Conference Programme


Please find below the Draft Agenda of the Conference. Time-slots are indicated in Central European Time (CET): 

Monday, 10 October 2022 

Opening / Mission Status 
Chairs: M. Berdahl (European Commission) and C. Zehner (ESA)
9:00-9:05
Welcome
Simonetta Cheli (ESA)
9:05-9:10Opening 
Kevin McMullan (ESA)
9:10-9:15 Opening 
Harry Förster (NSO)
9:15-9:30        Copernicus Sentinel-5P – a milestone for atmosphere monitoring
Maria Berdahl (European Commission) 
9:30-9:45The Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor Mission Status
Claus Zehner (ESA) 
9:45-10:00 
Spacecraft and Flight Operations Segment Status   
Daniel Mesples (ESA) 
10:00-10:15
Mission In Orbit Performance Status
Kate Symonds (ESA)
10:15-10:30
Use of TROPOMI data in the near-real time global CAMS data assimilation system
Antje Inness (ECMWF)
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break 

Mission Status - Air Quality Session 
Chairs: M. Berdahl (European Commission) and C. Zehner (ESA)
11:00-11:15
Sentinel-5P Archive, Processing & Reprocessing Status
Nigel Houghton (ESA) 
11:15-11:30
Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor Routine Validation using Fiducial Reference Measurement data sets
Angelika Dehn (ESA)
11:30-11:45
TROPOMI Achievements and Outlook
Pepijn Veefkind (KNMI)
11:45-12:00
TROPOMI’s SWIR channel measuring methane and carbon monoxide
Ilse Aben (SRON)
12:00-12:15   
Advanced retrieval of sulfur dioxide from TROPOMI using COBRA
Nicolas Theys (BIRA-IASB)
12:15-12:30Analysis of the 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption and the long-range transport of SO2 to Europe using TROPOMI and ground-based measurements
Pascal Hedelt (DLR)
12:30-12:45
The TROPOMI surface UV radiation product
Jukka Kujanpää (FMI) 
12:45-13:00 Additional time for discussion
13:00-14:00Lunch Break 

Calibration Session
Chairs: I. Aben (SRON) and A. Dehn (ESA)
14:00-14:15S5p-TROPOMI: instrument status after almost five years in orbit
Jan Doornink (Airbus NL)
14:15-14:30 Five years of excellent performance of the TROPOMI-SWIR module
Tim A. Van Kempen (SRON)
14:30-14:45               Status of TROPOMI calibration and L01b processor development
Antje Ludewig (KNMI) 
14:45-15:00 Calibration features in the TROPOMI L0-1b data processor
Nico Rozemeijer (KMNI)
15:00-15:15Evaluation of the Bands 1 - 4 L1B products in Version 2.01
Glen Jaross (NASA GSFC)
15:15-15:30 The inside story of Sentinel 5 precursor
Maarten Sneep (KNMI) 
15:30-16:00Coffee Break 

Air Quality Session 
Chairs: D. Loyola (DLR) and P Veefkind (KNMI)
16:00-16:15Advances in satellite-derived emissions using Sentinel-5p
Ronald Van Der A (KNMI)
16:15-16:30 Quantifying urban, industrial, and background changes in NO2 during the COVID-19 lockdown period based on TROPOMI satellite observations
Vitali Fioletov (ECCC)
16:30-16:45 Decoupling the Emissions from the Meteorology in TROPOMI NO2 Retrievals During the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdowns with Model Simulations
Brad Fisher (SSA Inc)
16:45-17:00Investigation of 3D-effects for S5P-TROPOMI observations of point source emissions
Thomas Wagner (MPI)
17:00-17:15 Sentinel-5P and in-situ data for monitoring NO₂ trends related to COVID-19 advent at urban scale: the Cagliari metropolitan area test case
Author: Raffaella Sanna (CRS4), presented by Davide De Santis (Tor Vergata University of Rome)
17:15-17:30 An improved tropospheric NO₂ research product from TROPOMI over Europe
Sora Seo (DLR)
17:30-17:45
Additional time for discussion
17:45-19:30POSTER SESSION & ICE BREAKER 

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

CAL/VAL Session
Chairs: A. Dehn (ESA) and A. Ludewig (KNMI)
9:00-9:15 
Multi-Instrument Validation of TROPOMI/S5P atmospheric products over Thessaloniki, Greece
MariLiza Koukouli (AUTH)
9:15-9:30Assessment of the TROPOMI tropospheric NO2 product based on recurrent airborne campaigns
Frederik Tack (BIRA-IASB)
9:30-9:45Verification of TROPOMI NO2 Product Using OMI NO2 algorithm
Nickolay Krotkov (NASA) 
9:45-10:00Comparison of Sentinel-5P TROPOMI tropospheric NO2 observations with airborne imaging, ground-based stationary, and mobile car DOAS NO2 measurements during the S5P-VAL-DE-Ruhr campaign
Kezia Lange (University of Bremen)
10:00-10:15Updated assessment of TROPOMI NO2 and HCHO columns using airborne spectrometers during the MOOSE and TRACER-AQ field campaigns
Laura Judd (NASA/SSAI)
10:15-10:30 The RAMOS infrastructure and its application to the validation of TROPOMI tropospheric NO₂ VCDs
Sebastian Iancu (University of Bucharest) 
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 

