The scientific coordinator of AURORA gave an overview presentation of the project at Meeting N. 14 of the Mission Advisory Group of Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 in ESA-ESTEC (Noordwijk, NL) on November 1st, [...]
The ECMWF Autumn Newsletter has been published. It describes ECMWF’s recently launched ten-year strategy and includes an article on the AURORA project. You can download the newsletter [...]
On the 3rd of November, a workshop will be held in Florence to discuss Innovation in Meteorology 50 years after the flood of November 1966. CNR, Regione Toscana, Consorzio Lamma and various representatives of Public Institutions and Research Centres (including ECMWF) will present and discuss the [...]
On Wednesday 28th September, AURORA will present some of its results during the INSPIRE conference being held in Barcelona (ES). The interactive session called ‘INSPIRE + Copernicus’ wil be moderated by Koen Verberne, from Datacraft, a member of the AURORA team. It is an important [...]
The abstract for a poster presentation on the AURORA project, has been accepted at the 5th Workshop on Atmospheric Composition Validation and Evolution 2016, which will be held at ESA-ESRIN in Frascati (Rome, Italy) from 18 to 20 October 2016. The poster Aurora Project: Simulation and Validation [...]
A poster presentation on the AURORA project was presented at the Quadrennial Ozone Symposium 2016, held in Edinburgh (United Kingdom), on 4-9 September 2016. The poster abstract can he found here and was presented within the session Global ozone observations and measurement techniques. [...]
Within the initiative Alternanza scuola-lavoro organised for students of secondary schools in Europe, a series of seminars was organised at IFAC-CNR (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy). AURORA was represented with a presentation entitled “COPERNICUS: from the satellite to the smartphone”. The [...]
The second meeting of the AURORA project is being held in Reading (20-21 July 2016). Representatives from the nine partner organisations and three members of the External Advisory Board are attending the meeting, hosted by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The meeting [...]
On 30 June 2016 the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on a directive to reduce emissions of air pollutants. This “new NEC Directive” sets stricter national limits from 2020 to 2029 and from 2030 onwards. The aim of this directive is to address the [...]
CNR-IFAC will represent the AURORA project with a poster at the European Space Agency summer school on Monitoring of the Earth System to promote the exploitation of Earth Observation data across disciplines. The school is open to Early Career Scientists (i.e. Ph.D. students, young post-doctoral [...]
The AURORA project can now also be found on ResearchGate®! Every scientist involved in AURORA can link her/his profile to the project, while all others can subscribe for follow-up messages that reach thousands of researchers. Click here to access [...]
On the 28th of June, AURORA participated at an event organised by the NEREUS network at the European Parliament. The aim was to discuss what the Copernicus programme can do for regions. Representatives of many European regions gave their view on the potential for using Copernicus data. Regions [...]
AURORA was selected to participate in a survey launched by the European Commission to assess the added value of current and previous EU Framework Programmes. The survey gives stakeholdest a chance to provide input on the additional value of the Programmes compared to what can be achieved at [...]
AURORA will be represented at the Sentinels4Regions event, being held on 28 June 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels. The event presents the results of the joint NEREUS-ESA project “Improving Copernicus among Local and Regional Authorities“. Through this project, NEREUS and ESA [...]
The abstract for a poster presentation on the AURORA project has been accepted at EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2016, which will be held in Darmstadt, Germany from 26 to 30 September [...]
Following up on last week’s post for us non-experts…some more details about the SENTINEL satellite missions that AURORA deals with. Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 will be carried on meteorological satellites. They will help us to monitor the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere. Why is this [...]
For those of us that are not experts in Earth Observation, the European Space Agency (ESA) has produced lots of material to help us understand their programmes and missions, and the impact they can have on our daily lives. Let’s start with the missions funded by the Copernicus global monitoring [...]
From the 7 – 13 June a series of events are taking place within the Summer Science Event 2016 at the Sesto Fiorentino Campus, Florence. The Summer Science Event is about spreading science to the public, including families and children, The Event has a range of activities for all ages: [...]
An interesting article concerning the quality of life and the economic impact related to air quality. “Air pollution causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year and costs up to 9% of EU GDP. Stalling on improving air quality is both dangerous and economically foolish, writes [...]
From May 9th to May 13th there has been the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2016, a great event organized in Prague (Czech Republic) by the European Space Agency (ESA). The first worldwide UV dosimeter dedicated to healthy sunbathing has been presented to the scientific world: the HappySun App. [...]