PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/04/2021
Duration: 18 months

Funding: European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept 2020

Total Budget: 150,000.00 € IAASARS Budget: 150,000.00 €

Building on the technology solutions developed within the D-TECT ERC CoG, PM-
scanner aims to fix the existing air quality monitoring networks that have either very low spatial resolution or low accuracy by commercializing the "PM-scanner", a remote sensing instrument which will monitor particulate matter (PM) concentration over large areas with unprecedented accuracy and high spatial and temporal resolution.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/03/2021, Grantee: S. Misios
Duration: 36 months

Funding: H2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

Total Budget: 165,085.44€ IAASARS Budget: 165,085.44€

ElectricVolcano will combine state-of-art remote sensing techniques, detailed
aerosol charging theories and comprehensive atmospheric modelling to provide for
the first time a thorough assessment of the impact of electrification on the life cycle of volcanic ash in the stratosphere.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 10/12/2020
Duration: 18 months

Funding: European Space Agency

Total Budget: 149,995.20€ IAASARS Budget: 109,998.34€

NEWTON aims to demonstrate the potential improvement of short-term dust
forecasts when Aeolus wind observations are assimilated in regional numerical
simulations performed by the WRF-Version 4.0 (research mode) and WRF-CHEM
(operational) models in Tropical Atlantic Ocean-W. Sahara and Eastern
Mediterranean

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 20/11/2020
Duration: 22 months

Funding: European Space Agency

Total Budget: 249,997.93€ IAASARS Budget: 126,000€

In the framework of the ESA-Aeolus Cal/Val activities, ESA aims for the
implementation of a tropical campaign with its base in Cape Verde that comprises of ground-based activities, as well as airborne components. The objective of the ASKOS activity is to provide to the tropical campaign the necessary ground-based support to the ESA-Aeolus mission, regarding the calibration and validation of its products, to improve the quality of the data and to assess their random error and the biases.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/10/2020
Duration: 16 months

Funding: European Space Agency PRODEX

Total Budget: 84,176.90€ IAASARS Budget: 84,176.90€

In CORAL Aeolus data are assimilated in regional scale atmospheric models, using a combination of Aeolus data with relevant satellite products for SST and biological
ocean activity that will lead in more conclusive results regarding the particular
mechanisms that are involved in the production of open sea marine particles.

PI: N. Kontos, Co-PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 18/06/2019

Duration: 15 months
Funding: European Space Agency
Total Budget: 499,658.14€ IAASARS Budget: 10,037.50€
The objective of the ESA-EVE project is to provide the upcoming ESA missions of
Aeolus (and later also EarthCARE), with a well characterized, flexible, mobile
reference ground-based lidar system, tailored to the specifics of ALADIN (and also
ATLID), thus capable of providing well-characterized “ground truth” observations.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/05/2019
Duration: 36 months

Funding: STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION

Total Budget: 700.000,00€ IAASARS Budget: 700.000,00€

The objective of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) donation is to provide
financial support to the initiative of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) of
establishing and operating the PANhellenic GEophysical observatory of Antikythera (PANGEA) according to the standards defined by the Global Atmosphere Watch of the World Meteorological Organization (GAW/WMO). Through this initiative and the SNF grant, NOA will address a number of its scientific and societal objectives related to challenges such as the climate change and its impact on severe weather and natural disasters in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean.

PI: V.Amiridis
Start date: 01/03/2019
Duration: 24 months

Funding: European Space Agency (ESA)

Total Budget: 60.000,00€ IAASARS Budget: 10.000,00€

The main scientific objectives of A-CARE are derived from the scientific objectives of EarthCARE. EarthCARE aims at improving our understanding of aerosol/cloud interactions on the global scale by providing accurate vertical distributions of key aerosol and cloud properties, in order to assess their impact on the Earth’s radiative budget and climate.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 02/10/2018
Duration: 12 months

Funding: PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

Total Budget: 35M CPU core hours IAASARS Budget: 35M CPU core hours

The SODust project aims at quantifying the scattering properties of large, irregularly-shaped desert dust particles, oriented due to triboelectrification processes within the dust cloud, using the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) method while considering irregular-shaped particles with different aspect ratios.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 31/7/2018
Duration: 35 months

Funding: Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPAnEK)

Total Budget: 636.215,00€ IAASARS Budget: 120.470,00€

CHARISM aims to develop the first commercially available novel High Spectral
Resolution Lidar (HSRL) in order to make the technology available to a wider
audience. HSRLs are state-of-the-art instrument, providing high quality aerosol
measurements used for research, air-quailty studies, and satellite validation.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/09/2017
Duration: 60 months

Funding: European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2016, H2020-EU.1.1., Excellent Science, Project ID: 725698

Total Budget: 1.968.000,00€ IAASARS Budget: 1.968.000,00€

D-TECT aims to parameterize the physical mechanisms responsible for dust
triboelectrification, assess the impact of electrification on dust settling, quantify the

climatic impacts of the process, particularly the effect on the dust size evolution
during transport, on dry deposition and on CCN/IN reservoirs, and the effect of the electric field on particle orientation and on radiative transfer.

