Materials

Final Detailed Agenda / Programme

Duration of oral presentations: 15 minutes + 5 minutes of questions.
Duration of invited talks : 25 minutes + 5 minutes of questions.

The 13th International Limb Workshop is organized by the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMKASF) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, the home of MIPAS, GLORIA and CAIRT. It will take place on 2-6 June 2025 in Karlsruhe Palace, in the heart of Karlsruhe City, Germany.

The workshop aims to inform the community of the status of upcoming and existing missions and their data products, bring together limb-sounding communities from Earth and planetary atmospheres, and share their latest results.

We welcome contributions from all teams involved in the development, data processing, and scientific research of atmospheric limb missions:

• Past: e.g., UARS-MLS, SAGE-II, HIRDLS, SMILES, SCIAMACHY, GOMOS, MIPAS
• Ongoing: e.g., SAGE-III/ISS, OSIRIS, OMPS-LP, ACE-FTS, Aura-MLS, MATS
• Future and Proposed: e.g., ALTIUS, ALI, CAIRT, HAWC, STRIVE, ESOTERIC, KEYSTONE.

Building on the success of the previous 12th Limb Workshop, this workshop will also include planetary limb missions (e.g., SOIR/VEx, NOMAD/TGO, OMEGA/MEx).

Solicited topics for both Earth and planetary missions include:

• Current and past limb and occultation instruments: algorithms, products, validation
• Upcoming Earth observation limb and occultation instruments
• Planetary missions: instruments and algorithms
• Atmospheric composition (Earth and planets), chemistry and transport
• Aerosols and clouds
• Gravity waves
• Applications (e.g., data assimilation, gridded products, spacecraft re-entry plumes)

Outreach talk

In the context of the conference, a side event aimed for a wider public will take place on

Monday, June 2nd, 8 pm at the Naturkundemuseum in Karlsruhe

Christian von Savigny will give an introduction to satellite based remote sensing of the atmosphere of the Earth and planets. He will explain how important such measurements for our understanding and monitoring of the atmosphere are. The lecture will be held in German with its title

Die Satellitenfernerkundung planetarer Atmosphären: Schlüsseltechnologie für die Atmosphärenforschung 

There will be a half-day in-person (also virtual option) side-meeting of the APARC LOTUS activity on Saturday June 7, 9:00 at KIT Campus South building 11.40 room 231. Further details about the meeting will be provided via email to the LOTUS distribution list. If you are interested and not already on the LOTUS distribution list, please contact Rob Damadeo (robert.damadeo@nasa.gov)

We look forward to welcoming you to Karlsruhe!

Confirmed invited speakers

Robert Damadeo (NASA Langley, USA)
Doug Degenstein (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Emmanuel Dekemper (BIRA, Belgium)
Kimberlee Dube (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Bernd Funke (IAA, Spain)
Daniel Gerber (RAL Space, UK)
Sergey Khaykin (LATMOS, France)
Linda Megner (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Frank Montmessin (LATMOS, France)
Luke Oman (NASA Goddard, USA)
Karen Rosenlof (NOAA, USA)

Scientific Organizing Committee

Adam Bourassa (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Alex Hoffmann (ESA)

Yasuko Kasai (NICT, Japan)

Natalya Kramarova (NASA/GSFC, USA)

Hilke Oetjen (ESA)

Michelle Santee (JPL/Caltech, USA)

Björn-Martin Sinnhuber (KIT, Germany)

Gabriele Stiller (KIT, Germany)

Ann Carine Vandaele (BIRA, Belgium)

Kaley Walker (University of Toronto, Canada)

Local Organizing Committee

Alexandra Laeng

Derya Cayiroglu

Sören Johansson

Tobias Kerzenmacher

Esther Prietzel

Thomas Reddmann

Roland Ruhnke

Simon Scheuerle

Gerald Wetzel

Wolfgang Woiwode

Sponsors

This event is generously sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) and German Research Foundation (DFG)