On this page, you will find contributions of RMIB GERB Team to GIST meetings and international conferences and some associated resources, including presentations, posters and papers.

• July, 04-08: International Radiation Symposium (IRS) @ Thessaloniki, Greece
  • “Preliminary Validation of 18 Years of Broadband Radiation Data from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Instruments”, Christine Aebi
    Presentation (PDF)

• September, 20-24: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference @ virtual
  • “Analysis and validation of 17 years of broadband radiation data from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instruments”, Christine Aebi
    Poster

• September, 15-17: 34th CERES Science Team Meeting @ virtual
  • “Validation of 16 years of broadband radiation data from the GERB instruments”, Christine Aebi
    Presentation (PDF)

• September, 15-17: 34th CERES Science Team Meeting @ virtual
  • “Dual View Clear-Sky Top-of-Atmosphere Albedo From Meteosat Second Generation Satellites”, Alexandre Payez
    https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/STM/2020-09/31_alexandre_payez.pdf

• May, 7-9: 31st CERES Science Team Meeting @ Hampton, USA
  • “Status of GERB-3 and GERB-4 products and validation”, Christine Aebi
    Presentation (PDF)

• May. 13-17: Joint Living Planet Symposium @ Milan, ITALY
  • “Surface Soil Moisture: toward a new combined dataset to maximize the use of satellite data”, William Moutier
    Poster (PDF)

• June. 3-5: EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) User Workshop @ Mainz, GERMANY
  • “Regional Land Fluxes TCDR within the EUMETSAT CM SAF: Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes”, William Moutier
    Poster (PDF)

• July, 8-18: 27th IUGG General Assembly @ Montreal, CANADA
  • “Comprehensive Validation of the Top-Of-Atmosphere Fluxes from the GERB Instruments”, Christine Aebi
    Abstract

• Sept. 10-13: Joint CERES-GERB and SCARAB Earth Radiation Budget workshop @ Boulder, CO (USA)
  • “RGP Status / GERB 3 Processing Results”, Edward Baudrez
    https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/STM/2018-09/2018_baudrez_rgp_status_report.pdf
  • “GERB 2 Indian Ocean Processing Update”, Johan Moreels
    https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/STM/2018-09/GERB-2_Indian_Ocean_Processing_Update.pdf
  • “Combining GERB Observations With the Newly Released CM SAF AOD Data record”, Nicolas Clerbaux
    https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/STM/2018-09/Presentation_ERB_WS_2018_Nicolas_Clerbaux.pdf
  • “Developing an AVHRR-based CDR of TO radiative fluxes within the CMSAF Project”, Tom Akkermans
    https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/documents/STM/2018-09/CERES_ERBW_2018-09_FINAL4.pdf

• Sept. 17-21: Joint EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference @ Tallin, ESTONIA
• “Regional Land Fluxes TCDR within the EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring SAF: Evapotranspiration and Latent and Sensible Heat Fluxes”, William Moutier
  Poster (PDF)

• April 23-28: European Geosciences Union General Assembly @ Vienna (Austria)
  • “MVIRI/SEVIRI TOA Radiation Datasets within the Climate Monitoring SAF”, Manon Urbain
    Poster (PDF)

• October 18-21: Joint CERES-GERB and SCARAB Earth Radiation Budget workshop @ Reading (UK)
  • “Meteosat MVIRI/SEVIRI TOA radiation data records within the Climate Monitoring SAF”, Manon Urbain
    Presentation (PDF)
• April 17-22: European Geosciences Union General Assembly @ Vienna (Austria)
  • “MVIRI/SEVIRI TOA Radiation Datasets within the Climate Monitoring SAF”, Manon Urbain
    Poster (PDF)

• December 15-16: Technical GIST Meeting @ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK)
  • “BARG/HR filled products and release”, Edward Baudrez
    
  • Presentation (PDF)

• September 21-25: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference @ Toulouse (France)
  • “MVIRI/SEVIRI TOA Radiation Datasets within the Climate Monitoring SAF”, Manon Urbain
    Poster (PDF)
    Proceedings (PDF)

• March 17-20: CM SAF International Board Meeting @ Offenbach (Germany)
  • “TOA Radiation GERB dataset – 2nd edition - Development Status”, Nicolas Clerbaux
    Presentation (PDF)

• October 7-10: Joint CERES-GERB and SCARAB Earth Radiation Budget workshop @ Toulouse (France)
  • “BARG/HR filled products and release”, Edward Baudrez
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “The Climate Monitoring SAF TOA Radiation products”, Nicolas Clerbaux
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “RMIB GERB Processing (RGP) Status Report”, Nicolas Clerbaux
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “On the processing of G1 with SEV3”, Nicolas Clerbaux
    Presentation (PDF)

• September 22-26: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference @ Genève (Switzerland)
  • “New developments in the GERB products suite: BARG and HR Edition release”, Edward Baudrez
    Abstract (PDF)
    Poster (PDF)

