In 2023, the AERONET network marks 30 years of groundbreaking atmospheric aerosol measurements from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, now spanning over 100 countries and nearly 600 active sites globally.
This milestone was highlighted at dedicated workshop recently taken place in WashingtonDC. It has permitted researchers and collaborators from around the world to gather and share insights on the latest developments in aerosol research, as well as to explore future applications of these measurements.
Among the many key contributors to the event were our colleagues from the GRASP Earth team, including Oleg Dubovik, Masahiro Momoi and Lorraine Remer alongside Benjamin Torres and Yevgeny Derimian (LOA), who actively use GRASP and contribute in its developments. It was a great AERONET worldwide community gathering! We were also happy to see our close colleagues there from Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique: including, Philippe Goloub, Luc Blarel , Gaël DUBOIS, Romain De Filippi, and Marie Boichu and from CIMEL ELECTRONIQUE: including Didier Crozel and Ioana Popovici.
About AERONET
The AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) program is a federation of ground-based remote sensing aerosol networks established by NASA and CNRS, University of Lille and CNES (PHOTONS network) in France and is greatly expanded by networks (e.g., RIMA, AEROSPAIN, AeroSpan, AEROCAN, NEON, and CARSNET) and collaborators from national agencies, institutes, universities, individual scientists, and partners. For more than 30 years, the project has provided long-term, continuous, and readily accessible public domain database of aerosol optical, microphysical, and radiative properties for aerosol research and characterization, validation of satellite retrievals, and synergism with other databases. The network imposes standardization of instruments, calibration, processing, and distribution.
