rdefilippi – APOLO

Closing

September 4, 2026

Vanderlei Martins – local APOLO organizing committee Oleg Dubovik – APOLO organizing committee

Lecture on Polarimeteric measurements

September 4, 2026

Introduction – Oleg Dubovik Mini course 1 (~2hr): Multi angular and polarimetric 3MI mission – Bertrand Fougnie & EUMETSAT team (TBC) Mini course 2 (~2hr): Multi angular and polarimetric PACE mission – Vanderlei Martins & NASA & UMBC team (TBC)

Session 14: Improvement of polarimetric instrumentation quality and information content

September 4, 2026

14:45 – 15:00 (S14-1) Meredith Kupinski, CHIRP: Toward Flight-Compatible Metasurface Polarimetry for Ice Cloud Observations 15:00 – 15:15 (S14-2) Lorraine Remer, Salar de Uyuni and Lake Titicaca: characterizing two high altitude sites for vicarious calibration of multi-angle polarimeters 15:15 – 15:30 (S14-3) Laura Horton, A Compact Multi-Angle Polarimeter, C-MAP 15:30 – 15:45 (S14-4) Xuefeng Lei, […]

Session 13: Models, In situ and Remote sensing of Aerosols (MIRA) Collaborations

September 4, 2026

14:00 – 14:15 (S13-1) Jason Cohen, An observationally constrained framework for black carbon microphysics, column loading and radiative forcing: from regional hotspots to global applications (invited) 14:15 – 14:30 (S13-2) Lei Li, Advancing operational global aerosol forecasting with machine learning 14:30 – 14:45 (S13-3) Moritz Haarig, Characterization of irregularly shaped dust particles for lidar applications

Session 12: Advances in the theory of polarimetric remote sensing

September 4, 2026

11:00 – 11:15 (S12-1) Alexander Sinyuk, Enchasing the AERONET aerosol retrieval adding polarization measurements (invited) 11:15 – 11:30 (S12-2) Feng Xu, Lidar-Polarimetric Synergistic Retrieval of Wildfire Smoke: 3D Plume and Nonspherical Particle Effects 11:30 – 11:45 (S12-3) Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Cloud droplet sizes and number concentrations derived from global polarimetric observations 11:45 – 12:00 (S12-4) […]

Session 11: Scattering of light by terrestrial aerosols, clouds, oceans, and land surfaces

September 4, 2026

9:00 – 9:15 (S11-1) Francois-Marie Breon, Cloud Droplet Radius Estimates from multi-directional polarization measurements (Invited) 9:15 – 9:30 (S11-2) Alexander Konoshonkin, ScIce-2026 database of light scattering on ice crystals for active and passive remote sensing retrieval algorithms 9:30 – 9:45 (S11-3) James Coy, A Novel Passive and Active Sensor-Based Remote Sensing Consistent Ice Cloud Optical […]

Banquet

September 4, 2026

Free time / excursion

September 4, 2026

Poster core time

September 4, 2026

PACE mission Pedro Tavares, From MODIS and MISR to HARP2: Key Advances in Aerosol Remote Sensing in the Amazon Yi Zhen, Comparative Study of Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieved from PACE Polarimetric Measurements Cassandra Trentin, HARP2 and AERONET aerosol inversions over two oceanic and two land sites in the Southern Hemisphere Roshni Sahu, Examining global cloud […]