PANGEA Cal/Val center for enhancing Earth Observation R&I in the Mediterranean

Informations projet

PANGEA4CalVal

N° de convention de subvention: 101079201

DOI

10.3030/101079201

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 25 Juillet 2022

Date de début 1 Octobre 2022

Date de fin 30 Septembre 2025

Financé au titre de

• Widening participation and spreading excellence

Coût total

€ 1 499 905,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 1 499 905,00

Coordonné par

ETHNIKO ASTEROSKOPEIO ATHINON
Greece

CORDIS fournit des liens vers les livrables publics et les publications des projets HORIZON.

Les liens vers les livrables et les publications des projets du 7e PC, ainsi que les liens vers certains types de résultats spécifiques tels que les jeux de données et les logiciels, sont récupérés dynamiquement sur OpenAIRE .

Livrables

Data Management Plan (1)

First version of the Data Management Plan

First version of the document containing the detailed management plan for all PANGEA4CalVal data.

Documents, reports (1)

Website and Intranet

Open access website for the dissemination of the project results and access to general information, including an intranet page (web and ftp) for internal communication, exchange and storage of documents and data. Please note that the Intranet page will be visible only to consortium (Dissemination level: Sen).

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Natural Aerosols, Gaseous Precursors and Their Impacts in Greece: A Review from the Remote Sensing Perspective

Auteurs: Vassilis Amiridis, Stelios Kazadzis, Antonis Gkikas, Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri, Dimitra Kouklaki, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Katerina Garane, Aristeidis K. Georgoulias, Stavros Solomos, George Varlas, Anna Kampouri, Dimitra Founda, Basil E. Psiloglou, Petros Katsafados, Kyriakoula Papachristopoulou, Ilias Fountoulakis, Panagiotis-Ioannis Raptis, Thanasis Georgiou, Anna Gialitaki, Emmanouil Proestakis, Alexandra Tsekeri, Eleni Drakaki, Eleni Marinou, Elina Giannakaki, Stergios Misios, John Kapsomenakis, Kostas Eleftheratos, Nikos Hatzianastassiou, Pavlos Kalabokas, Prodromos Zanis, Mihalis Vrekoussis, Alexandros Papayannis, Andreas Kazantzidis, Konstantinos Kourtidis, Dimitris Balis, Alkiviadis F. Bais, Christos Zerefos
Publié dans: Atmosphere, Numéro 15, 2025, ISSN 2073-4433
Éditeur: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ATMOS15070753

Large-Scale Network-Based Observations of a Saharan Dust Event across the European Continent in Spring 2022

Auteurs: Christina-Anna Papanikolaou, Alexandros Papayannis, Marilena Gidarakou, Sabur F. Abdullaev, Nicolae Ajtai, Holger Baars, Dimitris Balis, Daniele Bortoli, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Martine Collaud-Coen, Benedetto de Rosa, Davide Dionisi, Kostas Eleftheratos, Ronny Engelmann, Athena A. Floutsi, Jesús Abril-Gago, Philippe Goloub, Giovanni Giuliano, Pilar Gumà-Claramunt, Julian Hofer, Qiaoyun Hu, Mika Komppula, Eleni Marinou, Giovanni Martucci, Ina Mattis, Konstantinos Michailidis, Constantino Muñoz-Porcar, Maria Mylonaki, Michail Mytilinaios, Doina Nicolae, Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez, Vanda Salgueiro, Xiaoxia Shang, Iwona S. Stachlewska, Horațiu Ioan Ștefănie, Dominika M. Szczepanik, Thomas Trickl, Hannes Vogelmann, Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri
Publié dans: Remote Sensing, Numéro 16, 2025, ISSN 2072-4292
Éditeur: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/RS16173350

Extreme wildfires over northern Greece during summer 2023 – Part A: Effects on aerosol optical properties and solar UV radiation

Auteurs: Konstantinos Michailidis, Katerina Garane, Dimitris Karagkiozidis, Georgia Peletidou, Kalliopi-Artemis Voudouri, Dimitris Balis, Alkiviadis Bais
Publié dans: Atmospheric Research, Numéro 311, 2024, ISSN 0169-8095
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ATMOSRES.2024.107700

