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CINDI workshop

Foreword

The CINDI (Cabauw Intercomparison Campaign of Nitrogen Dioxide measuring Instruments) took place in Cabauw -The Netherlands- in June-July 2009. The main goal of the campaign was to intercompare a broad range of NO2 measuring instruments, to progress in our understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the different methods and retrieval algorithms, and to investigate the usefulness of the resulting NO2 data sets for satellite validation. In addition other parameters such as, aerosol, H2O, O3, CHOCHO, and BrO have been measured.
Over the last few months data has been processed, analysed, and intercompared. Discussion have been ongoing for example at the NO2 profiling workshop held at IUP Bremen.

The workshop will provide an opportunity to all CINDI participants to present and discuss their most recent results, and to assess the status of joint activities and papers. We envisage the following main topics :

  • Results of the semi-blind inter-comparison.
  • Results of the NO2 profiling subgroup.
  • First aerosol profiling inter-comparison results.

Agenda

Final agenda
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Wednesday
(the 10th of March 2010)		  
9:30 Welcome
10:00 Results of the semi-blind intercomparison of NO2 slant columns; Howard Roscoe (NERC/BAS)
10:45 Results of the profile inversion from MPI MiniMAX-DOAS measurements during CINDI; Steffen Beirle (MPIC Mainz)
11:05 The University of Toronto Ground-Based Spectrometer Measurements during the CINDI 2009 Campaign;
on behalf of Cristen Adams (University of Toronto)
11:25 Break
11:45 Pandora Direct Sun Data during CINDI; Alexander Cede (NASA/GSFC)
12:05 Development of the NO2 sonde; Wesley Sluis (KNMI)
12:25 The RIVM mobile lidar during the CINDI campaign; Stijn Berkhout (RIVM)
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Interpretation of MAX-DOAS measurements: NO2; Elena Spinei (WSU)
14:20 Multi-component vertical profile retrievals for MAX-DOAS observations during CINDI;
Hitoshi Irie (JAMSTEC)
14:40 CINDI - Profiling by Tim Hay; Paul Johnston (NIWA)
15:00 Tropospheric NO2 from SAOZ; on behalf of Andrea Pazmino (CNRS)
15:20 Break, discussions and closing day 1
19:00 Dinner
Thursday
(the 11th of March 2010)		  
9:30 CINDI Satellite validation; Mark Kroon (KNMI)
9:50 Plans to study horizontal NO2 distribution; Ankie Piters (KNMI)
10:10 Initial results on OMI NO2 Validation during CINDI; Yipin Zhou (EMPA)
10:30 HCHO from MAXDOAS during CINDI: comparisons and use for satellite validation; Gaia Pinardi (BIRA)
10:50 Break
11:20 First results of the aerosol extinction profile inter-comparisons; Katrijn Clemer (BIRA)
11:50 Raman lidar aerosol profiles; Arnoud Apituley (RIVM)
12:20 Lunch
13:40 Comparison of the aerosol extinction coefficient retrieved from MAX-DOAS measurements to
in-situ measurements; Paul Zieger (PSI)
14:00 Presenation; Bas Henzing (TNO)
14:10 Bremen results and NO2 profiling comparison; Folkard Wittrock (IUP Bremen)
15:15 Future plans and wrap up; (Katrijn Clémer)
15:45 Break, discussions and closing day 2

Participants

Confirmed participants:


Katrijn Clemer (BIRA-IASB)
Michel Van Roozendael (BIRA-IASB)
Francois Hendrick (BIRA-IASB)
Gaia Pinardi (BIRA-IASB)
Folkard Wittrock (IUP Bremen)
Enno Peters (IUP Bremen)
Howard Roscoe (NERC/BAS)
Thomas Wagner (MPIC Mainz)
Reza Shaigna (MPIC Mainz)
Steffen Beirle (MPIC Mainz)
Paul Zieger (PSI)
Ankie Piters (KNMI)
Mark Kroon (KNMI)
Folkert Boersma (KNMI)
Yipin Zhou (EMPA)
Elena Spinei (WSU)
Hitoshi Irie (JAMSTEC)
Hisahiro Takashima (JAMSTEC)
Paul Johnston (NIWA)
Stijn Berkhout (RIVM)
Alexander Cede (NASA/GSFC)
Andrea Pazmino (CNRS)
Wesley Sluis (KNMI)
Tim Vlemmix (KNMI)
Patricia Castellanos (KNMI)
Arnoud Apituley (RIVM)
Rosie Graves (University of Leicester)
Bas Henzing (TNO)
Manuel Gil (INTA)

Directions to our institute

Itinerary

Street plan

Accomodation

There are two hotels at a walking distane from our institute:

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Contact

For any question regarding the CINDI workshop please contact Katrijn Clémer

 
Last update on 24 Aug 2010