Day 1: MONDAY 17 MAR 2025
| Opening Session Co-chairs: Timon Hummel and Takuji Kubota | |||
| CET | Min | Title | Speaker |
| 09:30 | 10 | Welcome and logistics | Björn Frommknecht |
| 09:40 | 10 | Welcome address ESA | Simonetta Cheli |
| 09:50 | 10 | Welcome address JAXA | Futoshi Takiguchi |
| 10:00 | 14 | Mission status ESA | Björn Frommknecht |
| 10:14 | 14 | Mission status and ground segment status JAXA | Tomomi Nio |
| 10:28 | 12 | ESA Payload Data Ground Segment status | Christophe Caspar |
| 10:40 | 10 | ESA product quality monitoring & evolution | Timon Hummel |
| 10:50 | 10 | JAXA product quality monitoring & evolution | Takuji Kubota |
| 11:00 | 10 | ESA validation overview | Rob Koopman |
| 11:10 | 10 | JAXA validation overview | Toshiyuki Tanaka |
| 11:20 | 10 | Airborne campaign overview | Jonas von Bismarck |
| 11:30 | 30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Level 1 session block 1 Co-chairs: Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff and Woosub Roh | |||
| 12:00 | 10 | EarthCARE BroadBand Radiometer (BBR) Level 1 Performance | Nicolas Clerbaux |
| 12:10 | 15 | BBR products evaluation with respect to CERES | Nicolas Clerbaux |
| 12:25 | 10 | Discussion | |
| 12:35 | 10 | Evolution and status of the ATLID L1 processor | David Donovan |
| 12:45 | 10 | Near-real time monitoring of ATLID L1 data using NWP | Mark Fielding |
| 12:55 | 10 | Using a Daily Flow of L1 and L2 Data for Statistically Based Calibration/Validation Control of ATLID | Artem Feofilov |
| 13:05 | 10 | Validation of ATLID L1 products using airborne measurements with the research aircraft HALO during the PERCUSION campaign: Comparison of different L1 Baseline versions | Martin Wirth |
| 13:15 | 10 | The ATLID laser beam observed by the cosmic ray observatories Pierre Auger (Argentina) and Telescope Array (USA) | Oliver Reitebuch |
| 13:25 | 20 | Discussion | |
| 13:45 | 60 | LUNCH | |
| Level 1 session block 2 Co-chairs: Oliver Reitebuch and Minrui Wang | |||
| 14:45 | 10 | Validation of the depolarization ratio of ATLID with low, medium and highly depolarizing targets | Moritz Haarig |
| 14:55 | 15 | On-orbit Validation of Space-Lidar Depolarization Profiles | David Winker |
| 15:10 | 15 | Validation of EarthCARE ATLID Level-1b Profile Products Using Airborne Lidar Observations from NASA’s HSRL-2 and HALO Lidars | Chris Hostetler |
| 15:25 | 15 | Discussion | |
| 15:40 | 15 | EarthCARE MSI L1 performance and vicarious calibration | Rene Preusker |
| 15:55 | 10 | Cross-satellite validation of MSI L1 data using collocated SEVIRI and FCI observations | Sebastian Bley |
| 16:05 | 10 | Discussion | |
| 16:15 | 30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Level 1 session block 3 Co-chairs: Pavlos Kollias and Hiroaki Horie | |||
| 16:45 | 10 | CPR processor & product overview | Nobuhiro Tomiyama |
| 16:55 | 10 | Near-real time monitoring of CPR L1 data using NWP | Mark Fielding |
| 17:05 | 10 | Intercomparison of spaceborne cloud radar data between CloudSat and EarthCARE with AMSR2 data | Kaya Kanemaru |
| 17:15 | 10 | Comparison of Doppler velocity measurement across CPR observation modes | Yuki Imura |
| 17:25 | 15 | CPR External Calibration by Active Radar Calibrator and CPR Level 1/Level 2 Product Validation | Hiroaki Horie |
| 17:40 | 15 | Assessing CPR radar reflectivity and doppler products with airborne observations from the PERCUSION campaign | Florian Ewald |
| 17:55 | 20 | Discussion | |
| 18:15 | 45 | ICEBREAKER | |
| 19:00 | 0 | END | |
DAY 2: TUESDAY 18 MAR 2025
| (CPR, ) Cloud & Precipitation session Co-chairs: Alessandro Battaglia and Hajime Okamoto | |||
| CET | Min | Title | Speaker |
| 09:15 | 10 | Reflectivity Validation of EarthCARE CPR reflectivity using ACTRIS ground-based Cloud Radar Network | Nathan Feuillard |
| 09:25 | 10 | Doppler velocity validation of EarthCARE cloud profiling radar using ACTRIS ground-based cloud radar network (EVID05) | Lukas Pfitzenmaier |
| 09:35 | 15 | Operational implementation of the sub-orbital to orbital tool together with Doppler velocity unfolding across the ACTRIS cloud radar network for EarthCARE validation (EVID05) | Ewan O'Connor |
| 09:50 | 15 | Second-Trip Echoes Appeared in EarthCARE/CPR: Characteristics and Mitigation Performances in JAXA CPR L2a Product | Shunsuke Aoki |