PI: V. Amiridis, Grantee: Antonis Gkikas
Start date: 01/05/2017
Duration: 24 months

Funding: Marie-Curie European action - Research Fellowship Programme

Total Budget: 164.653,00€ IAASARS Budget: 164.653,00€

DUST-GLASS aims at improving global dust prediction and monitoring by optimizing an advanced data assimilation system (LETKF scheme) coupled with a sophisticated atmospheric-dust model (NMMB/BSC-Dust).

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/11/2016
Duration: 36 months

Donation: STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION

Total Budget: 500.000,00€ IAASARS Budget: 264.000,00€

This action aims to support the operation and sustainability of the National Center of Excellence for EO-based monitoring of Natural Disasters (NCEON) of NOA for the
next three years, including the upgrade and maintenance of the infrastructure and
the employment of young researchers to support operations.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/01/2016
Duration: 24 months

Funding: HORIZON 2020, The EU Framework Programme for Research and
Innovation under grant agreement No 692014.

Total Budget: 1.000.000,00€ IAASARS Budget: 179.980,00€

ECARS addresses the challenges of the Twinning programme by tackling deficiencies and networking gaps between INOE and internationally-leading counterparts at EU level. The overarching objective of the ECARS project is to boost INOE’s research capacity in the domain of atmospheric remote sensing and create a pole of excellence in East Europe.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 15/01/2015
Duration: 26 months

Funding: European Space Agency (ESA)

Total Budget: 150.000,00€ IAASARS Budget: 90.000,00€

Dedicate aims at delivering spectral conversion factors for the lidar linear
depolarization ratio between 355 and 532 nm in order to convert CALIPSO
observations (532 nm) to EarthCARE-related observations (355 nm).

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 14/10/2014
Duration: 60 months

Funding: European Space Agency (ESA)

Total Budget: 4.000.000,00€ IAASARS Budget: 227.000,00€

MULTIPLY, is an ESA-ESTEC project which proposes the development of a novel
multi-wavelength HSRL system (3b + 2a + 3d) for airborne operation. The MULTIPLY lidar will deliver the aerosol extinction and backscatter coefficient profiles at three wavelengths (355, 532 and 1064 nm), as well as profiles of aerosol intensive parameters.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 15/05/2014
Duration: 10 months

Funding: European Space Agency (ESA)

Total Budget: 50.000,00€ IAASARS Budget: 50.000,00€

The CHARADMExp campaign aims to derive optical, microphysical and chemical
properties of marine component and its mixture with dust, employing sophisticated
instrumentation installed on an appropriate site. Specifically, aerosol
characterization will be established by ground-based active/passive remote sensing
techniques, surface in-situ measurements and airborne UAV observations.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/01/2014
Duration: 27 months

Funding: FP7-SPACE-2013-1 under grant agreement No 606953.

Total Budget: 1.997.414,00€ IAASARS Budget: 110.178,43€

Marco Polo aims to use European and Chinese expertise to improve air quality
monitoring, modelling and forecasting over China by improving emission database
using satellite data with a focus on emission estimates from space and their
refinement for anthropogenic and biogenic sources through spatial downscaling and source sector apportionment.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 18/02/2013
Duration: 34 months

Funding: European Space Agency (ESA)

Total Budget: 300.000,00€ IAASARS Budget: 20.000,00€

HYFLEX aims to deliver maps of sun-induced fluorescence recorded from aircrafts
measurements using the approaches of the space & air borne FLEX mission. NOA participates in HYFLEX campaign by providing atmospheric lidar data that will be used for the much needed atmospheric corrections in order to retrieve reliable
hyperspectral retrievals.

PI: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/09/2011
Duration: 24 months

Funding: European Space Agency (ESA)

Total Budget: 173.247,77€ IAASARS Budget: 173.247,77€

LIVAS provides a global 3-dimensional aerosol and cloud optical climatology and a collection of case studies focused on atmospheric episodes related to specific
aerosol/cloud. In order to cover the different spectral domains for HSRL and IPDA lidars, the compiled database addresses the three harmonic operating wavelengths of Nd-YAG lasers (355 nm, 532 nm and 1064 nm) as well as typical wavelengths of IPDA lidars in the SWIR spectral domain (1570 nm and 2050 nm).

PI: A. Gkikas
Advisory Board: V. Amiridis
Start date: 01/04/2021
Duration: 36 months

Funding: H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Postdoctoral Researchers

Total Budget: 189,547.00€ IAASARS Budget: 189,547.00€

ATLANTAS aims to fill the gaps in our understanding associated with the interaction of anthropogenic versus natural aerosols with climate. This frontier project will pioneer an attempt at achieving this decomposition by exploiting the great new insights coming from space with active remote sensing synergies. The scientific objectives of ATLANTAS include:

• a discrimination and full characterization of different natural and anthropogenic aerosol types harnessing space-borne observations, 
• a novel investigation of anthropogenic versus natural aerosol climatic effects and 
• an investigation of potential co-variation of essential
  climate variables (e.g., near-surface temperature) and aerosol-induced radiative effects.