Workshop Topics CREW-4

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• Topic 1: Instrument calibration
  

• Topic 2: Cloud detection and parameter retrievals from active sensors
  

• Topic 3: Cloud detection and parameter retrievals from passive sensors
  

• Topic 4: Sensitivity studies
  

• Topic 5: Aggregation methods
  

• Topic 6: Assessment of cloud parameter retrievals and their uncertainty estimates
  
  

Topic 1: Cloud parameter retrieval methods
(retrieval parameterizations, optimal estimation, combined retrievals, error estimates)

Topic 2: Cloud parameter retrieval evaluations
(validation (against active sensors, in-situ observations), inter-comparisons, uncertainty estimate assessments, sensitivity analysis)

Topic 3: Cloud parameters for nowcasting and forecasting applications
(severe weather, aviation, and early warning, data assimilation)

Topic 4: Cloud parameter datasets for climate and weather research
(aggregation methods, CMIPS comparison, dataset stability and trend analysis, reanalysis verification, evaluation of model parameterizations, satellite simulators)