Assessment of the accuracy in UV index modelling using the UVIOS2 system during the UVC-III campaign

Auteurs: Ilias Fountoulakis, Kyriaki Papachristopoulou, Stelios Kazadzis, Gregor Hülsen, Julian Gröbner, Ioannis-Panagiotis Raptis, Dimitra Kouklaki, Akriti Masoom, Natalia Kouremeti, Charalampos Kontoes, Christos S. Zerefos
Publié dans: Geoscientific Model Development, Numéro 18, 2025, ISSN 1991-9603
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/GMD-18-7451-2025

Assessing the Impact of Aeolus Wind Profiles in WRF-Chem Model Dust Simulations in September 2021

Auteurs: Eleni Drakaki; Vassilis Amiridis; Antonis Gkikas; Eleni Marinou; Emmanouil Proestakis; Georgios Papangelis; Angela Benedetti; Michael Rennie; Christian Retscher; Demetri Bouris; Petros Katsafados
Publié dans: 16th International Conference on Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics—COMECAP 2023, 2023, ISSN 2673-4931
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17711876

CALIPSO Overpasses During Three Atmospheric Pollen Events Detected by Hirst-Type Volumetric Samplers in Two Urban Cities in Greece

Auteurs: Archontoula Karageorgopoulou, Elina Giannakaki, Christos Stathopoulos, Thanasis Georgiou, Eleni Marinou, Vassilis Amiridis, Ioanna Pyrri, Maria-Christina Gatou, Xiaoxia Shang, Athanasios Charalampopoulos, Despoina Vokou, Athanasios Damialis
Publié dans: Atmosphere, Numéro 16, 2025, ISSN 2073-4433
Éditeur: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ATMOS16030317

Volcanic emission estimates from the inversion of ACTRIS lidar observations and their use for quantitative dispersion modeling

Auteurs: Anna Kampouri, Vassilis Amiridis, Thanasis Georgiou, Stavros Solomos, Anna Gialitaki, Maria Tsichla, Michael Rennie, Simona Scollo, Prodromos Zanis
Publié dans: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Numéro 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-7343-2025

Development and Validation of an Enhanced Aerosol Product for Aeolus (L2A+)

Auteurs: Konstantinos Rizos; Antonis Gkikas; Emmanouil Proestakis; Thanasis Georgiou; Vassilis Amiridis; Eleni Marinou; David Donovan; Nikos Benas; Martin Stengel; Christian Retscher; Holger Baars; Athena Augusta Floutsi
Publié dans: 16th International Conference on Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics—COMECAP 2023, 2023, ISSN 2673-4931
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17711683

Validation of the Aeolus L2A products with the eVe reference lidar measurements from the ASKOS/JATAC campaign

Auteurs: Peristera Paschou, Nikolaos Siomos, Eleni Marinou, Antonis Gkikas, Samira M. Idrissa, Daniel T. Quaye, Désiré D. Fiogbe Attannon, Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri, Charikleia Meleti, David P. Donovan, George Georgoussis, Tommaso Parrinello, Thorsten Fehr, Jonas von Bismarck, Vassilis Amiridis
Publié dans: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Numéro 18, 2025, ISSN 1867-8548
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/AMT-18-4731-2025

Derivation and validation of a refined dust product from Aeolus (L2A+)

Auteurs: Konstantinos Rizos; Emmanouil Proestakis; Thanasis Georgiou; Antonis Gkikas; Eleni Marinou; Peristera Paschou; Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri; Athanasios Tsikerdekis; David Donovan; Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff; Angela Benedetti; Holger Baars; Athena Augusta Floutsi; Nikos Benas; Martin Stengel; Christian Retscher; Edward Malina; Vassilis Amiridis
Publié dans: EGUsphere, 2025, ISSN 1607-7962
Éditeur: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17711780