| 10:05 | 15 | The EarthCARE CPR L2A C-PRO data product: Post-launch updates and performance evaluation | Bernat Puigdomènech Treserras |
| 10:20 | 15 | Validation of the EarthCARE CPR Doppler velocity measurements using surface-based observations | Pavlos Kollias |
| 10:35 | 10 | Validation for EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) using Ground Based and Spaced Based Observations | Minda Le |
| 10:45 | 10 | Application of dual-polarization weather radar observations to the validation of EarthCARE Doppler velocity measurements in rain | Dmitri Moisseev |
| 10:55 | 20 | Discussion | |
| 11:15 | 30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Cloud and Precipitation session Co-chairs: Luca Baldini and Nobuhiro Takahashi | |||
| 11:45 | 10 | An overview of JAXA cloud and precipitation products | Hajime Okamoto |
| 11:55 | 10 | An overview of ESA cloud and precipitation products | Shannon Mason |
| 12:05 | 10 | EarthCARE’s Multi-Spectral imager cloud products | Anja Hünerbein |
| 12:15 | 15 | Eartly Phase Results and Validation of JAXA EarthCARE MSI Level 2 Cloud Products | Minrui Wang |
| 12:30 | 10 | Intercomparison of Cloud Products between MSI and Himawari-9/AHI | Masataka Muto |
| 12:40 | 15 | Verification of EarthCARE’s cloud property retrievals and 3D scene construction algorithm using in situ data from the ECALOT campaign | Zhipeng Qu |
| 12:55 | 15 | The first comparisons between level-2 EarthCARE products and in-situ measurements during the VERIFY campaign over the UK | Kamil Mroz |
| 13:10 | 10 | Using EarthCARE’s radar and lidar to characterize ice-cloud size distributions and improve ACM-CAP retrievals | Robin Hogan |
| 13:20 | 20 | Discussion | |
| 13:40 | 60 | LUNCH | |
| 14:40 | 75 | POSTER/DEMO/PHI EXPERIENCE TOUR | |
| Aerosol, Cloud and Precipitation session block 1 Co-chairs: Holger Baars and Kaori Sato | |||
| 15:55 | 10 | Best Practice Protocol for the Validation of Aerosol, Cloud, and Precipitation Profiles (ACPPV) | Eleni Marinou |
| 16:05 | 10 | Overview and status of the ATLID Featuremask (A-FM) and profile processor (A-PRO). | David Donovan |
| 16:15 | 10 | Intercomparison and validation of ATLID, CPR, and synergistic target classification products | Shannon Mason |
| 16:25 | 10 | EVID17: EarthCARE Cal/Val Using the NASA Micro Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) | Jasper Lewis |
| 16:35 | 15 | Discussion | |
| 16:50 | 30 | COFFEE BREAKS | |
| Aerosol, Cloud and Precipitation session block 2 Co-chairs: Shannon Mason and Takashi Nakajima | |||
| 17:20 | 10 | Validation of EarthCARE ATLID and CPR products using Cabauw measurements: preliminary results (EVID14) | Arnoud Apituley |
| 17:30 | 10 | BAIVEC project - Validation of Atlid products using the in-situ aerosol and cloud measurements performed with the LOAC2 instrument under weather balloons | Jean-Baptiste Renard |
| 17:40 | 15 | Validating from within: early Level 2 product intercomparison from CELLO-ORCESTRA | Tim Carlsen |
| 17:55 | 15 | Surface Validation During the EarthCARE Commissioning Cal/Val Campaign in Ottawa (ECALOT) | Zen Mariani |
| 18:10 | 15 | Validation of EarthCARE’s ATLID L2a cloud and aerosol products using co-located independent airborne lidar profile data observed during the PERCUSION field campaign | Konstantin Krüger |
| 18:25 | 15 | Comparison between EarthCARE and ATR42 measurements and products during the MAESTRO field campaign | Nathan Feuillard |
| 18:40 | 20 | Discussion | |
| 19:00 | 180 | WORKSHOP DINNER | |
| 22:00 | 0 | END | |
Day 3: WEDNESDAY 19 MAR 2025
| Aerosol session block 1 Co-chairs: David Donovan and Tomoaki Nishizawa | |||
| CET | Min | Title | Speaker |
| 09:15 | 10 | Overview of L2 aerosol products produced by ESA and JAXA | Tomoaki Nishizawa |
| 09:25 | 10 | Comparison of ATLID aerosol products produced by ESA and JAXA | Ulla Wandinger |
| 09:35 | 15 | Evaluation of JAXA ATLID L2a products using AD-Net lidars | Yoshitaka Jin |
| 09:50 | 10 | Evaluation of the ATLID integrated surface returns for calibration and retrieval of an independent column-integrated aerosol optical thickness. | Diko Hemminga |
| 10:00 | 10 | Monitoring and assimilating EarthCARE ATLID aerosol products in ECMWF’s IFS-COMPO | Will McLean |