• April 28 - May 2: European Geosciences Union General Assembly @ Vienna (Austria)
  • “Planned update of GERB Edition 1 TOA fluxes”, Alessandro Ipe
    Poster (PDF)

• March 24-28: GSICS Workshop @ Darmstadt (Germany)
  • “Spectral ageing model for the Meteosat First Generation visible band”, Ilse Decoster
    Presentation (PDF)

• March 10-12: The Climate Monitoring SAF User Workshop @ Grainau (Germany)
  • “Modeling the spectral aging of the Meteosat/MVIRI visible channel: possible use for CM SAF datasets generation”, Ilse Decoster
    Poster (PDF)
  • “The CM SAF Top-Of-Atmosphere Radiation Products”, Nicolas Clerbaux
    Poster (PDF)

• March 4-7: Fourth Cloud Retrieval Evaluation Workshop @ Grainau (Germany)
  • “Update of the SEVIRI scene identification within the GERB processing for Edition 2”, Alessandro Ipe
    Presentation (PDF)

• September 17-18: GIST 32 @ RMIB, Brussels (Belgium)
  • “Sunglint filling: status update”, Edward Baudrez
    Presentation (PDF)

• April 23: Observation Department Day @ RMIB, Brussels (Belgium)
  • “Presentation “GERB team”“, Nicolas Clerbaux
    Presentation (PDF)

• October 22-25: Earth Radiation Budget Workshop 2012 @ Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ (USA)
  • “Sunglint Filling: Status Update”, Edward Baudrez
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “Composite TOA clearsky solar fluxes for the GERB processing”, Alessandro Ipe
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “Cloud detection using SEVIRI IR channels for the GERB processing”, Alessandro Ipe
    Presentation (PDF)

• September 3-7: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference @ Sopot (Poland)
  • “Cloud detection using SEVIRI IR channels for the GERB processing”, Alessandro Ipe
    Poster (PDF)

• August 6-10: International Radiation Symposium @ Berlin (Germany)
  • “Composite TOA clearsky solar fluxes for the GERB processing”, Alessandro Ipe
    Poster (PDF)

• September 22-23: GIST 31 @ Rutherford Laboratories, Abingdon (UK)
  • “Sun glint removal for GERB Edition-1”, Edward Baudrez
    Presentation (PDF)

• September 5-9: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference @ Oslo (Norway)
  • “Composite TOA clearsky solar fluxes for the GERB processing”, Alessandro Ipe
    Poster (PDF)

• November 25: ESSC Remote Sensing workshop @ VUB, Brussels (Belgium)
  • “Detection of aerosols and other climatological effects by remote sensing using GERB/SEVIRI”, Stijn Nevens
    Presentation (PDF)

• September 20-24: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference @ Córdoba (Spain)
  • “Modeling of the ageing effects on Meteosat First Generation Visible Band”, Ilse Decoster
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “Pixel-based composite TOA clearsky reflectances for SEVIRI visible images”, Alessandro Ipe
    Poster (PDF)

• September 13-16: Earth Radiation Budget Workshop @ Paris (France)
  • “Modeling of the ageing effects on Meteosat First Generation Visible Band”, Ilse Decoster
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “Extending TOA radiation back to 1978 using wide field-of-view data”, Edward Baudrez
    Presentation (PDF)

• September 06-08: 3rd CM-SAF User Workshop @ Rostock (Germany)
  • “Extending TOA radiation back to 1978 using wide field-of-view data”, Edward Baudrez
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval from Geostationary Satellites”, Stijn Nevens
    Presentation (PDF)

• May 2-7: EGU General Assembly @ Vienna (Austria)
  • “Cloud detection using SEVIRI IR channels for the GERB processing”, Alessandro Ipe
    Poster (PDF)

• September 8-10: GIST 29 @ London (UK)
  • “Cloud detection using SEVIRI IR channels”, Alessandro Ipe
    Presentation (PDF)
  • ” GERB Edition 1 and CERES scene identification comparisons“, Alessandro Ipe
    Presentation (PDF)

• February 3-5: Cloud Parameter Retrieval Workshop II @ Locarno (Switzerland)
  • “Cloud detection using SEVIRI IR channels for the GERB processing”, Alessandro Ipe
    Presentation (PDF)

• October 29-30: GIST 28 @ GISS, New York (USA)
  • “Comparison of GERB Instantaneous Radiance and Flux Products with CERES Edition-2 Data”
    Presentation (PPT)
  • “Updates on the SEVIRI scene identification”, Alessandro Ipe
    Presentation (PDF)

• October: SPIE Remote Sensing @ Florence (Italy)
  • “The GERB edition 1 products SEVIRI scene identification”, A. Ipe et al.
    Proceedings (PDF)

