PRELIMINARY Programme

Day 1: Monday 8 June 2026

Time (BST)	Duration (min)	Title	Speaker
8:00	60	On-site registration
Opening Session
9:00	60	Welcome and ESA & JAXA talks
10:00	30	Coffee break
Product Performance and Evolution
10:30	66	Talks organised by ESA & JAXA
11:36	24	Keynote (title TBC)	Nobuhiro Takahashi
12:00	75	Lunch
Cloud and Precipitation Physics
13:15	12	Using regime analysis to link cloud and precipitation vertical structure and phase to atmospheric processes, microphysical retrievals, and cloud radiative effects across the EarthCARE production model	Shannon Mason
13:27	12	Early insight into dynamics-microphysics coupling inferred from EarthCARE cloud measurement	Kentaroh Suzuki
13:39	12	Identifying Riming through Vertical Gradients of EarthCARE CPR Sedimentation Velocity in Stratiform Clouds	Jiseob Kim
13:51	12	Retrieval and Climatology of Hydrometeor Sedimentation Velocity from EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar Observations	Bernat Puigdomènech Treserras
14:03	12	Linking anvil spreading and opacity to convection in EarthCARE	Mathilde Ritman
Convective Clouds and Their Organisation
14:15	12	EarthCARE Doppler velocity measurements in convection: impact of multiple scattering and global climatology	Filippo Emilio Scarsi
14:27	12	Serendipitous satellite synergies provide context to EarthCARE observations of convective clouds	William Jones
14:39	12	EarthCARE Reveals Rain as Dominant Factor in Closed-to-Open Cell Transitions in Marine Stratocumulus	Johanna Mayer
14:51	12	Vertical Cloud Structure and Heavy Rainfall Associated with MJO Propagation over the Maritime Continent	Sopia Lestari
15:03	12	Convective organization in the Atlantic ITCZ: Exploration of its underlying dynamics and response to anthropogenic aerosol forcing	Sadhitro De
15:15	30	Coffee break
15:45	75	Poster session / MAAP tutorial
Novel Developments - Clouds and Convection
17:00	12	From MODIS to EarthCare: The role of precipitation on cloud break-up in marine cold air outbreaks	Filip Severin von der Lippe
17:12	12	Analysis of Wave-like Cloud Structures Based on EarthCARE/CPR Observation (2)	Nobuhiro Takahashi
17:24	12	Machine Learning Retrieval of Near-Real-Time 3D EarthCARE Scenes from MTG-FCI Observations	Stella Girtsou
17:36	12	Global 3D Reconstruction of Clouds and Tropical Cyclones	Lilli Freischem
17:48	12	Combined EarthCARE–Geostationary Lightning Observations of Convective Storm Structure and Electrification	Blanka Piskala
18:00	15	Group photo
18:15		Ice breaker

