunion Island.
09:40 — 10:20   T. McGee
NASA – United State
  GSFC Mobile Lidar Measurements during the SAUNA Campaign at Sodankyla, Finland.
10:20 — 10:40   B. Clemesha
INPE - Brazil
  Mesopause region temperature measurements at Sao José dos Campos.
10:40 — 11:00   F. Vargas
UNIVAP - Brazil
  Influence of lidar temperatures on the estimation of dynamic parameters of gravity waves observed in images of the mesospheric airglow layers.
11:00 — 11:20   Coffee break    
11:20 — 11:40   A. Pimenta
INPE - Brazil
  Case studies of lidar observations of gravity wave breaking in the mesopause region.
11:40 — 12:00   D. Simonich
INPE - Brazil
  Sporadic sodium layers and the average vertical distribution of atmospheric sodium: comparison of three different Nas layer strengths.
12:00 — 12:20   P. Batista
INPE - Brazil
  Rayleigh lidar temperature as an indicator of middle atmosphere global change.
12:20 — 12:40   C. Córdoba Jabonero
INTA - Spain
  First lidar observations of polar stratospheric clouds over Belgrano II Station (77.9ºS, 34.6ºW), Antarctica.
12:40 — 13:00   E. Wolfram
CEILAP – Argentina
  Ozone and UV radiation measurements in Río Gallegos site.
13:00 — 15:00   Break    
15:00 — 15:20   J. Salvador
CEILAP - Argentina
  Lidar measurement of stratospheric temperature profiles in Río Gallegos (51º 55’S, 69º 14’W), Argentina.
15:20 — 15:40   S. Lolli
LEOSPHERE - France
  A Long Range Wind Lidar for Atmospheric dynamic studies.
15:40 — 16:00   P. Ristori
CEILAP - Argentina
  Multiwavelength scanning Raman lidar for atmospheric transmission measurements in the frame of CTA – Auger projects.
16:00 — 16:20   E. Giannakaki
Univ. Of Thessaloniki – Greece
  Seven years of Raman/backscatter lidar observations of free-tropospheric aerosol layers over Thessaloniki, Greece: Geometrical characteristics and Optical properties.
16:20 — 16:40   E. Duarte
Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.
  Acute impact of volcanic gases on vegetation around Turrialba Volcano, Costa Rica.
16:40 — 17:00   Coffee break    
17:00 —   Poster Session: Middle Atmosphere
    V. F. Andrioli et al.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). Brazil.
  A comparison between mesospheric temperature measured by lidar and SKiYMET meteor radar during 2007 and 2008 at Brazilian low latitude.
    Fernanda Fernandes.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). Brazil.
  Estimation of OH height profile obtained by fit of simultaneous data from lidar and airglow in the Brazilian low latitude sector.
    Poster Session: Instruments and Methods
    H. Schroder, W. Riede, G. Tzeremes.
European Space Agency (ESA).
  Radiation effects on the most commonly used Non linear Optical Crystals for Space borne LIDAR's.
    F. Navas-Guzmán, J. L. Guerrero Rascado.
Universidad de Granada. Spain.
  Retrieval of the lidar overlap function using Raman signals.
    F. Navas-Guzmán, J. L. Guerrero Rascado.
Universidad de Granada. Spain.
  On the use cirrus clouds for elastic lidar calibration.
    Igor Veselovskii.
Physics Instrumentation Center. Russia.
  Retrieval of particle microphysical parameters from multiwavelength Raman lidar measurements.
    Carlomagno Soto, Elena Lobo.
Organización Para Estudios Tropicales. Costa Rica.
  Contrast between small footprint Lidar and field estimates of canopy height in a Tropical rainforest.
    Pallotta et al.
Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones (CEILAP), CITEFA-CONICET.
  CEILAP multiwavelength scanning lidar construction for long range atmospheric transmission measurements.
    Pawelko et al.
Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones (CEILAP), CITEFA-CONICET.
  Denoising of the Lidar signals using wavelet transform. Preliminary experiences in the CEILAP, Argentina.
    Raponi et al.
Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones (CEILAP), CITEFA-CONICET.
  Remote sensing of stratospheric NO2, using a minispectrometer and the DOAS technique.
    Todor Dinoev.
Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology School of Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.
  Water Vapor Raman Lidar for Meteorology.
    Martin Froidevaux.
Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology School of Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.
  High resolution scanning Raman lidar validation field campaign and internal boundary layer measurement.
    Marcel Bartlome.
Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology School of Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.
  Development of an O3 UV DIAL System at the High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch.
    Ioan Balin.
EnviroScopY SA PSE - A – EPFL. Lausanne, Switzerland.
  mESYLIDAR: a new cost-effective powerful lidar configuration for tropospheric aerosols and clouds investigations.
         
