The SORBETTO school: SOlar Radiation Based Established Techniques for aTmospheric Observations will be held online from 13 to 15 September 2021.
The school is open to researchers, PhD students and workers already involved in the field of atmospheric observations, or willing to get involved in a new field.
Outline
Atmospheric observations of gases and aerosol are of great interest for climatological, meteorological, and pollution studies. Several techniques, based on ground-based measurements of solar radiation, have been developed and established in the last century to estimate the atmospheric aerosol and trace gas amounts and properties. Automatic ground based instruments, often organized in Federated Networks, are able to perform high quality observations with a good time resolution, consolidated and traceable calibration procedures, and homogeneity in the retrievals.
These Networks are good candidates for the validation and calibration of satellite missions, already operative or to be launched.
Aims of the school:
- forming young scientists providing them an overview of the current status of solar radiation based techniques, a solid theoretical base, and hands-on experimental activities;
- building a bridge among International communities involved in atmospheric science for establishing and reinforcing future cooperation on the solar radiation based techniques for atmospheric observations and satellite validation.
Main topics:
- Ground-based instruments
Solar radiation theory
Photometry and networks
Spectrometry and networks
Metrology applied to solar radiometry
- Satellites
Overview of satellite remote sensing
ESA satellite missions overview
Cal/Val activities
The school is free of charge and is organised by the CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Sapienza University of Rome, ESA and funded by SERCO, within the QA4AO project and the EMPIR-MAPP project.
Registration is now open until 31 August 2021 through the "Registration" link on the school webpage:
http://sorbetto2.artov.isac.cnr.it/