The H2020 AURORA project has come to its end. Over three years dedicated to high level scientific research and its application in 2 fields that are relevant to everyone on this planet: air quality and safe-sun exposure. Satellites already in orbit or soon to be launched by ESA, the European Space [...]
Remember we participated at New Scientist Live? We had such great feedback from people there and such fun with the children that we decided to make our material available on-line. And so, just like that, the AURORA4Kids page is born! Check it out, download the material and inspire the next [...]
AURORA is back from holidays and hard at work! Our scientists and technological experts are working hard (more updates on results soon!) and, in the meantime, we are delighted to announce that we will be at the New Scientist Live event in London, from 20-23 September 2018! Come down and visit our [...]
AURORA is orbiting off into summer holidays, getting a well-deserved break before a full autumn of activities. After the break, we’ll be closing the Call for Ideas, we’ll be taking forward our data fusion and assimilation testing and validation and we’ll be completing our technological [...]
A profile of the AURORA project has been published in the July 2018 issueof the magazine Open Access Government (pp. 178-179) The article, written by AURORA’s Principle Investigator Ugo Cortesi (CNR-IFAC), discusses the use of stmospheric data from space, and how to move from research to [...]
An overview of the AURORA project was presented at the 26th Panhellenic ArcGIS Meeting, held in Crown Plaza hotel, Athens (Greece) on 10 & 11 May 2018. This meeting provided the opportunity for the Greek GIS community to disseminate and share new ideas, and developments in GIS. The [...]
The current challenges related to the AURORA project were presented at The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018 in the second week of April in Vienna. This international meeting provides the main European forum for the dissemination of new research and technological development in geo [...]
The air quality monitoring Sentinel-5P satellite is set for launch from Russia on 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST). Follow the launch via live webstream. AURORA partners have been involved in this historic moment. The Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) takes part in the [...]
AURORA will be presented at an event organised by the H2020 Project HEAT-SHIELD “Integrated inter-sector framework to increase the thermal resilience of European workers in the context of global warming”. The event will take place on 13th July 2017 and will consider the impact of climate change [...]
AURORA will be presented at a local workshop in Florence, bringing together different research groups work on themes related to atmospheric pollution. The aim of the workshop is to share knowledge and investigate possible collaborations between projects with complementary themes. The workshop, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]