Final program
DAY1: MONDAY 1 DECEMBER 2025
| Opening Session Co-chairs: Takuji Kubota and Alex Hoffmann |
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| No | JST | Min | Title | Speaker |
| - | 9:00 | 60 | Reception | - |
| H101 | 10:00 | 5 | Welcome | Takuji Kubota |
| H102 | 10:05 | 5 | Welcome address JAXA | Futoshi Takiguchi |
| H103 | 10:10 | 5 | Welcome address ESA | Simonetta Cheli |
| H104 | 10:15 | 5 | Welcome address National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) | Motoaki Yasui |
| H105 | 10:20 | 5 | Welcome address University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI) | Masaki Satoh |
| H106 | 10:25 | 15 | EarthCARE Mission Status | Björn Frommknecht and Kenta Maruyama |
| H107 | 10:40 | 25 | Science Keynote #1: EarthCARE: Unravelling the mysteries of clouds and aerosols | Robin Hogan |
| H108 | 11:05 | 5 | Logistics | Masataka Muto |
| - | 11:10 | 20 | Group Photo | |
| - | 11:30 | 90 | LUNCH | |
| Product Overview Co-chairs:Maki Kikuchi and Nils Madenach |
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| H109 | 13:00 | 15 | JAXA Product Overview | Takuji Kubota |
| H110 | 13:15 | 15 | ESA Product Overview | Timon Hummel |
| Special Session: 3-Sensor and 4-Sensor Data Release Co-Chair: Kentaroh Suzuki, Nicolas Clerbaux and Almudena Velazquez |
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| H111 | 13:30 | 12 | EarthCARE L2 Cloud and vertical velocity products | Hajime Okamoto |
| H112 | 13:42 | 12 | ESA Cloud and Precipitation Algorithms | Shannon Mason |
| H113 | 13:54 | 12 | JAXA Radiation Budget Standard Product (ALL_RAD): Development, Validation and Early Analysis | Kentaroh Suzuki |
| H114 | 14:06 | 12 | ESA Radiation Algorithms | Jason Cole |
| H115 | 14:18 | 12 | Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer for Cloud-Radiation Closure | Hironobu Iwabuchi |
| H116 | 14:30 | 10 | In pursuit of radiative closure above clouds: Insights from collocated airborne observations during PERCUSION (Online) | Florian Ewald |
| H117 | 14:40 | 10 | Validation of EarthCARE&rsquo's 3D scene construction algorithm using in situ and remote sensing data from the ECALOT campaign | Zhipeng Qu |
| H118 | 14:50 | 10 | Validation of EarthCARE Cloud and Precipitation Products Using FAAM Aircraft Observations: VERIFY Campaign | Adam Povey |
| - | 15:00 | 30 | COFFEE | |
| Novel Scientific Findings Co-Chairs: Hajime Okamoto and Robin Hogan |
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| H119 | 15:30 | 12 | The EarthCARE–GPM coincidence dataset: Synergistic spaceborne radar analysis of vertical motions in cloud and precipitation systems | Shunsuke Aoki |
| H120 | 15:42 | 12 | Serendipitous detections by EarthCARE’s cloud profiling radar provide the first global climatology of insects | Shannon Mason |
| H121 | 15:54 | 12 | Extending Ocean-Color Observations with Atmospheric Lidar: Chlorophyll Retrievals from EarthCARE's ATLID | Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff |
| H122 | 16:06 | 12 | The OCEAN (Ocean Color EarthCARE ANalysis) Project: Preliminary results | Gian Luigi Liberti |
| H123 | 16:18 | 12 | Combined EarthCARE–MTG-LI Observations of Convective Storm Structure and Lightning (Online) | Blanka Piskala |
| Poster and L1 Algorithm Splinter Session | |||||||
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| Poster Session (Lobby) | L1 Algorithm Splinter Session (Main Hall) Chairs: Yuichi Ohno, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, Nils Madenach and Almudena Velazquez |
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| 16:30 | 90 | POSTER | H124 | 17:00 | 10 | EarthCARE/CPR L1b algorithm and calibration overview | Nobuhiro Tomiyama |
