Research


  • trace gas vertical column density determination from SCIAMACHY / ENVISAT
  • trace gas emissions from vegetation fires and volcanoes, determined from space- and airborne FTIR spectrometer measurements
    • FOCUS Data Fusion Algorithm Development Study
      • development of the Prototype Retrieval System (PyReS)
    • ECOFIRE
      • exploring the possibility to derive CO2 emissions of vegetation fires from space borne spectrometer and imager measurements (fusion of AIRS and MODIS data, using PyReS)
  • data assimilation of GOME ozone column densities
    • development of an advection model (in JAVA) using wind fields from current ECMWF analysis data
  • optical properties of cirrus clouds
    • optical properties of ideal hexagonal columnar and platelike ice crystals ( database COP )
    • complete 4x4 scattering matrix of ideal and non-ideal hexagonal ice crystals ( database COPE )
    • sensitivity studies on the influence of hexagonal ice crystals on atmospheric radiation
    • groundbased measurements of sky radiances in presence of cirrus

  • optical properties of aerosols
    as a member of the aerosol working group which created the
  • scattering functions of nonspherical aerosol particles


update: 26. Aug. 2005