Day 2: Tuesday 9 June 2026

Time (BST)	Duration (min)	Title	Speaker
8:00	30	Arrival/on-site registration
08:30	30	Poster session
CPR Validation
9:00	12	Lessons from CloudSat for EarthCARE’s radar – calibration, noise and cloud science	Mark Richardson
9:12	12	Cross-Validation between EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), GPM DPR and Ground Dual-polarization Observations	V. Chandrasekar
9:24	12	Cal/Val of the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar using the ACTRIS Cloud Radar Network	Felipe Toledo
9:36	12	CPR vertical Doppler velocity validation using WINDAS profiler network	Yuichi Ohno
9:48	12	First validation of CPR vertical wind data by airborne wind lidar measurements performed in the framework of the NAWDIC campaign	Benjamin Witschas
10:00	30	Coffee break
10:30	24	Keynote (title TBC)	TBC
Aerosol and Lidar Observations
10:54	12	Evaluation and improvement of JAXA L2 algorithms to retrieve aerosol and cloud properties using ATLID	Tomoaki Nishizawa
11:06	12	Global Retrievals of Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Aerosol Absorption based on EarthCARE ATLID observations	Jens Redemann
11:18	12	The global variation of the dust lidar ratio as observed with ATLID	Moritz Haarig
11:30	12	Generating a global satellite-based Dust Deposition product from EarthCARE satellite mission.	Konstantinos Rizos
11:42	12	Comparison of NICAM-SPRINTARS with aerosol observation by EarthCARE in ECOMIP	Yuhi Nakamura
11:54	12	FALCON-Lidar: The First in NASA’s New Program for Implementing Cost-Effective Spaceborne Lidar Missions	Chris Hostetler
12:06	12	Will validation succeed? Practical criteria for comparing spaceborne and ground-based lidars: application to ATLID/EarthCare and IPRAL	Artem Feofilov
12:18	12	EarthCARE MSI/ATLID aerosol products, development and validation: a step forward	Larisa Sogacheva
12:30	60	Lunch
13:30	45	Panel discussion/recommendation
14:15	75	Poster session / MAAP tutorial
15:30	30	Coffee break
Aerosol and Lidar Observations in the UTS
16:00	12	Validation of ATLID extinction and lidar-ratio of cirrus clouds using airborne measurements with the research aircraft HALO: extend case study on the multi-scattering correction	Martin Wirth
16:12	12	Breakthrough in ATLID’s polarization characterization	Moritz Haarig
16:24	12	High-Resolution Detection of Faint Clouds and Aerosols in EarthCARE Data Using the Density-Dimension Algorithm and Comparison to Airborne Observations from GLOVE	Ute Herzfeld
16:36	12	Natural and Instrumental Variability of Wildfire Smoke Over the 2025 Canadian Wildfires	Adam Povey
16:48	12	Stratospheric aerosols from volcanic eruptions and wildfires observed by EarthCARE/ATLID	Sergey Khaykin
ATLID Validation
17:00	12	Validation of ATLID JAXA L2a products using airborne lidar measurements during the PERCUSION campaign	Yoshitaka Jin
17:12	12	Evaluating ATLID Level-2A Aerosol Products with Airborne HSRL Observations from the PERCUSION Campaign in the Tropical North Atlantic	Konstantin Krüger
17:24	12	Assessment of ATLID L2a product quality through intercomparison with NASA airborne lidar measurements	Diko Hemminga
17:36	12	Validation of EarthCARE’s ATLID L2 aerosol profiling products with ground-based lidar stations of PollyNET – case studies	Holger Baars
17:48	12	Validation of EarthCARE ATLID L2 ESA and JAXA data products on over Poland using mobile EMORAL and stationary PollyXT observations	Iwona Sylwia Stachlewska
18:00		END
19:00		Workshop dinner

