Provisional Program

Program 2024

*The schedule of Sunday 13 October will be sightly adjusted to finish at about 15:00 and get the time to reach the airport in the afternoon.

(1) Hazardous volcanic clouds: state of the art, challenges and future (F. Prata)
(2) Volcanic clouds monitoring from satellite in the TIR spectral range (F. Prata)
(3) Atmospheric convection (M. Miglietta)
(4) Theory and atmospheric soundings Lab (M. Miglietta)
(5) Students’ oral presentations
(6) Students’ poster presentations
(7) Volcanic clouds monitoring from satellite in the UV spectral range (N. Theys)
(8) Volcanic clouds monitoring in the MW spectral range (M. Montopoli)
(9) Convective clouds monitoring in the MW spectral range (M. Montopoli)
(10) Volcanic monitoring using ground based TIR systems (S. Corradini)
(11) Machine Learning (ML) techniques for volcanic clouds detection (M. Picchiani)
(12) ML Lab using SNAP (M. Picchiani)
(+) Field trip to the Etna summit craters
(13) Deep convection from satellite (B. Gvoždíková)
(14) Volcanic Plume modelling (M. Whoodhouse)
(15) Volcanic Plume modelling Lab (M. Whoodhouse)
(16) Volcanic Cloud dispersion modelling (F. Pardini)
(17) Volcanic Cloud dispersion modelling Lab (F. Pardini)
(18) Numerical Weather prediction models (A. Parodi)
(19) GNSS for weather forecasting (H. Brenot)
(20) Volcanic monitoring using ground-based UV systems (H. Brenot)
(21) Volcanic monitoring using ground-based VIS systems (S. Scollo)
(22) Volcanic monitoring using ground-based UV systems (G. Salerno)
(23) Volcanic monitoring using ground-based IR systems (L. Guerrieri)
(24) Preparation for the field measurements (S. Corradini)
(25) In situ measurements of the Etna plume by using TIR and UV cameras
(26) Data analysis of the measurements acquired during the field campaign
(27) Data presentation of the measurements acquired during the field campaign
(28) Machine learning techniques (A. Cervantes)
(29) Machine learning techniques for convective clouds detection and retrieval Lab (A. Cervantes)
(30) Decision support tools for ATM (T. Bolic)
(31) Provision of early warnings on convective and volcanic clouds for aviation – current practices and future challenges (D. Visoiu)
(31) Provision of early severe weather warnings for aviation – current practices and future challenges (D. Visoiu)
(32) Synergistic use of atmospheric data: the Complete Data Fusion method (C. Tirelli)
(33) The use of GNSS Radio Occultations for “extreme clouds” detection and monitoring (R. Biondi)