Air Quality Session 
Chairs: A. Richter (University of Bremen) and M. van Roozendael (BIRA-IASB)
11:00-11:15 Five years of TROPOMI NO2: A unique and detailed view on global air pollution
Jos Van Geffen (KNMI)
11:15-11:30 Estimations of the NOx emissions, NO2 lifetime and their temporal variation using TROPOMI NO2 observations over UK cities
Matthieu Pommier (Ricardo) 
11:30-11:45Detecting and quantifying NOx point source emissions from the divergence of the NO2 flux
Author: Steffen Beirle (MPI), presented by Thomas Wagner (MPI)
11:45-12:00Improved retrieval of HONO from wildfires using TROPOMI
Nicolas Theys (BIRA-IASB)
12:00-12:15 NOx and NH3 emissions derived from Satellite observations
Jieying Ding (KNMI)
12:15-12:30 Policy and Health Relevant Applications of TROPOMI NO2 in the United States
Daniel Goldberg (GWU) 
12:30-12:45 Additional time for discussion
12:45-14:00 Lunch break 

CAL/VAL Session
Chairs: J. Landgraf (SRON) and R. Siddans (RAL)
14:00-14:15 
Five years of TROPOMI formaldehyde measurements
Isabelle De Smedt (BIRA-IASB) 
14:15-14:30Long-term satellite, balloon sonde and ground-based observations of SO2 emissions from Volcan Turrialba, Costa Rica: 2006 to the present
Henry Selkirk (NASA)
14:30-14:45Geophysical validation of Total Ozone retrievals from TROPOMI/S5P against ground-based observations and consistency to other satellite sensors
Katerina Garane (AUTH)
14:45-15:00Quality assessment of the Sentinel-5p TROPOMI operational ozone profile data
Arno Keppens (BIRA-IASB)
15:00-15:15 Overview of the 2019 TROpomi vaLIdation eXperiment (TROLIX’19)
Arnoud Apituley (KNMI)
15:15-15:30Lessons learned from five years of Sentinel-5P methane and carbon monoxide validation using TCCON, COCCON and NDACC-IRWG data
Mahesh Kumar Sha (BIRA-IASB)
15:30-16:00Coffee Break 

Air Quality Session
Chairs: A. Inness (ECMWF) and J. Tamminen (FMI)
16:00-16:15The status of GEMS products
Won-Jin Lee (NIER)
16:15-16:30 Evaluating a consistent data set of tropospheric NO2 columns from GEMS and TROPOMI
Andreas Richter (University of Bremen)
16:30-16:45The operational TROPOMI CO data product: 5 years of air pollution measurements from space
Tobias Borsdorff (SRON)
16:45-17:00 Global tropospheric ozone responses to reduced NOx emissions linked to the COVID-19 world-wide lockdowns 
Kazuyuki Miyazaki (JPL)
17:00-17:15 Continuous monitoring of biogenic VOC fluxes over South America by inversion of TROPOMI HCHO columns, 2018-2021  
Jenny Stavrakou (BIRA-IASB)
17:15-17:30Complementarity of S5P TROPOMI and SNPP VIIRS, OMPS, and CrIS Measurements for Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring – Some Examples and Case Studies from NOAA
Satya Kalluri (NOAA)
17:30-17:45 Additional time for discussion
17:45-19:30 POSTER SESSION

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Etna Excursion 

Thursday, 13 October 2022

Ozone Session
Chairs: D. Loyola (DLR) and M. van Roozendael (BIRA-IASB)
9:00-9:15Results of the Operational TROPOMI Ozone Profile
Pepijn Veefkind (KNMI)
9:15-9:30Tropical tropospheric ozone trends based on the operational TROPOMI/S5P products and data from the precursor missions 
Klaus-Peter Heue (TUM)
9:30-9:45 Tropospheric ozone column dataset derived by combination of TROPOMI and limb satellite measurements 
Viktoria Sofieva (FMI)
9:45-10:00 Sentinel-5P TROPOMI tropospheric ozone: scientific retrieval upgrades and comparison to the operational data 
Kai-Uwe Eichmann (University of Bremen)
10:00-10:15Integration of TROPOMI/Sentinel-5P total ozone observations in the GTO-ECV data record: updated perspective on global and regional ozone trends 1995-2021
Melanie Coldewey-Egbers (DLR)
10:15-10:30 Assessment of regional-scale variability in total and tropospheric ozone using Sentenel-5p TROPOMI and DSCOVR EPIC measurements
Author: Jerry Ziemke (NASA), presented by Natalya Kramarova (NASA)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 

