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— Tuesday, 17 April 2018 —
10:00 Press conference, Registration
Joint opening session
Chair: Prof. Dr. Markus Rapp
12:00 Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dittus, Member of the Executive Board, DLR e. V. Cologne, Germany
Welcome address
13:00 Max Kroymann, Leiter Referat DLR/ HGF, Representative of the Federal Ministry of Economy
Welcome address
13:15 Prof. Dr. Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
The role of World Meteorological Organization in the international climate agenda
13:25 Dr. Gilles Rabin, Director for Science, Innovation and Application, CNES, Paris, France
Opening address
13:35 Dr. Maurice Borgaud, Head of Science, Applications and Futures Technologies Department, ESA Esrin, Rome, Italy
Opening remarks
13:50 Dr.Youssef Nassef, Director Adaptation, UNFCCC, Bonn, Germany
The UNFCCC context: Strengthening the link between the systematic observation community and action to meet the Paris Agreement goals
14:05 Dr. Juan Carlos Villagrán de Leon, Head of UNSPIDER Offce UNOOSA/ UNSPIDER, Bonn, Germany
Space research and technology for lowemission and resilient societies: The 2030 Space Agenda
14:20 Prof. Dr. Thomas Stocker, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Keynote: Climate Change: Ocean services under threat
15:00 Coffee break
Session 1:
State of the art and major challenges
Chair: Prof. Dr. Robert Sausen
15:30 Dr. Philippe Ciais, CEA, Paris, France
The potential of spaceborne imagery to quantify fossil emissions
16:00 Prof. Dr. Thomas Birner, Meteorological Institute of LMU, München, Germany
Climate change and circulation shifts
16:30 Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Huth, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany
Forests, climate and remote sensing
17:00 Dr. Peter Bauer, Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK
Why do weather and climate prediction need to come together?
17:30 Dr. Torge Martin, GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
Blue vs. white ocean: frontiers in ice-ocean modelling
18:00 Prof. Dr. Peter Braesicke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Across scales atmospheric composition interactions in weather and climate applications
18:30 End of Day 1
19:00 Welcome Reception at ZooEvent
The welcome reception is a flying buffet style catered
event that will allow delegates to meet and network
while enjoying food and beverages.
— Wednesday, 18 April 2018 —
08:00 Registration
Session 2:
Improving our knowledge of the climate system
Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Huth
08:30 Dr. David W. Fahey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Keynote : Improving our knowledge of the climate system
09:10 Prof. Dr. Thomas Jung, AWI, Climate Sciences & Climate Dynamics, Bremerhaven, Germany
Prof. Dr. Robert Sausen (DLR)
Prof. Dr. Sabine Attinger (UFZ)
Prof. Dr. Arne Biastoch (GEOMAR)
Prof. Dr. Peter Braesicke (KIT)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kollet (FZJ)
Prof. Dr. Maik Thomas (GFZ)
Prof. Dr. Corinna Schrum (HZG)
The Helmholtz project Advanced Earth System Modelling Capacity (ESM) – Towards a common modelling environment
09:40 Prof. William Collins, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
The climate sensitivity to short-lived forcers
10:10 Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Höppe, Munich Re and LMU, München, Germany
Is climate change already increasing losses caused by extreme weather events?
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Poster session
13:00 Lunch break
Session 3.1:
Mitigation of climate change
Chair: Prof. Dr. Volker Grewe
14:05 Prof. Rolf Henke, Member of the Executive Board, DLR e. V., Cologne, Germany
Aviation and environment – The aircraft as perpetuator and victim
14:20 Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, Technische Universität, Berlin and PIK, Potsdam, Germany
Keynote: Post-Paris challenges: climate, coal and capital
15:00 Prof. Dr. André Thess, DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, Stuttgart, Germany
Renewable energy and energy storage for the 2 °C target
15:30 Dr. Bruce Anderson, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Alternative-fuel effects on aircraft emissions and contrails: Results from joint NASA-DLR missions
16:00 Coffee break
Session 3.2:
Mitigation of climate change
Chair: Dr. Christoph Kiemle
16:30 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Josef Kallo, DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, Stuttgart, Germany
Electric flight
17:00 Prof. Dr. Volker Grewe, DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Operational measures for mitigating aircraft climate impact
Session 4.1:
Remote sensing for climate change (atmosphere)
Chair: Dr. Diego Loyola
17:30 Dr. Pepijn Veefkind, KNMI, De Bilt, and Delft University of Technology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Results of TROPOMI on Sentinel 5 Precursor: the beginning of the Copernicus Atmospheric Composition Data Record
18:00 Dr. Heinrich Bovensmann, Institut of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Towards space based contributions to monitor emissions of CO
2 and CH4 – challenges and opportunities
18:30 Dr. Sander Houweling, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Greenhouse gas surface flux estimation using satellite observations
19:00 End of Day 2
19:30 Reception and conference dinner
Flora Cologne, Room „Dachsalon“
— Tursday, 19 April 2018 —
08:00 Registration
Session 4.2:
Remote sensing for climate change (aerosol, clouds)
Chair: Dr. Claudia Künzer
08:30 Prof. Dr. Clemens Simmer, Meteorological Institute, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany
The challenge of remotely sensing precipitation changes in a warming climate
09:00 Dr. Julien Delanoe, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations
Spatiales (LATMOS, ISPL), Paris, France
Active synergistic observations for improving our knowledge on clouds
09:30 Prof. Johannes Quaas, O. Sourdeval, J. Mülmenstädt, Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Satellite observations for model evaluation of cloud-aerosol interactions
10:00 Dr. David M. Winker, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Active Observations for Understanding Climate
10:30Coffee break
Session 4.3:
Remote sensing for climate change (land surface)
Chair: Dr. Gerhard Ehret
11:00Dr. Claudia Künzer, DLR, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
The Potential of Earth Observation to quantify Land Surface Dynamics
11:30 Prof. Dr. Matthew Hansen, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
A strategy for global land change monitoring
12:00 Dr. Carsten Montzka, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Jülich, Germany
Soil moisture: From observation to prediction
12:30 Dr. Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou, Prof. Dr. – Ing. Alberto Moreira, DLR Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Tandem-L: A challenging radar mission for climate research and environmental monitoring
13:00 Lunch break
Session 5:
Detecting and projecting anthropogenic
climate change
Chair: Prof. Dr. Veronika Eyring
14:00 Dr. Claudia Tebaldi, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA
Avoided impacts between alternative scenarios, with a focus on the low warming targets of 1.5 and 2.0 °C
14:30 Dr. Peter Stott, Hadley Centre, Met Offce, Exeter, UK
Detection and attribution of climate change
15:00 Dr. Joeri Rogelj, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, (IIASA), Wien, Austria
Can we meet the 1.5 °C target?
15:30 Prof. Dr. Markus Rapp, DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Concluding remarks
16:00 End of conference