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**++Climatology from Satellites Group++**
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++Current Research Assistants (and Doctorate Students):++
++Doctorate on Remote Sensing Students:++
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++Practicum - Practical Training:++
++Current External:++
++Past ..., but very close to us ...:++
**++Publications++**
**++Links to Significant Meetings++**
''**++2015++**''
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**++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
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2002
**Projects**
**EarthCARE (''Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer'')**
**Publications**
2012
2011
2007
2006
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2003
2002
2001
**Projects**
**GERB (''Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget'')**/
**Publications**
2011
2008
2007
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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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**What is an ''ANCHOR STATION''**? (from Professor H.-J. Bolle)/
Anchor Stations are instrumented sites to measure in representative areas quantities which are needed to
run
calibrate
validate
models and algorithms e.g. such as those needed to quantitatively evaluate satellite data and convert them into geophysical information.
The stations must be instrumented with equipment for long time measurements of basic quantities (meteorological and hydrological background data) and, in addition, for quantities that are not readily assessed at operational meteorological and hydrological stations.
Anchor Stations, furthermore, must offer the infrastructure to undertake more refined measurements for shorter intensive observation periods in the surrounding of the station.
In addition to background quantities (temperature, moisture, pressure), they should also be measured:
fluxes (surface albedo, the four components of net radiation, soil heat flux, sensible and latent heat flux, carbon fluxes, water fluxes in the soil),
Bowen ratio
spectral atmospheric optical depth
atmospheric water vapour
aerosol parameters
ground water level
soil moisture
vegetation parameters (type, height or z0, resistances, biomass, NPP, LAI)
Not all Anchor Stations need to measure all parameters permanently