GERB team Organisation RMIB

This page aims to inform you about who is responsible of which part of the GERB / CM-SAF projects at the RMIB. If you need a contact, you can email or phone the concerned person. In case of email, it is worth to put our collective email address (gerb(at)meteo(dot)be) in CC.

Every RMIB GERB team member can be reached at FirstName.LastName@meteo.be.

Collective E-Mail

gerb@meteo.be

Alessandro Ipe (+32 2 373 06 31)

Scientist: cloud retrieval for Earth Radiation Budget studies, radiative transfer modelling.

Manager of the web and ftp servers

System administration of the GERB/CM SAF operational computers

System administration of the personal computers of the team

Responsible for the GERB data transfer with the RAL

Representative at IC user committee of the Institute

Almudena Velazquez-Blazquez (+32 2 373 67 58)

EarthCARE Scientist

BBR unfiltering

BBR radiance to flux conversion (LW region)

radiative transfer modelling

Liaison with CERES team

Edward Baudrez (+32 2 373 06 15)

Scientist: impact of reduction of aerosol in the 80' on the Earth Radiation Budget using ERBE wide field of view data.

GERB Scientist

Backup/help for system administration (see A. Ipe)

Ilse Decoster (+32 2 373 06 23)

Scientist: Earth Radiation Budget from Meteosat First Generation (GERB-like), calibration and aging of Meteosat sensors.

Currently following post graduate study in “Meteorology and climate modeling”

Nicolas Clerbaux (+32 2 373 06 10)

Scientist: method for monthly mean TOA fluxes estimation for the CM-SAF, SEVIRI processing within the RGP, GERB LW angular modelling.

SEVIRI reception via EUMETCast

Administration and project management

Patrick Vandermeulen (+32 2 373 06 29)

All day-to-day operations for the GERB and CM-SAF projects

Reprocessing exercices (GERB, CM-SAF)

Monitoring of the SEVIRI reception

Data management: archiving and retrieval (SEVIRI, GERB, CMSAF)

Stijn Nevens (+32 2 373 06 26)

Scientist: aerosol retrieval using SEVIRI, aerosol forcing using SEVIRI+GERB

Processing of long database of aerosol data for the CM-SAF

Steven Dewitte (+32 2 373 06 24)

Head of department

GERB and CERES science team member

Postal Address

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Department Observations
Section Remote Sensing from Space
Avenue Circulaire, 3, Ringlaan
B-1180 Brussels
Belgium