CARE-C contribution to CleanCloud project highlighted at EGU Assembly, 2025
The contribution of CARE-C at the Cyprus Institute to the CleanCloud project, which the Cyprus Institute is a partner of, was highlighted at the 2025 EGU Assembly. The conference took place in Vienna, Austria, on 28 April-2 May, 2025.
Poster presentation – 29 April, 2025
A poster titled “UAV-Based Insights into Cloud Particle Size Distributions from the CHOPIN Campaign,” prepared by CARE-C Graduate Research Fellow Alkistis Papetta, was presented by Anna Voss, Phd student at the Institute of Flight Guidance, Technische Universität Braunschweig. The poster focused on the CHOPIN (CleanCloud Helmos OrograPhic Site ExperimeNt) campaign, during which the Unmanned Systems Research Laboratory (USRL) of CARE-C at the Cyprus Institute deployed Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) on Mt. Helmos, Greece, from October 11 to November 1, 2024, to collect high-resolution atmospheric data for cloud research.
Video presentation – 1 May, 2025
A short film documenting the CHOPIN campaign, entitled “Looking for climate answers in Arctic & E. Mediterranean clouds: Moments from the CleanCoud Villum and CHOPIN campaigns”, was screened as part of the GeoCinema section of the conference. The film showcased the importance of fieldwork on addressing knowledge gaps, and testing & developing algorithms for remote sensing of aerosols and clouds. You can watch the video here.
Oral presentation– 2 May, 2025
Anna Voss, also delivered a presentation on “Cloud Sampling with UAS during the #CHOPIN Campaign at Mount Helmos in October 2024”, focusing on the data collected during the CHOPIN campaign.
These contributions reflect CARE-C’s strong engagement in the CleanCloud project and its commitment to advancing understanding of cloud-aerosol interactions through innovative research and collaboration.
The CleanCloud project aims to quantify and understand regional and temporal effects of Aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) related processes, and how they will evolve in the transition to the post-fossil regime. The 4-year-long project brings together subject matter experts from 20 institutions and 12 European countries, who will work together on CleanCloud in order to advance the knowledge and models, which predict climate change by closing the knowledge gaps regarding the interactions between aerosols and clouds.
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