| 10:10 | 10 | Assessment of ATLID stratospheric performance using ground-based lidars and satellite limb aerosol profiling | Sergey Khaykin |
| 10:20 | 10 | Validation of EarthCARE products under ACROSS Mediterranean activities (EVID23) | Eleni Marinou |
| 10:30 | 10 | EarthCARE Aerosol products intercomparison with CARO Polly Lidar in Limassol, Cyprus | Rodanthi Elisavet Mamouri |
| 10:40 | 20 | Discussion | |
| 11:00 | 30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Aerosol session block 2 Co-chairs: Ulla Wandinger and Yoshitaka Jin | |||
| 11:30 | 15 | Validation of EarthCARE L2a products using ground-based lidar measurements at Cabo Verde, Tajikistan and Germany in the framework of the German Initiative for the Validation of EarthCARE (GIVE) | Henriette Gebauer |
| 11:45 | 15 | Airborne lidar measurements: PERCUSION’s contribution to validate EarthCARE ATLID L2 optical properties | Silke Gross |
| 12:00 | 15 | Validation of EarthCARE Aerosol Products Using Ground-Based Lidar and UAV Observations in Cyprus and Greece | Franco Marenco |
| 12:15 | 10 | EMORAL lidar ATLID L2 data validation effort: contribution to EVID47 | Iwona Stachlewska |
| 12:25 | 10 | Validation of EarthCARE ATLID aerosol products using EARLINET measurements: preliminary results | Ping Wang |
| 12:35 | 10 | First Insights into ATLID Level 2A Data: Comparisons with ACTRIS/EARLINET observations as part of EVID05 | Christina-Anna Papanikolaou |
| 12:45 | 10 | An Initial Assessment of EarthCARE ATLID and MSI ESA L2a Uncertainties (NEVAR, EVID38) | Kerstin Stebel |
| 12:55 | 10 | Progress of CAL/VAL activities for EarthCARE aerosol products at SPU Lidar Station, Brazil | Eduardo Landulfo |
| 13:05 | 20 | Discussion | |
| 13:25 | 15 | GROUP PHOTO | |
| 13:40 | 60 | LUNCH | |
| 14:40 | 70 | POSTER/DEMO/PHI EXPERIENCE TOUR | |
| 15:50 | 30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Radiation and synergy session Co-chairs: Nicolas Clerbaux and Kentaroh Suzuki | |||
| 16:20 | 10 | Overview and early intercomparison of ESA/JAXA radiation products | Jason Cole, Kentaroh Suzuki |
| 16:30 | 10 | L2 BM-RAD and BMA-FLX products verification | Almudena Velazquez Blazquez |
| 16:40 | 10 | Radiative Closure Verification with EarthCARE BBR Solar and Thermal Fluxes | Carla Salas |
| 16:50 | 15 | Initial Validation of JAXA’s Four-Sensor Synergy Radiation Budget Product: ALL_RAD | Takashi M. Nagao |
| 17:05 | 15 | Validation of EarthCARE cloud & aerosol retrievals using surface spectral infrared radiances from ECALOT campaign | Lei Liu |
| 17:20 | 25 | Discussion | |
| 17:45 | 45 | POSTER/DEMO Session | |
| 18:30 | 0 | END | |
Day 4: THURSDAY 20 MAR 2025
| Model, science and validation application Co-chairs: Robin Hogan and Masaki Satoh | |||
| CET | Min | Title | Speaker |
| 09:15 | 15 | EarthCARE/MSI Level-2 Algorithms: Description and Synergistic Analysis Plan with MSI and CPR | Takashi Nakajima |
| 09:30 | 15 | Comparisons between EarthCARE's Cloud Doppler Radar and A Global Convection-Resolving Simulation | Woosub Roh |
| 09:45 | 15 | Investigating convective cores and vertical updrafts using doppler velocity observations from the EarthCARE Mission | Aida Galfione |
| 10:00 | 15 | Advancing Climate Simulations with EarthCARE Observations: Intercomparison Frameworks and Model Improvement Initiatives | Masaki Satoh |
| 10:15 | 20 | Discussion | |
| 10:35 | 20 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:55 | 80 | POSTER/DEMO/PHI EXPERIENCE TOUR | |
| 12:15 | 60 | LUNCH | |
| Topical summary session Co-chairs: Thorsten Fehr and Toshiyuki Tanaka | |||
| 13:15 | 30 | Level-1 summary and recommendations | Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, Pavlos Kollias, Hiroaki Horie, Minrui Wang |
| 13:45 | 25 | Cloud and precipitation summary and recommendations | Alessandro Battaglia, Luca Baldini, Hajime Okamoto, Nobuhiro Takahashi |
| 14:10 | 25 | Aerosol summary and recommendations | David Donovan, Ulla Wandinger, Tomoaki Nishizawa, Yoshitaka Jin |
| 14:35 | 15 | Radiation and synergy summary and recommendations | Nicolas Clerbaux, Shannon Mason, Kentaroh Suzuki, Takashi Nakajima |
| 14:50 | 10 | Closing Remarks | Timon Hummel, Takuji Kubota |
| 15:00 | 0 | END | |