AURORA project will be presented at Nordic Ozone and UV-radiation Group (NOG) meeting later this week. Annual NOG 2017 is held on April 20-21, 2017, in Helsinki, Finland and hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. This meeting brings together a large number of scientists working on ozone [...]
Thanks to a satellite network and ground-based stations, it is now possible to get information about pollution in cities through an app on our mobile phones. See more about this project from the University of Bremen here, or in this article, in Italian, where you can also find information about [...]
ESA’s online Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform (U-TEP) has been launched and makes information from satellite data available for non-expert users to monitor the urban environment. The new processing tool bundles information contained in large amounts of satellite data. It is paving the way [...]
The development, optimisation and testing of innovative data fusion algorithms constitute a pivotal segment of the scientific effort of the AURORA project, both in terms of background knowledge, as well as a major prompt to the synergistic exploitation of information associated to multiple [...]
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, [...]
AURORA can benefit many different types of stakeholders. In January 2017, the AURORA innovation manager met up with a number of organisations in the Tuscany region (Italy) to explore how AURORA could benefit them. These included the civil protection agency, the center for melanoma, the Tuscana [...]
The huge amount of satellite data that will be available thanks to the European satellite SENTINEL missions will help to provide ever more accurate information related to safe-sun exposure. The Earth’s atmosphere blocks most of the Sun’s UV radiation from penetrating through the atmosphere. The [...]
The European satellites Sentinel 4 and 5 missions will help us to monitor air quality. AURORA is particularly interested in Tropspheric Ozone as one on the most important short-lived greenhouse gases (GHG). Tropospheric ozone is highly variable and strong oxidant. This means that it directly [...]
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 [...]
The second meeting of the AURORA project is being held in Reading (20-21 July 2016). Representatives from the nine partner organisations and three members of the External Advisory Board are attending the meeting, hosted by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The meeting [...]
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 [...]
CNR-IFAC will represent the AURORA project with a poster at the European Space Agency summer school on Monitoring of the Earth System to promote the exploitation of Earth Observation data across disciplines. The school is open to Early Career Scientists (i.e. Ph.D. students, young post-doctoral [...]
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 [...]
On the 28th of June, AURORA participated at an event organised by the NEREUS network at the European Parliament. The aim was to discuss what the Copernicus programme can do for regions. Representatives of many European regions gave their view on the potential for using Copernicus data. Regions [...]