Day 3: Wednesday 10 June 2026

Time (BST)	Duration (min)	Title	Speaker
8:00	30	Arrival/on-site registration
08:30	30	Poster session
Campaigns and Other Validation Activities
9:00	12	Two Canadian aircraft cal/val campaigns in 14 months: ECALOT surface comparisons and PONEX campaign overview	Zen Mariani
9:12	12	Comparisons between EarthCARE and ATR42 during the NAWDIC-DICHOTOMI field campaign (L2a and L2b products)	Emmeline Francois
9:24	12	Airborne validation of the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar in Arctic cold-air outbreaks during the COMPEX-EC campaign	Mario Mech
9:36	12	NASA Activities Relevant to EarthCARE	Ed Nowottnick
9:48	12	Status and data availability of the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission and the PACE Postlaunch Airborne Experiment (PACE-PAX)	Kirk Knobelspiesse
10:00	30	Coffee break
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
10:30	12	Exploration of novel observations and multi-instrument synergy for studying aerosol and aerosol-cloud interaction in the frame of AIRSENSE project.	Oleg Dubovik
10:42	12	Synergistic use of EarthCARE data for in-situ observations and modelling in CleanCloud project	Ulas Im
10:54	12	EarthCare for aerosol-cloud science within CERTAINTY: Status and future directions	Jennie Thomas
11:06	12	Isolating the aerosol impact on high cloud properties	Edward Gryspeerdt
11:18	12	Examining the Vertical Structure and Motions of Visible and Invisible Ship Tracks	Sarah Smith
Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Coupling and Radiative Closure - Part 1
11:30	12	A year of 3D radiative effects as inferred using EarthCARE data	Jason Cole
11:42	12	A comparison of radiative heating rate profiles derived from EarthCARE and CALIPSO/CloudSat	Seiji Kato
11:54	12	Quantifying 3D radiative transfer effects of clouds using ML-generated 3D cloud scenes for EarthCARE, and airborne observations from ORCESTRA/PERCUSION campaign	Dimitra Kouklaki
12:06	12	Constraining sub-grid cloud variability in 3D radiative transfer models with EarthCARE	Giulia Roccetti
12:18	12	Linking Vertical Cloud Structure to MSI Reflectances	Gregor Walter
12:30	60	Lunch
Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Coupling and Radiative Closure - Part 2
13:30	12	Advancing Three-Dimensional Cloud-Radiation Closure and Earth Radiation Budget Assessment with EarthCARE	Hironobu Iwabuchi
13:42	12	Towards Radiative Closure in EarthCARE: Evaluation of TOA Flux Retrievals	Carla Salas Molar
13:54	12	BBR Level-2 Validation Efforts within the BRAVO Project	Christine Aebi
14:06	12	Exploring EarthCARE MSI radiative closure with a variety of ice scattering models	Ben Pery
14:18	12	Surface Radiation Measurements Provide Complementary Constraints for EarthCARE Cloud Retrievals	Lei Liu
14:30	12	Radiative Closure Experiments for EarthCARE Validation (RACE-ECV): Second Intensive Measurement Campaign for Spectral Radiation and Aerosol Properties	Kyriaki Papachristopoulou
14:42	12	Constraining Ice-Cloud Radiative Properties through Collocated Measurements: A Radiative-Closure Perspective from PERCUSION	Florian Ewald
14:54	12	Validation of EarthCARE products under ACROSS Mediterranean activities	Eleni Marinou
15:06	12	Aircraft-Specific Contrail Identification from EarthCARE ATLID Observations	Sajedeh Marjani
15:18	12	The added value of EarthCARE for contrail detection and radiative impact assessment	Ermioni Dimitropoulou
15:30	30	Coffee break
16:00	45	Panel discussion/recommendation
16:45	75	Poster session / MAAP tutorial
18:00		END
18:00		Early-Career Researcher event

