To quantify the ice and water cloud properties in MPC and the aerosol particle properties affecting the MPC.
To assess the impact of the aerosols on the MPC properties over the Mediterranean.
To investigate the mechanisms contributing to the ice crystal concentrations inside the clouds.
WP1:
Project
Management
WP2:
Assess the impact
of ACI in MPC
WP3:
Numerical simulations and evaluation
WP4:
Study the mechanisms controlling SIP in MPC
WP5:
Dissemination
and Outreach
Eleni Marinou graduated from the Applied Physics at the Applied Sciences Department of the National Technical University of Athens in 2010. She received her M.Sc. in the field of “Environmental Physics” from the Physics Department of the Kapodistrian University of Athens (2013). She acquired her PhD diploma on the study of the vertical distribution of desert dust and condensation nuclei over the Mediterranean from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017).She has been contacting research at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) since 2010, focusing on the retrieval of atmospheric parameters using passive and active remote sensing techniques. Her main research interest is the atmospheric aerosol and cloud properties and interactions. She has been working mostly on studies related to the properties of mineral dust, its climatic role and its impact on cloud formation, retrieving properties of aerosols and clouds (from active and passive remote sensing methods) and on validation of space-borne atmospheric products using ground-based lidar and sun-photometric techniques.
Voudouri Kalliopi Artemis graduated from the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in 2013 and she received her M.Sc. in the field of “Environmental Physics” from the Physics Department of AUTH in 2015. She acquired her PhD diploma on the study of the optical and geometrical properties of clouds and aerosols using ground-based and satellite remote sensing techniques from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019). She has been contacting research at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) since 2021. Her main scientific interests lie in the field of Atmospheric Environment and Physics of Atmosphere, and more specifically on the aerosol and clouds geometrical and optical properties, using ground-based data from active and passive remote sensing and the aerosol typing. She has participated in experimental campaigns (e.g, PRE-TECT, COVID-19 NRT lidar measurement campaign, 1st PANACEA Measurement campaign summer 2019, 2nd PANACEA Measurement campaign winter 2020), being responsible for the data aquision and the lidar processing and she has participated in the organizing committee of the 1st European Lidar Conference.
Tsikoudi Ioanna graduated from the Physics Department of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and she obtained her MSc degree in 2019, in the field of “Environmental Physics”, from the same Department. The subject of her master thesis was “Dynamical analysis of a Mediterranean Tropical – Like Cyclone”. Since September 2019, she is working at the National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing. She is a PhD Candidate (since 2020) working on lidar and radar retrievals. Her main research interest is the cloud microphysical properties and she has also worked on planetary boundary layer (PBL) studies using newly developed techniques to retrieve PBL dynamics from aerosol, water vapor, wind and turbulence, using lidar and radiosondes data.