Methane Session 
Chairs: I. Aben (SRON) and J. Tamminen (FMI)
11:00-11:15The TROPOMI Methane Product: Development, Challenges, and Solutions
Jochen Landgraf (SRON)
11:15-11:30 Monitoring Dynamics of Agricultural Methane Emissions in the Contiguous U.S. from Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Data
Zhe Li (USD of Agriculture)
11:30-11:45 Investigating the large rise of atmospheric CH4 in 2020 using TROPOMI observations and TOMCAT 3-D atmospheric model
Emily Dowd (University of Leeds)
11:45-12:00Estimating landfill methane emissions in Indian megacities with Sentinel 5p TROPOMI 
Harjinder Sembhi (University of Leicester)
12:00-12:15High-resolution methane budgets, by sector, by (Bayesian) combination of TROPOMI based fluxes and emissions from aircraft-based plume measurements
John Worden (JPL / Caltech) 
12:15-12:30 Towards Arctic and boreal methane flux estimates: systematic evaluation of TROPOMI XCH4 observations at high latitudes
Author: Ella Kivimäki (FMI), presented by Tomi Karppinen (FMI)
12:30-12:45Additional time for discussion
12:45-14:00Lunch Break 

Synergies Sessions
Chairs: M. Goldberg (NOAA) and C. Retscher (ESA)
14:00-14:15GHGSat Constellation: Latest Results and TROPOMI Synergies 
Jason McKeever (GHGSat)
14:15-14:30 Multi-Sensor Retrievals of Air Quality Relevant Trace Gases from CrIS and TROPOMI using the Tropospheric Ozone and its Precursors from Earth System Sounding (TROPESS) Framework
Edward Malina (NASA)
14:30-14:45 UV satellite measurements of volcanic emissions in space and time
Simon Carn (MTU)
14:45-15:00 GEMS Evaluation using Sentinel-5P Products, Sentinel-4 Algorithms and ground-based measurements
Diego Loyola (DLR)
15:00-15:15Spatial distribution and diurnal variation of NO2 over Asia from Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) observation: Comparison with TROPOMI
Junsung Park (Pukyong National University) 
15:15-15:30 An Overview of OMI Collection 4 
David Haffner (NASA)
15:30-16:00Coffee Break 

Aerosol /Cloud Session
Chairs: S. Corradini (INGV) and T. Wagner (MPI)
16:00-16:15Creating a multi-mission compatible and time-consistent TROPOMI aerosol index data record
Deborah Stein Zweers (KNMI)
16:15-16:30 Development and results of the first global aerosol layer height product from S5p/TROPOMI
Martin De Graaf (KMNI) 
16:30-16:45A Second-Generation UV-VIS Aerosol Algorithm: Application to S5P-TROPOMI Observations
Omar Torres (NASA GSFC) 
16:45-17:00 Case studies of long range transported aerosols over Romania as seen by ground based lidar and TROPOMI
Anca Nemuc (INOE) 
17:00-17:15 Current Status and Future Plans for the TROPOMI/Sentinel-5P L2 Cloud Product
Ronny Lutz (DLR)
17:15-17:30New scheme for the inter-band co-registration of the TROPOMI cloud parameters using VIIRS cloud information
Athina Argyrouli (TUM / DLR)
17:30-17:45 Additional time for discussion 
19:00-23:00 Dinner at the Restaurant Il Padrino

Friday, 14 October 2022

Future Developments Session
Chairs: R. Lindstrot (EUMETSAT) and P. Levelt (KNMI / University Delft)
9:00- 9:15 The S5P Product Algorithm Laboratory - Helping to develop new L2 products
Author: Cristiano Lopes (ESA), presented by Sander Niemeijer (S[&]T)
9:15-9:30Glyoxal tropospheric vertical column retrievals from S5p/TROPOMI observations
Christophe Lerot (BIRA-IASB)
9:30-9:45Global tropospheric ozone from a combined retrieval using TROPOMI/S5P and BASCOE
Klaus-Peter Heue (TUM)
9:45-10:00Observing the global distribution of water vapour isotopologues with the Sentinel-5P mission
Author: Hartmut Boesch (University of Leicester), presented by Tim Trent (University of Leicester)
10:00-10:15Advances in the application of deep neural networks for the retrieval of cloud properties for TROPOMI / Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P)
Fabian Romahn (DLR)
10:15-10:30 NOAA Atmospheric Composition Plans
Mitchell Goldberg (NOAA) 
10:30-11:00Coffee Break 

Outlook Session
Chairs: C. Retscher (ESA) and P. Veefkind (KNMI)
11:00-11:15 
Air quality from space: indicator of human activity
Pieternel Levelt (KNMI / University Delft)
11:15-11:30Long-term Observations of air pollution from Space: the transition to TROPOMI and the start of the integrated observing system
Author: Barry Lefer (NASA), presented by Laura Judd (NASA)
11:30-11:45Preparing for the operational data processing and monitoring of the Copernicus Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 missions at EUMETSAT
Rasmus Lindstrot (EUMETSAT)
11:45-12:00The Future Roadmap of the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor Mission
Claus Zehner (ESA)
12:00-12:15Additional time for discussion