ASI MC-FORUM

Meteo and Climate exploitation of FORUM

MC-FORUM (Meteo and Climate exploitation of FORUM) is a two-year initiative funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), started at the end of Jan. 2024. Its primary objective is to develop new tools and expertise for harnessing data, which will be delivered by ESA EE9 FORUM, in meteorological and climate studies. The project will explore the impact of FORUM data across different spatio-temporal scales and various data assimilation techniques, encompassing both variational approaches and ensemble Kalman filter-like ones. Additionally, it will create tools for leveraging FORUM measurements in diagnostics and validation of global climate models, enabling the investigation of new parameterisations, and assessing the potential of FORUM in evaluating radiative forcings and climatic feedbacks.

References

  • Lorenzo Mele, Carlo Grancini, Paolo Ruggieri, Tiziano Maestri, Guido Masiello, Alberto Ortolani, Alberto Carrassi, Towards the Assimilation of Far Infrared Data: Case Studies With Low and Mid Complexity Models, abstract submitted to ESA-Living Planet Symposium, Vienna, 23-27 June 2025.
  • Marco Ridolfi, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Claudio Belotti, Giovanni Bianchini, Samuele Del Bianco, Gianluca Di Natale, Federico Donat, Giuliano Liuzzi, Tiziano Maestri, Michele Martinazzo, Guido Masiello, Carmine Serio, Luca Sgheri, Luca Palchetti, FARM: FAst Retrieval Model for the Simultaneous Inversion of Co-located Spectral Radiance Measurements, IASI-2024 conference, Nancy, France, 2 – 6 December 2024. Abstract and Poster.
  • Luca Palchetti, Marco Barucci, Claudio Belotti, Francesco D’Amato, Samuele Del Bianco, Gianluca Di Natale, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Marco Ridolfi, Silvia Viciani, Retrieval studies using the Far-IR spectral measurements performed by FIRMOS-B from stratospheric balloon flights, IASI-2024 conference, Nancy, France, 2 – 6 December 2024. Abstract and Talk slides.
  • Masiello et al., Thirty years of spectrally resolved observations from far to near infrared, Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana di Fisica, Bologna,13/09/2024
  • Masiello et al., Developments of the σ-IASI/F2N radiative transfer model: a new linear-in-T approach for accurate treatment of clouds, SPIE Conference, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXIX, Edinburgh, UK, 17/09/2024 (It will be followed by indexed Conference Paper – Submitted)
  • A. Ortolani, A. Carrassi, F. Fabiano, U. Cortesi, J. von Hardenberg, G. Masiello, M. Ridolfi, S. Melani, P. Ruggieri, S. Della Fera, C. Sgattoni, T. Maestri, L. Palchetti, MC-FORUM: an ASI-funded project to evaluate FORUM measures impact in meteorological and climate fields, poster presentation at the ATMOS 2024 conference organized by ESA, 1 – 5 July 2024, Bologna, Italy.
  • A. Ortolani, A. Carrassi, F. Fabiano, U. Cortesi, J. von Hardenberg, G. Masiello, M. Ridolfi, S. Melani, P. Ruggieri, S. Della Fera, T. Maestri, L. Palchetti, MC-FORUM: an ASI-funded project to evaluate FORUM measures impact in meteorological and climate fields, poster presentation at the Annual national congress of the Italian Association of Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (AISAM2024) held in Lecce (Italy) on 5 – 8 February 2024.
  • A. Ortolani, A. Carrassi, F. Fabiano, U. Cortesi, J. von Hardenberg, G. Masiello, M. Ridolfi, S. Melani, P. Ruggieri, S. Della Fera, T. Maestri, L. Palchetti, MC-FORUM: an ASI-funded project to exploit FORUM observations in meteorological and climate models, poster presentation at the 2nd FORUM international workshop, held in Leicester (UK) on 29 November – 2 December 2023.
  • Della Fera, S., Fabiano, F., Raspollini, P., Ridolfi, M., Cortesi, U., Barbara, F., and von Hardenberg, J.: On the use of Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) spectrally resolved radiances to test the EC-Earth climate model (v3.3.3) in clear-sky conditions, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 1379–1394, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1379-2023, 2023.
  • Workshop CAMEO – Climate And Meteorology, modeling and Earth Observations Osservazioni e modelli per il clima e la meteorologia, workshop online, 19 e 20 Gennaio 2022.

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