Event highlights

A list of events (e.g. seminar organizations, research campaigns, expositions, etc…) to which I contributed or was associated with my colleagues:

2018

Metop C launch live event from EUMETSAT headquarters in the night of 6-7 November 2018. Metop C is the last of the European Metop series, a reference of meteorology and climate satellite instruments in low Earth orbit. The next generation will be the European Polar System (EPS) – Second Generation (SG).

Thesis (PhD) defence at Delft University of Technology for the research activities (2013-2018), in the Netherlands, on 2018.09.10 assisted by Marcel Kleinherenbrink & Vincent Vionnet as Paranymphs, Ricardo Reinoso Rondinel as Master of Ceremony, and Antoon van Hooft his assistant. Composition of the committee: Prof. dr. Pieternel F. Levelt (Promotor), Dr. J. Pepijn Veefkind (co-Promotor), Prof. dr. ir. Herman Russchenberg, Dr. K. Folkert Boersma, Prof. dr. Johanna Tamminen, Prof. dr. Else Aben, and Prof. dr. Thomas Wagner.

Credit for all the pictures to Dr. Tim Vlemmix.

Sentinel-3 B (S3B) launched on 2018.04.25, a live event from EUMETSAT with all my colleagues involved in this mission (ground-segment, mission preparation, control centre, data preparation and processing, scientific activities). An important satellite mission for ocean colour, altimeter, land, surface temperature, atmosphere and climate observations.

And Anne O’ Carroll showing the sea surface temperature products from SLSTR on-board Sentinel-3.

First signal received from Sentinel-3 B, around 1h after its launch, over the Kiruna (Sweden) ground station.

Sentinel-3 B launch April 2018

My colleague Ewa Kwiatkowska talking about the ocean colour products from the OLCI sensor on-board Sentinel-3.

Gathering at EUMETSAT les than 1h30 before the S3B launch.

Waiting from the first signal from S3B at EUMETSAT.

My colleague Dr. Jieying Ding successfully defended her PhD thesis on 2018.01.26 with the GRS department from TU Delft and KNMI. Her work was focused estimating the NOx emissions over East Asia from OMI. Check her work here.

Dr. Jieying Ding presenting her research work

and obtaining her PhD degree from the committee led by the chairman, and followed by Prof. Dr. Pieternel F. Levelt.

Sneak Preview first light of TROPOMI: on Thursday 11.01.2018, Prof. Dr Pieternel Levelt (OMI Principal Investigator) and Dr. Pepijn Veefkind (TROPOMI Principal Investigator) provided an exclusive sneak preview of the first images made by this unique satellite instrument at TU Delft before a large audience of students, staff members, PhD candidates and other persons. The results are beyond everyone’s expectations and will be released to the general public from May onward.

California wildfires: MODIS RGB and TROPOMI aerosol plumes

TROPOMI – A team work success

2017

Sentinel-5 Precursor launch with TROPOMI on-board, watching in live from Space Expo, 2017.10.13 (Friday!), ESA / ESTEC, Noordiwjk, the Netherlands.

So impressive to see my employer & Co-Promotor Dr. Pepijn Veefkind, Pinripal Investigator (PI) of TROPOMI in live on TV

Thanks to my GRS colleagues (Thomas Frederikse & Jonathan Izett) to have followed me at Space Expo! (with the sculptrure of the Dutch Astronaut Andre!).

Dutch Astronaut Andre taking about the importance to monitor air quality and climate from space!

And my employer & Promotor, Dr. Pieternel Levelt, PI of OMI and chair of the Sentinel-5 P mission advisor group on TV too!

Quite a huge crowd attending the event!

Launch of Sentinel-5 Precursor from Plesetsk, in Russia, 2017.10.13

The very 1st signal sent by TROPOMI once it is space, with the solar panels deployed, 1h30 after its launch! “We have a new Sentinel-satellite in orbit in space” said at that moment ESOC!

The ESOC command centre in live! Thanks to heir excellent work!

Sentinel-5 P takes off in live in front of our eyes in Russia! What a noise!!

TU Delft research exhibition 2017, Special edition celebrating 175 years of TU Delft and innovation, The largest scientific exposition of the Netherlands, Improved tropospheric NO2 and aerosol retrievals from OMI satellite, 06-08 June 2017, Delft, the Netherlands. WebBlog

Exhibiting our GRS and KNMI research with the material prepared by DIG-it!…

With Jieying Ding (on the right)…

Urban Air Quality symposium co-organisator and co-chairman: by the department of Geoscience & Remote Sensing (GRS), TU Delft, Climate Delft Institute and KNMI, in Delft, the Netherlands, 2017.02.17. Organisers: Prof. Dr. Pieternel F. Levelt, co-organisers: Julien Chimot, Dr. Pepijn Veefkind, Jiyunting Sun, Prof. Dr. Herman Russchenberg, co-chaired by Dr. Pepijn Veefkind & Julien Chimot. WebBlog

2016

Kick-off of the Cabauw Intercomparison of Nitrogen Dioxide Measuring Instruments (CINDI)-2 campaign, Cabaux, the Netherlands: the second large scale international campaign addressing the intercalibration of remote sensing instruments using the DOAS technique to monitor air quality in support of satellites. More than 40 instruments operated by 30 groups participated to this field campaign. They include MAX-DOAS instruments as well as in situ systems (CAPS, NO₂ analyzers, NO₂ and O₃ sondes, lidar measurements, sun photometers and ceilometers).

TU Delft research exhibition 2016, Improved tropospheric NO2 in presence of fine particles from OMI satellite, 2016.06.02, Delft, the Netherlands (by Dr. Tim Vlemmix).