Dust, Convection, Winds, and Waves: The 2022 NASA CPEX-CV Campaign

Auteurs: Edward P. Nowottnick, Angela K. Rowe, Amin R. Nehrir, Jonathan A. Zawislak, Aaron J. Piña, Will McCarty, Rory A. Barton-Grimley, Kristopher M. Bedka, J. Ryan Bennett, Alan Brammer, Megan E. Buzanowicz, Gao Chen, Shu-Hua Chen, Shuyi S. Chen, Peter R. Colarco, John W. Cooney, Ewan Crosbie, James Doyle, Thorsten Fehr, Richard A. Ferrare, Steven D. Harrah, Svetla M. Hristova-Veleva, Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, Quinton A. Lawton, Allan Lee, Eleni Marinou, Elinor R. Martin, Griša Močnik, Edoardo Mazza, Raquel Rodriguez Monje, Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio, Zhaoxia Pu, Manikandan Rajagopal, Jeffrey S. Reid, Claire E. Robinson, Rosimar Rios-Berrios, Benjamin D. Rodenkirch, Naoko Sakaeda, Vidal Salazar, Michael A. Shook, Leigh Sinclair, Gail M. Skofronick-Jackson, K. Lee Thornhill, Ryan D. Torn, David P. Van Gilst, Peter G. Veals, Holger Vömel, Sun Wong, Shun-Nan Wu, Luke D. Ziemba, Edward J. Zipser
Publié dans: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Numéro 105, 2025, ISSN 0003-0007
Éditeur: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17701148

Simulations of spectral polarimetric variables measured in rain at W-band

Auteurs: Ioanna Tsikoudi, Alessandro Battaglia, Christine Unal, Eleni Marinou
Publié dans: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Numéro 18, 2025, ISSN 1867-8548
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/AMT-18-4857-2025

Conference proceedings (16)

ACROSS Mediterranean activities for EarthCARE validation and exploitation

Auteurs: Eleni Marinou, null null
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU25-9811

Actris, Earlinet, and Cloudnet Cal/Val Contribution to Earthcare Mission

Auteurs: Eleni Marinou, Holger Baars, Lucia Mona, Ewan O’Connor, Stephanie Rusli, Rob Koopman, Ann Mari Fjæraa, Doina Nicolae
Publié dans: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2024
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17671721

Across Mediterranean Experiment for the Cal/Val of the Earthcare Mission

Auteurs: Eleni Marinou, Vassilis Amiridis, Peristera Paschou, Alexandra Tsekeri, Ioanna Tsikoudi, Kaliopi-Artemis Voudouri, Anna Gialitaki, Maria Tsichla, Kyriaki Papachristopoulou, Dimitra Kouklaki, Iliana Koutsoupi, Elina Giannakaki, Stelios Kazadzis, Dimitris Balis, Kostantinos Michailidis, Geprgia Peletidou, Anca Nemuc, Doina Nicolae, Grisa Močnik, Franco Marenco, Maria Kezoudi, Silke Gross, Martin Wirth, Florian Ewald, Ewan O’Connor, Ville Vakkari, Dmitri Moisseev, Pavlos Kollias, Lucia Mona, Nikos Papagiannopoulous, Marco Rosoldi, Rodanthi-Elisavet Mamouri, Dragos Ene, Athina Floutsi, Holger Baars
Publié dans: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2024
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17670730

The Effect of Atmospheric Variability in Measured Spectral Ultraviolet Radiation in Athens, Greece, During the ASPIRE Campaign

Auteurs: Kouklaki, D., Fountoulakis, I., Kazadzis, S., Raptis, I.-P., Kazantzidis, A., Kapoulas, A., Papachristopoulou, K., Papadimitriou, N., Amiridis, V., Zerefos, C. S., & Eleftheratos, K
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17670187

ASKOS Campaign 2021/2022: Overview of measurements and applications

Auteurs: Eleni Marinou, Vassilis Amiridis, Peristera Paschou, Ioanna Tsikoudi, Alexandra Tsekeri, Vassiliki Daskalopoulou, Holger Baars, Athina Floutsi, Dimitra Kouklaki, Razvan Pirloaga, Franco Marenco, Maria Kazoudi, Ewan O Connor, Lukas Pfitzenmaier, Cordula Zenk, Claire Ryder, Jonas Von Bismarck, Thorsten Fehr, null null
Publié dans: 2023
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17707907

Introducing random mixtures of irregular hexahedrals and spheroids to reproduce polarimetric lidar observations of desert dust

