On 25-26 February 2020, the international workshop on improving Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tropospheric Products for Meteorology gathered more than 40 renowned experts on Kirchberg campus to exchange about the tools to improve prediction of weather.
The workshop was organised in the frame of the Vapour project. Entitled “Advanced Asymmetry Tropospheric Products for Meteorology from GNSS and SAR observations” (Vapour), the three-year project funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) aims to enhance the estimation of atmospheric water vapour fields using GNSS and SAR measurements in order to improve numerical weather prediction models in general and also the tracking of severe weather events.
After an introduction by Jean-Marc Schlenker, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg and Marie-Claude Marx, Programme Manager at the FNR, Norman Teferle, Professor in Geodesy within the Department of Engineering at the University of Luxembourg presented the project.
“The Vapour project will provide the next generation, space-geodetic, high-quality, spatiotemporal, asymmetric tropospheric products, to improve numerical weather prediction models for forecasting and derived re-analysis models on national and international levels. The advanced products will take better account of the distribution of atmospheric water vapour within the troposphere, which is the most prominent greenhouse gas and is directly linked to precipitation and weather”, explains Prof. Teferle.
During the two days, different experts from academia and industry presented their recent developments and findings, shared their knowledge and experience regarding GNSS and SAR products.
More information: http://www.vapour.lu