• September 19-23: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference @ Dubrovnik (Croatia)
  • “Pixel-based composite TOA clearsky reflectances for SEVIRI visible images”
    Proceedings (PDF)
  • “Narrowband-to-broadband conversions for SEVIRI”
    Proceeding (PDF)

• Annual meeting société francaise de physique @ Lille (France)
  • “Overview of the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Experiment”, Nicolas Clerbaux
    Presentation (PPT)

• November 8-10: 22nd GIST Meeting @ Brussels (Belgium)
  • “Update on SEVIRI scene identification”
    Presentation (PDF) Movie 1 (GIF) Movie 2 (GIF) Movie 3 (GIF) Movie 4 (GIF)

• November 2-4: 2nd CERES-II Science Meeting @ Williamsburg, Virginia (USA)
  • “Estimation of TOA clearsky images with SEVIRI”
    Presentation (PDF) Movie 1 (GIF) Movie 2 (GIF) Movie 3 (GIF)

• October 19-20: GERB Data Meeting @ London (UK)
  • “Update on SEVIRI scene identification”
    Presentation (PDF) Movie 1 (GIF) Movie 2 (GIF) Movie 3 (GIF)

• March 29 - April 2: Joint CERES-II and GERB Science Team Meetings @ Boulder, Colorado (USA)
  • “Validation of GERB scene ID for CERES ADM selection”
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “ADMs anisotropic correction factors and mixed clear scene types: a sensitivity study”
    Presentation (PDF)

• August 3-8: 48th SPIE Annual Meeting @ San Diego, California (USA)
  • “Estimation of TOA Radiative Fluxes from the GERB Instrument Data”
    Slides (PDF) Proceedings (PDF)

• May 14-16: 18th GIST Meeting @ Valencia (Spain)
  • “RMIB geolocation assessment with RGP”
    Presentation (PDF)
  • Mission report (PDF)

• April 6-11: EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly @ Nice (France)
  • “Use of the MSA products as an adequate representation of the surface albedo in the ALADIN-Belgium NWP model”
    Poster (PDF)
  • “Estimation of the 2002 Mount Etna volcanic plume radiative forcing from Meteosat-7 data”
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “First TOA fluxes from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Instrument”
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “Parameterization of look-up tables for cloud optical depth estimation from visible narrowband reflectances”
    Presentation (PDF)

• February 12th: Conference of Dr. Yves Govaerts (EUMETSAT) @ RMIB, Brussels (Belgium)
  • “Meteosat surface albedo”
    Presentation (PDF)

• February 5th: 17th GIST meeting @ Imperial College, London (UK)
  • “RMIB First Results”
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “Unfiltering of the GERB2 Data”
    Presentation (PDF)
  • Mission report (PDF)

• October 30th: Conference of Dr. Cedric Bertrand @ RMIB, Brussels (Belgium)
  • “Radiative Fluxes Comparison: Model (ALADIN) Versus Observation (GERB)“
    Presentation (PDF) (7MB)

• September 22-27: SPIE 9th International Symposium on Remote Sensing @ Crete (Greece)
  • “CM-SAF high resolution radiation budget products”
    Proceeding (PDF) Presentation (PDF)
  • “Validation and homogenization of cloud properties retrievals for RMIB GERB/SEVIRI scene identification”
    Proceeding (PDF) Presentation (PDF)

• September 17-19: 27th CERES Science Team Meeting @ Princeton, New Jersey (USA)
  • “Status of the GERB data Processing System at Launch”, RMIB Co.I. Report
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “GERB Inversion - Summary and Validation Plan”, ADM WG
    Presentation (PDF)

• EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference @ Dublin (Ireland)
  • “Regional Bias in the OLR Estimated from the Geostationary Orbit”
    Proceeding (PDF) Poster (PDF)
  • “Homogenisation of the reflected solar fluxes in the Climate Monitoring SAF”
    Proceeding (PDF) Poster (PDF)

• April 21-26: XXVIIth EGS General Assembly @ Nice (France)
  • “The use of GERB-like Fluxes to Validate NWP Models”
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “Generation of TOA Radiative Fluxes from the GERB Instrument Data”
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “TOA Clear-Sky Reflectance for GERB/SEVIRI Scene Identification”
    Poster (PDF)
  • Mission Report (PDF)

• January 21-25: Joint CERES and GERB Science Team Meetings @ RMIB, Brussels (Belgium)
  • “Validation and Homogenisation of Cloud Properties Retrievals for RMIB GERB/SEVIRI Scene Identification”
    Presentation (PDF)
  • “GERB LW Radiance-to-Flux Conversion”
    Presentation (PDF)

• October 1-5: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Data Users' Conference @ Antalya (Turkey)
  • “Validation and Homogenisation of Cloud Properties Retrievals for RMIB GERB/SEVIRI Scene Identification”
    Proceedings (PDF) Presentation (PDF)
  • “Derivation of Top Of the Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes from SEVIRI: Methodology, Accuracy and Perspectives”
    Proceedings (PDF) Presentation (PDF)