| H125 | 17:10 | 10 | ESA ATLID L1 status and update | Dave Donovan | |||
| H126 | 17:20 | 10 | ESA MSI L1 status and update | Sebastian Bley | |||
| H127 | 17:30 | 10 | ESA BBR L1 status and update | Nicolas Clerbaux | |||
| H128 | 17:40 | 10 | Long-Term Stability of EarthCARE Level-1 Data | Raul Diez Garcia | |||
| Ceremony and Ice Breaker | |||||||
| - | 18:00 | 30 | CEREMONY (Main Hall) | ||||
| - | 18:30 | 90 | ICE BREAKER (Lobby) | ||||
| - | 20:00 | 0 | END | ||||
DAY2: TUESDAY 2 DECEMBER 2025
| Poster and L1 Validation Splinter Session | |||||||
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| Poster Session (Lobby) | L1 Validation Splinter Session (Main Hall) Chair: Hiroaki Horie, Alessandro Battaglia, Nils Madenach, Jason Cole and Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff |
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| 16:30 | 90 | POSTER | H225 | 17:00 | 10 | CPR L1b validation activities with DLR HALO/MIRA Doppler observations | Yuki Imura |
| H226 | 17:10 | 10 | Statistical monitoring of ATLID performance using the latest baseline L1 and L2 data flows (Online) | Artem Feofilov | |||
| H227 | 17:20 | 10 | Verification of EarthCARE MSI Level 1 and cloud data from the first year using MTG/FCI measurements | Sebastian Bley | |||
| H228 | 17:30 | 10 | Vicarious Calibration for JAXA MSI L2 cloud product (MSI_CLP) of EarthCARE | Minrui Wang | |||
| H229 | 17:40 | 10 | BM-RAD and BMA-FLX updates and validation | Almudena Velázquez Blázquez | |||
| - | 18:00 | 0 | END | ||||
DAY3: WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER 2025
DAY4: THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER 2025
| Poster, Demo and EVDC Splinter Session | ||||||
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| - | 16:30 | 90 | POSTER and DEMO | 16:30 | 90 | EVDC Splinter Session |
| - | 18:00 | 0 | END | |||
DAY5: FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER 2025
| Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation-Radiation Interactions Co-chairs: Hironobu Iwabuch and, Oleg Dubovik |
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| No | JST | Min | Title | Speaker |
| H501 | 8:30 | 12 | EarthCARE Aerosol Product Validation with Dual-Lidar Observations and Implications for Biomass Burning Aerosol–Cirrus Interactions | Qiaoyun Hu |
| H502 | 8:42 | 12 | Study of Aerosol Dynamics over the Arabian Sea during the Indian Summer Monsoon season using EarthCARE observations. (Online) | Manoj Kumar Mishra |
| H503 | 8:54 | 12 | Quantifying the Cloud Radiative Effects through Airborne and Satellite Observations and 3D Radiative Transfer Modeling | Dimitra Kouklaki |
| H504 | 9:06 | 12 | Constraining Radiative Effects of Optically Thin Cirrus Using EarthCARE ATLID and BBR Observations | Mark Fielding |
| - | 9:18 | 12 | Discussion | |
| Poster | ||||
| - | 9:30 | 120 | POSTER (with light meal) | |
| Discussion and Recommendations Science Discussion and Recommendations Co-chairs: Takuji Kubota, Edward Malina and Alex Hoffmann |
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| - | 11:30 | 30 | Discussion | |
| Validation Discussion and Recommendations Co-chairs: Maki Kikuchi, Timon Hummel and Rob Koopman |
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| H506 | 12:00 | 3 | L1 CPR | Hiroaki Horie |
| H507 | 12:03 | 9 | L1 ATLID, L1 MSI and L1 BBR | Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff |
| H508 | 12:12 | 5 | Aerosols | Dave Donovan and Yoshitaka Jin |
| H509 | 12:17 | 5 | Cloud and Precipitation | Shannon Mason and Nobuhiro Takahashi |
| H510 | 12:22 | 5 | Radiation | Jason Cole and Kentaroh Suzuki |
| - | 12:27 | 3 | Discussion | |
| H511 | 12:30 | 10 | Closing | Takuji Kubota and Björn Frommknecht |
| - | 12:40 | 0 | END OF WORKSHOP | |