Background

The European Space Agency is organizing, in the context of the Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions (SEOM) element, a conference on the topical theme atmosphere. The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for scientists to present results from their ongoing research using data from past and current atmospheric instruments like ERS-2, Envisat, Metop and ESA Third Party Missions. Furthermore this conference is dedicated to prepare for the scientific exploitation of the Sentinel-5 Precursor mission.

The Conference will be held at the University of Crete (Greece - Heraklion) from 08-12 June 2015.

The workshop is open to ESA Principal Investigators, co-investigators, Sentinel-5 Precursor users, scientists, students, representatives from national, European and international space agencies and value adding industries.

The outcome of this conference will help to further shape the next generation of R&D activities in the frame of ESA Earth Observation Programme.

Objectives

The Conference is meant to:

Provide a forum to present scientific results from the exploitation of space-borne atmospheric missions (e.g. GOME, SCIAMACHY, MIPAS, GOMOS, OMI, IASI, OSIRIS, ACE, GOSAT, AATSR) and application projects (e.g. Climate Change Initiative, Copernicus)
Review and assess the progress according to the recommendations voiced at the ESA 2012 Atmospheric Science Conference
Gather and foster the future Sentinel-5P scientific community
Present the Sentinel-5P mission status, algorithms and products
Present large scale international initiatives to support the R&D activities relevant to Sentinel-5P and promote synergy with other Sentinels, as well as other missions
Provide a forum for scientists to formulate community recommendations
Consult scientists to prepare Exploitation Elements supporting science activities for Sentinel-5P