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**++Climatology from Satellites Group++**
**++Postgraduate++**
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++Past ..., but very close to us ...:++
**++Publications++**
**++Links to Significant Meetings++**
''**++2015++**''
''**++2014++**''
**++Active Collaborations++**
**++Acknowledgments**++
**++Book suggestions++**
**++Link of the Day++** (in reality, ... every now and then)
2013
December
**++Teaching Subjects++**
Postgraduate Course on ''New Observation and Watching Systems in Meteorology and Climatology''
**Some Teaching Publications**
**++Research Lines++**
**''I Validation of low spatial resolution remote sensing data and products (GERB, SMOS, EPS/MetOp, SMAP)''**
**''II Radiative balance studies (GERB, CERES, SEVIRI, EarthCARE)''**
**''III Soil moisture from passive microwaves (SMOS)''**
**++Valencia & Alacant Anchor Stations++**
**What is an ''ANCHOR STATION''**? (from Professor H.-J. Bolle)/
**Rationale**/
**Desirable measurements at ''Anchor Stations''**/
How Representative are the ''Alacant and the Valencia Anchor Stations'' Measurements of their Respective Surrounding Meteorology?
Proposal for a ''Water Cycle Observatory'': The VALENCIA and the ALACANT ANCHOR STATIONS, Meteorological Reference Stations for Remote Sensing Data and Products
**Publications**
2008
2007
2006
2005
2003
2002
**++Involvement in Satellite Earth Observation Missions++**
**SMOS (''Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity'')**/
**SMOS Validation Rehearsal Campaign Activities at the Valencia Anchor Station**
**Scientific Team**
**Purpose**
**Activities
**SM Measurements**
**Vegetation Measurements**
**Soil texture**
**Airborne Operations during the SMOS Validation Rehearsal Campaign (Tauriainen, 2008)**
**Modelling**
**Publications**
2011
2010
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
**Projects**
**EarthCARE (''Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer'')**
**Publications**
2012
2011
2007
2006
2004
2003
2002
2001
**Projects**
**GERB (''Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget'')**/
**Publications**
2011
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2000
**Projects**
**CERES (''Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System'')**/
**Publications**
2012
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2000
**Projects**
**EPS/MetOp (''EUMETSAT Polar System / MetOp'')**/
**Publications**
**Projects**
**++Other Significant Research Projects and Contracts++**
**Publications**
**++Field Campaigns++**
**++Supervision of Research Academic Work++**
**++Selected Significant Publications++**
**++Photographic Album: A Sample++**/
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**''I Validation of low spatial resolution remote sensing data and products (GERB, SMOS, EPS/MetOp, SMAP)''**
I.1. Validation Site CharacterizationValencia Anchor Station
Alacant Anchor Station
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Publications/Conference_and_Work
shop_Proceedings/groups/cps/documents/document/pdf_conf_p50_s1_10_lopezbae_p.pdf
I.2. Development of validation methodologies
I.2. (i) Radiation (including cloud and aerosol effects)
See A. Velazquez-Blazquez, ..., E. Lopez-Baeza, et al. (2007): Simulation of CERES and GERB TOA Products over the Valencia Anchor Station for GERB Validation Purposes. Proceedings of the Joint 2007 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference and the 15th Satellite Meteorology & Oceanography Conference of the American Meteorological Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24-28 September 2007/ http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Publications/Conference_and_Work
shop_Proceedings/groups/cps/documents/document/pdf_conf_p50_s1_13_velazque_p.pdf
I.2. (ii) Soil moisture content
I.3. Use of meteorological models
