The PIANO (chamber camPaign for studyIng the cloud-relevAnt properties of Natural aerosOl) is a series of environmental chamber campaigns taking place at the Center for Chemistry of Clouds at Aarhus University and the Center for the Study of Air quality and Climate Change at FORTH in Patras to study how freshly emitted and aged natural aerosols from hashtag#seaspray 🌊 and hashtag#dust 🌬️ can affect 🌦️ cloud formation and contribute to changes in climate and precipitation 🌨️ in a post-fossil future.
📡 As the world moves toward a post-fossil future, understanding how clouds respond to decreasing pollution is critical. Funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme, CleanCloud ACI united more than 20 top research institutions across #Europe to study how aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) will evolve in this changing atmospheric landscape.
📈 With expertise spanning remote sensing, lab experiments, in-situ observations, and climate modeling, the goal is clear: deliver the science we need to improve predictions and guide our climate strategies.
🎬 One of CleanCloud’s cornerstone efforts was the #CHOPIN Campaign, the CleanCloud Helmos OrograPhic sIte experimeNt, held from September 2024 to June 2025 at Mt. Helmos, Greece. The CHOPIN team tackled dust storms, snow, heat, and altitude to capture invaluable data on how clouds and aerosols interact over time and terrain.
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CleanCloud General Assembly 2025 will be held as a hybrid event in Patras, Greece, on April 2-3.
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The first of a series of meetings organized by EC/ESA took place on March 1st, 2024, in Brussels. The meeting brought together representatives of the three projects, as well as representatives from CINEA, DG-RTD, ESA-ESRIN, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
On February 8 the NASA PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem) satellite was successfully launchedSRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, CleanCloud consortium member, is the Principal Investigator Institute for SPEXone.
Prof. Nenes introduced CleanCloud to the ESA EarthCARE community at the ESA-JAXA Prelaunch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop, which took place on 13-17 November 2023, in Frascati (Rome), Italy.
The Role of Aerosols in the Atlantic Hurricane Drought of the 1970s and 80s.
Prof. Kerry Emanuel (MIT, USA)
Rethinking atmospheric ice multiplication: recent lab studies on rime-splintering and droplet freeze-shattering.
Dr. Alexei Kiselev, (KIT, Germany)
It takes two to tango: A modeler's perspective on aerosols, clouds, and their interactions
Prof. Annica Ekman (Stockholm University, SE)
Toward cloud-aerosol interactions in global km-scale climate models
Prof. Philip Stier (University of Oxford, UK)
What have we learned from the central Arctic aerosol research in the last seven years?
Prof. Julia Schmale (EPFL, Ch)
Potential future(s) for climate modeling and computational sciences: learning from the AI revolution.
Prof. Pierre Gentine (Columbia University, US)
Potential future(s) for climate modeling and computational sciences: learning from the AI revolution.
Prof. Pierre Gentine (Columbia University, US)
Emerging trends in atmospheric radar research.
Prof. Pavlos Kollias (Stony Brook University, US)
Aerosol formation and dynamics in the high Arctic: studies at Villum Research Station.
Prof. Henrik Skov (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Mixed-phase clouds: Insights from observations and modelling.
Prof. Ulrike Lohmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Data-Driven Parameterization of Cloud Processes: From Deep Learning to Equation Discovery
Prof. Tom Beucler (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Aerosols and Clouds over Blue and Green Oceans
Prof. Mira L. Pöhlker (Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research/TROPOS)
Exploring aerosol-cloud interactions using the convection-cloud chamber
Prof. Raymond Shaw, Michigan Technical Universoty
The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Assessment for Short Lived Climate Forcers – A (Modelling) Overview
Ulas Im, PhD., AU-ENVS
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in warm and mixed-phase orographic clouds in the East Mediterranean
Prof. Athanasios Nenes, FORTH/EPFL