Auteurs: Anna Gialitaki, Alexandra Tsekeri, Matthew O’Callaghan, Dimitra Kouklaki, Kyriaki Papachristopoulou, Maria Kezoudi, Alkistis Papetta, Franco Marenco, Konrad Kandler, Sudharaj Aryasree, Melanie Eknayan, Vassilis Amiridis
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU25-11446

Sensitivity Study Using ATLID Lidar Simulator and Upcoming Plans for the EarthCare Validation

Auteurs: P. Paschou, E. Marinou, J. de Kloe, D.P. Donovan, G.J. Van Zadelhoff, K. A. Voudouri, V. Amiridis
Publié dans: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2024
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17670553

Validation of the Aeolus L2A products with the eVe lidar during ASKOS/JATAC campaign

Auteurs: Peristera Paschou, Nikolaos Siomos, Eleni Marinou, Antonis Gkikas, Samira Moussa Idrissa, Daniel Tetteh Quaye, Désiré Dêgbé Fiogbe Attannon, Charoula Meleti, Jonas von Bismarck, Thorsten Fehr, Vassilis Amiridis
Publié dans: 2023
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17700881

First insights into deep convection by the Doppler velocity measurements of the EarthCARE's Cloud Profiling Radar

Auteurs: Aida Galfione, Alessandro Battaglia, Bernat Puigdomènech Treserras, Pavlos Kollias
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17670321

Dust Aerosol and Water Vapor Radiative Effects: A Multi-Campaign Analysis of ASKOS and ORCESTRA/PERCUSION Over the Atlantic

Auteurs: Dimitra Kouklaki, Alexandra Tsekeri, Anna Gialitaki, Kyriakoula Papachristopoulou, Panagiotis-Ioannis Raptis, Bernhard Mayer, Claudia Emde, Silke Groß, Eleni Marinou, Vassilis Amiridis, Stelios Kazadzis
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU25-1057

Reconstructing Saharan Dust–Cloud Scenes with WRF-L: Initial Evaluation of Aerosol-Aware Ice Nucleation Schemes

Auteurs: Eleni Drakaki, Eleni Marinou, Amin R. Nehrir, Petros Katsafados, Vassilis Amiridis
Publié dans: COMECAP 2025, 2025
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/EESP2025035021

A sensitivity study using the ATLID lidar simulator and upcoming plans for the validation of EarthCARE mission

Auteurs: Peristera Paschou, Eleni Marinou, Jos de Kloe, Dave Donovan, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, Kalliopi-Artemis Voudouri, Vassilis Amiridis
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17670061

The desert dust impact on the Boundary Layer in the Atlantic

Auteurs: Ioanna Tsikoudi, Eleni Marinou, Maria Tombrou, Eleni Giannakaki, Emmanouil Proestakis, Konstantinos Rizos, Vassilis Amiridis
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17669920

Analysis of Cloud Types and their Geometrical Properties over the Mediterranean using CloudSat Observations

Auteurs: Iliana Koutsoupi, Eleni Marinou, Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri, Ioanna Tsikoudi, Peristera Paschou, Vassilis Amiridis, Alessandro Battaglia, Pavlos Kollias, Eleni Giannakaki
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU25-16774

Using the ESA eVe reference lidar system for the cal/val of lidar instruments onboard ESA satellite missions

Auteurs: Peristera Paschou, Eleni Marinou, Kallopi Artemis Voudouri, Nikolaos Siomos, Antonis Gkikas, Jonas von Bismarck, Thorsten Fehr, Vassilis Amiridis
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17670652

Dust orientation measurements

Auteurs: Alexandra Tsekeri, Vasillis Amiridis, Spyros Metallinos, Peristera Paschou, Nikos Siomos, Ioanna Tsikoudi, Dimitra Kouklaki, Eleni Marinou
Publié dans: 2023
Éditeur: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17707965

Monographic books (1)

Best Practice Protocol for the validation of Aerosol, Cloud, and Precipitation Profiles (ACPPV)

Auteurs: Amiridis, V., Marinou, E., Hostetler, C., Koopman, R., Cecil, D., Moisseev, D., Tackett, J., Groß, S., Baars, H., Redemann, J., Marenco, F., Baldini, L., Tanelli, S., Fielding, M., Janiskova, M., Tanaka, Τ., O'Connor, E., Fjaeraa, A. M., Paschou, P., … Ko
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15025627