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
    Oral Session: Instruments and Methods
09:00 — 09:40   D. Whiteman
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). USA.
  Anticipated climatic trends in atmospheric water vapor and the challenge of measuring them accurately.
09:40 — 10:00   D. Kokkinos
ESA
  Determination of backscatter ratio and Depolarization ratio by mobile lidar
measurements in support of EarthCARE and AEOLUS missions.
10:00 — 10:20   S. Lolli
LEOSPHERE - France
  A compact autonomous eye-safe scanning aerosol Lidar for extinction
measurements and PBL height detection. Validation of the performances against other instruments and intercomparison campaigns.
10:20 — 10:40   E. Carlomagno Soto
Organización para estudios tropicales - Costa Rica
  Contrast between small footprint Lidar and field estimates of canopy height in
a Tropical rainforest.
10:40 — 11:00   P. Ristori
CEILAP - Argentina
  Raman and differential absorption lidar developments at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Lausanne.
11:00 — 11:20   Coffee break    
    Oral Session: Air Quality and Remote Sensing
11:20 — 11:40   R. Delgado
University of. Maryland – United State
  Active remote sensing in the Baltimore-Washington DC Metropolitan area: elastic lidar measurements during air quality events.
11:40 — 12:00   M. Glauber Lopes
INPE - Brazil
  Preliminary results of biomass burning aerosol monitoring in Rio Claro, Brazil: using LIDAR and air pollution analyzers.
12:00 — 12:20   R. Jiménez
Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito - Colombia
  Absorption spectroscopy with quantum-cascade lasers: Development of an airborne spectrometer for fast, high precision greenhouse gas measurements and application for pole to pole abundance mapping.
12:20 — 12:40   B. Barja et al.
INSMET - Cuba
  Atmospheric particulate matter fraction measured at Camaguey, Cuba.
Preliminary results.
12:40 — 13:00   L. Otero
CEILAP – Argentina
  Six-Year Evolution of Multiwavelength Lidar System at CEILAP.
13:00 — 15:00   Break    
15:00 — 15:30   Sponsor
15:30 — 16:30   Poster Session: Air Quality and Remote Sensing
    J. Cuesta et al.
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (LMD/IPSL), France.
  Multiplatform observations of Paris Megacity by a new mobile observatory of atmospheric physico-chemical processes and climate.
    Fabio Lopes et al.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil.
  Biomass burning aerosol long range transport tracking using satellites,
sunphotometer and lidar in Brazil.
    E. Sena.
Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo (IFUSP), Brazil.
  A study of Amazon Basin aerosols properties using CALIOP's and AERONET retrievals.
    Glauber Lopes Mariano.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). Brazil.
  Biomass burning aerosols measurements at Rio Claro-SP, Brazil: a case study.
    M. P. Pereira Martins.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil.
  Brazilian biomass burning coordinated measurements: a multi-instrument
approach.
    D. Nisperuza et al.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.
  Lidar range study for extrapolation to meteorological models of Medellin, Colombia.
    J. C. Antuña, C. Bruneta Hernández et al.
Instituto de Meteorología (INSMET). Cuba.
  Camagüey´s solar radiation rescued dataset: preliminary application
    René Estevan et al.
Instituto de Meteorología (INSMET), Cuba.
  Preliminary results of aerosols measurements with solar photometer at Camagüey, Cuba.
    Juliana Steffens et al.
Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
  Capability of atmospheric air monitoring in Cubatão City using Lidar technique.
    Gerhard Held et al.
Instituto de Pesquisas Meteorológicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil.
  Emissions from sugar cane fires in the central & western state of São Paulo and aerosol layers over metropolitan São Paulo observed by IPEN´s lidar: Is there a connection?
    Facunto Orte et al.
Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones
(CEILAP), CITEFA-CONICET.
  Cloud cover impact on solar UV radiation in Río Gallegos, Argentina.
16:30 — 17:00   Coffee break    
17:00 — 18:00   Round Table
18:00 —   Closing Ceremony
       
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
08:30 — 09:30   Departure from ITBA to CEILAP
09:30 — 11:30   Visit to CEILAP laboratory
11:30 — 13:00   Transport to “Estancia La Mimosa” (distance 60 km)
13:00 — 17:30   “Asado” and a Day at the Countryside and Creole Festival
http://www.estancialamimosa.com.ar
17:30 — 18:30   Return to Buenos Aires
18:30 —   Arrival at ITBA
       
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