Day 4: Thursday 11 June 2026

Time (BST)	Duration (min)	Title	Speaker
8:00	150	Poster session (with coffee + refreshments)
Novel Developments - Validation
11:00	12	EarthCARE ATmospheric LIDar (ATLID) performance status after nearly 3 billion shots of successful in-flight operation comparison and impact on other ESA LiDAR Missions.	Valeria De Sanctis
11:12	12	EarthCARE CPR Spectral Width Retrieval: Signal-Level Simulation Assessment and Climatological Analysis	Francesco Manconi
11:24	12	Vicarious use of calibration scans from the operational FMI weather radar network	Ewan O'Connor
11:36	12	Validating EUMETSAT Cloud and Aerosol Products with EarthCARE: Insights from MTG/FCI Optimal Cloud Analysis and plans for S3 NRT Atmospheric products	Edouard Martins
11:48	12	EarthCARE Data Exploitation Experiments at NOAA	Satya Kalluri
12:00	24	Keynote (title TBC)	Philip Stier
12:24	66	Lunch
Modelling -- Model-Observation Intercomparison
13:30	12	Monitoring EarthCARE aerosol extinction and evaluation of ECMWF atmospheric composition and air-quality forecasts.	Peter Hill
13:42	12	Revisiting the representation of ice particles in cirrus clouds in numerical weather prediction models using EarthCARE CPR	Yasutaka Ikuta
13:54	12	Improving the realism of clouds in the IFS using EarthCARE - cold phase microphysics	Rebecca Murray-watson
14:06	12	Using EarthCARE to evaluate new radiance models for data assimilation and model evaluation	Robin Hogan
14:18	12	Evaluation of NWP Simulations of Cold-Season Mixed-Phase Clouds Using EarthCARE and ECALOT Observations	Zhipeng Qu
14:30	12	ECOMIP Update Toward Revealing Vertical Velocity Structures in Deep Convection through EarthCARE–Kilometer-Scale Model Synergy	Masaki Satoh
14:42	12	Harmonizing Simulated and Observed EarthCARE CPR Doppler Velocities: Bridging Forward Modeling and Scientific Discovery	Pavlos Kollias
14:54	12	EarthCARE’s potential for improving NWP models by exploiting synergies with ground-based supersites	Kim Weiss
15:06	12	Evaluating a Global Storm-Resolving Model with EarthCARE and ORCESTRA Observations	Woosub Roh
15:18	12	Synergistic analysis of Hurricane Humberto using EarthCARE observations and high-resolution ICON simulations	Roxana Cremer
15:30	30	Coffee break
Modelling -- Data Assimilation
16:00	12	Dual exploitation of EarthCARE CPR Doppler velocity for Data Assimilation and Warm-Rain Process Evaluation at ECMWF	Kamil Mroz
16:12	12	Operational monitoring and assimilation of EarthCARE cloud radar and lidar observations at ECMWF	Mark Fielding
16:24	12	An update on the assimilation of EarthCARE ATLID cloud observations in ECMWF’s global NWP system	Michael Rennie
16:36	12	Monitoring and assimilation of ATLID L2A aerosol particulate backscatter in ECMWF’s IFS-COMPO	Will McLean
16:48	12	Advances in dust optical modelling and EarthCARE dust data assimilation	Thanasis Georgiou
EarthCARE for Polar Science
17:00	12	Validation of ESA and JAXA EarthCARE Level-2 CPR and Synergistic Precipitation Products over Coastal Antarctica using K2W-based Ground Radar and Disdrometer Observations	Giacomo Roversi
17:12	12	Zooming in: In-situ validation of microphysical retrievals in mixed-phase clouds during CELLO	Robert David
17:24	12	Zooming out: In-situ validation of target classifications in mixed-phase clouds during CELLO	Tim Carlsen
17:36	12	Quantifying the capabilities and limitations of passive remote sensing of clouds at high latitudes using EarthCARE active measurements	Alexander Mchedlishvili
17:48	12	Using collocated Arctic Weather Satellite and EarthCare radiometer data over polar latitudes to investigate cloud effects on sub-millimeter wavelengths	Gunnar Behrens
18:00		END

Day 5: Friday 12 June 2026

Time (BST)	Duration (min)	Title	Speaker
8:00	30	Poster session
Novel Developments -- Synergies and Opportunities
9:00	12	Consistency of vertical air motion and diabatic heating profiles derived from EarthCARE and GPM observations	Shunsuke Aoki
9:12	12	Advanced retrieval of aerosol vertical profiles using synergy of EarthCARE ATLID and various passive spaceborne observations	Anton Lopatin
9:24	12	Advancing Ocean and Land Surface Remote Sensing with EarthCARE’s lidar ATLID	Gerd-Jan Van Zadelhoff
9:36	12	The OCEAN (Ocean Color EarthCARE ANalysis) project	Davide Dionisi
9:48	12	The ATLID laser beam observed by the cosmic ray observatories Pierre Auger (Argentina), Telescope Array (USA) and VERITAS (USA)	Oliver Reitebuch
10:00	30	Coffee break
Climate and Climate Data Records
10:30	12	Bridging cloud radar observations from CloudSat and EarthCARE with GCOM‑W observations	Kaya Kanemaru
10:42	12	Cloud trends in multi-lidars climate record	Helene Chepfer
10:54	12	Transition from CALIPSO to EarthCARE; can we use EarthCARE measurements to continue CALIPSO long-term studies on aerosol effect on cirrus clouds?	Silke Gross
11:06	12	How can EarthCARE contribute to long-term aerosol Climate Data Records (CDRs)?	Thomas Popp
11:18	62	Poster session
12:20	70	Lunch
13:30	45	Validation recommendations talks
14:15	45	Science Recommendations
15:00	10	MAAP-PAL challenge award
15:10	5	Closing remarks
15:15		END